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The benefit is that they are incredibly simple to build.

It’s because the viewing format has a fairly consistent gamma curve relative to viewing environment ambient light level. In a theater its about 2.6 and this works with no ambient l…

It depends what you want to apply your linear functions on. If you want to work directly in the source scene light (e.g. photography), then it would make sense to use the inverse O…

No display technology, not even a professional display, has anywhere near the precision for this to matter.

It is. The EOTF wasn’t an engineered function in 1996, it was the natural response of CRTs. The EOTFs of later technologies like LCDs were developed to approximate this response, n…

VPN instructions aren’t obscene.

ID, Medicare card, HSA card, SSA benefits card, 401k/pension card, debit card, credit card, AAA card, and that assumes he only has one of each!

It’s not for tax reasons. It’s for legal reasons. You can’t escape taxes just by putting your headquarters in a certain location, but where your registered agent is controls your j…

It does. That isn’t going to survive judicial review.

Their fans are expensive but work well. I am fine with the normal colored versions.

There is little difference in culture here. Nearly all open source work is done in English.

The tenets of decency don’t need to be written down.

If a merchant tries to claw back a disputed charge they are going to get a big fee at the least.

Haiti comes to mind.

That’s not what happened. The phosphors chosen for CRTs were pretty much unchanged from the late 80s through the end of the CRT era. There were minor differences in formulation, bu…

It’s independent of white point. The metamerism problem is fundamental to the methodology of the 2° XYZ colorspace because it doesn’t model the entire real response of the human ey…

That’s not necessary. There’s nothing particularly fancy about data center power that warrants it.

The OED’s goal isn’t really to be every nation’s dictionary.

I think calculator is the wrong analogy. Go further back before even mainframes, when their were just a handful of purpose-built computers.

LLMs aren’t human.

Does the mailman come around and change house numbers and street names every month, too?

NAT is good enough.

Most opinions from the Supreme Court are unanimous.

At the very least, the affected parties would know if a crime has been committed. Preventing the crime from happening is out of scope of the government, as it should be.

The same way anything illegal is detected: a police report.