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Montrealer now living in Paris. 💻 🎬 🎮 & 👌💡

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I'm sure Taylor swift is happy Twitter/X is using her dating life as an example of their new Ai capabilities 🤖 #grokfails

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@GregoryMcFadden @rabbit_hmi You can always give it to your grand-ma

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The Netflix of fake movies :
https://t.co/qfjBVEiYd1

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Well written article about technology advances and how they should or shouldn't be blindly allowed to impact culture.
https://t.co/9BpmsphSGB

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This thread of Americans believing Joe Bidden will take away their beer "like they do in Canada" has so many gold nuggets 😂

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

Would you curb your beer consumption if the Biden WH recommends you do so?

Ted Cruz and Fox News have just had their "Tan Suit" moment with Joe Biden.

They are now fear-mongering that Joe Biden is going to cut your beer off at just 2 beers per week.

This is because George Koob, the director for the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, said that the US recommendations for alcohol consumption might move closer to Canada’s recommendations which are two or less drinks a week.

No one is going to tell anyone they can't have more than this. It's just a recommendation. Calm down!

[Andrew Côté @Andercot]

National Lab (LBNL) results support LK-99 as a room-temperature ambient-pressure superconductor.

Simulations published 1 hour ago on arxiv support LK-99 as the holy grail of modern material science and applied physics.
(https://t.co/UOOtDlx3eE)

Here's the plain-english explanation:
- The simulations modeled what the original Korean authors proposed was happening to their material - where copper atoms were percolating into a crystal structure and replacing lead atoms, causing the crystal to strain slightly and contract by 0.5%. This unique structure was proposed to allow this amazing property.

- @sineatrix from Lawrence Berkeley National Lab simulated this using heavy-duty compute power from the Department of Energy, and looked to see what would happen to the 'electronic structure' of this material, meaning, what are the available conduction pathways in the material.

- It turns out that there are conduction pathways for electrons that are in just the right conditions and places that would enable them to 'superconduct'. More specifically, they were close to the 'Fermi Surface' which is like the sea-level of electrical energy, as in '0 ft above sea-level.' It's believed currently that the more conduction pathways close to the Fermi surface, the higher the temperature you can superconduct at (An analogy might be how its easier for planes to fly close to the surface of the ocean due to the 'ground effect' that gives them more lift.)

This plot in particular shows the 'bands', or electron pathways, crossing above and below the Fermi surface.

- Lastly, these interesting conduction pathways only form when the copper atom percolates into the less likely location in the crystal lattice, or the 'higher energy' binding site. This means the material would be difficult to synthesize since only a small fraction of crystal gets its copper in just the right location.

This is insanely bullish for humanity.

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@sid_sarasvati @kepano @sama @elonmusk Read the room 😅

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@AdhamDannaway He said the logo "might be temporary", nobody should waste time worrying about changing the logo. I'm especially worried for people who have to print things out...

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@fchollet It's more likely linked to reduction in traffic coming from google than actual market share taken from LLM / chatbots. A small part most likely SEO farms.

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@FrancoisRM That's pretty spot on ！

[Pierre Jacquel @pJacquelDesign]

Unpopular opinion: this design is beautiful, but this is a bad pattern you should avoid.

You may ask why.

Let's talk about user cancelation 101: user first.

When you have two CTA, your main CTA should always be the action the USER is the most likely to want to take.

Not what YOU want the user to do. Put user first.

If I open the cancel page, it is because I want to cancel my subscription.

So the main CTA here should be "cancel my subscription", not "keep everything as it is".

Yes, I know, you want to keep your users.

But think about it.

Do you really think that users will stay because of these design tricks?

No. This bad pattern just adds a useless cognitive overload on your user, and the last thing he will remember from your business is "they don't want me to cancel".

Think about better.

If the user wants to cancel, the best way to avoid this is:
- to understand his problem
- maybe the product is not for him
- maybe he took the wrong plan
- your product is too difficult to use
- you don't have some important features
- you are too expensive

The best way to keep your users is not to create a bad cancelation user experience.

Here is what you should do instead:

- make the cancelation easy to find
- the main CTA should always be "cancel my subscription".
- ask a confirmation to avoid miss clicks.
- ask the user why he cancels
- make this cancelation survey optional. User should be able to cancel without telling you why.
- Otherwise, they will give you noisy feedback because they have forced to fill your survey, and you won't learn anything valuable.

If users have a pleasant last experience:
- they are more likely to subscribe again in the future
- they are more likely to recommend your tool
- they are less likely to let you a negative reward that will affect the reputation of your business.

So stop using "don't cancel" as a main CTA just because everyone does it.

Be smarter. Be different. Always think user first.

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The Twitter/X rebranding is like reality TV level entertainment made to shock marketers.

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@ProductHunt Xzeets

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@SaeedDiCaprio Paying is a very vague word for one of the richest person in the world.
How many years could he afford if he "paid" for everyone? He didn't pay, he asked for the check to be visible on some profiles regardless pf their subscription.

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@levelsio Worst part is the color contrast is so bad you almost have to read it wrong

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@digincr @ProductHunt If twitter didn't add new features, and simply increased their pricing it's not surprising big companies like microsoft push back. On top of that, the concerns over reduction of content review probably didn't help.

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@renatoaraujoc @hobdaydesign @stripe Accessibility is the only real concern here, Stripe seems to have gone out of their way to ensure elements kept optimal readability. Minimalistic design is only a trend, one that needs to be on the way out, IMO.

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@renatoaraujoc @hobdaydesign @stripe The world needs more interesting design. Advanced attention to detail on this website help elevate the brand, and show their mastery of their medium.

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@TrungTPhan I think it's a smart move. HBO is great, but it can also feels like you get content from "only" one channel. Where Prime or Netflix are aggregator, and content producers. it could allow MAX to now curate content, and be a more rounded option without the HBO label.

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@aakashgupta This is basically a reinforcement of echo chambers. Not great to allow public debate