3cats-in-a-coat

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by 3cats-in-a-coat 1y ago
Each glass layer is something like 5 shader layers, all of them running something different than a basic alpha blend, looking up content from close to far away. Those "couple of texture lookups" (more like a dozen, if you add the
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by 3cats-in-a-coat 1y ago
Given our entire civilization is built on words, all of it, it's shocking how poorly most of us understand their importance and power.
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by 3cats-in-a-coat 1y ago
Steve Jobs was mocking Microsoft for this kind of UI two decades ago when shipping the first iPhone. None of this is new. But this kind of dysfunctional product is what a dysfunctional organization ships, despite knowledge. Why? Because lea
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by 3cats-in-a-coat 1y ago
How about redundancy in general. Not local first, not cloud first, but "anything can be first and last". That's how the "cloud" works in the first place. Redundancy. Mesh networks as well.
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by 3cats-in-a-coat 1y ago
These polarized opinions that say AI is everything or nothing only reveal the emotional state of the writer, rather than any deep insights.
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by 3cats-in-a-coat 1y ago
That's a very good question. If light speed was infinite. If sound speed was infinite. Or even if water waves were infinite, we'd never feel or see anything waving. We feel a wave by seeing the differential effect of it propagatin
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by 3cats-in-a-coat 1y ago
That's an interesting question and it's quite possible the medium matters about gravitational transmission speed. I.e. the question is how is gravity transmitted. We'd need to know a lot more about the structure of subatomic
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by 3cats-in-a-coat 1y ago
The whole "expanding Universe" model is repeatedly dealt blows in the past few years, so I'd accept it as a plausible, but not sufficiently demonstrated hypothesis and not waste time bothering about the impact on our bodies.
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by 3cats-in-a-coat 1y ago
Gravitational waves move at the speed of light, doubtful you can "look" at it. If it's that strong it'll just seem like a shake. Like an earthquake. Except it's the universe that's quaking.
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by 3cats-in-a-coat 1y ago
Your entire thesis can be summed up to “if Apple does it it’s good, even if it’s bad.” It doesn’t work this way. Apple has failed many times in the past, many forgotten failures, and this will be another one. Don’t confuse buzz on the Inter
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by 3cats-in-a-coat 1y ago
They keep trying to prep everything for AR for years now, the LiDAR on the back of the iPhone is another example. And all this has cluttered the product with nonsense, while they've abandoned its core value. I'm frankly dismayed a
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by 3cats-in-a-coat 1y ago
Thing is you can't refract and diffract light in actual AR glasses, as light passes through, all you have to play with is opacity. This means you need something like Vision Pro which fakes transparency via cameras, which are then blend
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by 3cats-in-a-coat 1y ago
"Everything new is the well forgotten old" is in full force here. Although I didn't think we'd forget Mac Aqua, Windows Aero and Glassmorphism so soon. Three different times in the last 25 years when this trend kept popp
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by 3cats-in-a-coat 1y ago
Making everything configurable is Apple abdicating responsibility of their design. It's the MySpace approach. And just like people familiar with MySpace know, this means most people will choose to make their phone an ungodly fugly mess
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by 3cats-in-a-coat 1y ago
"We want to do this the right way" felt possibly genuine when we waited for them to launch their AI in 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and they finally said they will. But then they didn't. So this is just pure cringe now. The "r
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by 3cats-in-a-coat 1y ago
"Liquid Glass" is even less what I want. And people do want useful AI features, not just garbage with an "AI" label slapped on it. Those are two different things. An integrated LLM as an assistant is useful. While Siri i
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by 3cats-in-a-coat 1y ago
This invalidates your thesis that Apple is behind on AI because they can't hire talent. And that they can't hire talent as they don't innovate and publish papers. xAI doesn't innovate, doesn't publish papers, and st
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by 3cats-in-a-coat 1y ago
I noticed this too. I scroll the page, and instead of focusing on the page, the navigation bar on the bottom is rapidly bending light through the refractions screaming "LOOK AT ME, WTF!". This is literally opposite day for UX at A
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by 3cats-in-a-coat 1y ago
So then why did I start looking for an Android phone to replace my iPhone after I saw this video?
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by 3cats-in-a-coat 1y ago
As if xAI publishes a lot. But even they have models that work.
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by 3cats-in-a-coat 1y ago
If I have to disable aspects of the UI so it's usable to me, an average person with no special needs, they f---ed up. I'll never get the experience they intended, I get some half-baked fallback. Is it still rendering garbage behin
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by 3cats-in-a-coat 1y ago
That's a bunch of philosophizing over an incorrect thesis. "Liquid Glass" is terribly underbaked, and fundamentally flawed. It's probably the worst I've seen from Apple UX design yet, in terms of well thought intera
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by 3cats-in-a-coat 1y ago
It's the worst UI design I've seen from Apple, ever. Makes everything harder to read, far more expensive on your battery. No benefits. WTF. That's the final nail in the coffin for me.
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by 3cats-in-a-coat 1y ago
There isn't one replacement for plastic. Hence also we can't expect every single replacement to address every single use of plastic. Transparent paper is fine.
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by 3cats-in-a-coat 1y ago
Saying "is not" implies the author has AGI. If they do, they wouldn't be posting this blog post but the AGI. If they don't, they speaking authoritatively and conclusively like that is just a cheap front for someone'
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by 3cats-in-a-coat 1y ago
Not sure what Trump does could be called red state policies. There are elements of them, but it's mostly an endless chaos machine and he tries to personally profit or enjoy himself with it. But mostly profit.
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by 3cats-in-a-coat 1y ago
"Handling errors gracefully" doesn't happen at the handler. It starts at the execution model and your architecture. If a component can "bomb" in an isolated way, then the client that invoked that component can handl
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by 3cats-in-a-coat 1y ago
If some authority unilaterally decides my roof is a highway, I'd say both.
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by 3cats-in-a-coat 1y ago
So who pays your medical bills when one of those falls on your head. FAA or the delivery company?
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by 3cats-in-a-coat 1y ago
Autocracy is one way to organize towards a goal, but since it's very narrow in its field of view, eventually it falls apart from the inside, because it can't balance the interests of the whole with the interests of its constituent

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