Via electron I’m sure it could. In the main browser it’s probably best to cap usage to avoid having buggy pages consume everything. Anything heavy like a video editor you’d rather install as an electron app for deeper system access and such.
But that's the thing, if I'm doing audio and buying 128GB of ram for the sake of doing music with my sample libraries, and loading hundreds of parallel tracks and being able to scrub through them without lags or audio clicks, I absolutely want to be able to load them to play with them.
> VoiceOver loves to say "not responding" in Safari and locks up,
I wonder, what's the correct solution for this ? Because so many apps I use including browser are definitely "not responding" multiple times per day for various reasons (full ram, internet stall, etc.)
Using VoiceOver compounds the not responding issue. I don't know how its internals work, but I imagine it tries to keep a view of the window's state--tree of elements, ETC. If the window has a lot going on, VoiceOver can get really sluggish, and I think it must somehow block the underlying app's ability to send/receive events, because you will press VO+right arrow to move to the next element, VO says "Safari/Chrome/Brave" not responding, and if you open up Force Quit, it reflects the same there. Reading a large diff on GitHub flat out doesn't work for me at all. Also, sometimes when navigating certain webpages, VoiceOver will just outright crash. Luckily, it does restart itself (not that pressing CMD+F5 is hard), but then my focus is moved to a completely different part of the page.
Or devs are just different users who care about different things and have different experiences.
Reminds me of the famous dropbox post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 - I don't even know if dropbox still exists in 2026 but i'm still happily using rsync and mailing things around because dropbox has just absolutely never worked reliably for me, unlike my 2007 gmail account.
Likewise, if it were up to me, instagram and any business whose business model revolves around ads would be banned (because ads would be banned because advertisement is harmful in general).
It's fine to care about different stuff, but if you want to understand the valuation of a company, then your experience only goes so far. it's not going to make any sense unless you broaden your scope of interest to the metrics that impact valuation.
I don't read OP's post we're talking about ("What's crazy is that a company [...] could be worth more than $60B...") as not understanding, but as disagreeing that our world should work in such a way where this state of affair is even remotely considered acceptable
> Preventing the problem from the beginning is better than ensuring you have somebody to blame for the problem when it happens.
that's assuming that the problems and incentives are the same for everyone. Someone whose uncle happens to own a bridge repair company would absolutely be incentivized to say
> "you're free to use a pair of dice to decide what material to build the bridge out of, as long as you take responsibility if it falls down"
Sorry, what's that got to do with anything? Who's the uncle supposed to be here in your analogy? The copyright owner? And so your hypothesis is that somebody's pushing AI in order to sneak copyrighted code into linux in order to sue them later? Seems very far fetched, and besides, why would I care about their incentives? Why would the linux foundation be interested in allowing that to happen?
isn't it the exact same problem than "making a good movie" or "making a good book" ? this is just thoroughly subjective.
When the author says:
> Every commercial audio reactive LED strip I've seen does this badly. They use simple volume detection or naive FFTs and call it a day. They don't model human perception on either side, which is why they all look the same.
well no, if they sell, then they are doing just fine until someone comes up with the $next $thing
Only because they don't even know how a good system feels like
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