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It's fine for installing, but uninstalling is madness: Windows uninstallers try to clean up all the registry and user profile stuff they install. Mac apps seem to just leave stuff …

This seems to do XYZ->RGB without any gamma correction. XYZ is linear, as is the transform to RGB, so we usually convert linear RGB to (gamma-encoded) sRGB at the end. The JS code …

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So if this Mac uses 30-50W, that's 40-60 tok/Wh...vs maybe 80k for a modern GPU cluster? So that's about 1000-2000x more power for the SSD streaming, unfortunately.

Nicely illustrated, and only one criticism: our preference for luminance (using more bits for "Y" vs "Cr/Cb") isn't due to the number of rods in the eye - there are so many rods so…

I think portability is very confusing: they rolled out passkeys with no device portability (device-bound) and only recently added it (CXP). So for anyone with multiple devices it w…

You can turn off the notch, I mean crop it out at least.

HEVC used to be a capped license per organization, so not providing it in the OS seems really harmful and expensive. Has the cap changed recently?

Yes, I think part of it was the "dark fiber" at the time, made bandwidth relatively cheap. But most personal photos don't use that much bandwidth - being able to use them anywhere …

AIs and podcasts (which also grew a lot recently) are free alternatives, and pricing matters as much as attention.

This is gross, it could be a onetime fee. It's hard to remember with all the ownership changes, but the Photobucket era was really a different time, of "it's your data, you're in c…

good point - alpha is a notable exception, it is not luminance

I'll argue for the +0.5 solution. First, I don't like half-sized intervals at the edges, and second, a 255-based representation is typically a SDR (not HDR) image. RGB values repre…

Guess you can't pay to get end-to-end encryption back in Instagram DMs? They dropped it a couple weeks ago.

Link to the Musharbash article that spurred the congressional investigation (2025): https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/did-a-private-equity-fire...

Except this math is 10x too high (unless accelerated depreciation is all of it) - a million tokens at 28 tokens/sec and 75W and 20c/kwh should cost $0.15 not $1.50. (And less with …

Two questions: 1. What is the search index? 2. The "description.md" example has things like "faces -> cluster_id". Is this from Davinci Resolve's face index? Things like faces+name…

We started taking the phones out of schools, so I guess now we are building them back into education laptops instead?

Hang on, this is a $2.99 one-time payment - below the level you can even buy ads and make a profit. There is no way he's trying to make billions of dollars this way, and it's hones…

The aspect ratios were much "taller" back then, which was kind of better for editing code. All these late 90s designs were near NTSC at the time - aspect ratios like 1.25:1 (1280x1…

If you back up to "intention" it's fully insane to make a GDPR argument against on-device AI. Yes it downloads bits, but those bits are not there to identify you - they are basical…

Chrome seems to use a custom inference runtime also (in addition to Gemini Nano). It would be better if this were all interoperable. The WebGPU alternatives like WebLLM do not have…

Any benchmarks? Scrolling is using 16% of my GPU (vs 5% in Sublime). Also things like mouse-down to activate a tab (vs mouse-up in Zed) make Sublime feel faster.

Doing this without the parents on board does not work. Kids can lie about their birthdate by a few years. Facial age estimation has error bars of like 5 years and many teens don't …

for the youngest ones, a lot of these are "mom's phone" or something like that, it's not even accurate to say you are identifying the user