My brother in Christ... $1400 for a coffee grinder and espresso machine?!
I am into mechanical keyboards and IEMs and that feels outrageous to me. I'll spend $40 on a pen, but that price point feels insane to me.
Maybe I just like my garbo Aldi's whole bean coffee with cream & sugar, so I am not your target market... I hope you find your niche - I am sure it is out there if you went this far. But man.. I couldnt ever spend that much on the tools to make coffee.
The espresso space is notoriously targeting well-off people. That is a pretty normal price range. At the high end you can find espresso machines for 13k [1] and grinders for 3.6k [2], still aimed at consumers.
Believe it or not, it's pretty reasonable price for mid-high end quality coffee stuff. Seeing the picture and description I was expecting an at least $1000 range price for each. And I totally not am an SF engineer with that much excessive money for buying something like that.
Coffee enthusiasts are borderline insane, maybe something with the involved molecules.
We know very little about the quality of this product, but it's competing with the likes of Flair 58 and Niche Zero, which makes it adequately priced. But again, if the quality is there.
This is inline with entry level setups. My setup costs this much.
The thing is the expectations for these machines are sky-high. They're built like tanks, last forever, are servicable, and generally very high quality.
As others have mentioned, there are differences between UX and UI.
On the UX side, the main goals are to
1. Understand the needs of the user
2. Understand psychological principles of perception and cognition.
3. Present the information in a way to enable the user to accomplish their task with the least cognitive load possible (typically.. there are edge cases where you want to introduce more friction but we will ignore those for now)
Start by getting a good understanding of the core Gestalt principles - https://careerfoundry.com/en/blog/ui-design/what-are-gestalt... - which influence how people perceive things. These principles are a core building block for UX and need to become an instinctive tool you use for arranging information and interfaces to achieve specific goals.
From there I'd suggest reading the following
- Don't Make Me Think by Steve Krug
- The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman
- Everything by Edward Tufte, which as a data person you might have already read
Getting a foundation of understanding how people process their world will be crucial to growing a UX competency. The color and wording part will come after that foundation is built.
Get lucky and get an interline agreement with a larger pax-facing carrier? Sure no one is going to ride on your little cargo planes but your crew gets to fly on someone elses metal.
My wife is T1D and she is really scared about the idea of moving to a closed loop system with a pump, but her endo is constantly pushing her towards it even though she is keeping her A1C at like ~6% with her Dexcom CGM.
The concern is the the G7 CGM seems to have times where it is so wildly off with readings that a closed loop system could kill her. This weekend the CGM was saying she was all the sudden at 40, but she was at about 115. I am scared to think what would happen in the night if the closed loop system thought it needed to raise her blood sugar... Logically I know it wouldnt raise it to a point that would cause medical harm, it would still put it higher than would be ideal for her health.
Maybe there are differences between the different brands, but the G7 from Dexcom's big selling point was "no more calibrations" and the FDA approval for that tagline, and we've been seeing a need to calibrate more than the G6, which is disappointing. Granted... sample size of n=1 so...
I don't find the Medtronic solution to be that off. But the closed loop solution can't raise your blood sugar, it can only lower it. It only has insulin which it can dial back or increase. The real danger would be if it detected you very high and then tried to rapidly decrease it.
The FDA approved systems do have safeties in there that alarm persistent highs or on any lows. They also won't provide more basal than a multiple of the pre-configured setting you have.
The biggest thing for me was the 780G alarms less than 680G when there is nothing that I actually want to do to change it. Waking up all the damn time is no fun.
Ahh you are right, I had the situation reversed in my head. It would be the false high reading that would be the issue.
That is good to know there are some safeguards in place to prevent an over-correction.
And I agree about the constant wake-ups. The Dexcom system will sometimes not stop alerting when it detects a low, even if she has taken glucose tabs and knows it will be taken care of. If she doesnt interact with the notification it continues to alarm every 15 minutes or so. There is a recompiled APK for the dexcom apps that changes some of the notification behaviors but she hasnt needed to use that recently.
The gradient on your section headers is nearly illegible towards the end of the word. The "Ready to dive in? Start your free trial today" at the bottom of the page is the worst offender
You might also want to update your copyright since we are now in 2024.
Interpersonal Communication - My employer is a big fan of the Clifton StrengthFinders school of thought, and I have found that generative LLMs are really helpful in giving me other ways to phrase asks to people that I tend to find difficult to successfully communicate with.
I usually structure it like:
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My top 5 strengths in the Clifton StrengthFinders system are A,B,C,D,E and I am trying to effectively communicate with someone who's top five strengths are R,T,∑,√,S.
I need help taking the following request and reframing it in a way that will be positively received by my coworker and make them feel like I am not being insensitive or overly flowery.
The way I would phrase the request is <insert request here>.
Please ask any questions that would help provide more insight to my coworker, other details that could resonate with them, or additional background that will help the translated request be received positively.
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While the output is usually too verbose, it gives me a better reframing of my request and has resulted in less pushback when I need to get people to focus on unexpected or different priorities.
Have you gotten better at doing this without the LLM, maybe even extemporaneously? Wondering if enough exposure to that kind of modeling also serves an educational role.
Sentiment analysis did that for me. I ran Watson on some challenging emails and worked to remove tones of anger and contempt. After a couple of times, I internalised it.
Oh yeah, since there is a built in feedback loop with the person I am interacting with, I was able to start recognizing patterns of how to shift ways that I inherently think/phrase something to be better received by others.
This is great to see more resources being made for the Playdate. It is such a fun little console and the games made for it are such a breath of fresh air
I hope Panic is able to either retrofit or make a v2 with a backlight. I realized how low the contrast on the screen was after my cataract surgery and seeing details in some of the games becomes near impossible in less-than-ideal conditions.
The Sharp Memory LCD screen is opaque, unlike most other LCDs, so can't work with a backlight. It could work with a front/edge light but the results are not what you'd hope for.
As far as I can tell it works if you've got basically any amount of light at all, though it might involve tipping the display around until you catch a reflection at the right angle. It's more E-paper-y in looks than LCD-y, though the reflectivity is fairly unique.
One approach I've seen people take is to get non-resident library cards to large library systems like the NY Public Library or the Chicago Library. You can put multiple library cards into Overdrive/Libby/whatever and then you can see availability for all the valid cards you have.
And isn't this "available digital copy" issue at the heart of the lawsuit the Internet Archives is dealing with when they stopped placing copy limits on digital books at the start of the pandemic?
I am into mechanical keyboards and IEMs and that feels outrageous to me. I'll spend $40 on a pen, but that price point feels insane to me.
Maybe I just like my garbo Aldi's whole bean coffee with cream & sugar, so I am not your target market... I hope you find your niche - I am sure it is out there if you went this far. But man.. I couldnt ever spend that much on the tools to make coffee.