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My elderly mother-in-law uses Windows. It is a cancer of unnecessary ads and affordances. She is utterly confused. The Windows team is clearly incapable of (or uninterested in) designing a usable product.

A darker hypothesis for the sex imbalance might be that the stronger Neanderthal men took modern human women away from their weaker men by force. That is not to suggest that Neanderthal men were more brutal than modern human men, merely equally brutal but stronger.

Not wild animals but the horses in the field next to my childhood home would routinely feast on rotting windfall apples in the fall and stagger around like drunks leaving a pub at closing time. Hard to say whether they intended to get drunk but they carried this on for days if not weeks until...

Rounding up?

Aside from the turn signal buttons (which seem like a terrible idea but maybe better in real life?), I love a lot of the thoughtful design work that has gone into this. Congrats to Ferrari, Ive, and team!

Even my paltry BMW 230i has it. It's hard to think of a less useful feature but if you fold the front seat so someone can get in the back, it automatically slides the seat forward very slowly rather than just quickly sliding under human control. So that's a contender.

Having lived in both SF and Boston, I can attest that Boston is much harder to drive in. I'll give you the fog but, even without bad weather, the drivers alone in Boston double the difficulty level! And the streets are worse overall too. Reference: the Boston Driver's Handbook, a humorous but...

I can attest have heard many similar reports. Most notably, I have several friends who are not developers but are quite technically capable and they're getting a LOT of value out of AI-assisted coding and/or pure AI coding. For example, one of my friends used Claude Code to make a specialized...

The families of two teenages killed in a Cybertruck accident would beg to differ. And doubtless other people killed in a similar fashion when a mechanical door handle would have very likely saved them. It's an indefensible design choice. 'The Nelsons’ claim seeks to “hold Tesla accountable for...

I'll wait until they have abandoned the capacitive controls. But seriously, I actually wouldn't want to drive a sport car with such a distracting interface. Lack of highly responsive and predictable controls is probably one of the more dangerous aspects of the car.

I am avoiding upgrading my phone but was forced to upgrade my work Mac. I'm a UX designer and worked at Apple in the dark days before the second coming of Steve Jobs. All I can say is the new MacOS look and feel harks back to a leaderless product culture in which things that someone things are...

Thank you for this excellent summary of the current administration's concept of progress.

This. Excellent analysis.

Fair question but these are very skeptical senior engineers at the very top of my company's engineering career ladder, using some of the latest tools (not Cursor but another technology more akin to Claude Code). Very likely they are far more experienced than the devs studied in the article. They...

I have the privilege of working with several very experienced developers (20-30 years professional experience in enterprise software development) who are now getting significant value out of AI for coding and architecture development. Even my own limited experience as an amateur coder is that...

What percentage of successful software products need to be this "complete and known"? I suspect a low single-digit percentage. For most (but not all) software development needs, less-than-complete specs + testing + iterative improvement are plenty good enough and allow for value to be delivered...

In two words, "big design." In recent years, the main design org in Apple (not the entirely separate industrial design team) has become extremely bloated and is no longer capable of the consideration that Apple has since Steve Jobs's return given its products. Putting more designers "at scale"...

Count me as one. Smaller cars are less weight/energy-consuming and more fun to drive at typical highway speeds. Options in the US are quite pitiful today compared with Europe or (I presume) Asia, especially if you want something sporty and well appointed.

You succeeded. I feel like I understand it now. Until tomorrow, anyway.

If crowdsourcing works, then Wikipedia is more a reflection of the truth (in aggregate, on average) than it is an arbiter. And if so, then any bias in Wikipedia toward liberal ideas confirms the unreliability of right-wing viewpoints.