Frezik

Several designers pointed me to Ian Storm Taylor’s article, “Design Tip: Never Use Black.” In it, Taylor argues that pure black is more concept than color. “We see dark things and assume they are black things,” he writes. “When, in reality, it’s very hard to find something that is pure black. Roads aren’t black. Your office chair isn’t black. The sidebar in Sparrow isn’t black. Words on web pages aren’t black.”

Taylor was correct. The problem is applying it badly. You can back off from absolute black and white while still having good contrast. This is especially true for dark mode.

The author later compares things to newspapers, which are traditionally black on white. Except not quite; newsprint paper isn’t bleached white, and I’m guessing the ink isn’t quite as deep black as it first appears, either.

More importantly, there’s an important distinction between newspapers and computer screens. Newspapers only reflect light around them, while screens give off their own light. This means screens can be significantly brighter than the environment around them.

That’s why dark mode works so well. It keeps the bright points on the screen to the parts you need.

Jokes on them, the nearest Boston Market to me is in another state.

I bet it comes with a condescending “you really need to think things through” attached, too. I’ve ran into the type before.

If I’m following what you mean by packaged RAM, Apple does that. It’s fast, but you can’t upgrade it.

The next fad will be Thunderdome. Are you ready to go beyond that?

No, it won’t. The DRAM market is dominated by three companies, and they’ve colluded before. They get their wrist slapped by some government body, they promise not to do it again, and then they wait a few years and do it again.

If the possibilities after death actually were heaven or hell, the bar to get into heaven would have to be pretty low. You’re going to torture someone for eternity because someone pirated Game of Thrones a few times? That couldn’t possibly be a moral way of running the universe.

Just had a conversation about this. I’ll copypasta what I said there.

https://d-shoot.net/kagi.html

tl;dr: they’re all in on AI (their own model, FastGPT, which is terrible), they make some very questionable business decisions with limited funds, and have a poor understanding of what Personally Identifiable Information (PII) actually is.

I could compromise on some of these things, but if I’m going to pay for their service as a Google alternative, I need to compromise less than I do with Google already.