Watch any anime, these guys are the best at capturing things, be it the movement of a dog or the steam off a bowl of noodles. Most anime food is incredibly detailed.
They just like capturing this stuff and it captures our eyes when watching. I hate to have become that cliche guy but over years of consuming the select good stuff, it's really good stuff to consume. Often whimsical and fun.
Go watch the opening 15 minutes of Redline, that should make anyones day.
Windows, Google Applications, General applications, Android, iOS - UI developers and UI managers or UX or whatever they call themselves, they seem to get it right in one or two iterations and after that, for the most part they are *NO LONGER NEEDED* but management keep these huge teams on and they need to 'fiddle' to justify existence.
I've whined, easily 100 times across the internet about this, but people just endure it, they don't lose customers due to it, unless it's a particularly egregious screw up unfortunately.
We're looking at apps with flat colours, no dividing lines, no shading, weird animations, massive massive amounts of white space, no coloured icons, no *GODDAMN LABELLING OF ICONS*, etc. Many of those "gaudy!" things, help you easily identify what you're doing or about to do. While you may still get used to doing things with the app, I find often, I will hesitate for one fraction of a second, maybe even just.2 seconds when I'm clicking unlabeled, uncoloured icons, every.single.time, because my brain has to confirm it's right. Problem is, when I do these functions thousands or tens of thousands of times a year, they're wasting my damn time.
and, boy, oh BOY am I glad I no longer work in first level technical support. I would be horrendously angry over the past 5-10 years, IMMENSELY so. Being able to describe the GREEN SQUARE icon on the left, in the BOX next to the RED CIRCLE ICON and the icon is LABELLED "GO" is vastly easier than: "No, click the arrow, yes, it's..white, like all the other icons, it's going from right to left, yeah it's kind of in the middle of nothing, it's up the top left, no the other top left, no really sir it IS there. You say it isn't? Can you describe what you see? Lots of white eh, any words? No words oh........ what icons are there?... yes.. an odd shape ok put your mouse over it so we can get the tooltip name for it,......... oh you're on a touchscreen....... ok..well ummm "
Seriously these changes are mind-bogglingly bad for end users and first level support, but as we all know, saves them money having a translation team, doesn't it?
"Qualcomm says that the first Snapdragon 845 processors will begin shipping in production devices in early 2018."
Translation: The Galaxy S9 will have this CPU. A shame that Samsung have 'pulled an Apple' and decided flexibility is out the window. They've basically stopped making their top end phones, with a flat screen anymore at all. It's all curved rubbish. Plus they've ditched the home button:/
I bet they copy Apple and remove the headphone jack too. Used to love their stuff (had 5 of their phones now) but I think I'm done with them.
I am not a finance guy, but I follow quite a few online.
I am and have *consistently* seen breakdowns of the finances of $TSLA for about the past 6-12 months where people are entirely baffled how the stock remains at the current price.
My understanding is, they are completely running the whole thing poorly, they're not profitable, things are hugely delayed, they are burning through cash like crazy.
I am unsure if this is all true, but I can say, I'm seeing it posted online a LOT. I'd like to see Musk 'win' I'd like his products to work, I'd like the world to be a better place, I like the idea of America getting some manufacturing going on (and I'm not even American, just less stuff being built in China please!)
That being said, if it's running as poorly as I continue to read, it ain't good at all. Only a matter of time for $TSLA to go south.
I'm not a big Bitcoin guy, by any means, but Bitcoin fundamentally has more use than a simple tulip bulb. Being a limited quantity, it certainly will hold it's value far more than fiat currency, assuming people adopt it for actual real transactions.
My understanding however is, that it's quite limited for actual financial transactions on a larger scale.
Mind you, I only know a little bit compared to enthusiasts and especially enthusiasts who also understand economics.
In the very least, the Chinese love it for money laundering to buy foreign property unfortunately, so it isn't going anywhere for a while.
I was a lazy piglet for a very long time, but once I hit about 32, I got sick of living in squalor and learnt to wash my dishes, it's really not hard and I don't even have a dishwasher, I can't imagine how much easier it is with one of those, especially the 2 tray systems.
It's really not difficult.
NOW a machine which will iron and fold my clothes? That I'll sign up for, because I can wash em, I can hang em out, I can put em away but ironing and folding is the worst thing ever.
Even "everything" isn't particularly good compared to it.
Why can't people develop a powerful search? I want to include an exclude file types, search within size ranges, specify a path to search, etc.
Locate32 still does this, I think the latest build is 3.1 RC3m 11.7100 - it's sadly abandoned but does the job flawlessly..
I'd bet dollars to donuts, without even looking, that the Microsoft search looks flashy and 'clean' with very little tweakability to it. (example, I index my NAS drives)
Offtopic but it *blows my mind* that escape velocity is that god damn fast *AND* we can do it. I just googled it, it's 7 miles a SECOND. That's astronomically fast (duh)
It's so insanely ridiculously quick, I can't fathom how the rockets can even do it, with people strapped to the front. The forces involved, the heat, the strain, the G's it's... wow it's truly insane.
My government *LITERALLY* cuts a cheque / tax refund for property investors who purchase their second / third / fourth (and so on) properties, as a rental. They get a tax credit on all expenses, interest paid, maint fees, management fees etc.
We have a housing crises in this country, it's significantly worse than the USA. The average home is now 12x the average yearly wage, on this particular metric, some of the worst prices on the planet, excluding a small handful of trickier places (Hong Kong)
We let in nearly 300,000 people a year, it looks good 'on paper' as our GDP grows, but our GDP *per capita* is worse, ie: average person is getting poorer. Houses are insane expensive, rent is going up fast, we do *NOT* need more people here.
Considering the recent moves in the media, be it twitter, facebook, news articles, reddit posts, moderation across the web, youtube, shaming campaigns etc, it's extremely difficult to actually identify, clear, distinct, genuine racists.
The term has been wildly thrown around the web in the past 3 years (along with misogynist and other such things) to the point it's verging on meaningless.
Why take someones words and analyse them when you can just shriek and bray and imply they're saying something they're not. The accusation alone is enough to "throw a dead cat on the table" and totally redirect the conversation.
I myself am 'clearly racists' according to some comments I've got on reddit, because I have the gall to take issue with my countries *extremely high* immigration policy, which is impacting housing affordability, renting affordability and the jobs market (as well as general congestion, sustainability) - I need not mention a race mind you, but I'm clearly racist because I think maybe we should be thinking about this long term.
The wild labeling of any 'dissenter of our groupthink' is just causing more backlash. I can't help but take a cynical view now of anyone accused of such things and try to find the *actual truth* of what was said, to see if it's taken out of context or not.
In conclusion, basically, I'm not sure I really trust twitter to get this right, in the slightest.
NOTE / DISCLAIMER: (general rant, 2 people mentioned in article could *totally* genuinely be lunatics for all I know, but I'll be damned if I'd take twitter opinion as the final word on it, nor the average twitter users 'reports' either)
It was my primary since it came out basically, I've posted about it, easily 20 times on this site.
It's too little too late, the performance of the application and stability were simply unacceptable, I tried and tried and tried, so hard. Alas it was not meant to be.
I am nothing short of an -extreme- browser, sorry but it's just my workflow. I 'only' have about 50 tabs open in Chrome right now. Firefox was taking up to a full second to switch tabs.
I always knew Chrome was faster but Firefox had the plugins I needed, specifically Tab Mix Plus, giving me fine grain controls over how tabs open, how they close and what hotkeys do what. (I use hotkeys, relentlessly) however with some effort, I finally found 2 or 3 plugins to recreate (most) of my Firefox usability, in Chrome, without the atrocious performance or crashes.
It's extremely extremely unlikely I'll ever go back sadly. The recent changes damaging "tabs menu" "Tab Mix Plus" and other such plugins, means it has little to offer me.
Can you elaborate on what you think the problem is?
I haven't noticed them being particularly bad, however I have noticed there's less and less. Particularly the last 4 months or so? Has the gradual decline sped up?
I have spoken to a lot of Americans online about daylight saving and over the years the most idiotic thing I've discovered is a large portion of daylight saving haters, actually hate "normal" time when it turns to winter. They actually prefer DST, all the time....
They just don't realise the difference between the two, and I've found quite a few complaints like this. Kind of ridiculous.
They brought in some material UI "clean" designers - and all the fucking things they need to interactive with, have UNLABELLED icons and they're all the same bloody colour.
Also there's animations anywhere and everywhere they can put them.
Care to elaborate on this further? What the implications are? I've heard many many a sour note on $TSLA for almost a year on trading circles from people, significantly more wise than I am regarding investing and the market.
They continue to shake their heads though at how somehow TSLA continues to defy odds. Elaboration would be useful, if you can.
Why nerds like us who are "sperglords" disable animation and flashy bullshit in applications and operating systems, ever since windows XP.
I've been abused countless times for it, but at the end of the day, the goddamn computing device should keep up with ME. Not the other way round. I'm extremely fast on the keyboard, I know endless shortcuts, I can get things done quickly, but I need responsive tools.
But nope, we're just "sperglords" and neck beards who should stop complaining....
My government in Australia is eagerly encouraging more people come here at massive, incredible detriment to the local job and housing market. It's madness.
I see little value in reading the guardian article whatsoever, they have printed biased article upon article with a heavy left slant and blinders on for several years now.
I was happy to believe in crazy right wing media 5 years ago, sure, no problem - but it never occurred to me that the media had a left bias until the past couple of years. Since then, I've seen some serious misrepresentation of news, over and over and over that I think questioning what you read is a damn good thing.
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Watch any anime, these guys are the best at capturing things, be it the movement of a dog or the steam off a bowl of noodles. Most anime food is incredibly detailed.
They just like capturing this stuff and it captures our eyes when watching. I hate to have become that cliche guy but over years of consuming the select good stuff, it's really good stuff to consume. Often whimsical and fun.
Go watch the opening 15 minutes of Redline, that should make anyones day.
Ok so it needs immense improvement but if that's truly the work of one guy, it's still quite impressive overall.
Wireless charging, home buttons, headphone jacks, curved screens - etc. Most of the alternative phones have an issue that bugs me.
Honestly, I think I'm sticking with my Note 5 as long as humanly possible.
Windows, Google Applications, General applications, Android, iOS - UI developers and UI managers or UX or whatever they call themselves, they seem to get it right in one or two iterations and after that, for the most part they are *NO LONGER NEEDED* but management keep these huge teams on and they need to 'fiddle' to justify existence.
I've whined, easily 100 times across the internet about this, but people just endure it, they don't lose customers due to it, unless it's a particularly egregious screw up unfortunately.
We're looking at apps with flat colours, no dividing lines, no shading, weird animations, massive massive amounts of white space, no coloured icons, no *GODDAMN LABELLING OF ICONS*, etc. Many of those "gaudy!" things, help you easily identify what you're doing or about to do. While you may still get used to doing things with the app, I find often, I will hesitate for one fraction of a second, maybe even just .2 seconds when I'm clicking unlabeled, uncoloured icons, every.single.time, because my brain has to confirm it's right.
Problem is, when I do these functions thousands or tens of thousands of times a year, they're wasting my damn time.
and, boy, oh BOY am I glad I no longer work in first level technical support. I would be horrendously angry over the past 5-10 years, IMMENSELY so. Being able to describe the GREEN SQUARE icon on the left, in the BOX next to the RED CIRCLE ICON and the icon is LABELLED "GO" is vastly easier than: ..white, like all the other icons, it's going from right to left, yeah it's kind of in the middle of nothing, it's up the top left, no the other top left, no really sir it IS there. You say it isn't? Can you describe what you see? Lots of white eh, any words? No words oh........ what icons are there? ... yes .. an odd shape ok put your mouse over it so we can get the tooltip name for it,......... oh you're on a touchscreen ....... ok ..well ummm "
"No, click the arrow, yes, it's
Seriously these changes are mind-bogglingly bad for end users and first level support, but as we all know, saves them money having a translation team, doesn't it?
I loathe it.
Yup, I switched to those tempered glass ones about a year back and I was shocked how good they are.
Virtually impossible to apply a tempered glass protector to a curved screen. Plus the accidental screen presses with your palm.
Nope!
"Qualcomm says that the first Snapdragon 845 processors will begin shipping in production devices in early 2018."
Translation: The Galaxy S9 will have this CPU. :/
A shame that Samsung have 'pulled an Apple' and decided flexibility is out the window.
They've basically stopped making their top end phones, with a flat screen anymore at all. It's all curved rubbish. Plus they've ditched the home button
I bet they copy Apple and remove the headphone jack too. Used to love their stuff (had 5 of their phones now) but I think I'm done with them.
I am not a finance guy, but I follow quite a few online.
I am and have *consistently* seen breakdowns of the finances of $TSLA for about the past 6-12 months where people are entirely baffled how the stock remains at the current price.
My understanding is, they are completely running the whole thing poorly, they're not profitable, things are hugely delayed, they are burning through cash like crazy.
I am unsure if this is all true, but I can say, I'm seeing it posted online a LOT. I'd like to see Musk 'win' I'd like his products to work, I'd like the world to be a better place, I like the idea of America getting some manufacturing going on (and I'm not even American, just less stuff being built in China please!)
That being said, if it's running as poorly as I continue to read, it ain't good at all. Only a matter of time for $TSLA to go south.
I'm not a big Bitcoin guy, by any means, but Bitcoin fundamentally has more use than a simple tulip bulb. Being a limited quantity, it certainly will hold it's value far more than fiat currency, assuming people adopt it for actual real transactions.
My understanding however is, that it's quite limited for actual financial transactions on a larger scale.
Mind you, I only know a little bit compared to enthusiasts and especially enthusiasts who also understand economics.
In the very least, the Chinese love it for money laundering to buy foreign property unfortunately, so it isn't going anywhere for a while.
I was a lazy piglet for a very long time, but once I hit about 32, I got sick of living in squalor and learnt to wash my dishes, it's really not hard and I don't even have a dishwasher, I can't imagine how much easier it is with one of those, especially the 2 tray systems.
It's really not difficult.
NOW a machine which will iron and fold my clothes? That I'll sign up for, because I can wash em, I can hang em out, I can put em away but ironing and folding is the worst thing ever.
Very Apple move, Samsung. Guess you continue to not want my business.
At least the headphone jack remains.
Even "everything" isn't particularly good compared to it.
Why can't people develop a powerful search? I want to include an exclude file types, search within size ranges, specify a path to search, etc.
Locate32 still does this, I think the latest build is 3.1 RC3m 11.7100 - it's sadly abandoned but does the job flawlessly..
I'd bet dollars to donuts, without even looking, that the Microsoft search looks flashy and 'clean' with very little tweakability to it. (example, I index my NAS drives)
Offtopic but it *blows my mind* that escape velocity is that god damn fast *AND* we can do it. I just googled it, it's 7 miles a SECOND. That's astronomically fast (duh)
It's so insanely ridiculously quick, I can't fathom how the rockets can even do it, with people strapped to the front. The forces involved, the heat, the strain, the G's it's ... wow it's truly insane.
I'm in Australia,
My government *LITERALLY* cuts a cheque / tax refund for property investors who purchase their second / third / fourth (and so on) properties, as a rental. They get a tax credit on all expenses, interest paid, maint fees, management fees etc.
We have a housing crises in this country, it's significantly worse than the USA. The average home is now 12x the average yearly wage, on this particular metric, some of the worst prices on the planet, excluding a small handful of trickier places (Hong Kong)
We let in nearly 300,000 people a year, it looks good 'on paper' as our GDP grows, but our GDP *per capita* is worse, ie: average person is getting poorer.
Houses are insane expensive, rent is going up fast, we do *NOT* need more people here.
However, I'm just a loony racist unfortunately.
Considering the recent moves in the media, be it twitter, facebook, news articles, reddit posts, moderation across the web, youtube, shaming campaigns etc, it's extremely difficult to actually identify, clear, distinct, genuine racists.
The term has been wildly thrown around the web in the past 3 years (along with misogynist and other such things) to the point it's verging on meaningless.
Why take someones words and analyse them when you can just shriek and bray and imply they're saying something they're not. The accusation alone is enough to "throw a dead cat on the table" and totally redirect the conversation.
I myself am 'clearly racists' according to some comments I've got on reddit, because I have the gall to take issue with my countries *extremely high* immigration policy, which is impacting housing affordability, renting affordability and the jobs market (as well as general congestion, sustainability) - I need not mention a race mind you, but I'm clearly racist because I think maybe we should be thinking about this long term.
The wild labeling of any 'dissenter of our groupthink' is just causing more backlash. I can't help but take a cynical view now of anyone accused of such things and try to find the *actual truth* of what was said, to see if it's taken out of context or not.
In conclusion, basically, I'm not sure I really trust twitter to get this right, in the slightest.
NOTE / DISCLAIMER: (general rant, 2 people mentioned in article could *totally* genuinely be lunatics for all I know, but I'll be damned if I'd take twitter opinion as the final word on it, nor the average twitter users 'reports' either)
It was my primary since it came out basically, I've posted about it, easily 20 times on this site.
It's too little too late, the performance of the application and stability were simply unacceptable, I tried and tried and tried, so hard. Alas it was not meant to be.
I am nothing short of an -extreme- browser, sorry but it's just my workflow. I 'only' have about 50 tabs open in Chrome right now.
Firefox was taking up to a full second to switch tabs.
I always knew Chrome was faster but Firefox had the plugins I needed, specifically Tab Mix Plus, giving me fine grain controls over how tabs open, how they close and what hotkeys do what. (I use hotkeys, relentlessly) however with some effort, I finally found 2 or 3 plugins to recreate (most) of my Firefox usability, in Chrome, without the atrocious performance or crashes.
It's extremely extremely unlikely I'll ever go back sadly. The recent changes damaging "tabs menu" "Tab Mix Plus" and other such plugins, means it has little to offer me.
Most food and fruit bred so intensely for sugar that the flavours are mostly gone.
Tomato is a horrible sugar bag nowadays, with very little "zest" or bite as it had when I was a kid.
It's frustrating.
Can you elaborate on what you think the problem is?
I haven't noticed them being particularly bad, however I have noticed there's less and less. Particularly the last 4 months or so? Has the gradual decline sped up?
I have spoken to a lot of Americans online about daylight saving and over the years the most idiotic thing I've discovered is a large portion of daylight saving haters, actually hate "normal" time when it turns to winter. They actually prefer DST, all the time....
They just don't realise the difference between the two, and I've found quite a few complaints like this. Kind of ridiculous.
They brought in some material UI "clean" designers - and all the fucking things they need to interactive with, have UNLABELLED icons and they're all the same bloody colour.
Also there's animations anywhere and everywhere they can put them.
Care to elaborate on this further? What the implications are? I've heard many many a sour note on $TSLA for almost a year on trading circles from people, significantly more wise than I am regarding investing and the market.
They continue to shake their heads though at how somehow TSLA continues to defy odds.
Elaboration would be useful, if you can.
Why nerds like us who are "sperglords" disable animation and flashy bullshit in applications and operating systems, ever since windows XP.
I've been abused countless times for it, but at the end of the day, the goddamn computing device should keep up with ME. Not the other way round. I'm extremely fast on the keyboard, I know endless shortcuts, I can get things done quickly, but I need responsive tools.
But nope, we're just "sperglords" and neck beards who should stop complaining....
Denial is a serious problem.
My government in Australia is eagerly encouraging more people come here at massive, incredible detriment to the local job and housing market.
It's madness.
Damnit this post deserves higher moderation!
Resident of Melbourne, Sydney, Vancouver or Toronto are you? :(
Sigh for young people trying to afford a fucking home.
I see little value in reading the guardian article whatsoever, they have printed biased article upon article with a heavy left slant and blinders on for several years now.
I was happy to believe in crazy right wing media 5 years ago, sure, no problem - but it never occurred to me that the media had a left bias until the past couple of years. Since then, I've seen some serious misrepresentation of news, over and over and over that I think questioning what you read is a damn good thing.