cosmotic

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811.
by cosmotic 6y ago
The screen shake looked pretty legit.
812.
by cosmotic 6y ago
The point of an OS is to run apps. Given a headless machine, which windows apps would you be interested in running and why would you chose windows over linux? About the only reason in the past has been IIS and MS SQL Server. With .NET core
813.
by cosmotic 6y ago
It's almost as if, without a human using it, the GUI is no longer a primary design goal.
814.
by cosmotic 6y ago
In the past 30 years, this has happened three times, so it's more like a once-in-10 years event. This just so happens to be the worst of the three
815.
by cosmotic 6y ago
That might make sense for you personally but if you consider all the other Texan households also buying generators, and the multi-family dwellings that can't each have a generator, the math starts to look different.
816.
by cosmotic 6y ago
They are both used to add client-side interactivity. I agree vanilla JS is often a capable alternative. jQuery offers a lot of convenience though.
817.
by cosmotic 6y ago
The scale on the map appears to have a filter maximum of $150 so I would guess it's 6 times their expected maximum, so very very expensive. Here's another region to compare to: https://www.pjm.com/library/maps
818.
by cosmotic 6y ago
I still use jquery actively. Without substantial work and complexity, a typical react site's initial page load still requires an enormous javascript chunk for anything to show on the screen. When I notice a site I'm using is slow,
819.
by cosmotic 6y ago
All these product shots look fake and I don't see any specifications, just vague claims. I'm curious in what way it seems superior.
820.
by cosmotic 6y ago
The 7 transactions per second limit would suggest it is not a suitable replacement. Considering the energy cost and environmental consequences this article references, we'd need the ice anyway. Edit: this (older?) article says 4.6 tran
821.
by cosmotic 6y ago
They may have good hardware decode for web content, but whatever the circumstances, it's not kicking in for video conference. Maybe the use of low-latency codecs, multiple streams to decode, or other effects/compositing/analy
822.
by cosmotic 6y ago
Oh my, that stock art: White-on-black code printout being written on with a black pen.
823.
by cosmotic 6y ago
Software support for the hardware encoding/deciding is very not good. Webcam streams mpeg to electron, electron probably decodes in software, reencodes in sofware, then decodes incoming stream(s) in software. If there's any client
824.
by cosmotic 6y ago
Most of those hands belonged to non-engineers which makes Jeff's comment pretty insensitive.
825.
by cosmotic 6y ago
Given their product grave yard, why would google being on your resume be a good indicator of success for vc investors?
826.
by cosmotic 6y ago
I think most people still covet google. However, given the hiring process, notorious interviews, propensity of product failures, declining core product quality, and periodic ethical issues, I feel like maybe it's undeserved.
827.
by cosmotic 6y ago
State machine via dialogs sounds like a UX anti-pattern.
828.
by cosmotic 6y ago
Someone has to build the native electron wrapper
829.
by cosmotic 6y ago
Side stepping all the union talk, this site is ugly and inaccessible. The contrast ratios are awful; white text sitting on top of full screen, lightly colored videos? This was made in haste by some amateurs. Or maybe it's trying to be
830.
by cosmotic 6y ago
This post vaguely mentions risk 4 times, but doesn't once explain which risks. Which risks would this mitigate?
831.
by cosmotic 6y ago
The analogy to playing chess is very thoughtful. Apple's software team has been thinking reactively since the advent of iOS. It's too bad.
832.
by cosmotic 6y ago
I use a handful of Windows machines regularly and don't experience most of these problems. Your disk space issue may be related to automated backups, system restore service, and LAN caching of Windows updates. You can disable these. Di
833.
by cosmotic 6y ago
In addition to use exploitation, there's a lot of shallow visual-appeal hooks but no interest in making things useful or better for accomplishing tasks/goals.
834.
by cosmotic 6y ago
More so than user needs are user expectations, which are often just following trends set by larger software companies with much larger budgets. And just like other trends, they rapidly change and are fleeting.
835.
by cosmotic 6y ago
If journals retract, they lose reputation. Thus they have incentives to ignore the problems, which explains the authors results.
836.
by cosmotic 6y ago
Although it's nice of you to help out, one should not have to go to the length of reporting a problem on hackernews to get google to respond.
837.
by cosmotic 6y ago
At some point one has to see the trend of all these people hanging themselves with this one platform and maybe there's something to the platform, ecosystem, or community that is lending itself to the hangings.
838.
by cosmotic 6y ago
You suggest a 'modern' JS frontend... Microservices were a 'modern' architecture a few years ago. Whichever reasons lie behind choosing a modern JS frontend would similarly support (or not support) the microservice backe
839.
by cosmotic 6y ago
Every time I see a headline new feature "dark mode", I think if this exact feature in Windows 3.1, along with all the studies that show dark mode is actually worse for all the things people claim it's better for (except maybe
840.
by cosmotic 6y ago
All the popular SPAs I use have awful latency. It may have been a design goal, but huge failures all around.

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