pier25's comments

On: YouTube embeds are heavy and it’s fixable

[pier25]

Is there a similar solution for SoundCloud?

Their player is also super bloated.

[diggan → pier25]

You can basically do this with any embeds (granted they don't do a lot of global fuckery, which is a lot of them). Make sure the embed code gets evaluated within a function, then call that function when the user clicks on your "proxy" image. You might have to do a replace of the DOM elements as well, so the embed code gets what its expecting.

[paulirish → pier25]

There are a few "facade" solutions listed at https://developer.chrome.com/docs/lighthouse/performance/thi... But.. AFAIK nobody has made one for Soundcloud.

On: Poor Man's Kinesis Keyboard: The K'nexis Keyboard ...

[pier25]

> These beautiful keyboards move the Shift and Ctrl keys to your thumbs, which have more power than the lowly pinkies

Absolutely. IMO the CMD key on Macs used with the thumb feels so much more natural from an ergonomic point of view than the Control key used with a pinky.

[stavros → pier25]

But not as ergonomic as the Caps Lock being a combination Ctrl/Esc, which is great but which very few people do.

[raihansaputra → stavros]

I have the Hyper Key (additional layer/modifier) on hold and Esc on tap on my Caps Lock. Enables me to have vi-style arrows on home row and window management shortcuts easily.

[MobileVet → stavros]

I have been rocking the Caps Lock -> Esc for at least a decade now and absolutely love it. Such a better use of that key.

On: Show HN: I created an After Effects alternative

[pier25]

This model would be great even for some desktop apps. Imagine you could offload rendering Blender projects to the cloud automatically.

[clementpiki → pier25]

Don't they call it 'render farms'? I will add cloud features, I don't want to deal with massive files hosting. Maybe login box to G. Drive or 1Drive could be a solution.

[pier25 → clementpiki]

Yes you can upload the whole project to a render farm etc. This can involve a lot of back and forth until the project renders correctly.

But what I mean is clicking on the render button in your desktop app and have the work done remotely and everything solved automatically.

[martin-adams → pier25]

It’s more subtle than that, imagine being able to edit a high poly count mesh on a low spec machine. So not just final rendering, but really the main application state. This is what something like After Effects could benefit from.

When I tested a full ray-traced FPS demo in the browser and never noticed that the render was done server side, that’s when I believed this is possible.

[pier25 → martin-adams]

Yeah this too. Basically offload anything that needs more CPU/GPU.

We could be working on high poly files with global illumination and whatnot in a Chromebook.

I'm surprised big companies like Apple, Adobe, or Autodesk haven't solved this already. I remember having a conversation with a friend about this exact topic back in 2016.

[clementpiki → pier25]

Google tried this approach few years back with gaming: Google Stadia. The concept was about rending complex 3d games in real time on the cloud. It did not work out well commercially, but I think the tech was ok.

On: Researchers run high-performing LLM on the energy ...

[pier25]

Yep. See Jevons paradox

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox

On: Did Apple kill the MicroLED industry?

[pier25]

For tvs there's not much of an advantage over OLED. Burn in is not much of an issue these days and for most people OLED tvs are bright enough.

Makes more sense for monitors than tvs IMO.

[MBCook → pier25]

LCDs get way brighter than OLEDs, thats an issue. And OLEDs often do thing a to avoid burn in like dim static scenes that can be a problem when watching movies.

There is an advantage.

On: Apple found in breach of EU competition rules

[pier25]

Not only Apple charges their tax but they decide if you can distribute your iOS code to users.

You can work for a year on an app for iPhone or iPad and then not be able to distribute it if Apple doesn't want to. This is not even hypothetical.

Apple owns 30% of your business but has 100% control of it.

[flutas → pier25]

> You can work for a year on an app for iPhone or iPad and then not be able to distribute it if Apple doesn't want to.

Happened to my company.

At the time they had no guidelines on sending "tips" digitally, and when we asked for an exception (before building) we were granted it.

Submission day, rejected.

Cue 3 months of back and forth, which ended with "yeah, you gotta use IAP for that, and we're gonna take 30% from the tips."

On: Self-driving Waymos secure final clearance for exp...

[pier25]

> That's why they are making self-driving cars in the first place

It is?

I thought they wanted to disrupt transportation.

[TulliusCicero → pier25]

I mean the most obvious reason is making money.

But other things like making the roads safer is a nice side effect.

On: Engineer's solar panels are breaking efficiency re...

[pier25]

If you can reduce even 50% of the consumption from the grid that would be huge.

On: Eden Abhez: The strangest hit songwriter

[pier25]

Are you sure he's singing untempered?

Sounds more like vernacular singing without precise tuning.

On: iTerm 3.5.1 removes automatic OpenAI integration, ...

[pier25]

The Adobe Cloud stuff is featured prominently all over their products even if you've disabled it in Adobe CC. It's disgusting.