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I feel like anything above 4k is impractical. thats 8,294,400 million pixels and 8k is 33 million. sure thats a near 4x increase, but visually its the exact same. all 8k movies do is allow a higher charge because they can label the movies to be better with their "higher and better" number

I mean, that is in your comment. According to the usability research, more people prefer the other approach. You SHOULD adapt your default style to something more universally applicable.

And, no, I do not want the text I am reading to be full-width on my 32-inch monitor. I'm jumping between a lot of other sites that need to take up the entire space.

I mean, newspapers have a smaller columnar style than any website and have been around for generations.

I'd recommend (if you can afford it of course) to take some time off and see if you can work on something for yourself without a deadline or someone in your ear, just peace and building. Like a structured hobby.

Doing Rails Wrong 10 months ago

what’s interesting is how every few years we circle back to the same conversation with new names for old problems. the industry keeps rebranding the same complexity as innovation, but it’s mostly the same tension between abstraction and control. every new framework promises to simplify things, but each simplification hides an entire new layer of assumptions that developers eventually have to learn anyway. maybe that’s just the cost of building software at scale now: we’re layering human preferences and historical context into the codebase as much as we are logic. in that sense, modern stacks aren’t complicated because of bad design choices, they’re complicated because they’re living artifacts of collective compromise.

I don't think it will burst but more likely deflate.

Year on year people will be disappointed that AI isn't consistently improving and that it will eventually plateau, and other things will be hyped up excessively.

I can imagine quantum being the next big craze but at the same time, I doubt that can even get to consumer considering it needs near 0 kelvin temperatures.

But who knows

I'll try the 1 free generation soon, but the way the text appears randomly in that landing page demo video is really weird. I keep loosing track of where I'm reading too as the audio sometimes is not perfectly synced. The sync is not that bad however, but it could be better.

Study mode 12 months ago

the product itself seems really useful but I doubt the average student that knows they can either walk through with study mode or just get the answer with normal prompting would choose the one that takes longer, especially with deadlines. As a student I would be 50/50, but its a good feature for sure