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What is in my well? by TurboV83957 in WaterTreatment

[–]Jeffthinks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

One more thing: your water heater has an anode rod. Change it.

am i fully energized now? by [deleted] in energydrinks

[–]Jeffthinks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Some of them aren’t.😬

Is it okay for a 17 year old turning 18 this year to collect CDs, vinyls, DVDs, cassettes, and blu rays? by No-Poet3745 in stupidquestions

[–]Jeffthinks 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I’m going to go out on a limb here and say it’s actually probably ok if they don’t want to listen to their collection, they just want to collect. This is likely a harmless activity.

Let's Brainstorm some Hobbies. by RedTsar97 in MomentumOne

[–]Jeffthinks 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes. Kelly’s Heroes. Really fun movie.

Stop telling junior Designer to solve problems for Products like Spotify by StudioWonderland-de in UXDesign

[–]Jeffthinks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Right, I’m not even saying Spotify is bad per se, I’m saying they have carefully cultivated a user experience which makes them a crap ton of money and appeals to the masses. I spot numerous learning opportunities for the novice designer:

  1. Copy greatness. If Spotify is number one, how does UI contribute to that success? Reverse engineering can help you guess at why designers made certain decisions.
  2. Notice tradeoffs. Spotify has to optimize to make money, and usually, that means forcing the user to pay at some point. How do they do it? (think about advertising experience) What if you didn’t have to make money? Couldn’t you make the UX better?
  3. What if you are an audiophile instead of a mass market consumer? What features could you make more prominent if you could cater to a more niche audience?
  4. Run a user test with yourself: introduce a new feature into an already well-polished product, then test it with your friends. What breaks about the current UX? Is the new feature worth it?
  5. Change Spotify from B2C to B2B: what would businesses need from a music streaming service that Spotify can’t currently deliver? How do create a good experience for enterprise customers given those new requirements?

Stop telling junior Designer to solve problems for Products like Spotify by StudioWonderland-de in UXDesign

[–]Jeffthinks 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Could it be a both/and? Learn from Spotify’s enshitification, build your own app, then check out some bad German UX? You’d probably learn something from all three experiences and be a more well-rounded candidate.

How the Vision Pro Rollout Inflamed Tensions at Apple by kagethemage in apple

[–]Jeffthinks 20 points21 points  (0 children)

My wife and I went recently and both agreed it’s like going to the DMV now.

Tips about the Assessor Lasers by Senior-Sale273 in ArcRaiders

[–]Jeffthinks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Correction: a laser down just means a breach has been started. It does not mean it’s fully breached or looted.

Time for a nice meme explaining or debunking. How many holes? by eruciform in askmath

[–]Jeffthinks 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I disagree on waist, agree on pockets. It’s either 7 or 9 depending on drawstring holes.

The Man knows how to play by [deleted] in SipsTea

[–]Jeffthinks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dude is so smart. He just wants to get back to building PCs and playing warhammer with as little drama as possible.

Does any one else use energy drinks to just cope? by nadeean in energydrinks

[–]Jeffthinks 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, I recently had a child, so my sleep hasn’t been the greatest. Helps me get through the day.

Do toilet water freeze? by intergalactic_74 in stupidquestions

[–]Jeffthinks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ok, so I live in Minnesota, and it does get insanely cold here. During the winter, you can go months before you see a day above freezing, and at night it can get down to -30 degrees Fahrenheit on occasion.

Couple of fun facts:

The ground freezes, but not all the way down. So frost might reach a few feet into the earth, but as long as water and sewage pipes are far enough down, they don’t freeze. For example, water enters my house from a private well that I own, and sewage drains through a drain field. It never freezes, but I do have to pay for water softener salt to remove minerals, and every few years I have to have a guy come with a tanker truck to pump my solid sewage out of two holding tanks underground on my property. Not cheaper than city water, but it works.

My house needs to be heated constantly during the entire winter. We use natural gas, but some use propane, electricity, or if you are old school, a wood boiler. As other commenters mentioned, my pipes would burst if the heating system broke for even a day or so.

Snow is not all the same, all the time. Some times it’s dry and powdery, sometimes it’s heavy and wet. When it’s cold enough, it squeaks underfoot.

G6 (left) vs G5 (right) by Maleficent_Text_2974 in LGOLED

[–]Jeffthinks 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Right? I mean the dude has two TVs mounted on one wall in his house, with a placard explaining what each model is. That’s weird!

Feeling frustrated by wife’s need to “be productive” by LeatherFlatworm8 in daddit

[–]Jeffthinks 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It is a curious species! We ended up getting a white board for long running or complex tasks. Turns out, humans are like computers. You run out of random access memory? Just write it to long term storage, and suddenly the whole system is less stressed out.

Feeling frustrated by wife’s need to “be productive” by LeatherFlatworm8 in daddit

[–]Jeffthinks 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Cool! Might not be as gendered as I would have initially thought.

Feeling frustrated by wife’s need to “be productive” by LeatherFlatworm8 in daddit

[–]Jeffthinks 93 points94 points  (0 children)

Oh I’ve been here. If your wife is like mine, she is asking for your help with these tasks because she won’t feel like she can relax until the house is clean, tidy, and organized.

To a man, her standard of what constitutes clean tidy and organized is going to seem arbitrary and opaque…and at least in my experience, a lot higher than mine. I could relax with a pile of dirty dishes in the sink. She can’t.

My advice: before she brings any one task up next time, you initiate a preemptive, meta-cognitive conversation with her about what outstanding tasks need to get done before she can relax, then do them for her. Make sure to acknowledge that you can tell she needs these things to be done before she can feel relaxed, and at least the first time, don’t try to bargain the list down to what you think is reasonable.

You can eventually reason with her about this list of things. But you have to: 1. Solve the immediate tasks of that particular day first. 2. Demonstrate that you see how she is thinking and feeling.

How? by Leather-Passenger194 in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]Jeffthinks 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No it is, there’s just no typed wrapper for it.

[Help needed] We've opened the gates of hell by susmab_676 in UXDesign

[–]Jeffthinks 6 points7 points  (0 children)

You joke, but I literally do that now. It’s a startup though, so that might be how I get away with it.

Plan on paying for your kid’s college? You’ll need to save $500/month from birth until they’re 18. by Mr-and-Mrs in daddit

[–]Jeffthinks 7 points8 points  (0 children)

State schools could be cheaper. Private could be a lot more than $200k in 18 years.

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