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This is so crucial. Working on this in XR at the moment.
UX latency is the most frustrating (lack of) advancement in computing over the last ~50 years.
IBM, way back in the 80s, found that user productivity shot up *exponentially* as system response time dropped. The "Doherty Threshold" was defined as ~400 milliseconds; the maximum amount of tolerable UX latency before interrupting user flow state.
It's unbelievable how many modern operating systems (*cough* win11) violate this threshold constantly.
Literally all you need to do as a Dev is pay attention. Add a "Doherty Threshold" to your test suite. There's so many different profiling tools, and especially with how good models are, really no excuse. Sure, some stalls are unavoidable, but that's when you pull out other UX tricks to at least give the illusion of responsiveness.
Crazy how much vintage computing hardware feels immeasurably more responsive despite having thousands of times less overall performance.
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Now this looks useful!
So so so stoked to release my very first Mac app!
Nameshot:
A tiny app that solves a big problem: naming your messy stash of "Screenshot 2025-12-15 at 06.59.24" nonsense entirely on device via Apple Intelligence.
Your first desktop Tidy-up is on the house and I would love to hear all your feedback! RTs appreciated!
nameshot.app
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Interesting but "directly coupled" does a lot of work here. What does that mean in implementation terms? It's a big one, and a reason to focus on the interfaces, which even this would need, even if the interface is inside the brain.
Yes, that seems evident, and this is important
The evolutionary story is that our biology is central to our survival. bit.ly/4ivYPXE
However, biologist Jonathan Loh proposes the radical new idea that the transmission of cultural characteristics is more important for human survival than biological ones.
ALT A rock wall covered in various handprints using red and white pigments. Text on the image reads, "iai news: Humans evolved through culture more than biology.
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This just has to stop!
Trump’s Board of Peace acknowledges that the disasterous winter storm flooded tens of thousands of tents and temporary shelters in Gaza - and that Israel has blocked the shelter materials needed to avoid the horrific and needless suffering of Gaza’s civilians.
What they omit is that Israel even has blocked NRC, as the humanitarian shelter coordinator, access to Gaza and removed our longstanding registration in Israel. History will judge this severely.
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This is great. Also applies to building productivity systems.
Some of my friends think AI will make it possible to build AAA games in just a couple of months. I think that seriously underestimates how complex game development is.
I often point them to game designer Liz England’s “The Door Problem.” It’s a great example of how much thought goes into game design. Making a good game still takes hard work and experience.
#gamedev #game
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Yes, a true tragedy for which we should work to find a solution, while staying in a market economy
No economist has ever explained the trap of being poor better than Terry Pratchett's boots theory.
A wealthy man buys a $200 pair of boots that lasts ten years.
A poor man can only afford $40 boots that leak after six months, so he spends $800 over the same ten years and still has wet feet.
Poverty isn't just a lack of money.
It's a continuous subscription fee for not having capital up front.
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a very sad tweet
Katherine Rundell; this is precisely why powerful companies are investing billions to ensure that humans never dream again.
ALT “Imagination, which in adulthood we sometimes treat as a kind of optional extra that you can safely discard, is actually at the heart of everything. Imagination is at the center of political change. It is necessary for love to be able to imagine another persons’ inner life. It is at the heart, I think, of the great civilisations.”
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