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Doesn't work correctly in Firefox.

Feels sluggish, but maybe this could be fixed by reducing the transition time.

But why? People usually don't notice such transition effects and it doesn't affect user experience in any meaningful positive way. It feels absolutely unnecessary.

Maybe you could re-use it as a mod for some game engine. This feels appropriate for video games; not for web-sites.


I have the exactly opposite view, possibly with the same amount of conviction. It feels very necessary to communicate hierarchy and where things are coming from and going. It communicates a lot of important information and continuity. In real life, you don’t have things suddenly appearing and disappearing all the time. That’s not how our brains are conditioned.

Firefox issues are real and I want to fix them. On the "why", fair to be skeptical, it's not for every UI. But I do think it makes sense when hierarchy needs to feel spatial.

Weird, seems to work fine in Firefox on Android.

Smells like Soviet censorship.

Thank you, but no. We don't want mass spying. The "child safety" argument is simply lies and manipulation.

It's unenforceable in the EU that has no borders.

That doesn’t mean it’s unenforceable. You don’t need a permit to leave Germany to any country as long as your planned stay is shorter than 3 month. The only way this could be enforced is by checking if people are in country, that is in case of drafting them. The paragraph essentially ensures that any person that gets drafted needs to present themselves in person within 3 month of the draft notice.

EU law overrides and breaks German law. Germany is d'accord with that.

So if german consitution sayed, starting in cold war era, what this law states, then the newer joining into EU made a new law, bringing freizügigkeit ("feedom of movement") to superseed even our Grundgesetz.


EU members have a well documented history of ignoring EU law.

Brits: left EU, drifted to US that treats them like crap. A wise choice, what can I say.

"We send the EU 350 million pounds a week. Why not send it to Palantir instead?"


I know they're similar numbers, but all you're really doing is making this look cheap, because it isn't a weekly contract.

(Not that the comparison would make much more sense if it were, apples and doorframes.)


Spoiler alert: Brits were not sending the EU 350 million pounds a week. That was a bullshit number made up by Brexiteers. Crazy, I know.

Yes they were and it wasn't made up. The objection was that the number is gross but some of that money the EU chose to spend in the UK.

But that's irrelevant to this point because the EU didn't spend any of that money on healthcare. It went on the commissions priorities and projects, not the NHS. So the claim that it could be spent on the NHS instead, but only on leaving, was correct.


A lot of EU countries are using Palantir and dependent on US big tech too

Automation is bad. Bring back hard manual labour.

Yes, we need more children working on factories like in good ol' 1800s

/s


TL;DR: because mid-20th-century designers believed soft green reduced eye strain and improved focus.

Basically the same nonsensical belief as in regard the dark mode nowadays.

I don't even believe it's true. Green is just an army colour, that's pretty much it. Army uses army colours. Mystery solved.


I think the reason that I like dark mode is that I have had floaters in my eyes since at least age 14. They stand out against a bright white window background, but I don't notice them at all on a dark window with light text.

Or maybe it's just because that's how IBM PC DOS, BASICA, etc., as well as the VT100, VT220, VT300s that I used did it.

(Also, I think displays should paint with light, and having a white background is painting darkness on a computer screen. It's particularly bad for presentation slides. A light background just screams "PowerPoint presentation".)


It's the color of plants. A field of grass. Etc.

Maybe it even works better with the color of a clear blue sky above it.

Anyway, it's intuitive and not rocket science.


Why do doctors wear green?

Green is the opposite color of red (blood) on the color wheel and it was supposed to reduce visual fatigue. I think green scrubs have fallen out of favor in many places, but that was one of the prevailing reasons.

As the son of a machine tools salesman, I call the article bullshit. Sometimes things just need to be painted and sometimes you just need that WW2 surplus paint to do the job, with the colour not mattering one bit.

With anything, an academic can thread together a theory that neatly joins the dots to sound feasible, but my bet is that 99% of all engineers are stronger at physics than color theory.


Uh, I think they didn't use WW2 surplus anything when they build Oak Ridge and Hanford before the end of WW2. I also think given that those two plants were key bits of the Manhattan Project that they didn't cheap out on anything. And the color dude was in fact hired by DuPont who built those two plants and adopted his theories because they increased measured factory productivity and safety. Lastly the OG dude in the article was not an engineer. In fact he was an art school dropout who was very interested in color. So no on the no.

A big W, for now.

Until we meet again.


As much as everyone hates Meta for selling people's personal data, this is absolutely ridiculous. The hysteria regarding forcing companies do parents' job doesn't make any sense whatsoever.

By this logic tobacco companies did nothing wrong when they pretended like smoking didn’t cause cancer for decades. Misleading users is harm.

Requiring ID to browse the internet is doing the parents jobs of managing what their kids are doing online.

Stopping misleading advertisments and mental health issues while claiming to be protecting children is not on the parents. The parents were given the false information to believe their kids would be safe.


I've never seen Meta advertising themselves as a kindergarten or a playground for kids. They have always been perceived as public square or forum. It's wild to leave your child alone in public place and expect safety.

Oh please! It’s not about parenting, it’s a cancer on society and now affecting the youngest and also the seniors.

Atlassian never heard of the Streisand effect.


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