Looks like it got hugged to death

The fn keys you can almost circumvent, but the escape key? Common!

the esc key is still there. i'm still using the m1 macbook pro with the touchbar.

The original version removed the ESC key as well. By the time they added it back, the damage was done.

The worst bit was that the touch-sensitive area didn't extend as far left as the physical keyboard - so not only did the ESC key become virtual with no tactile feedback, it also shifted position.

That was when I started remapping caps lock to esc and have never gone back.

That, and on top of it people now come 5m late on 5m past so we start 10m past and finish 10m late.

Until someone stops installing gmail because it's too big (and it's coming back as a signal), I doubt anything will be done about it. In the absence of constraints, things just keep growing... without constraints. The costs of pruning/shaking embedded frameworks, refactoring, optimization, etc. cannot be justified if it's not signaled as a problem by customers.

Great article, once you find how to deactivate the snowflakes.

This is only an opinion, but it feels like UX in general is moving towards making things cute rather than usable. Liquid glass is a case in point.

This is useful to a point, in the same sense that one might beauty, but when this is all you care about, it becomes a problem.

I agreed at first, but that the blog has bad UX doesn't make the message it conveys wrong though.

A very distracting one that masks text as well. But to be fair, there's a very explicit icon in the header to deactivate them

Eurostar is headquartered in Belgium, and operates out of London.

Most of the Eurostar ExCo members are French/ worked extensively at SNCF.

Or all of terminal list. That show is so extremely dark that it might as well just be voices over a screen saver.

> it put price pressure and competition on providing the service

This is simply not true. Healthcare in the US is comparatively much more expensive than countries offering subsidized healthcare with comparable or better outcomes(1).

> it's largely due to regulation and third party payer system

Capitalism can't work in a market that's completely consolidated, and where people can't offer to not buy your service. Healthcare in publicly subsidized countries is much less expensive because it's regulated. Compare the price of simple drugs like insulin or asthma medicine if you need an easy example. Pharma companies still happily sell there, which is to say that the difference is pure profit on the back of sick people who don't have a choice.

My biggest grief against this individual payment system is moral though. I don't see the virtue in a system where kids have to put on a show to receive care. Or anyone for that matter, you'll give to a kid because they're cute and generate empathy, does it make someone ugly with no family less deserving of getting cured from cancer?

1: https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/health-...