Annoying as shit. If I'm trying to log into something with an E-mail address (already a fail, but that's another topic) and password, and I click "forgot password," don't take me to a form where I have to re-enter the goddamned E-mail address I JUST ENTERED.

Or every customer service phone line where the automated system asks for your info (account# or phone#) and then the customer service rep asks again >:(

In some cases this is a verification and reques, for more information. when doctors reask what the nurse just asked.

most of the time it isn't. the doctor already knows what you told the nurse. (where the doctor doesn't that is bad)

I actually bring this up when they ask me again. "Didn't I just enter that?"

That is only to keep you busy and engaged

I just engaged the close button.

Or its twin cousin: forcing me to login after updating my password.

I assume that this is to help the user memorize their new password. I know we on HN all use password managers, but most people out there don’t.

It's missing a critical one, which once seemed obvious: Distinguish between static information and controls.

Also, don't HIDE inapplicable controls; GREY THEM OUT. That way people learn

1. They exist 2. Where they reside 3. There's some condition to satisfy before they can be used

Related: Never, never rely on peek-a-boo UI that hides things unless the user accidentally rolls the cursor over them. I'm trying to get shit done, not explore an Advent calendar.

I agree with the importance of consistency, but disagree with "Office and (Neo)Vim aren’t exceptional examples of UI, but they are uniquely stable."

Office is not stable, at least over the long term. The hated "ribbon" marked a sad departure from the "stable" and efficient Word UI, and Microsoft's clueless regressions across the Windows platform have compounded the problem. For example, the deletion of the menu bar from applications. WTF.

We are about a year or 2 from the Ribbon interface existing in Office longer than the pre-Ribbon interface.

I will agree that the Ribbon and what you can customize or use in it/looks has changed drastically since 2007.

But the Ribbon “paradigm” will soon have existed longer than the non-Ribbon “stable and efficient” interface so it is more “stable” in one way.

Stabilizing on shit is a sad thing to double down on. But Microsoft is doing that at every opportunity now. Witness their offensive, relentless hounding to log in, log in, LOG IN WITH YOUR "MICROSOFT ACCOUNT!!!!!!"... or you can't do anything, including install Windows.

Thanks. I'm going to watch that MS video and see if I'm still as pissy about the ribbon afterward.

Ribbon aside, there are still lots of regressions in Word. The handling of styles, for example, which used to be excellent. Now Microsoft has stuffed the style list with dozens of asinine canned styles (most of which consist of different-colored underlines) that you can't get rid of. So instead of being able to format your document efficiently by selecting styles, you must now wade through a giant list of shit, looking for your own styles every goddamned time you want to apply one.

Just wait until the default template gets hacked up by some fluke in word and it's permanently stuck to weird formatting. you can revert it back but it's weirdly hidden and took me a Google to do it instead of just finding and clicking a "default word style format" theme thing.

This crap really drives me to use markdown and pandoc to crap out word files when I'm done. I also really hate how word deals with document formatting and images.

The movie was creepy as hell at the time. I saw it on late-night TV as a little kid, and the Terminator-esque ending stuck with me.

The show could have taken it to a new level, and did flirt with doing so. Interesting note: At some point in the show, they go down to some sub-basement or something where old models are stored, and in the background out of focus you can see the Yul Brynner robot standing there.

But the show goes off the rails. After season 1 it's absolute shit that will make you angry for wasting hours of your life giving it a chance. I thought hey this is going to be cool if the robots escape into the real world, but the show utterly squandered that scenario.

It really was a Terminator precursor.

Indeed, some of the Terminator scenes (even in II) are ripped straight from Westworld.

I never used Node and went right to Deno, partly because NPM and packages sounded like a mess. So far it has been a good experience.

There's also the engine-nacelles-melting issue.

When I searched for the engine nacelles issue, that appears to only apply to an earlier version (737 NG) of the 737, not the MAX.

Which kinda proves my point - someone saying "I don't want to fly on a 737 MAX" may just get put on another plane that has different issues. I guess if you've completely lost faith in Boeing you can decide not to fly any of their planes, but that's going to make flying at all very difficult. And if you decide to drive instead you'd just be taking a more dangerous mode of transportation.

Actually, it's the new Max 7: https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/boein...

It's not clear if older models suffer from the same defect.

Any of the newly engined Max models are involved, even the Max 8 and 9. The problem with the de-icing mechanism was only found _after_ the 8 and 9 were certified so they've been allowed to continue flying with the "pilot fix" in place (this is ludicrous btw).

The Max 7 is being blocked currently because it hasn't been certified yet.

That's what I thought, thanks. As you note, the "solution" is absurd, and insulting and offensive. The older models should be pulled too. WTF.

Boeing has bad month. There was also loose screws (not max though)

Screw TikTok. It's a cesspool of shit, compounded by its idiotic aspect ratio.

So, as bad as any other social media, yet with access to as much or more information. At least it is better than videos on Facebook or Reddit.

Not always. And "information" is an aggrandizement of TikTok content.

Facebook doesn't even occur to me anymore, and the only videos I see on Reddit are hosted on YouTube.

Read this: https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/the-coming-boeing-bailout

One of the tenets of the article is that the breakdown of the once-impermeable wall between civilian and military divisions has resulted in disaster.

I've been thinking the same thing.

Boeing is doubling down on its disgraceful behavior with shit like this: https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/boein...