My favorite essay on this topic, not yet referenced, is James Somers's "Speed matters:"
https://jsomers.net/blog/speed-matters
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mbforbes commented on Show HN: CSS generator for a high-def glass effect glass3d.dev/... · Posted by u/kris-kay
Really nicely done! It's always surprising to me how often computer graphics isn't "one weird trick" and more like "5 layered tricks." Doing it with cross-browser compat is an additional challenge.
Do you have a sense of which aspects are the most resource-intensive? Naively I would guess it's the backdrop-filter.
There are other posts in the series of the author. He was the co-author of BERT! Yet his paper was scoffed at as "just engineering". He knows what he is talking about.
Omg, I was not a BERT coauthor! But thank you so much for writing this, I had no idea that other post could have accidentally implied this. I will revise that section.
> Could you imagine someone saying, "be sure that the graphic for the molecule in figure 1 is 3D and has bright colors?"
Chemists are extremely brand-aware regarding their figures.
In synthetic chemistry many chemists could guess the author based just on the color scheme of the paper's figures.
For instance, look at the consistency here: https://macmillan.princeton.edu/publications/
And it comes with rewards! The above lab is synonymous with several popular techniques (one, organocatalysis, which garnered a Nobel prize) - the association would be much less strong if the lab hadn't kept a consistent brand over so many years.
Oh my, those figures are gorgeous! Thank you for sharing.
mbforbes commented on Journey to Optimize Cloudflare D1 Database Queries gist.github.com/rxliuli/b... · Posted by u/rxliuli
I evaluated D1 for a project a few months ago, and found that global performance was pretty terrible. I don't know what exactly the issue with their architecture is, but if you look at the time-to-first-byte numbers here[1], you can see that even for the D1 demo database the numbers outside Europe are abysmal, and even within Europe having a TTFB of > 200ms isn't great.
This post helps understand some basic DB pitfalls for frontend developers, but I wouldn't use D1 regardless. If you can figure out how to use D1 as a frontend dev, you can use a hosted Postgres solution and get much more power and performance.
[1] https://speedvitals.com/ttfb-test?url=https://northwind.d1sq...
Same. North America performance (US and Mexico) had ~200ms+ latency per query, spiking to 500ms or higher in the test application I made using workers and D1. Their support channel was a discord, so I posted in it and never got a reply.
I was surprised because Cloudflare’s central messaging is that their network is fast, and disappointed becuase I’m a happy user of their other products (domains, DNS, pages, and R2).
mbforbes commented on Show HN: Demo of my web game about social persuasion talktomehuman.com/demo... · Posted by u/mbforbes
The timer is what gets me anxious.
I've never felt quite like that playing a video game, this is a whole new experience. I'm not sure I'd even call it a game. Well done.
In case you're interested: there's an option in the settings to give yourself more time.
I've also wondered about disabling the timer entirely. Have you ever had the experience in real life of being hyper-aware of your own "reply timer" during a conversation?
mbforbes commented on Show HN: Demo of my web game about social persuasion talktomehuman.com/demo... · Posted by u/mbforbes
First impressions:
- Having to wait until the “say” segment starts in order for one’s speech to be recognized makes things unnatural. I can’t speak when I would intuitively speak.
- Yang Lee (sp?) was immediately unlikable to me, so I stopped playing soon after.
Thank you for the feedback!
Getting to speak any time is super interesting feedback, you're the first one to suggest that. It would be really cool if you could even interrupt them! Super mind-bending for me to think of how I'd handle that with prompting and scoring. Thank you for this!!
Yang Li is divisive. You are not alone :-) If it helps, she disappears for quite a while after the intro.