Seems like a perfectly good proverb to me. It's saying don't create out groups that have no sympathy for you by excluding them from society. Not that you should increase your distrust of out groups!
Why would exclusive spots for top tier talent in an industry not include a genetic component when exclusive spots for top tier talent in a sport clearly does?
Studies done with adopted children appear to show that slightly less than 50% of intelligence is heritable[1]. That means that a good deal of it isn't, but to say practically undetermined seems like an exaggeration?
I'm replying to myself because re-reading this comment is sounds a little callus. While I am implying that we can't say for sure what fair looks like given human variation, we also can't say that the current distribution is fair the way basketball appears to be.
Because it emphasizes the distinction between different parts of a website which in turn makes it easier to focus on individual things.
Why are so many people against white space when it hasn't been overdone? Obviously "overdone" means different things to different people but in this case the information that matters is still pretty dense.
I took some quick measurements. The previous version leaves 2% of my browser window as whitespace containing no images or text. By comparison, the new version is 53% whitespace. That seems pretty extreme to me.
You must be referring to the constrained width of the page, you can change that in the preferences if you really prefer having the text cover your whole screen.
There's a reason we have a character limit per line when writing code - it's much easier to read and understand short chunks of vertical text. Personally, I find it far more comfortable reading text which doesn't go above 600-900px in width and this has been a well known UX/UI guideline for the last 10 years. Having your eyes go from the far left to the far right of your screen is also very straining on any >21" screen.
These kinds of objections are predicated on the idea that white space is inherently wasteful.
But the real question is, why is it good to strain the eyes darting them across distances that large. What is gained by filling in the white space just to fill it?
I find shorter lines difficult to read, they require so much more eye movement than longer lines. When a site will let me I prefer the whole length of my monitor as the line length. In my experience I can read on my monitor for 12+ hours a day without eye strain.
Yes, though it also contributes to that "busy" look if you try to cram as many things as possible on the screen. The content might have a logical separation but spatially multiple types of that content would still be close to your focal point which makes them a distraction.
We live in an age where attention is a valuable currency and most people would likely leave your site if they can't quickly find the thing they're looking for. The fewer things you have on your screen at a time, the easier it is for them to find what they're looking for. It doesn't apply everywhere but I think it applies to a good amount of cases which is why lots of white space has become the norm.
Plug: I made https://github.com/phil294/density-userstyle which is a global userstyle to remove unnecessary paddings on common websites. Will probably have to add Wikipedia soon.
I’m highly skeptical of Passkeys/Webauthn as it would seem to not have the same legal protections that a password has in the US. Maybe this is me becoming a conspiracy theorist.
I’m in the same boat. Using Passkeys gives the user less control. The last thing I need is another layer of complexity when dealing with credentials. This seems like a solution created for people too lazy to generate and track secure secrets (using a password manager).
It also seems like a way companies like Google would lock people into their browser.
Well, passkeys come with another very interesting property: they make it entirely useless to obtain the database of user credentials from services. It only contains public keys specific to a single service, so you cannot use them anywhere else. Additionally, private keys are stored on secure storage in client devices (or need to be decrypted themselves using a second factor), so there’s pretty much 0% risk of mass credential leakage.
> they make it entirely useless to obtain the database of user credentials from services. It only contains public keys specific to a single service, so you cannot use them anywhere else.
This is also the case for anyone using unique passwords per site, which is the standard for password vault users. Not much of a win there.
> Additionally, private keys are stored on secure storage in client devices (or need to be decrypted themselves using a second factor)
Also exactly the same as password vaults, but we still stress about Lastpass losing their encrypted vault DB.
I agree that Passkeys appear to bring the benefits of Password Vaults to people not currently using them in a fairly easy way. However, I worry about access to those passkeys when access to the Passkey provider is lost/revoked.
No, you misunderstood me. Passkeys remove the incentive to attack auth infrastructure in the first place, because a database of WebAuthn credentials isn’t useful to criminals compared to a database full of password hashes. This isn’t about the handful of tech-savvy users who know how to protect their privacy anyway, but all the others which constantly reuse their insecure passwords and won’t use password managers.
This is conspiracy theorist talk until it isn't and that date will be not long after this is more commonly used. (I think this is a rational concern, btw)
The current legal climate is mixed but we have court cases that claim biometrics are not covered by the 4th and 5th. We also have the opposite. The reasoning being that producing biometrics is not testimonial. Until decided by the Supreme Court, I'll assume that anything that can be produced without my mind is not covered and that includes this.
I hate that videos appear in my feed long before they are available. I don't want to load a video only to discover it's coming in 48 hours. Just add the video to my feed 48 hours later.
After harassment I ensure my username isn't traceable back to me anywhere. No references to a username used anywhere else and no information that is related to me.
