One of the key stories of our time is the decline of people moving homes. It’s an economic, demographic, and cultural story that explains some of our current challenges in the United States.
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@kristinHenry keep it up! Like the updates.
Carl T. BergstromA better view of the wild solar prominences during Monday's eclipse.
(Quick hand-held shot with Nikon Z9 + Nikkor 800mm f/6.3 PF)
@The_Tim you use platform or fully custom?
@The_Tim best conspiracy theory I’ve heard is that the steel rusts in climates like ours. Like within days or weeks
@The_Tim I would say two decades (effectively my whole home-buying life) with lower rates means indeed, “interest rates are high now”, is a fair statement.
@neuralex just wanted to add, great conversation starter and great thread. You’re illuminating a problem that I could really only feel, but now I can express.
Alex C has movedWhen I was a smartass computer nerd in the 80s and 90s, an eternal theme was friends and family sheepishly asking me for tech support help, and me slowly, patiently explaining to them that computers aren't scary, they're actually predictable, they won't explode or erase your data (unless you really make an effort), and they operate by simple (if somewhat arcane) rules. Edit > Cut, then click, then Edit > Paste. Save As. Use tabs, not spaces. Stuff like that. Maybe not easy, but simple, or at least consistent and learnable.
But that's not true anymore.
User interfaces lag. Text lies. Buttons don't click. Buttons don't even look like buttons! Panels pop up and obscure your workspace and you can't move or remove them -- a tiny floating x and a few horizontal lines is all you get. Mobile and web apps lose your draft text, refresh at whim, silently swallow errors, mysteriously move shit around when you're not looking, hide menus, bury options, don't respect or don't remember your chosen settings. Doing the same thing gives different results. The carefully researched PARC principles of human-computer interaction -- feedback, discoverabilty, affordances, consistency, personalization -- all that fundamental Don Norman shit -- have been completely discarded.
My tech support calls now are about me sadly explaining there's nothing I can do. Computers suck now. They run on superstition, not science. It's a real tragedy for humanity and I have no idea how to fix it.
@samloonie @thomasfuchs ooh. This is an interesting one. Gotta marinate on this one a bit
@The_Tim wow. Great find. If I were to allocate blame I’d give quora the plurality and maybe even majority. That site has always done the dumbest stuff.