> Do we really need to care about these people?
> Do we really need to care about these people? Yes, because it's most people . It's most of your addressable market, whatever you're selling. It's also their siblings and parents and spouses. Some of mine, too. Possibly even yours. > it's very hard to write a fully informative, fully accurate headline (...) I have no doubt that the news media experience the same problem. There's no good solution for willful ignorance. This is a problem too, but it's not the problem. The problem is that a lot of the news headlines intentionally lie . The pattern is, put a purposefully misleading statement in the headline, then correct it in the article. The lie works as clickbait, but it's not its only effect: everyone in publishing knows most people don't read past headline - that's simply because they'll see 10 or 100 headlines for any single article they can afford to read. Even the non-willfully ignorant will be exposed to 99 simplistic lies for each nuanced opinion. > I really have zero sympathy for how non-readers of articles ignorantly misinterpret headlines. You can't idiot-proof the news. For any article, those "non-readers" are by far the vast majority of people exposed to it. You can't really prevent it, as it's a function of the amount of news. But you also shouldn't exploit it to sell people lies and propaganda.
Posted by TeMPOraL on Nov 27, 2024, 5:21 PM
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To be fair, Inform7 can't succeed, generally, because there is no market for the kind of games that you create with Inform7.
New> The notion that somehow LR reliability is misunderstood by Consumer Reports, JD Power, Car & Driver, Automobile etc.
Custom trigger IDs are not displayed in the new 2026.10 trigger selector
I hate that too, but I think it’s more the ux than the concept of a default.
> The biggest problem with UX developers is they know better than you AND force you into their paradigm.
"Focus follows mouse" is what I use to keep the file manager from popping up when click-dragging files.
The biggest problem with this is if the target URL doesn't load but also doesn't quickly error out, like e.g.
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> Do we really need to care about these people?
> Do we really need to care about these people? Yes, because it's most people . It's most of your addressable market, whatever you're selling. It's also their siblings and parents and spouses. Some of mine, too. Possibly even yours. > it's very hard to write a fully informative, fully accurate headline (...) I have no doubt that the news media experience the same problem. There's no good solution for willful ignorance. This is a problem too, but it's not the problem. The problem is that a lot of the news headlines intentionally lie . The pattern is, put a purposefully misleading statement in the headline, then correct it in the article. The lie works as clickbait, but it's not its only effect: everyone in publishing knows most people don't read past headline - that's simply because they'll see 10 or 100 headlines for any single article they can afford to read. Even the non-willfully ignorant will be exposed to 99 simplistic lies for each nuanced opinion. > I really have zero sympathy for how non-readers of articles ignorantly misinterpret headlines. You can't idiot-proof the news. For any article, those "non-readers" are by far the vast majority of people exposed to it. You can't really prevent it, as it's a function of the amount of news. But you also shouldn't exploit it to sell people lies and propaganda.
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