This aestethic is useful though for SaaS apps and the like that know themselves to be generic.

I am not sure if you're entirely familiar with how science works?

The study has a fairly large effect size, there's plenty of other research into body chronology that shows similar effects and differences between people. The methods in the study look solid, as does the analysis. There's also nothing weird with how the interpreted the results.

Now, should you go out and alter health guidelines for an entire country based off of one study? Hell no. But that also does not mean that you dismiss the study.

Research funding does NOT work in such a way, that scientist A comes up with an interesting idea and immediately gets funding to recruit 200 000 participants from 20 countries.

134 is a pathetically small sample size

In excercise science many of the studies are based on 20-30 college aged male athletes. 134 is a bigger sample than many.

Thanks for explaining this!

> ...library management is turning into more of what keeps me shelling out.

Library management whas how Lightroom got started. Back in ~2005 or so when the first betas came out that was the big selling point and why I and other photographers jumped on it. Back then, the editing tools in Lightoom were still behind photoshop, but the library management was intuitive and fast.

The other comparable tool (at the time) is PhotoMechanic, but that one is quite different in terms of library management, though far superior to Lightroom in many regards. But it isn't very functional as an overall library tool IMO.

Yeah, the UI in darktable is not good enough to go through a large shoot. When I've tried to use it I always end up doing all my selection in PhotoMechanic and then in darktable I just do editing. But even that UI/UX is terrible.

PM's performance on Mac has gone through the floor, to me. It shouldn't take 8 seconds to quit on a M2 Ultra. Raw rendering is slow too. I ended up moving to FastRawViewer.

I did the same journey, felt quite tragic after so many years in PM but FastRawViewer has been brilliant for me - highly recommend

I still do not understand how marketers haven't understood that quality > quantity.

But often $ generated by quantity > $ generated by quality. And that’s the metric everyone really cares about.

Because a lot of the time, it isn't.

Inside the marketing org bubble, quantity is the "any moron could see that" metric. So anyone who wants to get ahead, inside that bubble, had better be willing to optimize it.

They understand.

They also understand that they have little or no quality that most people actualy want and from their PoV quality > quantity > nothing.

The satellite data persumably also needs to be purchased, the area is huge, and this island is relatively tiny.

I'm sure astronomy solves much harder "needle in a haystack" problems and we could probably use their methods

Aren't astronomy problems almost exactly the opposite?

In astronomy the background is mostly static, providing an excellent reference frame either when trying to discover/track a moving object, or when trying to overlap multiple images of the same object for better observations.

If you're looking for an unknown island your background is constantly changing, but you're looking for something which is somewhat static but might not actually exist.

iMessage is AFAIK only really a big thing in the US.

Yes, and the US is by far Apple's most important handset market. The other iOS-majority countries are small markets for Apple.

Canada too.

I only have WhatsApp installed for when I leave the country.

It depends on your social circle obviously. I had a single person I used iMessage with no but we since switched to SMS. Not many people where I live have iphones.

I totally buy this as someone located in the US, but what is everybody else using? It can’t be WhatsApp? Is everyone sending all their connection graphdata to Meta?

A lot of SMBs use Instagram to connect to their clients, so Instagram build-in messenger is a default option for a lot of people (especially women) in many parts of the world.

Some places have regional messengers that are very entrenched, like Line in Japan or KakaoTalk in Korea.

WhatsApp is a default option in a large number of countries including most of Middle East, parts of Europe, Brazil, most of Africa, Southern Asia. To me it is surprising, too, because out of all messaging options WhatsApp seems like the least developed and least ergonomic.

And yes, this does mean that most people share whatever data Big Tech wants. They use Meta to talk to each other, auto-upload their photos to Google, click "accept" to every cookie banner so that thousands of no-name companies around the world know where they are and what they are doing at all times.

Everyone in the UK and Western Europe uses WhatsApp as their primary messenger.

The only time I ever open iMessage is when I get an SMS 2FA verification code or something similar.

Also, in the Middle East everyone also just uses WhatsApp or Telegram.

People who care about privacy (very very few) use signal, everyone else uses Whatsup

You understand that Facebook and Instagram are also very popular yes?

It’s WhatsApp. No one thinks about sending data to Meta. The world is much bigger than the HN bubble, where almost no one thinks about privacy implications.

Absolutely this. No one cares about privacy. 99,9% population has no clue how tech works. “Oh, it’s an app on my phone.” That’s what typical consumer understands. How text travels from one phone to other is something magical.

Got WhatsApp, because there is no other channel to communicate with customers. It’s literally used by everyone without exceptions. Really scary.

in my country it's Whatsapp, and has been since before it was acquired by Meta

1) Put data on X/Y chart 2) Find ruler and pencil 3) Draw line

Doing this you will make all kind of fun predictions.

In my experienced Snowflake is often used as a data warehouse.