A better example than Figma is Rive, made with Flutter.
Works well local-first, and syncs with the cloud as needed. Flutter space lends itself very well to making local-first apps that also play well in the cloud.
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Works well local-first, and syncs with the cloud as needed. Flutter space lends itself very well to making local-first apps that also play well in the cloud.
Kind of amazed (and confused) really... that the thing which finally gives it a challenge is a blog homepage.
I'm disappointed. I'd long looked up to Josh for good UI/UX, but like a lot of other UI/UX folks who are left alone to their devices go too deep in their tunnels and at some point lose touch from where the rest of us still stand.
And he replied, in earnest, that some of the papers are needlessly and deliberately complicated and obfuscated for a whole host of reasons (political reasons, career reasons etc).
This jargon-heavy circumlocutious academic speak you find often in papers, it's a gate-barrier... to keep out non-native English speakers, up-and-coming scholars? I don't know, but whatever the case, let's hope the outflow of papers written with LLM assistance takes a blow at the problem, when the corpus of literature is so diluted with all this that corporate-speak and jargon-heavy speak as a differentiator for in-group or whatever has a lesser incentive to exist.
Can’t even imagine that happening in this day and age. In fact big companies probably covet this demographic (subscribe and forget) and go to great lengths to secure them in their webs.
My absolute favorite is the curry as it’s made by Yayume sushi in San Ramon.
No, of course not. We should probably revisit copyright law, given that it was written at a time when no-one foresaw modern AI tools, its capabilities, and its effects on creators and societies.
I guess it's a good thing, wish I had it. Makes for persuasive and effective writing, that's for sure.
Not extremely sure why this happens (I reckon it has to do with my use of adguard), but anyway I noticed I would just... move on, there were not icons to entice me that I could immediately click. And then sure enough, I found myself less hungry for it in the coming weeks.
This all happened by accident but boy o' boy, it works. I'm wasting less time on YouTube.
I similarly stopped going to reddit (the comments don't load on mobile, things become unclickable... I imagine this is a change recently made live to force users to login to increase engagement... ironic that it works out backwards to what their intent was).
Reflecting more on this on a weary weekend morning, about how many are unable to shake off these addictions, I am increasingly convinced of the poisonous effects of these distractions and cannot help but think that dire action is needed to curb these addictions with gov't mandated regulations.
I think price increase of tobacco products (with tax costs embedded in the price) were a great deterrent (better than the warning signs on the tobacco), so I suspect deterrents need be incredibly strong. Finding that balance and perspective, of weighing personal freedoms and recognizing the realities of addictions is going to be very hard, but I hope for the good of us we go somewhere with this and recognize the dangers for what they are.
But yet the only thing that can save us from ML will be ML itself because it is ML that has the best chance to be able to extrapolate patterns from these blackbox models to develop human interpretable models. I hope we do dedicate explicit effort to this endeavor, and so continue the human advances and expanse of human knowledge in tandem with human ingenuity with computers at our assistance.
HN might be missing this part, but I'm pretty happy that product people are still at the helm at Apple. We're talking about cores and this and that, but if you go to, for example, forums for Redshift renderer and hear what users of _tools_ who do things with these cores are saying, they are salivating over the M3.
One of the sneakily genius things Apple seems to be doing is, it goes to developers of some of the most "popular" apps and works with them to make their apps work well. Behind the scenes it's working with Maxon, Autodesk, Adobe etc to make things run well, and the information it gathers from working with them informs direction of further R&D. Which is how we came to have hardware-based ray tracing and other things that will actually play a pivotal part in improving end user experience for power users.
When the board was asked for details by the team, they said they
couldn’t provide a specific example because Sam had been so
deft—as if he had cast a magic spell on them.
Either way, he is failing upward. With Andreessen Horowitz's blessings this time he's back to rent-seeking schemes, this time it'll be the small people who will experience his flare: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(real_estate_company)
I expect he'll do it all in the open view, but again the mass land buying-spree he's been on, it can't help but invite disdain for the guy and worry for those who will be in his eye-sight.
I think the hard lesson everyone must learn eventually is that they have to take control of/become deeply involved with their healthcare as much as possible, because dragons are everywhere. For the average person acute care is not needed when they're thinking of reaching out to the doctor, and they shouldn't because elevating level of intervention can quickly result in shit: got a headache or a hip injury? The doctors will give you a plethora of CT scans and you end up with cancer. Got pain? They'll give you opioids so you end up with crippling addiction.
It's true on a national level: https://www.wesh.com/article/us-health-care-worst-outcomes-h... and at a local level iatrogenesis is seen abound.
Indeed, of paramount importance for us is to learn how to take care of ourselves by going back to the basics (avoid processed diets, increase fibre-intake, etc, exercise (for the strength gains, for the endorphins and cardio/conditioning, for better bone density so that the body can whether through injuries better), cultivate your link to a positive community so it is there for you in your time of need). And download Epic and learn about healthcare/medicines and take charge as much as possible of your own fate. But when faced with a truly acute problem, see a specialist doctor and follow their commands.
There's a software called Epic which is used by virtually all large healthcare centers, and while most know it as a database system to store patient history and health records (problems and conditions they've been diagnosed for, lab work results, medicine they're currently taking or have taken in the past), it also has a little tab where a healthcare worker can put in some keywords, e.g. the symptoms a patient has, and Epic guidelines gives the health-provider an action plan for that patient, as well as guiding them with differential diagnoses for non-simple issues.
Of course for common ailments a nurse practitioner knows as much as a primary care physician anyway and their treatment plans wouldn't differ, but the thing is a physician basically effectively will also only follow one script that the healthcare/insurance system in-place allows for, that Epic will spit out also.
In the same way some of us see the task of building a CRUD app as something fairly unremarkable (owing to existing frameworks, existing 'best practices' etc), a physician's day-to-day work is really not challenging, and a "people-person" non-physician equipped with Epic software could arguably work to deliver equal or if not better healthcare outcomes.
But indulging in PR puff shouldn't be the reason for outright dismissal of the ammonia engine. One thing that's undeniable is that Toyota understands cars, and particularly what kind of cars we really want. It knew EV's short range would be a problem (hence the plug-in hybrids which I think are the real winners -- you can actually get by without ever going to the gas station if you're just commuting for work, but yet you can still go on long trips no problem... there you go, Toyota solved EVs).
Toyota has working prototypes of ammonia engines, they seem to work, they do not emit carbon-based emissions and are highly efficient. It's built a good product and it knows how to scale and I expect it will -- but it also needs a working infrastructure for ammonia supply and needs to do PR work to pave the way for that. Ammonia is a decidedly good and clean energy source compared to current generation of batteries that are made from relatively finite resources, source their electrical power from questionable places depending on where you are, and some small question marks still remain about the accumulation of battery waste as EVs gain popularity. I, for one, am excited to see ammonia-based technologies for energy store and fuel.
This video explains it nicely I think: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAh83khT1no
If you are starting out with good data (e.g. 32bit exr workflow), you would be amazed how powerfully and easily you can control what you want and what the possibilities are, with tools like MagicBullet (which offer presets to get you the cinema look with just a mouse click). But if you work long enough in this area you can discover your own workflow and pull it off without these tools, e.g. play with hue&sat, white balance adjustments, the curves, introducing an S-curve for example, color wheels, etc.
When looking particularly at the evolution of MS Office, I often land on the view that UI peaked around 2010 and promptly shot down in ruins with the advent of flat design. It's flat design which went away from gradient textures on buttons which for preceding years familiarized us with the impression of button states, importance information, and a handful of other subtle things.
The stated reason was simple and understandable, the designs had needed to remain sensibly consistent when switching from small form factors to large ones, when resizing (or rotating e.g. when a tablet goes from horiz. to vertical, etc. But I'm not satisfied with this defense: it seems lazy, the gradient textures could have been retained. It would have required a lot more work by Microsoft/Google UI designers, but they chose not to step up to the plate by just giving it all up to go the easy road. At least Apple has had the courage to not take the easy way out.
I think it is generally true that things get better and better values win when a community is left alone to their devices (pun unintended), what with the long arc of justice in the universe and all.
The very people in that very local community!
This is how this is supposed to work in a healthy and well-functioning society/community -- it moderates itself with internal deliberation about what the norms are and with reflection and awareness of how things are changing, with self-assigned community leaders and adults! The moment you outsource that important task outside the community is the moment you doom and cripple that community.
Because when it's some Kenyans far away doing the moderation then we here don't have an awareness of what's going on here and what the social climate is, how norms are changing, what the youth are up to. Forgoing this feedback loop which results in some measure of self-correction can't be good and that lag in cognizance will come to get us before it's too late to do much of the dangers lurking about.