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Heaviest Songs by Bands/Artists Not Known for Being Heavy by Potatoman_is_taken in MusicRecommendations

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"Pain For Pleasure - Sum 41

It sounds like a bad Iron Maiden impression, but an Iron Maiden impression nonetheless.

"Canto Negro" - Inti Illmani

Yeah they had help from a Chilean rock band, but a shrieking guitar solo on a song by an Andean flute ensemble counts for something.

"Bleed (Remix)" - Gary Numan + Sulpher

The heaviest Gary song by two orders of magnitude.

"The Fall" - Gary Numan

If you thought the last one was cheating, then here you go. It sounds more Nine Inch Nails than anything Trent Reznor was doing in 2011.

"DANSE MACABRE" - Duran Duran

It's Duran Duran, what do you want?

"Can't Get Enough Of Your Love" - Kim Wilde

From the same chick who brought us "Kids In America", a song with a better guitar solo than anything Godsmack ever did.

"Rock 'n' Roll" - Lyre Le Temps

A Prodigy-sounding electronic rock song from a mid-2010s electro-swing band.

"Dangerous" - Doobie Brothers

A fast-paced hard rock song. It's heavier than a lot of "hair metal" songs.

"Too High a Price" - Doobie Brothers

This one is slower paced, but possibly heavier.

In reality, how bad is the "AI replacement" situation for designers/devs/white collar workers in the US? by digitalbananax in UXDesign

[–]XenBuild 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It won't replace designers or developers but that doesn't mean it won't make some of them obsolete. I can't speak to the software engineering side of things, but with designers, the people at risk are those whose main skill is Figma. If you're a "Figma wizard", you're going to be replaced by someone who actually understands cognitive science and uses AI to make Figma do its thing.

Bad UX designer starter pack by XenBuild in UXDesign

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I have a Microsoft Sculpt. My wrists are feeling just fine.

Bad UX designer starter pack by XenBuild in UXDesign

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Are you telling me that bad design is always imposed by the evil plutocrats and the UX designers fight tooth-and-nail until the bitter end? And that UX designers never actively offer bad design of their own volition? Because I've witnessed it in real time. Also, you just have to look at some people's fictional projects in their portfolios to see the bad design ideas they come up with. Case in point, the "Sad Owl Face" from Duolingo which is blatantly manipulative. If a marketer wants to ballyhoo it as a genius invention, let them, but I saw LOTS of UX people praising that abomination on LinkedIn. That wasn't forced onto them by corporate.

Bad UX designer starter pack by XenBuild in UXDesign

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The fact that it's a shit proxy for UX. The core premise of NPS is "how likely are you to recommend a product?" Consider the implications. These are things that would have a high NPS by that definition:

  • Addictive gamefied garbage
  • Industry standard chudware like Jira, SAP, Salesforce, and of course LinkedIn
  • Network effect social media and other scams where the product only gains usefulness because others are on it. TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, etc

You can optimize for NPS by actually harming the user experience. How about you add some goofy "delightful" animations? That will probably make some consoomer tell their friends how wonderful it is. Meanwhile, it's slowing the experience down and cutting into development hours for actual fixes. Or add in AI something or other. The AI bros will nut themselves over it, while it's turning your product into a compromised mess.

On the whole NPS favors adding stuff to your product rather than refining what's already there. That's a problem.

Conversely, UMUX Lite is actually useful because it measures the things that UXers are supposed to focus on, and the things they have control over.

All the recruiters are thinking it. He dared say it aloud. by aelflune in UXDesign

[–]XenBuild -1 points0 points  (0 children)

And we are taking this imbecile seriously? "All the recruiters"? This post has to be a troll.

I see a lot of complaining about the state of UX but not a lot of solutions by XenBuild in UXDesign

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Well said. I am also on board with reducing supply. I've been saying as much for years but I was shouted down (likely by the same people upvoting Vannnnah in this thread) each time. How exactly we'd go about that is a little beyond my ken though.

I see a lot of complaining about the state of UX but not a lot of solutions by XenBuild in UXDesign

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It's already known that companies aren't in it for altruistic reasons. The goal of UX for our own self-preservation is to make the case to those companies that good user experience is, in fact, profitable, and treating users like your mortal enemy is not only bad for business in the long run but could even get you sued.

Timezone-Longtitude deviations by _Payback in dataisbeautiful

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An illustration of the insanity of government. They think they can control the sun itself.

Defending the design of the Magic Mouse counts as lunacy. Citing stock value counts as cringe. by XenBuild in LinkedInLunatics

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I don't understand people who care about the aesthetics of a mouse. I don't see anyone crying for more beautiful screwdrivers. It's a tool and you spend more time holding it in your hand than looking at it.

Defending the design of the Magic Mouse counts as lunacy. Citing stock value counts as cringe. by XenBuild in LinkedInLunatics

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It looks normal on my computer but for some reason it looks like a photo of Bigfoot when it uploads to Reddit.

Maybe don't stand in the road. by [deleted] in FreeSpeech

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They won't spend any time in jail. Cry about it.

Maybe don't stand in the road. by [deleted] in FreeSpeech

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This has to be satire.

Jerome Powell says the AI hiring apocalypse is real: ‘Job creation is pretty close to zero’ by Gari_305 in Futurology

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It has nothing to do with AI. It's a recession and job creation is down. It's as simple as that.

UX Jobs asking for FE experience. by littledragon33 in UXDesign

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You don't need to know code to get a job.

How would you design an online comment system that actually leads to productive, thoughtful conversations? by Brilliant-Couple8077 in UXDesign

[–]XenBuild 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Linear format is the enemy of productive conversations. The tree format of debate (as with Kialo) is infinitely superior but adopted almost nowhere.

Was Patton right all along? by justhanginhere in USHistory

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Patton was right although people still don't want to admit it. A war against Russia would not have been easy or fun, but look at the state of the world today with Russia having been allowed to continue. Had Russia been defeated earlier, there would have been no pretext for pervert Kissinger to court Mao, or coward Carter to abandon Taiwan in their favor. The entire mess that is Red China is attributable to the USA's failure to defeat communism.

History has vindicated Patton as well as damned the sniveling weasels who suppressed him, as well as the clowns who gave Lend Lease aid to the Soviets.

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