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by wtallis 7mo ago
Are you actually trying to use any of those sites to get something done, or are you just looking at them and evaluating them as a piece of modern art? Because if you're actually trying to figure out which laptop to buy, Apple's
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by wtallis 7mo ago
> It's just a way to draw attention to text without solely relying on typeface modifiers. Adding animations to bring attention to the thing that the user's attention is already focused on is not useful. > The real designs br
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by wtallis 7mo ago
No, they went out of their way to design something they thought would impress in a demo to their management.
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by wtallis 7mo ago
It works for games because the fade-in of distant objects happens long before the object in question becomes the focus of the user's attention. It cannot work well for scrolling a web page because getting to the new content is the enti
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by wtallis 7mo ago
The motion of the scrolling already ensures that the new content is revealed gradually. There's no need for a fade-in animation on top of that. It's just punishing the user for scrolling too fast.
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by wtallis 7mo ago
Sites overriding scroll behavior to implement their own smooth scroll behavior with the wrong speed has been a thing for many years. It's a bit harder to notice if you're using a traditional mouse wheel, but is really easy to noti
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by wtallis 7mo ago
Animations need to to serve a purpose. Fading in is justifiable when you're adding new content on top of existing content, and need to draw attention to the fact that something changed in that part of the screen. None of that applies
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by wtallis 7mo ago
I'd be okay with locking these heavily-abused features behind a "web app mode" that the user has to enable on a per-site basis. It should include a restriction forcing all content to come from the same origin, so that the bro
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by wtallis 7mo ago
I want a reader mode that renders the page as if it were in an extremely tall window (ie. 10+ screens tall), then gives me a scrollable view of that static image of the rendered page. My browser should lie to the page on my behalf, and make
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by wtallis 7mo ago
Hijacking native scroll behavior to badly reimplement anything remotely like scrolling is wrong even in a gaming context. But if you're implementing Half Life 2 in a browser, where the user no longer has a normal cursor , then hijacki
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by wtallis 7mo ago
It's still incredibly insulting to waste the user's time trying to force them to read the page sequentially instead of being able to immediately scroll to the chunk of content they are actually trying to find. Especially if it is
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by wtallis 7mo ago
It only applies to toaster ovens that can connect to the Internet to download third-party apps.
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by wtallis 7mo ago
> I use a Thunderbolt dock because I understand how much data 4k screens push, and how a USB dock won’t cut it. To elaborate on this point: a USB-C dock that includes display connectivity needs to operate at least some of the high-speed
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by wtallis 7mo ago
> Meanwhile my Mac somehow guesses which side of the computer the monitor is on (even on new setups) almost always correctly. That last part I have no idea how they do it. I have no idea how macOS does it, but the obvious thing to try is
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by wtallis 7mo ago
As demoed, it's obviously very bad. But before giving up on it completely, I'd like to see a version that can remain faithful to the original color grading and tone mapping. Those changes affecting the overall look of the whole fr
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by wtallis 7mo ago
More fair to say it's completely unrelated to the Grace data center CPU.
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by wtallis 7mo ago
There's a very big difference between a workload where you have to take care to structure your IO to minimize writes so you don't burn out the drive, and a workload that is simply easy enough that you don't have to care abo
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by wtallis 7mo ago
The Optane side of the drive used the same x2 controller as the pure-Optane cache drives. The NAND side used a Silicon Motion controller, same as their consumer QLC drives of the era. They almost literally just crammed their two existing co
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by wtallis 7mo ago
> QLC is basically useless unless you use it as write-once-read-many memory The market thoroughly disagrees with your stupid exaggeration. QLC is a high-volume mainstream product. It's popular in low-end consumer SSDs, where the m
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by wtallis 7mo ago
It's somewhat plausible that a small group of people in one department were responsible for the bad bets that made their 10nm process a failure. But it was very much a group effort for Intel to escalate that problem into the prolonge
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by wtallis 7mo ago
> were those weird hybrid SSDs even implemented by actual hardware, or were they part of the giant series of massive kludges They were definitely part of the series of massive kludges. But aside from the Intel platforms they were markete
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by wtallis 7mo ago
> One potential application I briefly had hope for was really good power loss protection in front of a conventional Flash SSD. That was never going to work out. Adding an entirely new kind of memory to your storage stack was never goin
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by wtallis 7mo ago
> 3.5 in. format hard drives can't be shrunk any, You're looking at the entirely wrong kind of shrinking. Hard drives are still (gradually) improving storage density: the physical size of a byte on a platter does go down ove
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by wtallis 7mo ago
The consumer "Optane memory" products were a combination of NVMe and Intel's proprietary caching software, the latter of which was locked to Intel's platforms. They also did two generations of hybrid Optane+QLC drives
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by wtallis 7mo ago
Optane was in the market during a time when the mainstream trend in the SSD industry was all about sacrificing endurance to get higher capacity. It's been several years, and I'm not seeing a lot of regrets from folks who moved to
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by wtallis 7mo ago
Are you referring to the law that the California governor signed five months ago?
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by wtallis 7mo ago
That's a very long list of questions, most of which you wouldn't need to ask if you spent ten minutes reading the law. And the rhetorical point you seem to be working toward is much less effective when more than half of those ques
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by wtallis 7mo ago
Well, shit. Google Fiber has been the least-bad residential ISP I've dealt with. They put the fear of Competition in all the other ISPs in town, giving us an immediate free speed boost years before Google Fiber actually made it to ou
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by wtallis 7mo ago
Repairability and upgradability aren't quite the same concept.
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by wtallis 7mo ago
You're correct, GP's understanding of how wear leveling works is off by several layers. Counting the number of BGA packages tells you nothing . There are multiple NAND dies per package, multiple planes per die, many blocks per pl

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