Is Linux clipboard predictable? Without trying out, please imagine that In Firefox page text, you have words "one two". You doubleclick "one" with left mouse and it highlights. Then you shift-middle click at the end of the word "two".

1) What will be highlighted? Then you press into the highlight with left mouse, drag it and release into a textarea.

2) What will be pasted into the textarea?

3) What will be in the mouse clipboard afterwards?

#linux #firefox #ux #predictability #clipboard #copypaste #complexity #draganddrop #contempt

A quotation from Arendt

The consistent persecution of every higher form of intellectual activity by the new mass leaders springs from more than their natural resentment against everything they cannot understand. Total domination does not allow for free initiative in any field of life, for any activity that is not entirely predictable. Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.

Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
The Origins of Totalitarianism, Part 3, ch. 10 “A Classless Soceity” (1958 ed.)

More about this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/81214/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #arendt #hannaharendt #antiintellectualism #control #hacks #initiative #loyalty #predictability #talent #totalitarianism

Designing Predictable LLM-Verifier Systems for Formal Method Guarantee

https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.02080

#HackerNews #Designing #Predictable #LLM-Verifier #Systems #for #Formal #Method #Guarantee #LLMVerifier #FormalMethods #AIResearch #Predictability #arXiv

Scientists analyzed 15,000 games of rock, paper, scissors and found the trick to winning

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/rock-paper-scissors

#Design #Guides
Can a website make you feel safe? · Good design not only works but also feels right https://ilo.im/16826v

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#Communication #Trust #Safety #Predictability #Website #EmotionalDesign #ProductDesign #UxDesign #UiDesign #WebDesign

Breaking news: 🤖 #AI can't tell jokes because it's allergic to surprises! 🎉 This groundbreaking revelation from 2025 explains that without surprise, the universe collapses into the abyss of #predictability, where #LLMs live. Who knew that making people laugh involved more than just regurgitating data? 🙄
https://danfabulich.medium.com/llms-tell-bad-jokes-because-they-avoid-surprises-7f111aac4f96 #Humor #AI #Surprises #HackerNews #ngated

🎉 Breaking news: scientists have discovered the groundbreaking ability to predict the obvious! Turns out, cancer signals its arrival way before it crashes the party, but who knew? 🤯 I mean, besides science, blood, and anyone with a calendar? 🗓️🔬
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/cancer-tumor-dna-blood-test-screening #breakingnews #cancerresearch #predictability #scienceinnovation #healthdiscovery #HackerNews #ngated

Joel Tosi presents 'The problems that arise when focusing on predictability instead of variability' July 25th at Nebraska.Code().

https://nebraskacode.amegala.com/

#ValueStream #Predictability #Variability #Dev #Test #Operations #TechConference #PracticalAgile #Nebraska #Agile #agileprojectmanagement #technology #lincolnne #softwareengineer #softwaredeveloper #programming #techevents #networkingevent

⛪🍄 Apparently, someone thought it was a great idea to see what happens when the clergy trips on #shrooms. Spoiler: they find "deeper meaning" while the rest of us find this experiment hilariously predictable 🙄🔍.
https://nautil.us/clergy-blown-away-by-psilocybin-1217112/ #clergyexperiment #humor #deepermeaning #predictability #HackerNews #HackerNews #ngated

#Zoomposium with Professor Dr. #Achim #Stephan: “I feel, therefore I am. How #feelings influence our #thinking.”

He was Professor of #Philosophy of #Cognition at the University of Osnabrück and Dean of the #CognitiveScience program. His main field of work is the #philosophyofmind, and in particular #emergence, #emotions and #affectivity, from #predictability to #selforganization”.

More at: https://philosophies.de/index.php/2024/04/23/ich-fuehle-also-bin-ich/

or: https://youtu.be/gMherlB50K4

#Design #Techniques
Goodbye 4px spacing, hello Fibonacci · A fresh perspective on spacing systems in design https://ilo.im/160rz0

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#Spacing #Calculation #Consistency #Predictability #GridSystems #ProductDesign #UiDesign #VisualDesign #WebDesign

Our pattern-seeking #brain seems to need to be rattled from time to time. The combination of #predictability (established tropes) and resolving states of #uncertainty (what will happen next) might be a major reason why we enjoy #horror.

https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2022.0425

If you or your child find adapting to changes particularly challenging, it might not be about being inflexible. Instead, it could reflect a need for predictability and stability. #change #predictability #stability #neurodivergent

https://envisiontherapydfw.com/adapting-to-changes-why-it-might-be-about-stability-not-inflexibility/

Respectna the Vecna or He’ll Break Your Neckna - The hashtags say it all. - https://www.mltivrs.com/2024/06/06/vecnas-back-season-5-of-stranger-things-scifi-netflix/ #StrangerThings #Season5 #Vecna #HollyWheeler #KarenWheeler #Eleven #StrangerThings #Season5 #Vecna #SciFi #Boredom #Unoriginality #Predictability #RehashedPlots #BlandStorytelling #LackOfCharacterDevelopment #FinalSeason #Disappointment

#Design #Explorations
UI density · Why some user interfaces succeed and others fail https://ilo.im/15yy25

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#Speed #Consistency #Predictability #Functionality #Usability #ProductDesign #UiDesign #VisualDesign #WebDesign

“There is a need to give this a more robust & institutional framework to ensure #predictability & #commitment for the long haul,” Stoltenberg said. He added: “I strongly believe it’s important that #allies make decisions fast. And that includes, of course, the #UnitedStates.”

#unreliable #volatile #Trump #Republicans #US #leader #WorldPower #control #NATO #alliance #aid #geopolitics

Most of the time people reject the idea to reduce the amount of parallel work, they do so because they are plagued with a lot of external dependencies that are unpredictable in a sense that nobody knows by when that external dependency will deliver anything.

So people just try to keep their options open.

#kanban #predictability

#StuartKauffman - Can #Science Provide #Ultimate #Answers?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhB-riHuxVs

#Philosophy #PhilosophyOfScience #PhilosophyOfBiology #Science #Physics #Biology #Evolution #UseFunction #Utility #Probability #Determinacy #Emergence #Biosphere #Life #Predictability #LawsOfPhysics #LawsOfNature #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn

Dear, Harvard Business Review... did anyone look for a pattern in the examples given in this article before proposing a blend between #agile and #waterfall methods (I see one)? What other reasons may exist for a perceived lack of #documentation (better: a lack of understanding), #predictability or #risk mitigation?

https://hbr.org/2023/10/its-time-to-end-the-battle-between-waterfall-and-agile

An illusion of #predictability in scientific results: Even experts confuse #inferential uncertainty and outcome #variability

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2302491120