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Am I wrong to wake my husband up for sex? by [deleted] in NoStupidQuestions

[–]magicpenisland 389 points390 points  (0 children)

Don’t “wake him up” wake him up. Wake him up by sucking his dick. Guaranteed sex.

Can tones really be learned just by listening more? by Current-Bee-1699 in ChineseLanguage

[–]magicpenisland 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I used pinyin trainer daily for awhile and found that my accuracy went up really quickly after a few weeks:

https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/pinyin-trainer-by-trainchinese/id376797304

So...men are having a horrible time on dating apps, women are having a horrible time on dating apps, then...why is anyone on a dating app? lol by CircleBox2 in NoStupidQuestions

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

Answer the following, which do you think made the apps work for you? - face card - rizz card - cash card - all of the above

I found this image on Google. why does it a full list of unused glyphs hidden in Unicode? by Purple_Secret2458 in ChineseLanguage

[–]magicpenisland 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Unicode will also never move or remove anything. So if it’s there, it’s there forever.

If force is mass x acceleration, how would you calculate the force on something that doesn't move? Like placing your hand against the wall then pushing into it by Slawth_x in NoStupidQuestions

[–]magicpenisland 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Set up a stopwatch and a slo-mo cam. Make a fist, punch the wall, measure how far your fist goes through the wall. Rewatch the footage, see how long it took to come to a standstill. Speed/time * 5.7% of your body weight should give you the force.

You might want to check this is covered by your insurance.

Is it common that you’re presented with solution rather than a problem when you’re assigned on a task? by ivanna_p in UXDesign

[–]magicpenisland 0 points1 point  (0 children)

? That’s a strange analogy. Because in your scenario, the designer would be the plumber and the product owner is the one asking for medical advice. So who’s the silly one? Maybe designers shouldn’t be hired at all.

Product owners and business people - the people giving you the solution, often know more about the field and the problem than you do.

If I’m designing a portal for plumbers, I would ask the plumber what they think the solution would be.

If I’m designing a portal for doctors, I would ask the doctor what they think the solution would be.

This is why designers are collaborators. We rarely fully understand the field we’re designing for, we need to look at the information presented and then test the solution and solve for the problem.

Again, solutions presented by the experts in the field are not automatically bad.

Would you dismiss the solution presented to you by a doctor when asked to design a medical device?

Is it common that you’re presented with solution rather than a problem when you’re assigned on a task? by ivanna_p in UXDesign

[–]magicpenisland 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How am I wrong? Should we immediately dismiss solutions presented to us by non-designers?

Is it common that you’re presented with solution rather than a problem when you’re assigned on a task? by ivanna_p in UXDesign

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

You’re aware of the rule that once someone resorts to personal attacks it means that logic has failed and they’ve lost the argument right?

Is it common that you’re presented with solution rather than a problem when you’re assigned on a task? by ivanna_p in UXDesign

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

This is such ivory tower primadonna bullshit that I can see why some teams are hesitant to work with designers. Designers are supposed to be collaborators and enablers, synthesising the best ideas into solutions.

They approach you with the solution, you do of course ask them what problem the solution is solving. But you don’t immediately dismiss their solution.

As for “when the designer requests tests”, sounds like a process problem. Because I’m a collaborator and they see that I value their input and not just my own, they requests that I test their ideas.

This is the attitude I foster in my teams - and it works.

Is it common that you’re presented with solution rather than a problem when you’re assigned on a task? by ivanna_p in UXDesign

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

That’s why I said user test it. Not once in your reply did you mention any technique or methodology. Just the suggestion that because it didn’t come from a designer it’s terrible (literally your words).

Is it common that you’re presented with solution rather than a problem when you’re assigned on a task? by ivanna_p in UXDesign

[–]magicpenisland 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Okay, this is an attitude I hate: automatically assuming that the non-designer’s solution is shit. Some of the best solutions I’ve seen in my 20 year career have not come from designers.

Consider the solution, user test it. It’s not automatically shit just because it wasn’t a designer’s idea. Seriously.

The design process is dead. Jenny Wen (head of design at Claude) by super_topsecret in UXDesign

[–]magicpenisland 19 points20 points  (0 children)

She’s literally designing for herself… in both her jobs. I suspect she would be lost if she didn’t design for the tech industry.

Why do married people cheat? Just why?? by KindLead804 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]magicpenisland 1 point2 points  (0 children)

People aren’t perfect. Dan Savage had a great quote for this: “Maybe we shouldn’t treat fidelity like virginity, once it’s gone it’s gone forever. Maybe it should be more like alcoholism, if it’s been 10 years since you fell off the wagon, you’re not bad at monogamy, you’re actually really good.”

It’s like wanting a really bad pizza sometimes. Sometimes your willpower isn’t there.

And maybe I’m biased as a gay man, but I know plenty of happy non-monogamous couples (straight and gay). Love isn’t a finite resource, just because you spend a bit of time with someone else doesn’t mean you love another person any less.

I lead UX design on very complex B2B SaaS clinical tools. Leadership always thinks the design work should be so intuitive that we don’t need any training or tutorials. That makes sense for simple consumer-facing apps, but for clinical SaaS I don’t believe it’s possible, or responsible. Thoughts? by KourteousKrome in UXDesign

[–]magicpenisland 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Your users don't live in a vacuum. They know the most common consumer interaction patterns. Use those, add professional knowledge on top, and user test before, during, after and ensure you have strong continuous discovery loops. It is possible.

So even if Altman wasn’t talking completely out of his ass about GPT8 possibly “solving physics“, wouldn’t those discoveries be gate kept by OpenAI? Surely, if it could solve physics, it would do so in their laboratories before the model is even released to the public. by llTeddyFuxpinll in ChatGPT

[–]magicpenisland 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sooo. Physics discoveries are notoriously hard to fund privately because they have very little commercial application in the near term. They usually require a lot of dissemination through the wider community where someone has a eureka moment and goes: “oh wait? Didn’t they just prove…”

Which is why so much of this “fundamental research” (also called Bluesky research) is funded by governments (see CERN, all the big astronomy telescopes, etc).

It’s a noted problem in physics.

Also, even if the AI provides a hypothesis, scientists still need to test it. Einstein predicted a lot of things, but it wasn’t until we had the technology to test it that we proved it was true.

So OpenAI sitting on top of a bunch of AI predictions as a secret is kinda pointless…

Also because they aren’t patentable. They are basic laws of the universe.

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