I write things on my blog sometimes https://fasterandworse.com/
I hear you, but I didnāt say flat ui is due to processing power. My line of thought is that a sudden bump in available processing power might prompt designers to feel that elaborate uis are fine now because despite flat ui not being an efficiency thing, it is definitely perceived as one by the average designer who doesnāt know how much of the css used to render it is generated client-side via js
yeah but I didnāt say that flat ui was created for efficiency. Any efficiency of a flat ui is cancelled out by the excesses of client-side JS. I know it is fashion, I was there. But I also know that there is a sense that it is efficient by the designers that design with it.
that;s exactly the catch I was hoping wouldnāt be the case. When the AI shit is abandoned, is the hardware useful for regular stuffā¦
So, from what youāre saying: Generative AI is fucking up in the past, present, and future
is this a possible thing: all the AI assistant stuff being forced onto us in the next gen hardware is gonna need significant computing power bumps to support it, is this creating a potential surplus of computing power in all devices that could time very well with an excessive skeuomorphic UI design response to the decade of bland flatness weāve endured thatās gonna cook the cpus on the devices of everyone else?
sorry, canāt let this post go without calling out the greenwashing ecosia that has a chatgpt integration while they only report their own energy stats with a limp āitās too early to tell uwuā when it comes to openai as a provider
Afterwards I was thinking it could also pass as an emo album name. I wonder if there is a good guessing game in āmetal album title or emo album title?ā
The earth is our coffin and hope is a mistake.
such a metal album name
like adding bacteria to a petri dish
I call this the law of conservation of complexity
sorry if my reply sounded rude. I didnāt mean it to be. I just saw it again and it sounds dismissive.
Itās definitely the prudent option but Iām over mental capacity and Iād be lying if I said I wasnāt sharing this just for the upvotes. I couldnāt see any mentions of the sponsor in the comments, so I guess the audience, at least, were duped. I already have a string of unanswered questions on ecosiaās greenwashing social posts, though
Yeah, I get what youāre saying but Iād really have to stretch my benefit-of-the-doubt muscles to consider someone who makes such well-researched videos wouldnāt go to the website before he reads the url out on his video and see that on the homepage, above the fold, in big letters, it says āPowered by AIā
Ok, but are you suggesting he was duped?
NASB, I had a jarring experience this morning watching Patrick Boyleās latest video āBig Tech is Going Nuclear!ā (not gonna link it) where 5 mins in he introduces the sponsor and itās an AI presentation slide generator, which he said he used for the images in his video. This after he mentioned the data on generating one image using the same amount of energy as charging a smartphone. The thing is he seems careful to not mention that it is a gen ai productāhe never says AIārather a piece of software that helps making presentations.
It kinda made me panic stop the video, like an instant āwell, done with youā - not sure if he continued to make a joke of it or anything. I mean, Iām sure (I hope) he was given a lot of money for the spot, but damn! Just when I thought I had a foundational understanding of people
beat me by seconds.
Sheās incredible
I just want to share this video because I think it is a work of art
āIām gonna replace AIā by Olivia Squizzle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pbh_J7VI94g
sorry for yt link, invidious didnāt like it
out of curiosity once I tried to ask it to make a colouring picture from a photo of a toy for my kids and it just ran what seemed like imagemagick filters over the photo to convert to black and white and pump up contrast to only show the hard lines - just like all the free convert to outline web tools that have existed forever. I asked it to try again but without the filters, instead to identify the object, and to draw it in a colouring book outline style, and it spat out some shitty stylised mishmash derived from all the illustration IP it stole and ingested. I still feel guilty for trying even that
Iām pretty confident theyāll continue to roll out new stuff that, like the 4o release, are mild (if, at all) technical improvements made to seem massive by UI stuff that has almost nothing to do with AI. SJās voice talking to you, bouncy animations, showing āreasoningā aka loading progress.
Fields API lead stepping down
https://make.wordpress.org/core/2024/10/13/fields-api-team-seeking-new-leadership/
this is cool. Considering their first album was all songs about accepting death I assume theyāre not fans of anything tescreal adjacent
I love that album, and iāll never forget when I was dating someone who was a classical pianist, the type that closes their eyes and sways their head when listening to classical, and when I put that album on it was a few notes into the first song and she made this tortured face and said āno, no, no! those chord progressions are so depressing!ā It was so strange to me to hear that, but you know how you just know when someone knows what they are talking about and she was sure it had hit some kind of melancholy brown note.
Stillā¦ that era of interpol and white lies was great. That shit made me happy