Interesting Links for 29-11-2023

[andrewducker]

1. How Dave Gibbons went from being a building surveyor to one of the best known comics artists, and why he letters his own comics

(tags:comics art letter history )

2. I have long felt that autism isn't one thing, but a collection of things which produce similar traits. Looks like the research is swinging that way.

(tags:autism research psychology )

3. Some people might find this house too avant garde, but I think that being able to accept parcel deliveries without getting off the toilet would be very handy

Seriously though, do estate agents just heave a massive sigh when they take a look around these places?
(tags:housing toilets wtf )

4. How Jensen Huang's Nvidia Is Powering the A.I. Revolution

(tags:ai graphics history technology )

5. There is no evidence that the Internet strongly affects wellbeing or mental health globally

(tags:internet mentalhealth )

6. The User Interface failures that lead to an airliner being shot down by accident

(tags:ui epicfail iran usa military death )

7. Restaurants Are Using Tinder Profiles to Lure Diners In

(tags:restaurant dating fraud wtf )

Comments

#3

[original_aj]

If it's got WIFI you can get takeaways delivered too and never need to get off!

[cmcmck]

Having worked in the field of autism I've long been convinced that this is really a thing.

[calimac]

1) I have always been mystified by the "assembly line" technique of comics art: one artist draws in pencils, another inks over it, another colors it in, another does the lettering. I've read that this annoys everyone involved, but it's done anyway. Exceptions like this seem to be rare.

2) Potentially interesting, but not designed for lay readers.

6) Not as complicated as military combat systems, but challenging enough: figuring out how to read threads of posts on Mastodon.

7) Seems like a lot of trouble for a questionable return. (I mean, how often will the person stood up for a date decide they might as well eat at that restaurant anyway? Some of the time, I suppose, but it hardly seems like a sure thing.)

[andrewducker]

I assume that the assembly line is so that they can get 20 pages of art produced in a month, every month. I know a lot of artists would struggle otherwise.

I agree about the restaurants - I almost never eat out alone, so going out for a date that doesn't happen wouldn't get my business.

[calimac]

I often eat alone, but when I was dating, if I was stood up like that, I'd be too upset to hang around, let alone eat dinner by myself on the scene of my humiliation. I'd go off somewhere and mope.

[simont]

#5: the text, but not the title, makes it look as if they were specifically searching for evidence of negative effect on mental health or wellbeing.

I think it's also worth considering the possibility that the Internet might have helped people's wellbeing, by being useful, or fun, or both. It might even have specifically helped people's mental health, by helping them feel less alone!

[andrewducker]

Also, I think that a lot of social movements wouldn't have happened without it.

We may have both goodness and badness, cancelling each other out!

[misbegotten]

Re: #3, is that the right link? Mortlock Street, Melbourn? I'm not seeing the thing in question.

[andrewducker]

Take a look at the floorplan, and the location of the downstairs toilet

[jducoeur]

... wow, I hadn't gotten that from the pictures. The fact that they label it "Entrance Hall" shows a fair amount of cheek.

[bens_dad]

Took me a long time to find it.
There is a toilet roll holder between the washing machine and the screen.

[channelpenguin]

so, it looks like you come into the house THROUGH the downstairs loo? Outstanding!