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Re:Thinkpad X210 by shereadsthenews on Sunday March 17, 2019 @05:42PM (#19416830)
I used to wonder why my ThinkPad sometimes ran for 12 hours and sometimes 5. Turns out that Google Docs has an animated cursor that doesn't just blink, it fades in and out using javascript. Animation cost several W on average. UX guys love animations because I dunno they are just psychos.
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Re:Thinkpad X210 by userbinator on Sunday March 17, 2019 @07:49PM (#19417579)
Reminds me of this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13940014

(I believe that the 13% CPU nentioned there is a rounded-up 12.5% of the whole CPU, or in other words a full 100% of one of 8 hyperthreads.)

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Re:Thinkpad X210 by shereadsthenews on Monday March 18, 2019 @10:16AM (#19421144)
Remarkably similar, yes!
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Re:Thinkpad X210 by smorrow on Monday March 18, 2019 @12:25PM (#19422484)
I've always appreciated Windows's animations for minimise and restore. I hate animations that don't do anything for you, though.

Brian Kernighan's COS333 page links to a goodui.org that recommends animations (in moderation) but also a bunch of horrible stuff.

So there's that.

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