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bensyverson

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Developer for 35 years, 10 years at IDEO as a Software Designer, project lead and Design Director. Currently working on agentic native apps, and on the hunt for a profitable SaaS company to acquire via infinitecake.net

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bensyverson
·4 saat önce·discuss
My friend, there are over 2000 VFX shots in Fury Road, and at least 600 in The Fall Guy.

I get that people are tired of CGI, but it’s a tool that is used in virtually every film that reaches theaters, for reasons as prosaic as matching skies between shots.
bensyverson
·6 saat önce·discuss
It really depends on the tool… CRMs and EHRs are often designed to be customizable. But end-users typically don't want to spend a lot of time configuring and customizing the interface itself. All the choices quickly become overwhelming.
bensyverson
·14 saat önce·discuss
The effect of the interface becoming "invisible" is actually a function of time spent in the interface. I think what the author is reacting to is discretionary friction; designers or product folks adding features or complexity. The thing is, that friction may be necessary in order to achieve a certain task (think about resolving a merge conflict). And given enough time in the interface, even those "disruptive" steps fade into the background.

To give a concrete example, the console of a 737 is incredibly dense with controls. The airplane itself has many different modes, and there are many moments of intentional friction.

However, if you interview a pilot with 10+ years in a 737, they will tell you the interface has become invisible.

The same goes for the supposedly "bad" Bloomberg terminal. You'll find the same thing in Healthcare, where an interface cluttered with buttons is exactly the right solution for someone who spends 8+ hours/day in a MR scanning software and wants instant access to all the controls.

As programmers, I think we're too quick to generalize our own experience and preferences and try to apply them to others.

Source: I spent 10 years designing consumer and professional software at IDEO
bensyverson
·dün·discuss
> Data you collected or data you found? Any idea where it was?

I think it was a lengthy blog post citing manufacturer data, found via the FreeNAS forums. The added safety of RAIDZ2 was a good tradeoff. Someone else on this thread reports they lost two SSDs in rapid succession, which I hear happens sometimes with drives from the same batch. In any event, I felt no need to launch an independent investigation of the math and underlying assumptions.

> Zpool status gives you a per-disk error count. I kind of assumed someone doing a resilver would use that command.

Yes, I did indeed use zpool to do the resilver… I don't recall if there were any read errors on other drives at the time of those failures, but probably not, as the scrub probably would have flagged it. They've all been replaced with higher capacity drives, so at the moment I see "No known data errors"
bensyverson
·dün·discuss
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bensyverson
·dün·discuss
> This is a common claim, but honestly, citation needed.

This is based on the data I had available 10 years ago when I set up this array… If you have data that points to drives having fewer read errors per GB in recent years, I'd love to see that citation.

> And how many times did you have a read error on one of your other disks during a resilver?

I don't know, because I have RAIDZ2, so that read error would probably be corrected without it being reported to me.
bensyverson
·3 gün önce·discuss
The risk of z1 is that if you get a read error during resilvering, that data is permanently corrupted. The odds of this happening go way up the larger your individual drives are. This is why I chose RAIDZ2 for my NAS. I've had to resilver 2-3 times over the past 10 years, and never lost a byte of data.
bensyverson
·8 gün önce·discuss
> The amount of leverage AI tools give small interdisciplinary teams to apply their existing skill sets is kind of crazy.

This is 100% true, and this type of building is where AI is adding real value beyond the "I automated my entire business" hype.

Unfortunately, most companies don't have small interdisciplinary teams who have autonomy to scope and ship software. I spent 10 years at IDEO telling clients this was the way, but it's virtually impossible to replicate on the client side.
bensyverson
·9 gün önce·discuss
Yes, and this is especially true of enthusiast communities, which usually have evergreen topics. A user who is new to the Leica M system can head to rangefinderforum.com and get value out of lens reviews or camera comparisons that might be literally 20 years old.
bensyverson
·9 gün önce·discuss
Ah, so it’s impossible to make a robot unless it looks like an animal
bensyverson
·9 gün önce·discuss
Real question: what about 3 legs? Is tripedal locomotion a viable compromise?
bensyverson
·10 gün önce·discuss
> “It’s a big step forward to this holy grail of making a living thing out of dead components,” said Sijbren Otto, a systems chemist at the Stratingh Institute for Chemistry in the Netherlands who was not involved in the work.

That is the holy grail? I get that the goal is to "grow" biofuels, plastic, fertilizer, drugs, or whatever else we can imagine. But is that worth the many apocalyptic sci-fi outcomes we can imagine?
bensyverson
·11 gün önce·discuss
The article is based on running Qwen 3.6 on a 128GB MacBook Pro. For reference, a 128GB MBP currently starts at $6699 USD [0]

Some people will be happy to pay that premium for privacy, but at roughly 10X the cost of a MacBook Neo, that money could also buy a lot of credits on OpenRouter or frontier labs.

[0]: https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/macbook-pro/14-inch-space...
bensyverson
·15 gün önce·discuss
People need to Google Jevons Paradox, smdh
bensyverson
·15 gün önce·discuss
Exactly… people were complaining about every startup website using the same basic format and shadcn for years before AI-assisted design ever became so prevalent.
bensyverson
·16 gün önce·discuss
Yes, between Moore's Law and more efficient model architectures, we just have to let time do its work.
bensyverson
·16 gün önce·discuss
No, there's no way to tell—the paleontologists probably just took a bunch of bones from the site and threw them together in a way that looked cool. /s
bensyverson
·20 gün önce·discuss
In case you wanted a comment section but less civilized
bensyverson
·28 gün önce·discuss
Part of Anthropic's moat is Claude Cowork & Claude Code. They got coders comfortable with CC and enterprise users comfortable with Cowork, and both are creating stickiness.

The reality is that $20/$100/$200/mo feels reasonable to a lot of people relative to the value they're getting out of Claude, and if they switch to something else, there's a risk that it won't be as good, and they'll have a new tool to learn.

It's not an insurmountable moat, but don't underestimate the user experience. The iPod didn't win because it was the cheapest device or the one with the most features.
bensyverson
·29 gün önce·discuss
The future of email is… the present of email!