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> Apple got a lot of explaining to do for the market to justify its price tag. If it were down to feature lists and price tags, Apple wouldn't be selling very many phones. It seems…

To the contrary, non-gamma-correct compositing is very common, since so many programs (both historically and today) simply never bothered to do it correctly--but we get good result…

My hot take is that physical correctness for graphics is very much in vogue right now, but this is coming at the sacrifice of psychovisual and physiological properties of graphics.…

This is a pretty thorough article. Why would you focus so much on gamma correction? How would you expand it?

I know someone who converted one of these into a home-made terminal, so they could connect to the computer at school and work from home. They drilled a hole into the TV, added a so…

The story is a simplification, and that's its flaw, like most stories. My experience is that while lifetime and cost are often correlated, they aren't always, the ratio is often a …

No, you are not liable when someone robs the bank you use.

Product of zero or more primes. Otherwise you cannot factor 1.

In confidence, I’ve heard stories of simple cost-saving measures at fabs that have resulted in 9+ figures of damages. Honestly, I am impressed at how well these companies keep it o…

From what I understand, Intel's 10nm process is roughly the same as 7nm processes from other foundries, and Intel's 14nm is more or less 10nm on someone else's scale.

Does anyone else remember that this feature was present in old versions of Eudora on the Mac? It would literally put icons of chili peppers on your emails to say how spicy they wer…