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@TheReal_Eric @1ssve See, I genuinely feel you think this looks great, maybe even badass. Me, I’m revolted by the shape and busyness of it. Each to their own!

@1ssve Then you try Garmin and never look back!

one day you wake up and just stop wearing your Apple Watch

I've used em-dashes my whole life — they add rhythm and grace to writing. But now they're an AI tell. Can we get a grandfather clause for those of us who were fluent in em-dashes before ChatGPT launched in November 2022?

@Kenneth For a while I thought you meant (over)using icons for every single contextual menu… also a disease in my opinion

This IA pattern annoys me so much.

@chrysb @xn1cklas @joanrod_ai @QuiverAI @a16z I recently tried babysitting GPT5 Pro trying to make a new FontAwesome icon and it failed hilariously after 118m. It felt dirty to use up so much resources for nothing

@xn1cklas @joanrod_ai @QuiverAI @a16z i've been waiting for this for a long time also, the ability to upload a set of existing icons and build on it i will be excited to pay for this

Introducing @QuiverAI, a new AI lab and product company focused on frontier vector design. We’ve raised an $8.3M seed round led by @a16z, with support from amazing angels and investors. Our first model, Arrow-1.0, generates SVGs from images and text. It’s available now in public beta at app.quiver.ai

@operationdanish Gentle parenting is such a misunderstood term that you might as well drop it and return to using "permissive parenting" because that’s what it is when there are no limits and boundaries. We gentle-parent and there’s so much friction. You don’t understand, or you’re fishing.

We now have evidence that gentle parenting doesn’t work. Here’s an uncomfortable truth about parenting no one wants to say out loud: The data is not kind to gentle parenting. According to teenagers, strict curfews. strict bedtimes, screen limits, device drop off times, dedicated homework blocks, and sleepover restrictions IMPROVE higher relationship quality. And yes, parenting difficulty goes up. Of course it does. Leadership is harder than appeasement. For the past decade we have been sold a watered down, Instagram friendly version of “gentle parenting” that often collapses into boundary avoidance, endless negotiation and emotional processing without enforcement. Parents terrified of saying no because they do not want to rupture connection. But connection without authority is not connection. It is dependency. When parents impose structure, the relationship improves. Teenagers report better parent child relationship quality in homes with curfews and rules. Younger kids report better relationships in homes with screen limits and bedtimes. Even device drop off times correlate positively. Why? Because structure is not cruelty. Structure is love made visible. A bedtime says: your brain matters more than your entertainment. A screen limit says: your dopamine system is not fully developed and I will guard it until it is. A curfew says: your safety matters more than your social standing. That is not authoritarianism. That is caring. Boundaries create friction. Friction creates growth. The parent absorbs the short term discomfort so the child does not pay the long term cost. Children do not experience well calibrated limits as rejection. They experience them as stability. The human brain craves predictability. Predictability reduces anxiety. Reduced anxiety strengthens attachment. That is why relationship quality goes up. Notice something else in the data. The strongest effects are around time structure. Bedtime. Homework. Devices. Outside play. These are environmental constraints. They scaffold executive function. The winning formula is not tyranny. It is high warmth plus high structure. The modern failure mode is high warmth plus low structure. That is just abdication of responsibility wrapped in empathy. Children need leadership, not negotiation. They need adults who can tolerate their anger. They need boundaries that do not move every time emotions spike. They need someone whose prefrontal cortex is fully myelinated. The harder path produces the stronger bond. Because when a child feels that someone is strong enough to hold the line, they relax. And relaxed nervous systems build durable relationships.

@paulozoom @sketch Although I’m blanking how I can make additional 2 pixels appear when I disable a symbol in a stack. It seems the best granular approach is to have gaps as symbols and enable/disable. Or am I missing something obvious

@riddle @sketch Nesting stacks doesn’t work for you? Outer stack with the larger spacing, inner stack with the smaller one?

@sketch What do you think about allowing users to specify width = 0 for workarounds to spacing between items in stacks? In the example below I need more space between text and icon (4) than text and caret (2). Adding 0.1px faux spacer kind of works but is janky

@paulozoom @sketch Haven’t thought about it! Thanks for the tip

@pie6k OKLCH is nice. But this example would not work for most big apps where you actually don’t want saturation. The sky blue at the end of the palette is borderline useless as background for app surfaces.

In the “oklch” color model, you can randomly move your “hue” slider and be sure your colors will stay in harmony. The internet (and maybe our streets) would be more pleasant to look at if it had been invented 20 years ago. oklch.fyi

@ChatGPTapp Could you add an internal tool to (re)name the current chat thread? Right now titles are set only from the first message and won’t update when asked. Some threads stay “New chat” (maybe a bug), and long chats often need renaming when the title no longer fits.

@dostoevesque Agreed, and this is why actual therapy with an actual expert is better. Because yes, parents might have fucked up immensely but therapist will never weaponize you to go after them. Sometimes they still continue fucking up, and then you have your boundaries. Ignore social media.

There is something slightly irritating about how youngsters today seem obsessed with diagnosing an entire generation of their parents using therapy language they picked up from reels and threads. We are effectively criticizing them for failing a test they didn't even know they were taking, using vocabulary that didn't exist in their world. It is easy to call your own father a narcissist when you have grown up listening to podcasts that explain attachment theory and emotional patterns. It is harder to imagine what it meant to be a twenty five year old parent in the nineteen eighties with no language for feelings, no examples to follow, no online spaces to learn from, no therapy culture, only responsibility and pressure. Instead of extending the empathy we have learned through this new vocabulary to those who never had access to it, we often turn that language into a weapon against them. Social media encourages this because anger feels powerful and validating. A label like narcissist or toxic neatly explains the pain and gives it a clear target. By framing their behavior through complex diagnostic labels they cannot define, you strip them of the ability to defend themselves or explain their perspective. They retreat into silence because they literally do not have the words to counter your argument. It allows you to dominate the interaction not because you are morally right, but because you possess a vocabulary that makes them feel stupid and inferior.

@mjnblack The theory is unfalsifiable due to being an extremely wide net cast over multitude of societal issues and responses to those issues. Theories like these sound impressive but can be refuted by looking into psychology and incentives of modern society.

I maintain that understanding the "longhouse" theory is one of the single best lenses you can use to process the current social/political/economic events of today

@gnembon_mc Have you seen this ancient island biome idea which is enabled / revived by introducing Sniffers? It’s so fire. reddit.com/r/Minecraft/s/…

@thedankoe This almost hits the nail. I say almost because in its wisdom it still fails to account for human connection in one’s life. Family and friends. You can’t be a renaissance man if you’re larping a loner speaking to the world from his cave.

@jmrphy Yeah, you’ll have to figure this out and unfortunately it’s going to be the hardest thing for you in your life. Fortunately, it seems you already welcome this mindset. Speaking from experience.

Am I just a monster? It's been 4 years since I became a father and I'm beginning to fear for my soul. The truth is I just don't like being around kids for very long. Historically, this is not uncommon among fathers, but today it feels almost illegal. It's causing me a lot of confusion and anguish. The ideal amount of time I would like to spend playing with my kids is probably about 70-140 minutes a week—roughly ten minutes each day, maybe 2x/day, taking breaks from work. My feelings of love toward them are perfectly strong, but if I have to watch them or entertain them for more than about 10 minutes my blood starts to boil. I just want to be working, or accomplishing something. I try to be grateful, but it doesn't work. It's 9 AM this morning, Saturday, January 3. It's a sunny, warm day here in Austin, and my four-year-old son is begging me to play catch in the street. I was drinking coffee, still waking up, so I didn’t really feel like it, but at this age his desire to play is insatiable. He begged and begged, so I conceded, and with a smile. I have no problem being a kind and loving father, the problem is only that I do not enjoy it. It's not that I'm trying to maximize my personal pleasure; it just seems wrong that I experience so little delight when my dad friends all claim to experience so much. It was beautiful. We live on a picturesque, tree-lined block. I am even relatively relaxed from the holiday rest. Playing catch with your son is supposed to be an iconic, peak experience. Yet for every single minute, on the inside, I just don't want to be there. I want to be drinking my coffee in peace. Then I feel guilty and absurdly ungrateful, and ashamed, when we're done. I know that when he is a teenager, I'll long to have these days back. I have all of this perspective rationally, and I've been very patient and steadfast trying to digest it, but nothing fixes me emotionally. Am I a terrible person? Or is my feeling within a certain range of historically normal and it's modern parenting norms that are off? Whether it's my fault or not, I don't even care, I just want to figure this out. Something is wrong and I no longer have the excuse of being new to this.

@Abhishe48343780 @catiescos @stansstansstans Your future bro

It actually felt really good

@shinboson @TeddyRockSteady My guy, you posted a passionate take and professionals are providing critique and feedback in replies and all you do is move the goal post. Understand AI can be useful *and* useless at the same time. The path to insane toolkit isn’t going to emerge overnight.

@TeddyRockSteady sure and they’ll continue to be useless for how much longer? six months? a year? depending on use case, they might be useful now. not necessarily for this but for something else. the point is that it’s capable of approximate general computation, not just fixed function pipelines.

nano banana pro can perform arbitrary transformations of sets of images into new images. it's an LLM but for pixels and the first image model that isn't a toy. many of you are sleeping on this, but if you have any experience with 3d graphics the images below may help you wake up.

@TwinDragon_Clan @Okay_Wasabi The wine glasses are lined up to be 3 by 3 but the last row is only 2 glasses with 3rd existing only as a see through object, without any stem.

@Okay_Wasabi As guy that generates these images on a daily I tried for 5 minutes to find someway to know it's AI and you can't....

No man guys. They're getting rid of the A.I texture??? How is frame 2 even distinguishable???

@CalumWorthy Ghoulish. There are stories about why this is a very bad idea. What happens when you go out of business? Absolutely ghoulish.

What if the loved ones we've lost could be part of our future?

@jenssen_lise @thetrainerclubb @brandontan91 @hakaltar @ASICSeurope Is bike a workaround?

This is what a legit Pokemon player looks like. @thetrainerclubb and @brandontan91 should learn from @hakaltar No workarounds. Just old school hard work. @ASICSeurope should sponsor her. 🥰🥰🥰 #pokeomongo #Pogo #kilometergrinder #hardworker