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Suhail blocked me on Twitter some time ago as I was a bit vocal in my opposition to the core idea behind this app. I think it was already dead at the time and the criticism got under his skin. I wish there was a way to make money by shorting bad ideas. I think I could easily fund a few companies by doing that on weekends.
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It's pretty much what happens in the regular household with median and around income [1] [2]. Yes, we are currently generating way beyond ridiculous levels of waste, electronic and beyond: we throw away globally 1.4 billion tons of food per year [3] in a world with 822 million people suffering from undernourishment [4]. If we are this bad with something as vital as food, of course we are worse with devices. [1] (2017…
Picking screen metrics from 4-5 years ago is a pretty terrible, metric - I have maybe 14 screens but only 2 or 3 of them see active use or are hooked up to anything. My oldest (working) devices are already all closing in on or past a decade. This metric is flawed in many ways...
[1] https://www.cnet.com/culture/study-u-s-adults-spend-1200-a-y...
[2] The average US family size is 2.51 [3] while average worldwide is 4.9 [4]
[3] https://www.statista.com/statistics/183648/average-size-of-h...
[3] https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/03/31/with-billio...
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The product, "compute pixels on powerful machine -> render on thin client", makes much more sense if you don't try to monetize by being a cloud landlord, but you let the users own that powerful machine, make money through hardware, and help them with the software, make money through support, no subscriptions, no rent-seeking. Think at the level of a family: 2 parents, 2 children which means: 4 smartphones, 2÷3 laptop…
That character is what I'd use for"x divided by y". Is it common use somewhere to use it for "between x and y inclusive"
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My primary feeling is that I think technical people drastically overestimate the pain that most "normal" people experience when it comes to browser performance. I see it all the time on HN, e.g. people bitching about the amount of RAM Electron apps take and the like. Who cares? The average user certainly doesn't. If anything, 98% of the time when I experience browser performance issues it's network-latency related, o…
I’m not sure if this is true because there are many many many examples where improving client performance increases conversion in e-commerce sites. https://web.dev/rakuten/
That link doesn’t say what you think it does.
LCP before optimization is a cause of what? For example, a complex product page. Well of course that will convert worse, because the product is complicated.
But not too simple! 0.5s performs as bad as 2s.
Anyway, in my real experience, conversion fluctuates so much across products, the range greatly exceeds the impact measured by aggregate conversions by LCP, so your interpretation is wrong.
Looking at tweets like [1] it seems like their original bet was that server single core performance would dramatically outpace client single core performance. Honestly even if that had happened I still don't think their product would have made sense. The hosting cost and bandwidth/latency requirements would still have killed it. The death of this product is a good sign for computing overall. The more of computing tha…
My primary feeling is that I think technical people drastically overestimate the pain that most "normal" people experience when it comes to browser performance. I see it all the time on HN, e.g. people bitching about the amount of RAM Electron apps take and the like. Who cares? The average user certainly doesn't. If anything, 98% of the time when I experience browser performance issues it's network-latency related, o…
Eh I think technical sales people overestimate how much users don't care, the feeling of "normal" users don't care is primarily driven by a narrow age bracket of folks who haven't had enough time to form an opinion (ages 20-25).
As this age bracket thinks of itself as "normal" and tends to live in its own bubble, it dismisses the general distaste for technology as being "not technological", when in fact the older generations already have expectations which it recognizes that technology is getting worse, not better.
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yes! this is the same reason I’m glad Stadia died. “cool demo” does not equal “practical business”, and local compute will always be superior to cloud compute.
Stadia was amazing and worked great even for games that required semi-high latency. The problem was the business model.
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>I see it all the time on HN, e.g. people bitching about the amount of RAM Electron apps take and the like. Who cares? The average user certainly doesn't. It is our job to care so non IT people don't have to.
To a degree yes but acting like anything that uses <500MB of RAM is a disaster goes beyond what is a reasonable concern in my opinion.
The problem with too many tabs wasn't primarily performance, although that was a part of it (disabling background tabs is a better optimization), it was that there were too many tabs.
So, cool tech but I don't think most people needed it.
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Wait until adblockers stop working, and see many people start seeing YouTube ads again. Will they agree to stay on Chrome?
My only use for chromium is youtube. I only watch a handful of channels but things are getting ridiculous. Sometimes I get ads every minute. Every minute! Just the other day I got served 5 ads in a row after a simple fast forward. I gave up TV more than 20 years ago and this crap is way worse. What can I do without letting them in my actual browser? These people are crazy.