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New comment by YmiYugy in "Is anybody else bored of talking about AI?"

YmiYugy — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 20:52:45 +0000

I'm bloody sick of it, but more exhausted than bored. My workflow that was pretty stable for years, keeps changing massively on an almost monthly basis and that means I'm already skipping the fads of the week. What's more annoying is that it feels actually worth it and thus keeps me churning.

New comment by YmiYugy in "Widevine retiring its Cloud License Service (CLS)"

YmiYugy — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 20:22:08 +0000

The vast majority of DRM protected content (or at least majority by watch time) available in UHD via torrent in a matter of hours. People like to stay away from torrents, because it carries significant risk in many jurisdictions. But the only reason UHD versions are only available via torrent and often not as streams or downloads is bandwidth cost. I can't see how it has any thing todo with DRM. The only thing it maybe cut's down is sharing within friend groups. But even then it only takes one to figure out how to set up a VPN for torrenting.

New comment by YmiYugy in "Claude is an Electron App because we've lost native"

YmiYugy — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 10:11:25 +0000

yes it would, but depending on the app it could put you in a ton of hurt. - AI has gotten a lot better on less popular tech, but there is still a big capability gap between native frameworks an the blessed react + tailwind stack. - You will get something that is likely in the right shape but littered with a million subtle bugs and fixing them without having intimate knowledge of the plat form is really hard.

New comment by YmiYugy in "Claude is an Electron App because we've lost native"

YmiYugy — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 02:04:02 +0000

This might be a "the grass is greener on the other side" situation because I do a lot more web than native dev, but in my experience native while just as quirky as web will usually give you low level APIs to work around design flaws. On web it too often feels like you can either accept a slightly janky result or throw everything away and use canvas or webgl. Here are some recent examples I stumbled across: - try putting a semi transparent element on part of an image with rounded corners and you will observe unfixable anti-alias issues in those corners - try animating together an input with the on screen keyboard - try doing a JS driven animation in a real app (never the main thread feels hopeless and houdini animation worklets never materialized)

I don't think it's that native has nothing to offer. I think that developing (in case of desktop) for 3 different platforms all with own complication of what is native UI is a nightmare. macos has swiftui (incomplete), uikit and appkit, linux in practice gtk/qt, windows winui 3 (fundamentally broken) with WPF and WinForms still hanging around .

New comment by YmiYugy in "Don't use passkeys for encrypting user data"

YmiYugy — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 11:44:03 +0000

How is it not 2FA? It's MacBook + Fingerprint.

New comment by YmiYugy in "Swift is a more convenient Rust (2023)"

YmiYugy — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 23:22:11 +0000

I don't think that is true. Testing with rust 1.92

enum Tree { Lead(T), Branch(Vec>), }

works just fine, no superfluous Box needed.

New comment by YmiYugy in "Your app subscription is now my weekend project"

YmiYugy — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 11:53:47 +0000

I can see it going both ways. If knowledge work continues to roughly look the way it looks then I think maintenance is going to be an issue. Both in terms of keeping the spaghetti together but also in terms of all the bad design decisions you get from everyone bolting on their ideas. If however knowledge work becomes just talking to LLMs and occasionally interacting with an on the fly generated UI then maintenance becomes a non issue

New comment by YmiYugy in "Apple is fighting for TSMC capacity as Nvidia takes center stage"

YmiYugy — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 13:06:31 +0000

ASML doesn't quite do overnight orders for lithography machines. There is limited construction capacity to build new data centers. Expanding power generation and grid capacity is also a whole can of worms. My point is just that tech CEOs keep saying "build more fabs" and TSMC saying "we worry about long term demand" and the CEOs replying along the lines of "AI is so big you couldn't possibly have too much capacity" rather than going "here is a contract to guarantee we'll buy your capacity".

New comment by YmiYugy in "Apple is fighting for TSMC capacity as Nvidia takes center stage"

YmiYugy — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 12:51:40 +0000

I think if Microsoft or Google or Nvidia or Amazon went to TSMC and said hey we guarantee to buy 3 fabs worth of chips from you for the next 10 years, they'd probably find a way to make that work.

New comment by YmiYugy in "Apple is fighting for TSMC capacity as Nvidia takes center stage"

YmiYugy — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 15:42:52 +0000

It seems a bit odd that data center operators aren’t willing to put their money where their mouth is. Data center operators say: expand more quickly. TSMC says: we need long term demand to justify that. And all the data center guys say is: don’t worry that won’t be an issue, trust us. I would think that if they were serious they would commit to cofinancing new foundries or signing long term minimum purchasing agreements.

New comment by YmiYugy in "Chromium Has Merged JpegXL"

YmiYugy — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 18:04:05 +0000

With Chrome being by far the most popular browser, it gaining support is almost a precondition for jxl gaining traction on the web. Few would bother converting their images for Safari (and when it becomes enabled without a flag Firefox). So this is good news even for people who don't use Chromium.

New comment by YmiYugy in "Iran Protest Map"

YmiYugy — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 00:17:30 +0000

1. There isn't really a credible opposition figure for people to rally around. 2. It's a pretty young country. Most have never lived under the Shah.

New comment by YmiYugy in "Stranger Things creator says turn off “garbage” settings"

YmiYugy — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 11:39:26 +0000

The Mid-Atlantic accent has fallen out of favor since at least the latter part of the 50s. The issue with hard to understand dialog is a much more recent phenomenon.

New comment by YmiYugy in "Stranger Things creator says turn off “garbage” settings"

YmiYugy — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 11:35:28 +0000

I’m not turning off motion smoothing. I don’t like the ghosting it can introduce but I hate the stutter artifacts from fast motion at 24fps with a passion. I get that people who grew up on 24fps movies and 60fps soap operas have a negative association with HFR, but I didn’t and I dread the flickery edges you make me see. (yes, even with frame rate matching)

New comment by YmiYugy in "Fifty problems with standard web APIs in 2025"

YmiYugy — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 01:02:18 +0000

I think it's fair to say that Safari is no longer late. That comes with 3 caveats.

1. Safari isn't updated independently of the OS, so users who don't update or whose iPhones don't get updates anymore will be forever stuck on old Safari versions.

2. Being timely on new features does little to alleviate the pain that comes from all the old messiness.

3. Different priorities driven by economic incentives of protecting their 30% cut. Fair enough. But shutting out alternative web engines on iOS is definitely a dick move.

New comment by YmiYugy in "Fifty problems with standard web APIs in 2025"

YmiYugy — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 00:53:15 +0000

I have to support iOS 16. In terms of browser specific bugs that I have to deal with I'd say about 80-90% of what I encounter is Safari specific. Of that another 80% only affects iOS and of that like 2/3 are fixed in more current versions.

New comment by YmiYugy in "'Ghost jobs' are on the rise – and so are calls to ban them"

YmiYugy — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 08:32:34 +0000

This seems analogous to the following. A company asks users to fill out an online survey in exchange for participation in some raffle, except the company never pays out any prize. As with the job application there was never a guaranteed reward, but it's still easy to see the damage. The company induced to you to provide them with an economically valuable asset (filled out survey/application) for which you expected a fair chance at a reward. It seems plausible that you could claim damages at least up to the expected value.

New comment by YmiYugy in "Horses: AI progress is steady. Human equivalence is sudden"

YmiYugy — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 07:56:47 +0000

To stay within the engine analogy. We have engines that are more powerful than horses, but

1. we aren’t good at building cars yet,

2. they break down so often that using horses often still ends up faster,

3. we have dirt tracks and feed stations for horses but have few paved roads and are not producing enough gasoline.

New comment by YmiYugy in "Stacked Diffs with git rebase —onto"

YmiYugy — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 13:42:36 +0000

It breaks if you amend the top commit instead of adding a new one.

New comment by YmiYugy in "Stacked Diffs with git rebase —onto"

YmiYugy — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 13:39:43 +0000

For me the answer is lazygit. I rarely use the git cli. I don't want to learn the jj cli and the TUI wrappers for jj seem less polished.