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For fun, here's a copy-paste-into-devtools version: (async()=>{const r=await fetch(`data:text/plain;base64,H4sIAAAAAAAAE61UYW/TMBD9K5m1D7a4mbWwCiUKaGMFpA4xbQw+TNPkOZfGzLUj+7IQTfnvK…

Thanks for trying it, sounds like a bug I've been running into for a couple days where the wasm stream decoder does a bad memory access. I made some buffer lifetime fixes, next up …

Depends on the zoom. With this setup you can transfer about 0.1 B/s per pixel of 60 FPS video. So a 65" screen and 1080p camera at 10 meters away would max out at 2 kB/s with the n…

The handshake details are passed alongside the data so that if a direct connection is successful, the network races the optical transfer.

This is cool and minimalistic! I've been noodling on https://qr-send.com which is a slightly more polished version of the "erasure fountain codes + stream of QRs"-idea, inspired by…

If you want to mess with this at home, I've been vibe coding https://github.com/kig/formalanswer to plug theorem provers into an LLM call loop. It's pretty early dev but it does ha…

"We leverage APIs like CUDA streams to avoid blocking the GPU while the host processes requests.", so I'm guessing it would let the other GPU threads go about their lives while tha…

The researchers found that certain artifacts associated with LLM model generations could potentially indicate whether or not a model is hallucinating. Their results showed that the…

Of course I managed to add a "crash every 6 hours" bug today, after a few days of 16+ hour uninterrupted runs :D

I wanted to keep up to date with the latest AI research but I don't like reading news articles or watching videos. Now, a radio, a radio I can have on in the background while I'm c…

Around 37 trillion cells, of which 25 trillion are red blood cells. Plus a 100 trillion gut bacteria. The brain is about 0.1 trillion cells, of which 0.02 trillion cells are the ce…

1. Your existence is proof that you're made of real matter in the ultimate reality. If you weren't, you wouldn't exist. Just like our simulations are made of real matter in our rea…

Hi! This is a fun little library I wrote a few years back to make a minimal PostgreSQL client. It's around 400 lines of commented code ( https://github.com/kig/quickgres/blob/maste…

Artist here, thanks for the kind comment! I still like it too, can't believe it's been 20 years already.

The money that goes to the state in taxes is spent by the state on services provided by the citizens of the state. The alternative is the money going to a tax haven bank account of…

The biggest difference is that FLIF is an image encoder, SPIF/Multires is a container format. So you can cram lossy 20x compression ratio JPEGs into Multires, optimized for each re…

Hi, author here. Wow, this was a while ago, I'd forgotten I wrote that. There's a version of this using a directory of images and loads in a bigger picture if you zoom in: http://f…

And who could forget the most successful visual programming tool of them all: Photoshop. A relatively simple visual programming language for putting together programs that generate…

It's more like you moved to London, got a new lucrative job, and paid zero taxes by squirreling all your income away into a tax haven. And then you want to send that money to your …

The ANGLE shader compiler used in most WebGL implementations already does enforce that loops terminate. The problem is that GPUs don't / didn't have HW interrupts to allow switchin…

Ok, I'll bite. I found these fascinating. You could live in every one of them, it feels like I'm transported to different times and places, wondering what these people are up to, w…

Nokia was really good at competing in big markets. Back when everyone was using their various pre-Android stacks with similar levels of software prowess, Nokia was the biggest phon…

I can imagine the Elop-to-all-employees memo as MS CEO: Windows 8 is a disaster. Windows 9 is not ready yet and won't be ready for years. We're on a burning oil platform in the mid…