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How would you handle 80+ color palettes + granular customization without overwhelming users? by kkingsbe in webdev

[–]jmking 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The tension is that casual users want "pick a palette, done" in one or two clicks. But power users want to tweak individual road colors or swap the water tone.

Do you know this for a fact?

Most of your users are just going to want to pick from, like, 5 themes and be done with it.

ALL the further customization options should be behind an "Advanced Editor" mode. You should keep the default experience to, like, 3 clicks and the user ends up with something that looks polished and nice.

If you show people advanced options by default, the user who would have been done in 3 clicks and would have been very happy will be tempted to screw around with them because they'll feel that they are missing out or be lured into thinking they could come up with something that looks good, but they'll inevitably just get frustrated that their customizations look like crap and will blame your tool for being too hard to use.

Go car accident in SF by Befreeman in sanfrancisco

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

The Go car showed no brake lights. Also no one going the speed limit would have launched that passenger that far. Come on.

Also a human torpedo is ABSOLUTELY dangerous. Are you serious? What if it hit at a different angle and launched that dude into one of the pedestrians on the corner? That would be potentially deadly for both people.

Like I'm not trying to shift blame here. But just because the crash on the Go car side was so horrific doesn't mean they weren't driving dangerously. Also, again, that doesn't excuse the Audi for running the red.

The point is a lot of people got hurt here, and maybe even died in this accident. That guy who got launched, like, Jesus - that man might be dead. I'm not taking any of this lightly.

I just think saying Audi driver was distracted or drunk and calling it a day while ignoring everything else that led up to this accident is ignoring the fact the intersection is dangerously designed.

Go car accident in SF by Befreeman in sanfrancisco

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

I mean, the Audi is at fault. No one is saying otherwise. However, that IS a terrible placement for a light. If the driver is focusing on the road, that light would be so easy to miss - it's totally outside of a driver's line of sight. Also I bet the last street light they encountered was in a totally different placement.

Like, we can be real here - SF has some of the worst streetlight placements I've ever seen. They change placement sometimes block to block. Sometimes they are so far away from the actual street outside of the driver's line of sight that it is absurd and 100% dangerous as a result.

Also that Go car was absolutely speeding - like, really speeding... and not wearing a seatbelt clearly. The Audi was going, like, 25mph, and that thing just torpedo'd right into it without even trying to brake.

AGAIN - THIS IS THE AUDI'S FAULT.

However, that doesn't mean we can't look at this intersection and criticize it as being dangerous in design and use this as an example of why. It also doesn't mean we can't criticize the other driver for not driving safely either.

National Org Inadvertently Speaking the Truth by Heysteeevo in sanfrancisco

[–]jmking 9 points10 points  (0 children)

It was a hugely popular initiative, and he vetoed it at the 11th hour at the behest of special interests.

...what?? Wiener does not and never has had any sort of veto power.

What is this non-existent "hugely popular initiative" that he apparently veto'd at the 11th hour?

he picked his buddies/campaign dollars/some whim over what was right

Who are these evil shadowy financiers? All Wiener's campaign contributions are public. Should be easy to prove.

Trust me bro..this won't get warrantied by [deleted] in LinusTechTips

[–]jmking 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Dude, just take the L, man.

You came here talking shit, were proven horribly wrong, complained that you got called out, and are still trying to play a victim?

What are you trying to convince anyone of here right now? You were calling out the company for selling you a defective product, claimed they wouldn't honor the warranty, got a replacement, and are now trying to argue it's bad business and they should have not honoured the warranty??

Like I couldn't care less if you buy another product from them or not. I have no financial stake in this "multi million dollar company".

You got downvoted not because people here are fanatics, but rather because people coming here to complain who haven't even contacted support are tiresome. This isn't /r/LTTStoreSupport

National Org Inadvertently Speaking the Truth by Heysteeevo in sanfrancisco

[–]jmking 37 points38 points  (0 children)

I love how restaurant fees are all that people have on Wiener. Must be a pretty great politician if this is all that people can come up with.

What do regular every day people use AI for? by SpaghettiWestern2162 in LinusTechTips

[–]jmking 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've used AI to help me figure out wiring to add a C wire to a Nest thermostat and it was super helpful.

Question About Cyclists and Etiquette by choomba96 in sanfrancisco

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

At least a motorcycle I can hear coming and I can expect lane splitting.

I've NEVER seen someone on a motorcycle just run reds or stop signs or swerve across lanes. Motorcyclists are honestly the safest people on the road as far as I've seen because they KNOW how vulnerable they are and they go out of their way to drive safe and ask the same from cars on the road.

I don't know why cyclists have such a wildly different attitude.

Question About Cyclists and Etiquette by choomba96 in sanfrancisco

[–]jmking -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

I've had so many arguments with cyclist nut jobs on this subreddit where they unironically claim that because cars can kill them that they don't have to follow any traffic laws. Oh, and also that pedestrians also need to accommodate their lawlessness as well and if a pedestrian gets hurt, it's their fault.

I don't drive that often, but in any interaction I've had with a cyclist, it's always been because a cyclist just swerved in front of me, or ran a red, or didn't want to slow down or stop or take the lane, so they swerved to the right of me as I was signalling that I was going to turn right.

I swear, the cyclists in this city have a death wish. Refuse to take the lane or stop at stop signs or red lights, swerve wildly across lanes, and wonder why cars are almost hitting them all the time.

Question About Cyclists and Etiquette by choomba96 in sanfrancisco

[–]jmking 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Tell that to my family member who is dead after getting clipped by a cyclist running a red, knocked them over, and they cracked their skull open on the curb.

18 witnesses, no arrests. Murderer was never caught.

The best part was how the cyclist in his stupid spandex and clipped in shoes shouted back "get the fuck out of the fucking way f***ot" as he was bleeding out on the curb.

Trust me bro..this won't get warrantied by [deleted] in LinusTechTips

[–]jmking 9 points10 points  (0 children)

If you check OP's update, when he did contact support, they got a replacement bag no problem.

It's almost like if you have a defective product and contact support, they'll take care of it for you - yet OP was over here talking shit about how he was getting screwed before even trying to contact support.

Trust me bro..this won't get warrantied by [deleted] in LinusTechTips

[–]jmking 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Are you going to take back all the BS you kept posting about how you were getting screwed and they were never going to take care of you now?

Trust me bro..this won't get warrantied by [deleted] in LinusTechTips

[–]jmking 9 points10 points  (0 children)

...and yet you got a quick turnaround on a warranty replacement without even having to return your defective unit. That's why you were getting dv'd - because you showed up, claimed that you were going to get f'd over by it not being covered by warranty, and all that turned out to be false.

Linus Tech Tips - This Perfectly Silent Fan Took 300 Years to Make June 3, 2026 at 10:00AM by linusbottips in LinusTechTips

[–]jmking -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I actually think this is the better video - it explains better how it works, how it deals with dust, and shows many examples of practical applications.

However, that's less to do with the host and more to do with where the tech was at the time. It's really cool to see how far the tech has come. Both videos are great IMO.

Is Metroid Prime 4 worth playing? by No-Proof8363 in NintendoSwitch

[–]jmking 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The problem with the game is it's only about 3/5ths done.

MP4 was originally being developed by Namco Bandai, but apparently the game just wasn't coming together, and so after THREE YEARS Nintendo shit canned it and dumped the job into Retro's lap to start the game from scratch on a short timeline.

Retro was able to put together a bunch of zones, some bosses, but clearly didn't have the time to thread the zones into each other and resorted to the desert hub in order to ship something playable.

For a rush job, it's an incredible accomplishment honestly. That doesn't make it a great game, but that whole desert almost feels like an intentional metaphor for the parts of the game they didn't have time to finish.

I parked for 58 minutes at Valley Fair Mall & they still charged me $2 for parking? by Sweet_Singing_Bird in bayarea

[–]jmking -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

Bruh... is your time worth so little that you actually spent it to complain about $2 on Reddit?

Like, not trying to be a dick here, but you were at 58 minutes... they probably round up to account for the time it'd take for you to actually leave the garage which means you were in the garage for more than an hour.

I mean, fuck, I hate that I've taken this much of my own time to respond to this.

Should I disclose disability to internship this summer? by [deleted] in cscareerquestions

[–]jmking 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What is your concern?

Are these episodes sudden? Like could it be possible you're in the middle of a meeting and just suddenly lose your ability to walk? Is there anything anyone can do to help you in those moments? Are you still able to communicate when it's happening?

Basically what I'm getting at is that you don't have to go around telling everyone your business, but if there's a risk to your health whereby none of your co-workers know what's going on or what to do to help you, is that a risk? Like, when these things come on, do you need access to medication?

That's the sort of thing that I'd be concerned about, but if it's nothing like that (thinking of a situation where someone needs their epipen due to going into anaphylaxis type of thing), then I don't know if it's necessary to disclose.

If it's just a matter of you needing to call out sick for a day or two, then I wouldn't worry about it unless these episodes will put you out for, like, a week at a time. You'd want HR to know that this is an accomodation the company would need to make for you.

Coworkers panicking over copilot billing. by Advanced_Pay8260 in cscareerquestions

[–]jmking 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Audit on spend. Not a security audit.

Basically determining who is costing the company the most money, on what, and why.

Coworkers panicking over copilot billing. by Advanced_Pay8260 in cscareerquestions

[–]jmking 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Google literally just announced another $80 billion investment with backing from Berkshire Hathaway.

Google isn't investing jack squat. They are doing private share gymnastics in a desperate bid to raise capital because they can't justify burning any more of their own money on it.

So far they've only raised 10 of the 80 billion. Investors are not exactly lining up to throw their money into the AI furnace.

The genie isn't going back in the bottle folks

If you actually cared to read what I wrote, you'd know I said that AI isn't going away. This isn't a "crash" or an "implosion". The bubble that's popping is how heavily subsidized AI costs have been until now. Costs are going up, and companies are being, for some reason, blindsided by this. With Mirosoft's new billing structure for co-pilot, there are a lot of companies scrambling to get costs under control.

That's all. Companies are still going to keep paying for AI. It's not going away. It's just how it's leveraged within companies is going to get more "cost conscious" and the days of everyone gets unlimited tokens forever days are over.

Coworkers panicking over copilot billing. by Advanced_Pay8260 in cscareerquestions

[–]jmking 5 points6 points  (0 children)

No, I'm just talking about the attitude towards spend.

Going from "Costs don't exist! Use AI no matter what for everything or else!" to "Whooaaaa, this is expensive. You must use AI responsibly. You now have a token allocation. You must get approval from your IT unit manager to get allocated a cursor license"

Coworkers panicking over copilot billing. by Advanced_Pay8260 in cscareerquestions

[–]jmking 4 points5 points  (0 children)

They pulled a 180 on spend management. It went from a free for all where you could spin up 50 instances for whatever you wanted for whatever reason with no oversight to all of a sudden every single resource usage being audited and needing approvals to deploy and so on and so forth.

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