wayneftw (u/wayneftw)

wayneftw commented on Google had a plan called “Project NERA” to turn the web into a walled garden twitter.com/fasterthanlim... · Posted by u/vord1080

vord1080 · 4 years ago

> Did you not realize that the repo contains a copy of every third party lib they use?

Except it doesn't. And even if it did, my point is valid. Those libraries are being used in Chromium, and thus need to be maintained for use in Chromium. You can't just let your dependencies rot :)

> It didn't go from 5 to 35 LoC in 5 years buddy

It...did? Do me a favor, write a JavaScript engine, layout engine, crossplatform audio library, crossplatform gfx stack, webgl implementation, webgpu implementation, and about 9000 other things and keep it under 5 million lines. You can't. The web has legitimately expanded in scope to the point where we're pushing double digits on total lines of code.

> Imagine also thinking that Brave will go through the trouble of leaving the webRequest API in place and then sit on their hands and not finish the other side of that equation.

Now we're speculating about something that hasn't actually happened yet. Where is Brave's equivalent to addons.mozilla.org? Am I supposed to hope they have a perfect plan to deal with the limitations of Manifest v3 and just haven't announced it yet? I'll believe it when I see it.

wayneftw · 4 years ago

> Except it doesn't.

Ummm, yes it does.

> Those libraries are being used in Chromium, and thus need to be maintained for use in Chromium.

And they certainly are... by the originators. The Chromium team maintains a few patches here and there, which is why they're in the repo to begin with friend.

> It...did?

No, I said it didn't. All of the things you listed are not originated by the Chromium team. Also, Google can't just take them away so anyone who wants to use them can. Nobody has to re-invent the entire wheel here.

> Now we're speculating.

We're using logic. Did you see the new Brave search engine? You think they can't build a store to host extensions? That's rich.

wayneftw commented on MacBook Pro 14 menu bar UX twitter.com/SnazzyQ/statu... · Posted by u/ushakov

CubsFan1060 · 4 years ago

This seems to be the most overly dramatic description of a bug that I have ever seen.

wayneftw · 4 years ago

I guess one man's overly dramatic is another man's laughter at the absurd. Or, perhaps you missed the "laughing so hard I'm crying" emoji?

Anyway - this is exactly what Apple wanted. They knew it would make people talk. They also knew that some faction of Apple worshipers would come along to downplay any and all issues with it.

Apple can do what they want and the zealots can think what they want, but we can enjoy laughing at them when they fall flat on their face too right?

wayneftw commented on Apple is ready to admit it was wrong about the future of laptops theverge.com/22734645/app... · Posted by u/anyonecancode

zellyn · 4 years ago

I don't understand the anger/disgust at the addition of new addressable pixels to the left and right of the camera. The remaining screen area has the same aspect ratio as before, the entire extra space is black during full screen video, etc.

Would you prefer a screen where the areas to the left and right of the camera were black plastic/glass instead of pixels?

wayneftw · 4 years ago

It's pretty simple - we've been using rectangular screens since forever. With rectangular screens there are no compromises within our software and there are no compromises in our field of vision.

Obviously, the notch stands out. It juts into the rectangle, making it no longer a rectangle. The OS now must make all sorts of compromises and implement extra functionality and options (like compatibility mode). And they aren't working perfectly [0] (LOL - And for what? A thinner fucking bezel? There's plenty of bezel beneath the dock - they should have shifted everything down.) The users must make compromises as the size of usable screen area actually changes depending on what mode the application is in. With the notch, if you use any apps that have a long list of menus your eyeballs must now be trained to skip over the notch as you scan the list of top menu items. The whole thing is a byzantine nightmare.

Most people get this immediately and they don't like it. In all the comments on all the articles and forums that I've read - the vast majority of people don't like the notch on this Macbook and they don't like it on the iPhone either. However, they do put up with it and learn to ignore it given that they have no choice if they want to stay in the Apple ecosystem that they're probably locked into anyway.

Lucky for me - I'm somewhat of a minimalist on my smartphone. I can still buy a new iPhone without the notch (AND with a home button which is way better for quickly switching apps) because I don't need the greatest camera. For my computers, I'm not locked into any one platform but a Mac would certainly be my last choice because of this kind of garbage.

[0] "Apple’s new MacBook Pro notch is misbehaving. Early adopters have discovered inconsistencies in how Apple handles the notch across macOS and in individual apps, resulting in unexpected behavior where status bar items can get hidden under the notch." - https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/27/22748371/apple-macbook-p...

wayneftw commented on 10% of households pay more than 80% of taxes on alcohol and cigarettes www2.nber.org/papers/w293... · Posted by u/elsewhen

skulk · 4 years ago

This is not a good argument against vice taxes because there is a clear distinction between activities that are demonstrably self-harming (smoking) and otherwise (using a vibrator). If you want to presuppose a fundamentalist regime, then go ahead, but then are vice taxes really the problem?

wayneftw · 4 years ago

Clearly "what's bad for you" is subjective given that there was a time when many would have said that masturbation causes self-harm.

The other issue is that sin taxes just don't work. They don't stop people from partaking at all. These taxes are just a money grab.

wayneftw commented on Apple M1 Pro and Max Surprises mondaynote.com/apple-m1-p... · Posted by u/evo_9

breakfastduck · 4 years ago

The 'bezel' (im assuming you're talking about the notch) does not impeed the screen real estate. The section where the menu bar is rendered and where the notch intrudes is actually extra screen size on top of the 16:10 screen.

People are complaining about getting extra screen real estate.

wayneftw · 4 years ago

People are complaining because screens have been fucking rectangular since forever! And this change forces klunky software compromises for no good reason.

If they made a triangle of extra screen area jut out on the right, you'd get extra screen space too. I bet people would still defend it not because "it's extra screen" but in reality because it came from Apple.

The fact that people are so willfully ignorant of that is amazing to me. The Apple-think bubble is stronger than I thought.

wayneftw commented on Microsoft .NET Devs Anonymously Responds to Microsoft .NET Leadership pastebin.com/RF6015kv... · Posted by u/ghuntley

n8cpdx · 4 years ago

I just had an old acquaintance on the Azure team try to get me to apply at Microsoft.

I told him I can’t, because all the teams at Microsoft I’d want to work (particularly Windows) are suffering from poor management with user- and human-hostile values. I can’t work at a company that goes out of its way to make the world worse for people through software.

I gave a long list of examples of user hostile work coming out of Windows, but suggested I thought maybe DevDiv was an exception. A lot of the bad things in the world of windows dev are a direct result of the DevDiv v Windows feud that’s been going on since SteveSi was leading.

Oops. I was wrong. It turns out apparently all of Microsoft is driven by leadership that wants to make the world a worse place for human beings. Ads, sneaky non-optional telemetry, ripping features out of OSS code, and then lying about all of the above are management choices driven by the top.

I remember when they used to try to recruit for user obsession. That was a long time ago. It’s a shame, because their business model, unlike some other companies, is not fundamentally dependent on screwing users. This is all a Choice in the most profound sense, and an unnecessary choice at that.

wayneftw · 4 years ago

> ...unlike some other companies...

Which ones?

wayneftw commented on Apple's M1 Pro, M1 Max SoCs Investigated anandtech.com/show/17024/... · Posted by u/defaultname

crateless · 4 years ago

Now that Apple has taken the lead in performance/battery life tradeoff, are there any machines which come close to the M1 for software dev? Specifically, compiling Rust, Android development etc. without giving up too much on battery life?

Also, the last time I checked, CPUs were reporting high performance but only under light load. Has the whole throttling situation changed or should I just expect to get 2 hours battery life in exchange for extreme CPU performance?

Edit: I should have specified machines that can run Linux.

wayneftw · 4 years ago

> ...any machines which come close to the M1 for software dev?

If you can stand using macOS, that is.

Personally, I'll continue using Linux because that's where all my software gets deployed to and macOS simply can't approach the value of that or the value of open source. On a Mac, you'll be fighting the OS the whole time.

If speed was all that mattered, Mac users would have left Apple a long time ago because this is the first time they're faster than a PC.

wayneftw commented on 14-inch MacBook Pro review: A Mac Pro in your backpack sixcolors.com/post/2021/1... · Posted by u/jdminhbg

deergomoo · 4 years ago

> But then I saw all these comments about how it was horrible and a deal breaker [...] I thought either everyone had lost their collective mind, or I was missing something

I think people dialled the outrage back again when they realised the area below the notch is a full 16:10 display—i.e. they added display where bezel used to be, rather than cutting into the display area.

wayneftw · 4 years ago

It limits how many menus your apps can have or makes them draw around it. If you enable compatibility mode you'll be back to an even fatter bezel which looks like dog shit.

Rationalize that away.

wayneftw commented on 14-inch MacBook Pro review: A Mac Pro in your backpack sixcolors.com/post/2021/1... · Posted by u/jdminhbg

reilly3000 · 4 years ago

Much has already been said about this, but this achievement of shipping a MBP that pro users seem to love is a triumph of user feedback over design purity. I suspect that Jony Ives’ departure may have facilitated this. I suspect it will be a breakout success and I aspire to contribute to their sales figures some day. Of all of Apple’s revenue streams I know their pro products are now merely an afterthought, but they remain an important part of the brand’s ethos and I’m delighted to see them shipping a truly superior product again.

wayneftw · 4 years ago

It's just a laptop in the same old rectangular shape, in the same old colors that is actually just catching up and there's nothing at all special about this one… Try to catch some breath.

Nobody anywhere likes the notch either. Triumph? No.