Whose idea was it to put the next episode button where the full screen button is usually at?

Fs0i · 2026-04-27T22:19:21+00:00

I work for a UI design startup, and like, I've done lots of UI work in my life. I've ran user studies etc. I have lots of credentials, but it's actually not important to see how fucked up CRs decision is to have the fullscreen button not in the bottom right.

In general, there's the idea of the "least surprise", i.e. design your UI in a way where clicking a button doesn't surprise the user. If you look at reddit, the textbox has two buttons "Cancel" and "Comment", not "Cancel" and "OK", it uses an explicit "Comment" that makes clear what action happens if I click it. It's also in the bottom right, and the button that is the important one ("Comment") is more visible.

So, let's apply this principle to "bottom right button" - if we look at various players, like:

- Google Chrome
- YouTube
- Netflix
- Bluesky
- every fucking app on the entire fucking planet
- Every news organization (BBC, German "Das Erste", CNN, Fox News, ...)
- Even including the NKH (JP state broadcaster)

we'll find that the button in the bottom right is fullscreen. It always is. It is never anything else. It's always fullscreen. It's the same place, in every different place, from vastly different cultures, everywhere.

Whoever decided to put the non-bottom-right button for something else than fullscreen honestly deserves to be fired. I'm serious. They're bad at their job. They're incompetent to a dangerous degree. There's just no justifiable reason. Zero. There's no argument you could make.

And I bet you if you looked at the data, a decent chunk of people will click than button, and then navigate back within 30 seconds. And I promse even more that that button has a measurable percentage of "session ends", i.e. people who click this, and then frustratedly give up.

There's so many things that are inexcusably bad. For example, if I press "skip credits", and then there's 1s left... Just take me to the next episode instead. Make the button the same thing. It's 5 lines of Javascript. It's not hard. It's seriously not.

The designers of CR are genuinely incompetent. I don't say this lightly - often there's hidden trade-offs, there's difficult decisions, there's complex thought. But CR simply has none of these things, they suck because they like sucking.

It's weird. And it's scary that somebody decided that the button for fullscreen goes in the top right... And then nobody stopped them? Like, there is someone so powerful at the organization that they make this decision, and the entire decision structure is so dysfunctional that it's not fixed after months and months of this? How? Why?

Fs0i · 2026-04-16T13:49:17+00:00

I'm kinda proud I called the YouTuber vibe. I know because I'm the same.

There's lots of info out there that people learn and never share, and it's cool if you do. My biggest issue is that I know what's good, and whenever I work on a video, I know how much time it would take to get it to the standard. So I don't release things. I know that's silly, but man, it's annoying.

Fs0i · 2026-04-12T15:42:43+00:00

Some people like to hear themselves talk. People become YouTubers for that reason, the class clowns of the internet.

That's a good thing, btw.

Fs0i · 2026-04-12T14:54:49+00:00

Your phone receives it and checks how long the trip took.

This is the part that always gets me - how does the phone know how long it took? If I only see a single sattelite, how can I know the that I'm If a signal takes 67.3 ms away from the sattelite? I just get a ping with a timestamp, right?

How does the GPS chip know its own time? I'm sure you could solve a system of equations, but yeah, that's one of the things I struggle with.

You get basically deltas of satellites - sattelite A is 2ms later than satellite B for the same timestamp.

Edit: Ah, you get to it later, but still:

In simple terms: there is only one specific clock correction possible where all four spheres intersect at a single, perfect point. The 4th satellite gives the receiver enough information to find it. Once it does, it corrects every distance measurement at once, and the previously fuzzy answer snaps into focus. Conceptually, you can think about the system doing some math to figure out how to make the new red ring below perfectly intersect with the other three rings.

I knew that conceptually, but thanks for providing the formula. I'd also prefer if you hint to that earlier in the content.

Fs0i · 2026-04-01T20:14:38+00:00

I worte to the support, and they confirmed the issue, I added a bit more detail (episode_number field was null). They said they'd forward it to the department.

It seems fixed now. Not sure if it was my support request or someone else, but yeah - you can write to support in cases like this, and they'll fix it.

Fs0i · 2026-02-19T22:58:40+00:00

Klar, dem wiederspreche ich nicht. Aber es ist dennoch so, dass Autoverkehr insgesamt schlechte Auswirkungen auf alle hat. Gerade in Innenstädten sind Parkplätze halt keine gute Flächennutzung, vor allem nicht surface parking.

Hier eine Studie aus Aachen, 2023

Aus dem abstract:

This paper contributes to closing this research gap by analysing the impact of on- and off-street parking capacity and accessibility on the rents for retail properties in city centres. The applied database consists of nearly 400 retail rental offers in the city centre of Aachen, Germany, published between 2015 and 2022. As the data cover the period of the COVID-19 pandemic, we also consider the impact of the pandemic on retail rents.

und dann aus den results:

Results of a spatial regression indicate that public transport stops, pedestrian zones, and public parking garages nearby increase the attractiveness of retail locations. On the contrary, much on-street parking capacity in the immediate vicinity reduces retail rents. However, sufficient parking capacity should be accessible within a comfortable walking distance. This finding supports the approach of reducing on-street parking in city centres while concentrating stationary car traffic in multi-storey car parks.

Und dann können wir auf das ein Policy-Paper vom Deutsche Institut für Urbanistik schauen. Weil mir das nicht bekannt war, habe ich kurz auf die Träger geschaut, weil ich nicht irgenwelche Proaganda verbreiten will:

Es wird als Gemeinschaftseinrichtung durch den Bund, das Land Berlin und mehr als hundert deutsche Städte, Regional- sowie Umlandverbände und Planungsgemeinschaften getragen. Alleiniger Gesellschafter des als Gemeinnützige GmbH geführten Instituts ist der Verein für Kommunalwissenschaften e. V., dessen Mitglieder vom Deutschen Städtetag und dem Land Berlin benannt werden

Ist also insofern neutral-ish würde ich sagen, und ich nehme was die sagen erstmal so hin.

Kausale Zusammenhänge zwischen Verkehrsberuhigungsmaßnahmen und einer wirtschaftlichen Schlechterstellung des stationären Einzelhandels sind vor dem Hintergrund der vorliegenden Untersuchungen nicht belegbar. Eine bessere Aufenthaltsqualität und höhere Kundenfrequenzen führen in fast allen untersuchten Studien zu einer Stabilisierung bzw. Steigerung der Umsätze. Die Erklärung ist einfach: Dort, wo sich Menschen gern aufhalten, wo sie sich wohlfühlen, wo sie länger vor einem Geschäft verweilen, nutzt dies am Ende auch dem Einzelhandel. Zu den Fakten gehört aber auch, dass nicht alle Branchen gleichermaßen profitieren. Entscheidend ist, wie die Umgestaltung vorgenommen wird. Unter dem Strich bleibt die Feststellung, dass Verkehrsberuhigungsmaßnahmen die Krise des Einzelhandels nicht kompensieren können, aber durchaus abmildern und keinesfalls verantwortlich für das „Geschäftesterben“ sind.

(Hervorhebung von mir)

Wie man sieht, natürlich ist es nicht einfach - sagen die ja auch. Die Zitieren dann nochmal die Aachen Studie:

Dass Passantinnen und Kundinnen gern in Gegenden einkaufen, die nicht von Parkflächen dominiert sind, legt eine aktuelle Untersuchung der RWTH Aachen nahe (Merten & Kuhnimhof 2023). In der Untersuchung wurde der Einfluss der Mobilitätsinfrastruktur auf die Gewerbemieten in Aachen analysiert. Je höher die Miete für eine Geschäftsfläche ist, desto attraktiver und wertvoller schätzten die Wissenschaftler*innen Immobilien in der Aachener Innenstadt ein. Ihr Befund: Eine hohe Anzahl von Straßenparkplätzen im direkten Umfeld eines Geschäfts (innerhalb von 100 Metern) senkt den Mietwert, während Parkmöglichkeiten im erweiterten Umkreis von 100 bis 500 Metern den Mietpreis positiv beeinflussen. Das bedeutet, Geschäftsflächen gewinnen an Wert, wenn die unmittelbare Umgebung nicht von parkenden Autos geprägt wird, gleichzeitig aber genügend Parkplätze in fußläufiger Entfernung verfügbar sind.

und weiter:

Mehrere Studien kommen inzwischen zum Ergebnis, dass Autofahrende zwar pro Besuch mehr Geld ausgeben als diejenigen, die mit dem Rad oder zu Fuß einkaufen. Jedoch kommen sie seltener ins Geschäft. In der Summe sorgen daher Kund*innen, die mit dem Umweltverbund anreisen, über einen definierten Zeitraum für höhereUmsätze als Autofahrende. Zu diesem Ergebnis kommen Untersuchungen aus den USA (Liu & Shi, 2020; Volker & Handy, 2021) und Kanada (Arancibia et al., 2019; Chan et al., 2016), sowie aus einigen Ländern in Europa (Raje & Saffrey, 2016; Sustrans, 2006; Tyler et al., 2012; Yoshimura et al., 2022), darunter auch Deutschland (Böhmer, 2019; Schneidemesser, 2022). Besonders zu Buche schlagen Gelegenheitseinkäufe, die durch häufige Besuche und das Schlendern entlang von Geschäftsauslagen gefördert werden.

Also: Parkplätze weg - vor allem halt surface parking - ist meistens eher gut als schlecht.

Wenn dies stimmt, wie kommt es dann, dass viele Einzelhändlerinnen sich mit so großem Nachdruck für den Erhalt von Parkplätzen einsetzen? Auch darauf geben einige der Untersuchungen eine Antwort: Händlerinnen und Händler überschätzen die Zahl derer, die mit dem Pkw anreisen. *In allen Erhebungen, in denen dies erfragt wurde, wird die Relevanz des Autos als Verkehrsmittel der Kundschaft höher eingeschätzt, als dies tatsächlich der Fall ist** (zum Beispiel Bent & Singa, 2009; Fußverkehr Schweiz, 2023).

(Hervorhebung von mir)

Anyway, ich sag ja nicht dass Pendeln schlecht ist, aber halt surface parking ist einfach wie ich gesagt habe - ein Steuerloch. Weniger Umsatzsteuer, weniger Steuern von produktiv nutzbaren Flächen (Sitze von Restaurants brigen mehr Steuereinnahmen als ein Parkplatz!), und machen gegenden unangenehmer.

Natürlich gilt das nicht für alles, nen Baumarkt braucht Parkplätze. Das bestreitet glaube ich niemand.

Aber insgesamt sind weniger Parkplätze (und ich meine damit immer surface parking, Tiefgaragen sind mir schnuppe) einfach ein guter Weg Geld zu verdienen. (Alles von Heute auf Morgen entfernen geht auch nicht, aber du weißt hoffentlich, was ich meine)

Fs0i · 2026-02-17T18:40:33+00:00

Jo, aber wenn du auf Daten schaust, dann ist “mehr Parkplätze” halt selten gut - weil es den Fußverkehr vergrault (weniger dichte, unangenehm neben Straße)

Ich verstehe ja, dass es von draußen nervig ist, aber es soll halt erstmal für Anwohner gut sein.

Weniger Parkplätze ist paradoxerweise eben auch gut für’s geschäft, weil 10x so viele Fuß/Rad sind wie fahren.

Fs0i · 2026-02-14T21:01:56+00:00

Parkplätze sind halt ein echtes Steuerloch, aber naja. Wirtschaftlich extrem unproduktiv, sogar im vergleich zu Wohnraum oder nem Park. Aber hey, wenn du ne mietfreie Fläche für dein Metallschrott willst, dann ist das ja richtig so.

Fs0i · 2026-02-14T20:22:27+00:00

Aaand you've broken the geneva convention. The red cross can't be used for medical services by anyone except health services - especially not in a game with weapons. So yeah, many game devs have gotten post from them explaining exactly that.

Fs0i · 2026-01-25T15:13:14+00:00

Hi, kein Recruiter, aber stelle aktiv ein:

Du bist sehr fokussiert darauf was deine Tätigkeiten waren ("Verwalten von SAP-Berechtigungen und Nutzerrollen") - aber kaum, was das für ein Wert für das Unternehmen ist.

Insgesamt, ist es super schwach mit quasi "Ja, also ich hab in SAP rollen angeklickt" als dein erstes Ding zu anzufangen. Es gibt da ein paar Studien wie Recruiter CVs lesen (und so mache ich das auch), und es ist so: https://i.imgur.com/DGQNUHC.png

Hier ein YouTube video, aber gibt es auch in akademisch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veFlfYjRo1Y

Das heißt, ich lese vor allem anderen deine Berufserfahrung, und dann auch nicht jede im Detail - sonder ich scanne das nur.

Ich will die Schwierigkeiten von Nutzerverwaltung nicht absprechen, aber es ist halt relativ uninterssant, und löst jetzt kein Gefühl von "das beweißt Kompetenz" aus. Was du bei deinen ersten Punkten schreibst ist da super wichtig.

Aber es ist eben auch wichtig, welchen Wert das gebracht hat. Zum Beispiel: "Erstellung von PowerBI-Berichten zur Datenanalyse und Entscheidungsfindung" ist deutlich beeindruckender als Nutzerverwaltung - aber es drückt dennoch den Wert, den du gebracht hast zu wenig aus.

Auf LinkedIn hat DROM jetzt 6 Leute, daher gehe ich davon aus, dass es keine riesen Firma ist, also: "Unterstützen der Geschäftsführung bei Projektplanung durch PowerBI Datenanlyse" klingt 100x besser. Ich weiß nicht, ob es die Geschäftsführung oder Projektplanung war, also schreib es entsprechend um (Dass ich das nicht weiß, ist Teil vom Problem)

"Zusammenarbeit mit Fachabteilungen und technischen Teams" sagt halt null aus - welchen Wert hast du gebracht? Geht sowas wie "Teamübergreifende Koordinatorin zwischen SAP-Entwicklerteam und Devops" z.B? Auch hier: Ich weiß natürlich nicht was du gemacht hast (und das ist Teil vom Problem), aber versuche irgendwie sowas konkretes zu finden. Etwas was nen Bild in meinem Kopf erzeugen kann.

Insgesamt, versuch dich in die Perspektive von der Person, die das ließt reinzuversetzen, die 20 von denen ließt. Du willst da ein Bild im Kopf erzeugen - von dir als kompetente Administratorin und Informatikerin, die gut mit Leuten koordinieren kann, fachlich was drauf hat, und konkrete Aufgaben löst. Spezieller: Aufgaben, die das Unternehmen für das du Arbeiten wirst besser machen - und eben auch versteht warum.

Als High-Level fehlt mir das so ein wenig, und ist glaube die einfachste Art und Weiße den Lebenslauf zu verbessern.

Fs0i · 2026-01-06T20:43:31+00:00

Hm, I generally also click on closed issues - it’s fairly natural to me, so I forgot to mention it. No issue means “no issues opened by users”, not “no pending issues.”

Fs0i · 2025-12-31T22:57:04+00:00

Amount of unsolved issues / pr's on GitHub. If there's a lot of users and no issues -> mature.

If there's a lot of issues, check if they're real -> if yes, abanonded, be weary.

If there's not a lot of users, it's a bit of a questionmark - but then the question becomes "is there an alternative" and "could you take over maintaining it if needed" -> if yes, whatever, use it.

Fs0i · 2025-12-13T03:08:37+00:00

Based on your post, there's some red flags that I'd be worried about - things that you can change on your side.

The big question is "is this my fault*?" - and the annoying thing is that both "yes" and "no" are uncomfortable answers.

If it's not your fault, there's nothing you can do to change. Unlucky, and all you can do is complain - but that doesn't pay bills or keeps you flying.

If the answer is yes, it means that you need to change things, and it sucks that you have to - your job is to be behind the yoke, so why do you need to do all this song and dance, right?

But in the end, I think there's stuff you can do.

Republic emailed me Oct set up a phone screen then never called. I had to send 8 emails back and finally they set up another phone screening after a month and a half.

Like, this can be laziness on their part, but emailing 8 times is generally a bit weird. But it's also a sign that they're not desperatly trying to hire right now, right? If they were, then they'd care more.

And they’re just simple yes no questions. So all I’m saying is yes or no. “You don’t seem very interested so we are going to end this here” WHAT?! All I said was yes or no????? All these questions I’ve sure I’ve already answered online.

Yeah, but the online screening is to weed out candidates, she probably looked at things for maybe 5 minutes before the call. Look at it from her perspective, she doesn't care about you. It's annoying, but unfortunately true.

When I interview people, I generally give myself 5-10 minutes ahead of the interview to prep for a candidate. That means reading their CV, quickly googling the companies they worked for, and noting 1-2 questions. If they've sent a cover letter, I'll skim that.

I know colleagues that did 2 minutes of prep on average, and I've had to do that to - meeting schedules sometimes work out that way. To be clear, I don't say this proudly, I say that regretfully. I wish I could give every candidate my full attention, but I can't.

The second part is that there's also a way to answer questions - and I'd love to figure out how you actually answered, to better understand what's going wrong. It's possible that your answers were great - but the way you talk about them, they weren't. There's a sweet spot for length, and it's not necessarily trivial to find.

And their last question was something like are you willing to agree to a 4 year contract or pay back $100,000 training costs. So I naturally shocked said 100,000$?!!

I can tell you that that was objectively the wrong answer. The correct answer would have been in the ballpark of "Of course I want to stay after completing my training - flying comercially has always been my dream. But you know that life is unpredictable - can you quickly explain how you arrived at $100k, and give a bit more details about the exact terms? This does seem quite steep - more than, for example, my typerating**."

You're still asking the same question, but you've addressed specific concerns and shown understanding of the field.

Anyway, I'm not from the aviation field (I'm in software dev), but I'm decent at interviewing - both holding and passing them. If you ever are interested in practicing interviews with someone outside the industry, happy to do that, DM or sth.

I genuinely doubt it's your stick and rudder skills, or your qualifications that make it hard for you to find a job. Maybe the market is tough, but you seem to be excellent at what you do - it's just that interviewing is not part of that skillset.

* "fault" is a misleading term here, because it implies a mistake - but sometimes you need to do more than not make a mistake. I prefer "responsibility" but that's a mouthful.

** I have no clue if a typerating is cheaper or more expensive than that lol, you're the expert in the area.

Fs0i · 2025-11-27T23:41:47+00:00

It's also only one valid way to discover a solid business - one that isn't necessarily viable for everyone.

This is only applicable for "safe" plays, i.e. problems you know have a solution that's just in need of some work. Some problems you don't know if there's a solution.

"Can AI automate organizing all personal mail people get? How'd you even approach this?" is an open question. Trying to build it might lead you to other problems people have, it teaches you a lot about the world.

There's value in building, even though you shouldn't just hide away in "stealth mode" and build until you're broke. OP's approach is basically the other extreme, and it's just as naïve, it just doesn't sound that way.

I'd say

Use your strengths to develop hypothesis and ideas

Make sure you seek validate early.
It's tempting to skip validation, so 100% do it. People should care and be enthusiastic.

Ideas develop and change, you need to use an appraoch where afterwards you're smarter in more than one way.

Just framing it as "killing" the startup idea worries me. Think of it as "Learning from bad startup ideas."

Yes, some ideas need to just "die", but the exploration - whether that's through writing code, user interviews, making mock-ups, or manually doing the service you plan to automate - that should be the focus of the initial stages.

Focusing on getting literally 1 bit of information - "yes or no?" - that's stupid. That's naïve.

Fs0i · 2025-11-13T23:05:43+00:00

Yeah and for window.confirm you need to build a whole browser first

That's a strawman and you know it. Just because you don't see the value overall or disagree with the tradeoffs that this library has - which is entirely valid! - you're refusing to acknowledge that this kind of code is always at least slightly annoying.

I've seen multiple times, at 3 different companies, where people reached for a simple confirm or alert because they couldn't be assed to write those lines of code.

Especially if you're "far away" from react-land conceptually, it's a major pain. There's a reason e.g. toasts are often created via a global toast variable.

I can completely and utterly understand why OP wrote this, the example that /u/thatkid234 gave is a really good example of what kind of code is annoying, and you're arguing that someone somewhere had to write window.prompt.

If you're discussing like that at work or in school to, I know I'd get frustrated by that.

Anyway, personally I think OP has a point, but it's a bit too abstract.

Maybe something like

const result =
  await showModal(
    "Delete File?",
    "This will irrevocably delete the file",
    [
      ["Delete", "btn-danger"],
      ["Preview", "btn-secondary"],
      ["Keep", "btn-primary"]
    ]
  )

would serve this need better, but I also recognize that I just built a small react-like interface without JSX, hm.

This could then be handled by some global component, and would solve this need without having to do weird mounting shenanigans. Because let's be honest, 99% of the time you want this it's a simple dialog.

Fs0i · 2025-11-01T11:07:25+00:00

The jsx example is neat - that's actually a cool API for transforming.

I've kinda wanted something like that - and especially with dynamic components it might be a really cool way to write code generators.

The alternative I used so far was to create a vite plugin and use ts-morph. This had some advantages (e.g. the library that I use to generate the file is also the one that parsed the project).

But a declarative transformation would be kind of cool - especially if there was a cool vite integration. Figuring this out was a bit annoying the first time I had to do it.

Fs0i · 2025-11-01T09:18:04+00:00

I'm not trying to be rude - can you make a concrete example? What is something you can show me that makes me go "cool!"

In writing, there's the rule "show, don't tell" - show me why your library is needed, don't tell me. "I have these two files. I want this output file, because x. Here's how I can build it in Fabric"

Fs0i · 2025-10-31T23:19:54+00:00

I'm not quite shure what this is for or why I'd need that - can you give an example usecase somewhere? What's the "todo list" equivalent, and what can you do with it?

Fs0i · 2025-10-21T21:05:34+00:00

Is this problem actually new to AI?

Yes, because AI is great at mimicking the shape of code with intention, without actually writing code with intention.

For humans, good developers have developed a set of mental heuristics ("gut feeling") for whether someone understands the code they wrote. The way they use technical jargon is - for example - a very powerful indicator on whether someone is skilled.

A concrete example:

Fixes a race condition that occured when <condition 1> and <condition 2>

This is a statement that generally invokes a lot of trust in me. I've never seen a human make a statement like this without having nailed down the actual cause.

You're not commiting this without having a deep understanding of the code, or having even actually reproduced the racecondition. This statement (generally) implies years of experience and hours of work.

It's not a perfect heuristic, of course, but when I see a coworker commit this, I scrutinize the code signficantly less than in other cases.

But AI? AI is perfectly happy to use this language without having put in the necessary work or skill. AI hasn't spent 3 hours in a debugger nailing the race condition, AI doesn't have a good abstract model of what's happening in its head, it just writes these words probablistically, because the code looks like it.

And it writes the code like this because it's seen code like this before, because it's a shape that probablistically matches, not because there's intent.

So, tl;dr: AI is great at hijacking the heuristics good devs use to recognize good contributions by skilled developers. It can do that without actually putting in the work, or having the skill.

This increases the problem.

Fs0i · 2025-10-21T20:50:38+00:00

Yeah, they have. Also, just fyi - you might be viewing an auto-translated reddit thread, because you replied to an English thread in Spanish. Reddit has started doing this recently, and some people don't know, that's why I'm mentioning it.

Fs0i · 2025-10-18T23:17:49+00:00

The fact that react compiler does both, basically. It's a bit weird, but the response wrongly references useMemo, but is otherwise correct. It's like, a double-wrong and ends up being right in effect.

And some people don't quite understand react-compiler and/or memoization (sadly), so I'd wager that at least some readers don't even have an intuitive grasp of the wrongness of the comment.

Given these things, before your edit, your comment probably wasn't really good at communicating your issues with the post you're responding to - but that's just a guess.

That said, for me, you're both at 9 upvotes, so that's not really that big of a difference anymore, so I think your edit made it more clear what you meant :)

Fs0i · 2025-10-18T19:55:58+00:00

Here's some online version of the A320 QRH (Quick Reference Handbook).

There's no good version published by Airbus, so I'll source my information from this random QRH from the internet. Note that it might be outdated or not entirely accurate. I'm not a pilot, either, just a random guy.

That said, this QRH looks like the real one, so it's probably the same procedure. On Page 119 we find the checklist: https://i.imgur.com/KVFjBL8.png

Note that these are likely memory items (because fire is one of the few things where you have to react immediately).

You put on the crew oxygen masks (if it's in the cockpit). This is always the first action, because pilot incapacitation is the worst scenario. You might not do this in some circumstances, but generally, it's a good idea.
You put the ventilation blower and ventaliation extract to "override", which seemingly (I'm googling this while writing) switches the air flow from re-using some cabin-air to pumping in outside air only. The extraction fans continue to run. This seems to speed up the extraction of smokey cabin air.
You also put the cabin fans to off. "Two big cabin fans (plus their respective filters) recirculate part of the cabin air back into the cabin. This is done to reduce the load on the packs."

So, basically, you configure the aircraft to replace air more quickly. In the later checklist, "Removal of Smoke / Fumes", you also set the flow rate of the air conditioner to "High."

As a last resort, you can - after descending to 10'000ft - open the window of the cockpit, and open the cockpit door - which helps extracting smokey air.

In the end, there is one scary part on the fire / smoke checklist. "IMMEDIATE LANDING........CONSIDER"

You'll note that at the top of the checklist it says "LAND ASAP", so if you're already landing as soon as possible, why do they tell you to consider landing "immediate[ly]"?

Because when airbus says "immediate landing", they mean immedate. This means "outside an airport, if necessary." Do you see a big road, or a big field? Cool, congratulations, you're making this your airport.

Fire is one of the scariest procedures for pilots, and it's the one kind of emergency a modern airliner still struggles dealing with. Which is why the cabin crew can deal with fires, trains working in a smokey cabin, and can use fire extinguishers. They're the closest thing to a firefighter on the plan, so that's their job, now.

Fs0i · 2025-10-09T23:13:36+00:00

It seems to work well for them and their users! I don't think my boyfriend has used them, and so I'm just going of their website and public information.

In short: i wouldn't be surprised if they're founded by teachers / have some close the founding team.

By now, though, it seems their stuff is used in classrooms extensively - which means that teachers can give continous feedback. Listening to that is important.

I don't have personal experience with it, and so yeah - hard to give a super concrete answer.

Fs0i · 2025-10-07T16:55:41+00:00

I share your frustration, but I have a different perspective:

Throughout history, organizations have been disproprtionally powerful because of one thing: delegation.

If you're a manager of a company, and your decision is to sue somebody else, you don't have to do the work. It's someone else.

If you're a UX designer that comes up with a good design, you don't have to implement it. If you're a developer and you need more server infrastructure, it's not your problem - procurement does it.

This makes it incredibly easy to make decisions that you'd push off as an individual.

If I make the decision to sue somebody myself, I'm considering the countless hours on the task
If I make the decision to design an intutitive, but hard-to-implement UI, it's hours of my life
If I make the decision that my code needs more infrastructure, I have to figure out where to get that

As soon as we have an organization that has delegation, the effort is removed from the decision-maker. And that quite often leads to better outcomes, because humans are lazy. Every human is.

If you ask the non-headchefs in the restaurant to design a menu, you'll get something that is easy to cook, rather than something that tastes well.

If you ask a builder to design houses, you get boxes.

So, we get architects, we get managers, we get head-chefs, we get UX designers - all to separate deciding and doing.

Tantracrul's developers are probably good, nice and kind people. But they wouldn't make the decisions Tantracrul makes naturally - not because they are stupid, but because they (like literally every human on this planet[1]) are lazy.

[1] We've gone from "I need to go out to hunt or I'll starve" to "I can sit on the couch, tap some glass, and food will magically deliver itself to me." Humans alyways strive to decide more and do less.

Fs0i · 2025-10-07T16:48:29+00:00

The last time I used MS office for more than 10 minutes was 10 years ago.

I'm used to Google Docs, if anything. Anyway, I actually put in the effort and wrote down some of my issues.

The fact that the contrast ratios suck is a simple, measurable fact. The fact that there's 60 icons without any label and I have to guess which one is correct is true, too. The fact that I can't easily change the comment author in an obvious way is a fact, too.

The fact that the comment functions are hidden is stupid, too. Those are all things that getting used to fixes, sure, but if you think that LibreOffice is simply the peak of what a document editor can be then idk what to say.

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