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I am pretty sure the shimmering effect for loading originated in the Facebook Paper app, released in 2014.

A 2012 historical retrospective on the subject from Larry Tesler (the NOMODES man himself): https://www.lri.fr/~mbl/ENS/FundHCI/2013/papers/Tesler-CutCo...

The issue he had with the “move to” operation is that it forced you into a mode where you had to pick a destination right away. I wonder if OP’s proposal was ever brought up at the time—it does seem like a promising middle ground!


To be clear, you’re advocating for women to lose the right to vote? The misogyny in this thread was disappointing already, but seeing this comment being voted up is maybe a sign I should not be on this website any more.


Voted up?

If you mean the troll post didn't immediately fade with one downvote that might just be a matter of having two accounts.


Of course I do – most men too.

I believe in voting by peers. That is my peers – not the ruling class or the lumpenproletariat.

I do agree that you should gather around other programmer-sock-wearing "ladies".

Too bad discord keeps vulnerable children away from you now.


They can be! The key phrase to search for is “tubular weaving”.


The article points out that the problem is deeper than this:

> Once I compared my personalized sloper to commercial patterns and retail garments, I had a revelation: clothes were never made to fit bodies like mine. It didn’t matter how much weight I gained or lost, whether I contorted my body or tried to buy my way into styles that “flatter” my silhouette, there was no chance that clothes would ever fit perfectly on their own.


See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45747938 for discussion of the original article where this idea was described.


I was surprised at the audible difference it made to reset the RNG seed for the hi-hat noise function every time it triggered. I’m curious what the justification for doing this is—does the randomness arise from the geometry of the hi-hat itself and not the way you hit it? Is the idea to imitate the sound of sample-based percussion?


My understanding is that because it's a very small sample, it's basically a combination of a subset of sine waves, and because we're very sensitive to the nuances of high-pitched sounds, even small changes in that space make a lot of difference. Every RNG seed produces a different sounding hihat, and if you don't reset it, it continues producing different hihats, which is unnatural. Another explanation is also to resemble sample-based audio, but perhaps it's all of these things combined.


I tried it once, but a core feature I needed (running code asynchronously on a timer) didn't seem to be available in the free version.


He’s also built a popular movement invested in getting his policies implemented. He may not “control the busses” as an individual government official, but his movement can pressure the people who do.


Any physical item can be customized with the proper tools, and they often are. Software should be the same way!


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