It reminds me of the accidental Hawaii nuclear missile alert a few years back. AIUI, the button to test the system was in close proximity to the button to send the real thing.
Or much lower stakes but the terrible UI that caused Citibank to accidentally give away $500M[1] (though they got it back on appeal [2]). I am always amazed to see the awful, awful software people put up with to do their jobs.
I CANNOT STAND UI's that are interactable before they have completed their layout rendering! Or things like notifications that suddenly push everything down, right when you were about to tap on one of those elements! Why is this still a thing? Any UI element that shifts or appears should have like a user-adjustable half-second delay before it becomes interactable again
Former frontend performance guy here – "Cumulative Layout Shift" is the measure of this jank, and yes, it is the absolute worst.
Conversely, it's hard to overstate how magical sites become when you get that down to 0. Once stuff stops shifting, users are effectively fooled into believing that sites are finished loading. Sites just feel fast, even if things are still happening. It's sadly hard to get there, and very easily worsens.
Hilariously, I was trying to enable the minimal JS needed to view that page, and UMatrix DID THE EXACT SAME THING, it shifted down a site I wanted to block under my mouse button. :)
For all you dystopian fiction writers:
the end of all humanity, caused by lazy loading JavaScript.
It shouldn't take more than a weekend, and the "Terrifyingly realistic!" reviews will write themselves.
I suspect the real reason it's still a thing is that it makes users more likely to click on ads, which is after all how most of the internet makes its money.
Personally I was more impressed by the director being a dolphin, altho they coud've found better photo of him, he looks a bit fat.
But to be fair It's not that bad when you realize using flaps and gear is time correlated - you slow down, enable flaps, get near the airport, then put the gear down.
There is no "I want to put the gear down in situation when enabling flaps would fuck stuff up too much"
> There is no "I want to put the gear down in situation when enabling flaps would fuck stuff up too much"
Unless, maybe, you just limped your plane in because it’s missing a big chunk of a wing.
One thing the military does is try to make it hard to make a simple mistake and kill a bunch of your own troops.
During the last Iraq invasion I was running around with a fuel tanker which had a pony motor to offload the fuel. It was pretty complicated with a bunch of levers and valves you had to set to get the fuel flowing the right way (and not on the ground) but had a data plate to tell you what to do, easy peasy. One day we were at a bag farm dumping fuel and this staff sergeant wandered up and says I’m doing it wrong. “Data plate” I say and point at the data plate but she started to get all huffy so, whatever, do what she says which was all fine and good until the tanker starts filling up because it is set up backwards. She made some lame excuse for not following the law of the one true god, the data plate, and wandered off to bother someone else.
I mean, the changes are clear improvement, the whole panel is basically "random stuff barely related to eachother" but I feel author is overstating how bad it actually is
[1]: https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/static-assets/images/blog-post/instr...