The5thElephant

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by The5thElephant 1y ago
Figma on desktop is an Electron app I believe. Figma chose to build a custom webGL rendering engine for their design canvas, so the core issue is that technical decision early on (probably allowed for some better performance and multiplayer
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by The5thElephant 1y ago
Exactly this. Thank you. We need a Blender-like design tool specifically for product design. Using HTML/CSS for rendering so it covers most web needs and that usually more than encompasses native app-layout emulation. Open source, tech
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by The5thElephant 1y ago
Because I can do way more meaningful design exploration and iteration if I am not constantly running into a tool's limitations. I work at a fast paced startup where my prototyping rapidly iterates into production and the vast majority
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by The5thElephant 1y ago
Sketch has the same issue with handoff. Sketch does not use CSS for rendering either.
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by The5thElephant 1y ago
What about variables that don't use pixel units? Often values appear as hardcoded in dev-mode when they are actually meant to be a % unit or something else Figma doesn't support because Figma doesn't actually use CSS for rend
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by The5thElephant 1y ago
I actually have the opposite problem with Figma. It is way too basic and simple, targeting every kind of design and the average designer skill level. I work in complex SAAS product design. Basic things I can do in CSS I can't do in Fig
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by The5thElephant 1y ago
PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction) would not have been possible without a completely unrelated discovery of a heat-resistant bacteria by a federally funded scientist years earlier. Is it possible that eventually a privately funded effort may h
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by The5thElephant 1y ago
Peter Watts is fantastic. Very different tone from a lot of other scifi, with some very clever and dark ideas.
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by The5thElephant 1y ago
Not doing basic research, and your research is entirely driven by short-term profit motives rather than long term benefit of humanity.
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by The5thElephant 1y ago
Funny enough I also got diagnosed with gout once in my 20s. I have always had somewhat bad toes/bunions (probably partially genetic, and partially wearing only tight soccer shoes as a kid) and I went to a wedding wearing some new leath
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by The5thElephant 1y ago
Why have I heard so many stories of doctors not wanting to diagnose something as Lyme disease?
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by The5thElephant 1y ago
Honestly main reason is the UI and speed. Cursor has consistently felt faster and easier to use with better inline auto-complete and faster large edits in chat than VSCode ever did. The way suggestions and chat is shown is just a bit easier
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by The5thElephant 1y ago
Looking at the performance it's quite clearly much faster than equivalent effects done in traditional web browser rendering or in design tools.
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by The5thElephant 2y ago
It's not so simple. Background panning on modern TVs can look very juttery/flickery with motion-smoothing completely off. OLEDs can turn on and off very quickly, and 24 frames a second really isn't that many, so you end up se
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by The5thElephant 2y ago
He is a serial liar, but we can also actually see the engineering progress which is remarkable regardless of his overinflated timelines. His lying doesn't change the incredible work by those engineers and other employees of SpaceX.
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by The5thElephant 2y ago
I'm guessing it will get nowhere close to as well considered, written, and structured as what Bartosz makes himself. I don't know how people don't see how poor quality so much AI writing is, even when referencing good quality
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by The5thElephant 2y ago
Isn't that what they are claiming is true now? That the errors do decrease exponentially with each qubit added?
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by The5thElephant 2y ago
Or maybe you just have some aphantasia? My visual imagination absolutely can have a time dimension just like my audio imagination. I can remember sequences of film from movies I have seen many times with high level of detail, and then if I
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by The5thElephant 2y ago
This is where the confusion stems from. I can have very vivid mental imagery, I can imagine all sorts of fantastical things in detail in my mind on command. But that doesn't mean I don't see black when I close my eyes. It doesn&#x
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by The5thElephant 2y ago
The nuclear explosion analogy is a bit off since for anything living in the simulation the nuclear explosion would be quite real. The explosion isn't real for us in the physical world because it cannot interact with us, but a simulated
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by The5thElephant 2y ago
> It's an idea that comes out of sci-fi. It's been used as a plot device in some episodes of Star Trek. But it's just that, science fiction. I'm not talking about hand-wavy sci-fi or spiritual "the universe is a
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by The5thElephant 2y ago
I'm struggling to understand this argument. Our brain is just hardware. Even if there is a quantum effect we haven't discovered that is necessary for it, that effect is still running on regular old atoms and molecules. There is no
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by The5thElephant 2y ago
Scratch them with your liver.
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by The5thElephant 2y ago
What is it with Google Maps refusing to show me the street name I'm zooming in on? It feels like they make it especially sparse on streets your route line uses!
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by The5thElephant 2y ago
All of what I am saying is anecdotal observation of trends and behaviors, nothing objective or measurable, just like what you have been saying. I also have been in the industry since the era of table layouts and slices. I bundle UI/UX
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by The5thElephant 2y ago
So many comments here are just anecdotal experiences pretending to be absolute statements. Web design used to be filled with ridiculously detailed and "over" designed websites that rarely were hyper-focused on clarity or efficienc
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by The5thElephant 2y ago
Punishing major corporations at scale might help prevent the next multi-generational fuckup, and help pay for the energy and changes moving forward. I'm not really sure what it is you are trying to defend here? I understand arguing tha
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by The5thElephant 2y ago
How do you think you come around to having cost-effective alternatives? You need people actively working on them, and for that you need an incentive.
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by The5thElephant 2y ago
I'm sorry but this is just not a reasonable thing to be worried about. Drones are going to be more prevalent across numerous industries and professions, planes and helicopters fly over your head all the time already, and most people ar
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by The5thElephant 2y ago
> Another way of saying this is that unacceptable tyranny will roll in on a tread of acceptable compromises. That's a very black and white way of looking at things. We have vastly more surveillance today by businesses, governments,

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