cosmotic (u/cosmotic)

cosmotic commented on WebView performance significantly slower than PWA issues.chromium.org/issue... · Posted by u/denysonique

joecool1029 · 3 days ago

To save you having to read a really long comment thread: https://engineering.fb.com/2022/09/30/android/launching-a-ne...

Basically, FB's engineering replaced it with a full chromium based webview and explained the reasons android webview sucks ass.

cosmotic · 3 days ago

My understanding of the system webview is that applications can share the resource instead of each using their own copy, reducing memory usage and improving multi-tasking. Facebook's solution seems to side step that benefit. I use the fb browser much less frequently than my normal browser, and id rather not use the fb browser at all. I imagine this is true for most users, so the security benefit seems overstated.

cosmotic commented on The lost art of XML marcosmagueta.com/blog/th... · Posted by u/Curiositry

shadowgovt · 18 days ago

XML was abandoned because we realized bandwidth costs money and while it was too late to do anything about how verbose HTML is, we didn't have to repeat the mistake with our data transfer protocols.

Even with zipped payloads, it's just way unnecessarily chatty without being more readable.

cosmotic · 18 days ago

The article addresses this.

cosmotic commented on Ask HN: Anyone have a good solution for modern Mac to legacy SCSI converters? · Posted by u/stmw

cosmotic · a month ago

Here's a solution to the opposite problem: https://bluescsi.com/

cosmotic commented on Health care data breach affects over 600k patients, Illinois agency says nprillinois.org/illinois/... · Posted by u/toomuchtodo

cosmotic · a month ago

I'm sure they "take security very seriously".

cosmotic commented on I wasted years of my life in crypto twitter.com/kenchangh/sta... · Posted by u/Anon84

cosmotic · 2 months ago

Considering the transaction time and cost, crypto never made sense. As fast as I can tell, it's been pure speculation since its inception.

cosmotic commented on PGlite – Embeddable Postgres pglite.dev/... · Posted by u/dsego

cosmotic · 2 months ago

Embeddable (into JS et al)

cosmotic commented on Apple’s head of user interface design, Alan Dye, will join Meta cnbc.com/2025/12/03/liqui... · Posted by u/Noaidi

frankhsu · 2 months ago

I've been working on UI/UX design since 2012, and have witnessed several major shifts in design styles.

I clearly remember the release of iOS7 (or maybe I'm mistaken) with its flat design in the summer of 2013. Users accustomed to the skeuomorphic style for years initially felt this change was terrible. However, within two months, people adapted to the change, and other companies' design teams were quickly following suit.

But this time is different. Even though Liquid Glass has been around for quite some time, looking at the screen on my Mac still makes me feeling unacceptable.

cosmotic · 2 months ago

The flat UI trend started at Microsoft and Windows 8.

cosmotic commented on Apple’s head of user interface design, Alan Dye, will join Meta cnbc.com/2025/12/03/liqui... · Posted by u/Noaidi

tlb · 2 months ago

The change to non-skeuomorphic style at least made it faster. Liquid Glass makes it simultaneously harder to read and slower.

cosmotic · 2 months ago

In what way was it faster?

cosmotic commented on Why I stopped using JSON for my APIs aloisdeniel.com/blog/bett... · Posted by u/barremian

chrismorgan · 2 months ago

https://aloisdeniel.com/blog/i-changed-my-mind-about-vector-... seems fairly clearly to be talking about icons of known sizes, in which case that advantage disappears. (I still feel the article is misguided and that the benefit of runtime-determined scaling should have been mentioned, and see no benchmarks supporting its performance theses, and I’d be surprised if the difference was anything but negligible; vector graphic pipelines are getting increasingly good, and the best ones do not work in the way described, and could in fact be more efficient than raster images at least for simpler icons like those shown.)

cosmotic · 2 months ago

Icons are no longer fixed sizes. They're are numerous dpi/scaling settings even if the "size" doesn't change.

cosmotic commented on FileZilla Pro "Perpetual License" – A Warning to All Users github.com/x011/FileZilla... · Posted by u/lobito25

cosmotic · 2 months ago

Sounds like all software from the 70s through 00's.

Did they ever claim they would hold a backup of the installer?

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