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I tried it for a couple of hours this morning and yeah, it's a bit slow, and I needed it in peak hours so it also often can't reach the server so that makes it even slower. And I'm not even sure it's just the model, it could very much be the harness. Stalled for 40 minutes on trivial tool calls like `find`, two times...
It shows potential, answer/code quality was solid, but I would need more time with it.
I don't think you meant you merely wanted the performative sound of "I take full responsibility for this situation" to come out of his mouth. Without actions, the words mean nothing.
100% agree, and that's precisely the critique towards Mark as those words presumably came out of his mouth.
So, what would be the actions you were looking for here?
Claw back his executive compensation, forfeit bonuses for the fiscal year and use that to fund better severance / transition support? There's smarter people than me who can answer this, I am merely pointing out and ridiculing this fake accountability and moral theater.
The missing bit is where you say "I take full responsibility for this situation", to the cleaners who's lives are impacted by this significantly more than yours.
Would you fire yourself from the house?
You keep pushing this false framing/binary for some reason. You made a bad call, you lost the money, that's a given (a passive if you will). Where's the active "taking responsibility" part? That's the main critique.
No one is surprised, but why shouldn't it be called out and ridiculed as fake accountability and moral theater.
Are you implying the 10% being fired are all bad workers? What if the house cleaner was not the problem here?
I always thought these were the perfect jobs for psychopaths, putting that lack of empathy/stress to some good use e.g. in similar police work.
You've mentioned in the docs that:
Gemini leverages native video understanding for direct analysis, while Local models reconstruct understanding from individual frame descriptions - resulting in dramatically different processing complexity.
For people like me who haven't dabbled much with AI video processing and have no intuition for it, could you clarify the drawbacks of such a local-only approach vs what Gemini offers? I don't mean the performance or power/battery impact (that part is clear), just in terms of end-result and quality what the practical differences are.
I'm in the only-100%-offline camp here but would like to know what I'm missing out on since I won't even try Gemini here.
In fact, governments often use the EU to park politicians who’ve lost their shine at home
For whatever it's worth, as an European, I will emphasize this as one of the most frustrating facts and the largest barrier to me having any serious form of respect for the EU. I have no doubt there's honest and good people there, but in my country it's well known that fuckups just get to "retire" and get out of the spotlight by shifting to EU positions. Not only does this devalue the EU, but also the original country itself, since politicians have less fear of career-ending consequences. It's a lose-lose situation for the collective.
I can only hope that experiences in my country do not reflect Europe as a whole.
And yet, I cannot stop myself of thinking about that native architecture decision whenever my beefed up Mac Studio takes a minute to load a mediocre-sized Figma project and struggles to keep up as I try to navigate it, just so that I can leave a couple of comments somewhere.
I will say that some outsourcing phases/efforts would definitely not be possible with Sketch though. It's one thing when we as a company all have company-provided Macs, but another when remote hiring/collaborating.
Yup, I'll confirm this 100%. I do not like Figma and have 0 trust and optimism about it; I use it because I have to and will ditch it at the first corner, probably for Penpot. When you have trivial-to-fix bug reports with hundreds of comments and votes collecting dust for 3-4 years, you lose all respect from your userbase.
My hope is that at least with Penpot I can submit a PR if I am motivated enough. With Figma, I've done all I can.
I've used Sketch since its early days and then after (who knows how many) years, reluctantly and angrily moved from Sketch to Figma. Sketch was the pioneer and Figma took a very long time to catch up with what I've considered important features, and of course Figma had the advantage of being cross-platform but that was a non-issue for me as Sketch introduced web-based previews for clients.
The reason why I ditched Sketch (even though I loved it) was because Sketch had quality control issues over time and they started messing with my work, even losing some of it (cloud saves). The frustration grew over a longer period of time until I lost all hope and just had to admit that it was a lost cause. I peeked at Sketch's changelogs for a year and saw only bugfixes and no features. I assumed it was dead; either way the chapter was closed, the entire company shifted to Figma.
P.S. which is not to say that Figma is in a good state now, or that I don't feel history repeating itself.
As another European, I second this. I avoid Trump "news" like a plague. This was 50% Trump; 8 out of 10 was US.
And the worst part is that it opens a pandora's box of potential exploits; https://elenacross7.medium.com/%EF%B8%8F-the-s-in-mcp-stands...
I was super happy learning about design tokens a couple of years back, and eager to use them, but since then my enthusiasm fell as it seemed to "never get there". Figma implemented something which is okay-ish, but completely useless for our needs, while Penpot announced their collab efforts and then radio silence for roughly 2 years now.
I could be out of the loop a bit, but I see that this spec is also still a draft. As somone who'd love to evangelize and implement design tokens internally, when do you see this stepping into the spotlight in a meaningful way? Is there a roadmap of some kind that's available to the public?
Just in case you're unaware of it and wish to read similar content, there's a term/thing floating around for some time now, called "Developer Experience" (often abbreviated as "DX") that seems to cover this, and more.
English language only, or language independent?
They've recently been bought by Canva, in case that's relevant to you.
It feels at least some of it has to be survivorship bias. Although I do believe there’s tons of cheap, low quality products now more than ever.
It's very difficult to generalize but I'll chime in with my experience as both.
If I'm working on a backend system and have a (frontend) framework in place, I might easily skip Figma IF I have enough confidence that the approach/pattern/solution is the right one. If not, or if the particular UI is quite challenging, I would usually sketch things out in Figma until I can resolve the most important questions/design challenges. I would not bother making a high-fidelity design in this case.
If I'm working on a highly visual/presentational project, then Figma is my go-to, since code would be super slow and limiting if I want to explore various approaches and ideas. Especially I wanted to be a bit more creative with the presentation. However, I would probably design less than usually needed. Also, when coding this design, I would *not* consider my own Figma project to be a pixel-perfect representation of every single value in terms of font-sizes, spacings, etc. I would use a code-oriented system/approach and make sure everything comes close to the design. Certain details would be tweaked by eye in code as well if I feel they need visual adjustments. I suppose I also intuitively know which areas need more (pixel-perfect) attention and which are flexible.
And then there's exceptions and hybrids to all of these. I may want to polish a particular backend UI piece for whatever reason (Figma-first), or I might want to prototype/create a proof of concept for a complex state management, transitions, etc. (frontend-first) before making portions or all of it pixel perfect in Figma.
I'm a bit out practice with these things but look into ::-webkit-scrollbar for styling, maybe it works out.
I've moved to Germany a couple of years ago and this is a HUGE issue for me. I try to improve my German by watching German shows/movies in their native language. All German audio vs subtitles differ, constantly, and not in a minor way. It's practically never been an issue with English for the past two decades.
Not sure if you're familiar with the movement, but standardized design tokens[1] seem like the future to me, depending on how well they are done. There's a list of major vendor like Adobe, Figma, etc. that are already onboard and the standardization process is progressing slowly but surely.
As I'm designing an app I don't want just click & drag visually to get some eye-balled spacing or size value. I want a design system with consistent spacing rules. Design tools enable this somewhat but the token standardization is pushing this much further. For example: there's already a hub/API for distributing design tokens to other services. I've seen a live demo of Specify[2] pushing token changes from Figma to a GitHub PR or creating JIRA task during a design token talk from a token w3c group member.
And it's not just about design -> code. If these tokens are standardized, design tools themselves (among others) could have a standardized way of transferring designs.
Heck, even Utopia could embrace this at some point to provide you an alternative view/workflow for your already standardized design tokens.
And let's add to this that you can very easily lose even the "rental" if you simply move to a different country. If I buy a physical copy, not only do I permanently own it, I can take it to the other side of the world with me if I want to.
Finder is essential yet it's the biggest pain point I have with macOS.
- You've already mentioned a big one
- Related would be remembering which Finder window goes to which "desktop" or screen
- Another is no (permanent) custom width per folder or auto-sizing column view. Fixed width is either wasting space or not showing nearly enough. I always end up manually resizing the last/active column.
- They recently added shared iCloud folders as well. Guess what, you can't see any filenames in column view because they repeat "Added by {Owner}" for every single file/folder which takes way too much space. I guess an icon/avatar was too much. Heck, even that is questionable since we have a sidebar with all the metadata.
I don't know the technical aspect of it but they seem to have also locked down macOS which resulted in TotalFinder calling it quits. Not sure how viable it is for alternatives nowadays. I have no need for split/ftp Finder alternatives, just need a polished column view.
Personally, I prefer the non-spaced variant when dealing with one-lined css. Simply because grouping it visually in chunks makes it easier for me to skim through code.
Here I can recognize 4 chunks almost immediately:
.error{ width:350px; height:200px; color:red; background:blue; }
.error { width: 350px; height: 200px; color: red; background: blue; }Just wanted to say thank you for posting this. I'm dealing with my own kind of problem (incurable disease) and have had almost exact thoughts for many years now. Couldn't have expressed them better.
Wish you all the best!
Oh, wow. Didn't really expect to see something like this here. I have crohn's, so I'm very much interested in such projects. I'll definitely be giving it a try.
I like the idea. Harder to execute, uncertain results, but an interesting concept non the less :)
I have pretty much 3 (pretty different) versions of the same password (light, medium, heavy xD), one side-password for certain things, and 1 unique for banking thats only in my head. Worked for me in the last 5 years...
(ftp, cpanels and other client info excluded)
I learned 3(ish) languages with actually no real intention. Its nothing mind-blowing - just a story. These concepts should pretty much be well known.
First one - English: I pretty much grasped the concept of English language simply by watching (a lot - and for years) Cartoon Network as a kid (FYI: my parents don't speak languages other than Croatian). And I probably watched all those cartoons over and over as they were replayed. When I got to the point where English was thought in school, I pretty much knew everything they were gonna teach us - it was just brushing out the knowledge correctly, and most importantly - putting it to use. Later, since I was around computers (and even later - internet), it all came to me naturally word-by-word since I was using English actively.
German: During those active cartoon watching days, Cartoon Network got "locked", and I switched to a German program where I watched (german synced) anime. The "putting it to use" part did not happen with German language, so even tho I cant really speak properly today (never studied or used it), I do however find it that I can understand 85% of the time exactly what they are saying (i can even read properly many things). I have a really hard time doing the talking since I've always listened (the cartoons) and never actually talked - never put it to use.
Today, as a 20ish year old guy - I'm studying Japanese (anime history & Go board game - kinda just kicked in), and I find it that I have a really hard time expanding my vocabulary. I am missing all that easy long-time immersion in the language that previously did the trick. Now I gotta hard-study it. I guess I could watch a lot of Japanese movies & anime but I don't really have the time or will to do so today.