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is there a name for the phenomenon where a user immediately assumes the smallest and lowest contrast button on an interface is the option they want, before actually reading any of the words?

    Enter through the narrow gate, for the gate is wide and the road is easy that leads to destruction, and there are many who take it. For the gate is narrow and the road is hard that leads to life, and there are few who find it.

    [Matthew 7:13-14]

I'm not aware of a specific term, another than just conditioning, but I am reminded of "banner blindness" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banner_blindness

(I was definitely expecting a level to swap the contrast eventually as a trick.)


This reversed cta thing is what I've been evolved to do. Always look for the opposite of a cta button and click it. This reconciles with the fact the incentives have been off for the past few years or decades.

I was waiting for the cases where they inverted this. That would really trick me. But it didn't happen in the few cases I tried.

Being conditioned.

There should be one.

not if the swerve would put you headlong into oncoming traffic


It wouldn't be headlong, possibly sidelong though. Seems worth it to save a kid, no?


neither cars nor humans are expected to solve trolley problems during real-time incidents.


Cars, no, but truckers have been damned for not just sacrificing themselves when their brakes failed. There was a recent incident where a truck had its brakes fail on its way into Denver from the Rockies and killed several people. They should have taken an off ramp, but IIRC, both in public opinion and in court it was argued that failing that they should have just committed suicide by going off the road before they hit a family.


There's a difference in expectation between the reactions of a person that has under 10 seconds to react and a truck driver that had minutes of time to plan, including bypassing an emergency ramp designed specifically for runaway trucks.

    After passing the Genesee exit, Aguilera Mederos's truck began to smoke as he passed a runaway truck ramp, without taking it, and instead drifted into the left lane nearly clipping a white Chevy Silverado, and passed the next exit as well. For the next few minutes, Aguilera Mederos reached speeds upwards of 100 miles per hour (161 km/h)[6] and passed the next four exits.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Lakewood_semi-truck_crash


I'm not sure how that's relevant to the discussion. it sounds like there were a lot of heated emotions going around in that court case.

(I try not to pay close attention to lawyer's arguments when they are histrionic)


An AI driver would have done it, that's one point for autonomous driving.


Briar offers a companion ”mailbox” app for the exact reason you describe (i assume)

where did you read that it hosts an onion service? i guessed that's how it worked but couldn't find anything in their docs that said so.


youre missing the forest for the trees. the library this demo is using for audio encoding (ggwave) was not made by the creators of this demo. speed (or lack thereof) aside, having a direct audio<->text encoding is much more computationally efficient than speech<->text generation.

on the subject of the encoding efficiency, the ggwave depo mentions the use of reed-solomon error correction to make transmission more reliable. im struggling to find any info on error correction used by bell 103 or other modems, but if they aren't as robust that could partially explain the discrepancy you're describing


wow, i also started using linux about 5 years ago due to frustrations with getting python to work on windows

sure, the windows installer is easy enough to get set up, but pretty quickly i started noticing a pattern in most documentation/tutorials.

Linux: one-line setup command

Windows: nothing, or a complicated, multi-step process (that rarely works without hiccups)

wasting my time going down rabbit holes debugging my environment was not as fun as actually writing code


What makes describing your UI with components that use a html template fragment and receive a context object a leaky abstraction, as opposed to components that use JSX and receive a props object?


How long before someone runs Doom on Tetris?


That might require a RAM extension cartridge.


When I click on link in an article, almost always it’s because I want to cross reference the information on a different source. If the link takes me to another article on the same site, I usually stop reading altogether.

Wikipedia is an exception, of course.


Why would Wikipedia be an exception?


Wikipedia offers it's external links via citations


And I guessed a while ago that this is why people on HN sometimes say "citation needed", when someone makes a claim about something.


To me it’s a snide passive-aggressive way of saying “bullshit”, and I can’t help but hear it in the Simpsons Comic Book Guy’s voice.


Probably an exception in the "reason" for clicking hyperlinks, is what came to mind.

Of course another reply notes the clear external vs. internal link approach of wikipedia, too.


I had never considered that there might be other ways to pronounce it. I’m gonna start saying it “zhee-rá” now


> And middle click is for opening tabs.

Learning that you can middle click on the back/forward/refresh buttons to open the previous/next/current page (respectively) in a new tab was a game changer for me


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