We'd have to know the algorithm but it's all about the details of how that Elo is implemented, which traits are selected for in which apps, the monetization options etc.
To a complete outsider it feels as if Hinge is just becoming the new Tinder. Anecdotal of course (mostly from women friends), but partly supported by the growth of Hinge lately.
People looking for relationships don't want to be matched with people only looking for hookups, and people looking for hookups don't want to part of a club that accepts them. Apps have the incentive to make money so they don't really do anything.
From my friend circle hinge is completely different than tinder/etc and built for the purpose of finding long term matches. Most of my friends, along with myself, found their SO on hinge.
New Reddit also fell prey to bad development practices and is without exaggeration unusable for me. It often "crashes" and the whole page goes dark-grey on my browser, and this has been happening for at least a year. After reloading I can't see all messages without navigating away, and middle click messes with the scrolling. At this point I will assume they either don't care or are fucking with me.
Well, first, it's not reliable. If the network goes down and it doesn't have some form of recovery, you gotta start from scratch. Second, it's not bookmarkable (except for the odd case), so you can't send specific pages to anyone, you often can't start navigating in it one day and continue on other, or in another device. Third, you lose navigation and exploration features, like navigating to the first page and seeing the oldest stuff, or going into the middle.
But the biggest reason people hate as a matter principle is because it is in 99% of cases done without any UX research and without any care from developers, and that's in the best case. The worst case is to cause doomscrolling, which is nefarious in its own.
It is disrespectful to users. If you don't want people seeing old content just fucking delete it.
And you're absolutely right, despite the downvotes, but here's the coldest of all hot takes: it doesn't matter if it's shit. It just has to be there.
Doomscrolling and modern web products were never about quality, but rather about giving the user the hope of potentially seeing something of quality.
Which means that my cousin magic_hamster who said "this can just be an algorithm" is also right [1]. In most cases there's no need to leverage AI here. 90% of everything is gonna be crap, and people historically often get addicted to low-quality crap anyway.
I find it personally hard to date stuff that came out or that I watched during the pandemic. To me it felt like I consumed 4 or 5 years of content in the span of each year. My sense of time is completely twisted.
I remember consumer devices from the 80s that allowed transmitting audio using mains. They were already outdated by the time I saw them in the 2000s.
Me and some friends tested them and tried transmitting to a neighbours house (connected to the same electrical post) and had no success at all. There was just too much noise, coming from other houses. However with digital technology I'm sure you can get a much better range.
An on-line UPS like those used in datacenters or music studios is probably enough. They basically have rectifiers and inverters in them.
Some of them have phase-locked loops to sync the output frequency with the mains, but probably won't stray as far from 50Hz (or 60Hz) as the mains themselves seem to do. If they do, unplugging the mains and using the battery is probably enough to get pure 50Hz back!
> An on-line UPS like those used in datacenters or music studios is probably enough.
Only if you don’t have mains power anywhere near the recording device. You don’t need to be plugged into mains power to have it be present in a recording.
True! And that applies for every case. Even if you have 100% isolated mains with solar or battery, you'll get 50hz from neighbours (especially apartments) and power lines close by.
I remember having this issue when working in a recording studio during college, even when we switched to battery and turn the mains off, we'd still get hum in some guitars.
Funny enough I was recently reading an interview with producer Michael Beinhorn and he mentioned having some "mystery EMF/RFI event" happening in New York around 1997, coming from a specific block, and he had to relocate a recording session to Los Angeles because of how strong it was interfering with the guitar amps and other equipment [1].
A lot of software has moved from using dmgs to mpkgs, and apart from some terribly written apps that need some hackery in PostInstall scripts, most of them don’t really care about it.
The UX for packages also sucks. With DMGs you just mount and then drag to the Applications folder… even the most basic macOS users have done this.
