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slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

The dream of infinite CPU and fast, stable networks was sunk by the emergence of broad-based mobile computing:

https://infrequently.org/series/performance-inequality/

Here's a talk from '16, warning of what I was seeing then; a harbinger of what was to come:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bZvq3nodf4

And an solemn update from '19 on how it was going (spoiler: badly):

https://vimeo.com/364402896

And here's the latest update on networks & CPUs:

https://infrequently.org/2022/12/performance-baseline-2023/

TL;DR: we have never been post-scarcity.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Something like half my job these days is to help MSFT's web products improve. This is a continuation of the incidental consulting I did at Google from '15-'21, and in that time it has become crystal clear to me that the market for frontend tools and technologies is broken -- and browsers are to blame.

What we experience as pervasive slowness, even on the high-profile sites, is a consequence of a culture that fell in love with a post-scarcity dream. A dream that was, in fact, a mirage.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Per usual, @brucelawson said it better than I could:

"Bad performance is bad accessibility":

https://brucelawson.co.uk/2022/bad-performance-is-bad-accessibility/

rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

Finally tried out GUI Dwarf Fortress yesterday. I just did a couple of the tutorials. It's really cool but it's a lot to take in. It also doesn't play well with 4k screens

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kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

@rust_gamedev I've noticed massive GIFs from ffmpeg in your weekly news. Try (pure Rust) https://gif.ski for encoding — it should give you smaller files and better quality.

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jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

good Q, in general about persistence and ActivityPub https://freeradical.zone/@case/109547302622933687

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