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New comment by plywoodShadow in "Samsung's Processing-in-Memory (PIM)"

plywoodShadow — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 10:22:29 +0000

What about energy consumption? Wouldn't active cooling be needed for RAM as well as for CPU and GPU?

New comment by plywoodShadow in "Doom crash after 2.5 years of real-world runtime confirmed on real hardware"

plywoodShadow — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 14:07:12 +0000

2160/12 is 180 weeks, or roughly 3.5 years, not 15 years

New comment by plywoodShadow in "DeaDBeeF: The Ultimate Music Player"

plywoodShadow — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 19:40:43 +0000

I don't need music player on my pc, because mpv can be used for playing music. It also supports zip archives, so albums from bandcamp can be played without unpacking

New comment by plywoodShadow in "UI redesigns are mostly a waste of time (2019)"

plywoodShadow — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 17:57:07 +0000

>A good UI, imho, is one that users can configure

It is better if UI works good out of the box. Of course, it is impossible to adapt to everyone's preferences, but configuration should be not too complicated, otherwise most users will not configure anything

New comment by plywoodShadow in "UI redesigns are mostly a waste of time (2019)"

plywoodShadow — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 17:31:11 +0000

Of course, websites that look like they are from 2000 make people think "what is wrong with this thing?". But it is not necessary to do redesign every year. Just make website mobile adapted and update it only when UI trends change significantly (every 5-10 years) and it will not look abandoned