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I see that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SRGB#Translation_to_integers implies what I would call node-centered sampling ("standard" or "mid-tread" in the post), but are you aware of…

This is like a 1D version of what a scientific computing person might describe as the distinction between node-centered ("standard" or "mid-tread" in this post) vs cell-centered ("…

But traversing the prototype chain (to figure out method dispatch) is also potentially slow without static typing, and we're managing that ok, no?

Supporting operator overloading is part of the linked TS issue [1]. But I'm more curious: why did operator overloading in ES6 itself [2] die? [1] https://github.com/microsoft/TypeS…

This is very cool! I would love the ability to scribble arbitrary smooth curves (like a little right hand, or a comma, something asymmetric to highlight the symmetries in play) and…

Yes, if it included a spanx-like thing to contain my belly. Otherwise it would not look flattering, on me at least.

Thanks for highlighting this. I've seen a lot of popular press about Magnifica Humanitas that notes the slavery apology. It does make some sense with this (recent, as you note) hum…

As a standard for floating point representation and computation, IEEE 754 solved multiple long-standing serious problems better than anything that came before it. I don't think its…

I like this justifiation of NaN != NaN; it emphasizes that NaN has representional intent, more than just some bit pattern. We take for granted that (except for things like x86 exte…

Thank you for the background info, and sorry for me explaining CFFI (I just wanted to be sure we were talking about the same thing). Being ignorant about PyPy, I honestly had no id…

Sorry can you explain more the connection between PyPy and CFFI (which generates compiled extension modules to wrap an existing C library)? I have never used PyPy, but I use CFFI a…

Is there any visibility or accountability to record exactly what it did and not look at? I doubt it. So we're left with a kind of Rorschach test: some people think LLMs follow rule…

Sure, a license can't create new legal understanding of "derived work", but I think the intent of what Splinelinus said still works: a license outlines the terms under which a lice…

but I came here for amusement, not existential dread.

I love the Vernier scales! But I honestly hadn't known about the sense in which slide rules have a Venier scale until your comment, which led me to [1]. In another class on laser-c…

A big 6-foot K&E sliderule hung at the front of my high-school chemistry classroom, but was never used. At graduation ('91) I asked the teacher if I could have the slide rule and s…

I learned about this not from Mathologer, but Numberphile [1]. The second half of the video is the continued fraction derivation. I remember this being the first time I appreciated…

That's super cool! Thanks for explaining. Just to clarify myself - when I was thinking of automation I was not thinking of AI, or at least not how its popularly understood these da…

It may have jumped the shark, but it may be that now there's space for actual experimentation and innovation again. This talk from Scott Jenson (who worked at Apple in Human Interf…

The website says "I basically need to design puzzles in reverse and have built a set of tools to help me with that." Does that mean that each day's puzzle is essentially built by h…

Of the various internet .+P, NTP is one I never learned about as a student, so now I'm looking at its web page [1] by its creator David L. Mills (1938-2024). I've found one video o…

Others have more complete answers, but the value for me of learning Prolog (in college) was being awakened to a refreshingly different way of expressing a program. Instead of sayin…

Circle K in Chicago has them too. Employees are constantly needed to monitor things at checkout. If items aren't clearly separated (which is easy to do out of haste, not malice) it…

Thank you for giving the specific name ("Dynamic XFA (XML Form Architecture)") to the kind of PDF that generates the "Please wait" message. I have seen this and never understood ho…

Note: the improved loop in the "1. They are not exact" can easily hang. If count > 2^24, then the ulp of f is 2, and adding 1.0f leaves f unchanged. What's wild is that a few lines…