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Yah you get this inner platform effect where designers start unwittingly creating their own version of css using Figma and it gets really bespoke really fast.

I was making a new brand file in Figma and was about to define all the variables and aliases, paths, all that. Took one look at it and just made the 8 colors I needed and went on with the design.

This is also why i gave up on it. Don't want to install iTerm either, more blaot.


Aren't special and general relativity the grand leviathans of intellectual achievement? Pure thought unlocking the nature of existence.


TLDR: practice. If you have sufficient natural talent xor will, you will eventually go past the canon of available material and begin to transcribe your own. Then there are those who move to creation, either immediately or somewhere in the path.


Feels sloppy (is sloppy) but I think the idea is to prioritize OS unification for hardware reasons, and UX across product suite — devices can share data, apps, screens, everything.


I'm seeing a lot of comments here about macOS/iOS unification, but I think people are getting worked up about nothing.

What do macOS window styles have to do with iOS? iOS (mostly) doesn't have windows!

What does the MacBook Neo have to do with iOS, other than coincidentally using some of the same components? Maybe Apple decided to make a cheaper Mac because they thought people might want to buy a cheaper Mac.

They are trying to use a common design language across all their devices, sure. But you would hardly expect them to do the opposite! They might try to make a hybrid tablet/laptop or something at some point, sure, but none of their current moves point inevitably in that direction. Except maybe for software notarization, but that has nothing to do with window corners or cheaper laptops.


I wonder if tube harmonics modeled by solid state settings has shaped music. Of course it has; music from that era is instrument-oriented.

The discovery of feedback tones and the resulting incorporation in the musical experience — a three hour warm bank of tubes turned up to the limit with a maxxed out savant unlocking new realms of sound.


Isn't it more of a style decision where if your team rebases, and practices clean code discipline, and excellence is a habit rather than an enforcement — the signals visibly emit in `status`.

Most committers don't really understand remotes, much less rebasing.


Wonders if author has studied low vs high context societies


That's a fascinating concept[1] that I hadn't encountered before.

What do you think the implications are regarding this post?

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-context_and_low-context_c...


The second half of the post essentially describes low/high context social dynamics.

Outside of linguistucs, I've seen it applied as a concept of social group inclusion and mobility. Eg. America is a low context society — if you mess up you can move across town. Other cultures that are high context, your family will be shunned for generations with no hope of success.


Men, asymptotic to 100% factors, women absolute 100% factors.

Wondering if this is point author is trying to make?


The author actually addresses that - he hadn't even considered that pregnancy related issues would top the list.

I think this was just a fun exercise for a curious mind. I don't think it needs to have a point - it's not an essay.


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