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bufioon 200 Milliseconds

200 ms is very slow.

bufioon Count Binface

Reddit Moment

bufioon Grandparents are glued to their phones [video]

Scroll all day, and that's just normal. Shoot heroin all day, and everyone loses their minds.

bufioon We Will Not Be Divided

Hacker news?

bufioon Xfwl4 – The Roadmap for a Xfce Wayland Compositor

Then the future is full of high latency.

bufioon UK House of Lords attempting to ban use of VPNs by anyone under 16

You're loving this.

bufioon How can England possibly be running out of water?

Lots of Uber Eats drivers.

bufioon Where's Firefox going next?

Telemetry Brain and "Most average users don't..." may explain why Firefox has been getting consistently worse for a long time.

bufioon How each pillar of the First Amendment is under attack

Perhaps being in favour of free expression is finally about to stop being unfashionable and offensive.

bufioon GoLic, injects license into source code files

It's a superstitious practice.

bufioon UK's Housing Crisis Needs a London-Sized City to Fix It

I think it's weird to want to avoid any mention of immigration when discussing housing supply and demand.

bufioon UK's Housing Crisis Needs a London-Sized City to Fix It

Rapidly increasing the population in this situation is probably not the smartest policy.

bufioon Yes, social media is a cause of the epidemic of teenage mental illness

Just shut down Meta and something like 75% of the problem goes away. One neat trick, etc.

bufioon Florida's DeSantis signs law restricting social media for people under 16

Policy should not be informed by TikTok memes about brain development.

bufioon My favourite animation trick: exponential smoothing (2023)

The instantaneous one is best.

bufioon Go(lang): Robust generic functions on slices

Don't you understand how slices work?

bufioon The Link Between Birth Control Pills and Sex Drive

Has broscience gone too far?

bufioon Train robbery for Amazon packages? More common than you think

I think people are more concerned about the brazen displays of antisocial behaviour.

bufioon Why is everything so ugly?

Do you really prefer hospital lighting over yellow lighting?

bufioon Antidepressant use is surging in Britain

"Chemical imbalance" is not common parlance in psychiatry.

bufioon Antidepressant use is surging in Britain

Shit Life Syndrome is on the increase. It seems that a lot of people feel that they and their loved ones are quickly running out of track.

bufioon "Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster."

Lost sales due to intolerable slowness definitely occur.

bufioon Modeless Vim

The best part of using vim is telling everyone you use vim.

bufioon A math professor who objects to diversity statements

Compelled statements and a ton of performative bullshit aren't going to do anything about unjust laws in the 1800s, mind you.

bufioon Post Office lied and threatened BBC over Fujitsu dev whistleblower

It's an election year.

bufioon Show HN: GodotOS – Fake operating system interface made in the Godot engine

You're probably used to high latency.

bufioon Show HN: GodotOS – Fake operating system interface made in the Godot engine

I have never encountered an Electron app that can even display the results of keystrokes in a timely manner, and that includes vscode. All Electron apps waste system resources to an obscene degree. Also, Electron apps have already thrown away OS conventions to the point that user interface consistency has become a thing of the past.

I don't believe that either choice is ideal, but if Godot were ubiquitous instead of Electron, applications would probably at least be less laggy and more memory-efficient.

bufioon The teen mental illness epidemic is international (2023)

I think people would feel more capable of facing the grim future if they weren't so isolated these days.

bufioon The teen mental illness epidemic is international (2023)

Adults don't seem to know any better. It's going to take more than age restrictions to halt -- let alone reverse -- the damage.

bufioon Where Have All the Websites Gone?

Smartphones ruined the web and are ruining life in general.