duckfruit · HackerTrans

vor 22 Tagendiscuss

Exactly. This is like that Sci fi show where the whole world is taken over by an alien organism and everyone you meet is basically the same one person. The AI is also off-puttingly nice, just like the alien.

duckfruit

vor 22 Tagendiscuss

Yeah, wading through an endless stream of AI slop articles posted here (and elsewhere like on reddit) is exhausting. I suspect I won't be coming here as often anymore, which is a shame, because I used to find this site very informative and engaging.

Though we've always had our fair share of marketing and growth hack posts this turn with AI is just a different level of frustrating. The dead internet theory is unfortunately very real.

duckfruit

vor 28 Tagendiscuss

This makes me indescribably sad. Dr. Rauschmayer's books and articles helped me tremendously early in my career. I owe him a debt of gratitude.

duckfruit

vor 6 Monatendiscuss

I mean, good on them but its like fighting a wildfire with a thimbleful of water.

Feel like the model trainers would be able to easily work around this.

duckfruit

vor 6 Monatendiscuss

+1.

While the author's complaint is perfectly valid, in practice the advantages of even current OLEDs - for me - far outweigh any disadvantages due to subpixel layout fringing and everything else. Even for programming, the lack of backlight and resulting infinite contrast makes such a huge difference in my day to day life that I refuse to use a non-OLED monitor anymore for any purpose whatsoever. Heck it could be half the DPI and I'd still go for OLED anytime.

The only reason LCDs still exist is price, nothing else.

duckfruit

vor 2 Jahrendiscuss

But if all you want to do is render HTML then why use <canvas>?

I'm only speculating, but it doesn't seem surprising that regular DOM rendering logic - which has to handle approximately a bazillion different rules and special cases - is slower than a custom renderer written for a specific subset of HTML.

duckfruit

vor 2 Jahrendiscuss

Essentially a

  throw new RuntimeException(e)

for rockets?

As a fellow engineer, I sympathize.

duckfruit

vor 3 Jahrendiscuss

Great article. The Sphere is such a ridiculous, hilarious and fantastic project. We should be build one in every city.

duckfruit

vor 3 Jahrendiscuss

It’s a patently obvious money grab or scam or PR attempt because there’s no way in hell Wordpress will be around in 30 years let alone a hundred.

But that got me thinking. Will the web itself be around a century from now? ICANN? HTML? HTTP? A hundred years ago there were no transatlantic flights. The television hadn’t been invented yet. What will the next hundred years bring? Kind of thought provoking really. Good weekend musings.

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