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- Designing content for people who struggle with numbers https://service-manual.nhs.uk/content/numbers-measurements-dates-time 56 comments
- Advertising tips for computer number system designers (2021) [pdf] https://perso.ens-lyon.fr/jean-michel.muller/advertising.pdf 5 comments
- Why the Gov.uk Design System team changed the input type for numbers (2020) https://technology.blog.gov.uk/2020/02/24/why-the-gov-uk-design-system-team-changed-the-input-type-for-numbers/ 140 comments
- Whats it called when you design a script that carries out a number of tasks for a computer? https://www.reddit.com/r/learnprogramming/comments/8wp9y6/whats_it_called_when_you_design_a_script_that/ 7 comments learnprogramming
- The Cicada Principle and Why It Matters to Web Designers (unique tile patterns using prime numbers and CSS3) http://designfestival.com/the-cicada-principle-and-why-it-matters-to-web-designers/ 31 comments web_design
- Why the Gov.uk Design System team changed the input type for numbers https://technology.blog.gov.uk/2020/02/24/why-the-gov-uk-design-system-team-changed-the-input-type-for-numbers/ 217 comments programming
- Tileable oil design I just came up with has an odd number of underground pipes, cant find a missing one. https://www.reddit.com/r/factorio/comments/b0h1do/tileable_oil_design_i_just_came_up_with_has_an/ 10 comments factorio
- NFL franchise tag designation period opens Today. Quick rundown of the types of tags along with baseline cap numbers by position. http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000785958/article/nfl-franchise-tag-designation-period-opens-wednesday 3 comments nfl
- "There are absolutely no plans to remove the version number from our UI" - Alex Faaborg, Principal Designer on Firefox https://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.usability/msg/e9d12a9d154fe035 10 comments linux
- A number of Robots designed to serve and cook food in development and testing stages. http://blog.friendseat.com/food-robots/ 25 comments technology
- "Energy is arguably the number-one challenge humanity will be facing in the 21st century. We cannot afford anymore to design computer systems based on the criterion of computational speed and performance alone," http://news.cnet.com/8301-11386_3-10272069-76.html 8 comments technology
- China's Rising Military Power is Fueling Asia's Arms Race - Check Out The Staggering Numbers (summarized in a well-designed infographics) http://www.examville.com/examville/asia%27s%20arms%20race-id6656 3 comments worldnews
- Trump signs law designating 9-8-8 as universal number for national suicide hotline starting in 2022 https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/10/17/politics/national-suicide-hotline-988-trump-signs-law/index.html 22 comments politics
- Trump signs law designating 9-8-8 as universal number for national suicide hotline starting in 2022 https://edition.cnn.com/2020/10/17/politics/national-suicide-hotline-988-trump-signs-law/index.html 3 comments politics
- Number detectors spontaneously emerge in a deep neural network designed for visual object recognition https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/5/eaav7903 24 comments science
- New Touchback Rule Designed To Reduce Number Of Kickoff Returns May Actually Increase Them http://deadspin.com/new-touchback-rule-designed-to-reduce-number-of-kickoff-1766603355 8 comments nfl
- Happy Anniversary to the DH: Commemorating baseball’s greatest designated hitters by the numbers http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/numbers-baseball-greatest-designated-hitters-article-1.2493163 9 comments baseball
- National Suicide Hotline Designation Act would make 988 the nationwide suicide hotline number https://govtrackinsider.com/national-suicide-hotline-designation-act-would-make-988-the-nationwide-suicide-hotline-number-2f8dd0bc99bd 301 comments politics
- Design insights: Mobile games and their number of game mechanics http://www.triolith.com/2011/08/22/design-insights-mobile-games-and-their-number-of-game-mechanics/ 4 comments gamedev
- [DiLalla] In the last couple of years, teams could designate an unlimited number of players to return after 3 games. Now 8 players — still more than the 2 from a few years ago — can return after 4 games. Of note: Players can come back from IR twice in one year. Previously wasn’t allowed. https://twitter.com/aricdilalla/status/1529603741590110214?s=21&t=m6Dex804rqwYKc_b3q5Ibg 20 comments nfl
- Intel's pinning its future on Alder Lake's hybrid design, but AMD won't follow suit 'just to have a bigger number' https://www.pcgamer.com/amd-ryzen-hybrid-architecture-big-little-intel-alder-lake/ 77 comments intel
- Linus Torvalds on git's lack of revision numbers (2011): "I think the lack of them is literally the only real design mistake we have. " http://git.661346.n2.nabble.com/git-commit-generation-numbers-td6584414.html 101 comments programming
- An Israeli government study shared with Washington argues that Palestinian refugees number in the thousands, not the millions designated by a U.N. aid agency whose funding has been slashed by the Trump administration, an Israeli official said on Friday. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-refugees/israel-says-palestinian-refugees-number-in-the-thousands-not-millions-iduskcn1mm2jw 14 comments worldnews
- A plan to protect wolves in France could see their population swell to 500 in the next five years. The proposal - which would increase the number of wolves by around 40 per cent - is designed to ensure the survival of the species in France. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/france-wolves-numbers-increase-farmers-attacks-conservation-population-a8218136.html 124 comments worldnews
- Wisconsin, the number one cheese-producing state in the United States, named this bacterium in 2010 as the official state microbe, the first and only such designation by a state legislature in the nation. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/16/us/16microbe.html 191 comments science
- The amazing screw-in coffin: Inventor comes up with a design that would minimize dirt removal during burial, while also maximizing the number of people who can be buried in a given space. [PICS] http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/visualscience/2010/08/06/inventor-donald-scruggs-and-the-screw-in-coffin/ 11 comments science
- From designer Adam Schacter comes a concept car innovation that comes to solve a number of problems facing the inner city delivery vehicles. The CarGo is a one sitter electric car with a capability for various configuration to address several delivery needs. http://www.geekcivilization.com/cargo-vehicle-one-seater-car-concept-for-inner-city-deliveries/ 4 comments technology
- A Numerical Mystery From the 19th Century Finally Gets Solved | Quanta Magazine | Two mathematicians have proven Patterson’s conjecture, which was designed to explain a strange pattern in sums involving prime numbers. https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-numerical-mystery-from-the-19th-century-finally-gets-solved-20220815/ 17 comments math
- Detective gameplay poses a number of unique design problems. We've spent a lot of time on research and experimentation for our detective game – here's an extensive writeup! https://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/juliancolbus/20200928/370909/detective_game_design_puzzles_vs_story_lacuna_devlog.php 4 comments gamedev
- [FCB] | OFFICIAL | From 2019/20, Barça will have their own typography (a design of letters and numbers), called FC Barcelona Play. The new design of the letters and numbers emphasise the personality of the club and will be present in different areas. https://twitter.com/fcbarcelona/status/1147446179610931200 96 comments soccer
- Japan's once extinct stork population reaches 100 - The number of storks, designated as a special national treasure, hit the threshold 12 years after artificially bred birds were released into open skies for the first time as part of efforts to return the species to the wild. https://japantoday.com/category/national/japan's-once-extinct-stork-population-reaches-100 12 comments worldnews
- The original transaction format as designed by Satoshi Nakamoto opens with a version field. The design of having a version number implies that the designer wanted to use hard forks for changes. https://zander.github.io/posts/Flexible_Transactions/ 47 comments btc
- Democrat Bernie Sanders — riding high on rising poll numbers — brought his thundering left-leaning populism to cheering throngs that packed town halls yesterday in a barnstorming tour designed to capitalize on his newfound star quality. http://www.bostonherald.com/news_opinion/us_politics/2015/06/bernie_sanders_storms_into_nh_on_populist_wave 74 comments politics
- LibreOffice 4.4, the ninth major release of the free office suite, with a significant number of design and user experience improvements http://blog.documentfoundation.org/2015/01/29/libreoffice-4-4-the-most-beautiful-libreoffice-ever/ 25 comments opensource
- Researchers have identified the combination of characteristics that make people “like” images on Instagram. Optimizing both feature and design complexity also could improve consumer engagement by about 19% – after accounting for variables such as an account’s total number of followers. https://news.ncsu.edu/2022/01/what-people-like-on-instagram/ 11 comments science
- [Tom Pelissero]With a dispute looming over position designation, the #Ravens and Matt Judon agreed to meet in the middle: The one-year franchise tender he signed Thursday is worth $16.808 million, per source. That’s the midpoint between the DE and LB numbers. A rare compromise. https://twitter.com/TomPelissero/status/1266344090863616001 301 comments nfl
- ‘Designed for us to fail’: Floridians upset as unemployment system melts down | Officially 472,000 people in the state filed for unemployment – but the true number is much higher due to the failing system https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/apr/15/florida-unemployment-system-coronavirus-applications 24 comments politics
- An Artificial Intelligence designed to reduce the high number of false positives and false negatives in Mammogram interpretations outperformed ALL human readers in an independent study of 6 radiologists and reduced the workload of the second reader by 88% (Published in Nature 1/1/2020) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1799-6 11 comments science
- Packing Heat in Cleveland. "A number of groups have announced plans to exploit Ohio’s lenient open-carry gun law to flaunt their military-style assault rifles and other weaponry in designated protest zones, all in the name of protecting gun rights and free speech." http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/14/opinion/protesters-plan-to-be-armed-near-the-trump-convention.html?ref=opinion 4 comments politics
- There could be increased numbers of psychopaths in senior managerial positions and high levels of business: Researcher has shown for the first time that people with psychopathic tendencies who have high IQs can mask their symptoms by manipulating tests designed to reveal their personalities http://www.hud.ac.uk/news/2014/july/psychologygraduatesdissertationacceptedbyacademicjournal.php 1684 comments science