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I believe that in all of EU you can just look at the ”comparison price” which is per-weight and listed below the normal price. It’s also very useful for quickly comparing similar p…

1000%. If you have the luxury/curse of _building_ the house on empty land simulating light is extremely important imo. It determines everything from layout of rooms to window place…

This reminds me of this argument with libertarians/ancaps: A: rich people pay less % in taxes than wage workers, we should close the loopholes B: but taxes are immoral to begin wit…

> Maybe the more interesting thing is how far people are going to 'fight' against AI? All ”AI resistance” I’ve seen is not against the tech, but against human bad actors behind AI:…

There were two major flaws with the rollout of USB-C, none of them technical: To have unmarked cables. This should have been explicitly forbidden by spec as non-compliant. Today un…

Why stop there? If you _use_ handwritten products you’re ngmi. I only use vibe coded operating systems, JavaScript sandboxes, compilers, TLS libraries, databases, rendering engines…

Im not a security engineer at all and I have an instant gut reaction to floats in regular code. ”How big can this get? Is it deserialized? What arithmetic ops are happening? Any ri…

In engineering you have tolerances to deal with non-determinism. ”Within these bounds” and ”given these assumptions then…” is the foundation of building something _on top of_ those…

It’s not necessarily symmetrical, and in fact would be very surprising if it was. It’s a probabilistic algorithm on both sides, so the energy use to find any working program vs all…

> Only very rarely I have seen examples with obvious differences between monitors when showing green objects, e.g. some documentaries with certain vividly colored animals, like som…

This is truly an (accidental?) setback of color reproduction as it has progressed over time. For LED lights R9 is also crucial for skin tones which makes it so bad to just leave th…

> The report made it sound like it is some kind of semi-official EU-endorsed project, but its just... a closed source, for-profit social network? This is so stupid. It’s really lik…

> Sure, but the process is "what you do" which directly contradicts what you're saying. ”What you do” was just short for the _activity_ that you’re doing, eg ”I am coding” or ”I am…

Both ”creative mythical noble artist” and ”creative work is just work” are unhelpful strawman arguments. One is elitist, the other is reductionist. Creativity is neither a property…

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> What makes this so beautiful IMHO is that it's a trivial jail break, but also a close to unfixable. It’s almost as if identifying security holes is a prerequisite for both fixing…

I had a near-instant crash too, but different kind. Firefox iOS. The vibes are leaking

This is such an obvious observation that I’m surprised to find it often missing. 0.1X is nothing compared to the destruction (ie negative X) you can do with the right combination o…

UB is especially bad but also not as big as all other concerns combined. Two of the most reliable software ever to exist, curl and SQLite, are C/C++. There are also cases in system…

Video production. Gigabit is 125MB/s. If you’re shooting a day in 10bit 4k (pretty standard today) you have like ~1TB of data. If you need to get that footage to an editor or a pos…

> None of HDR10, HDR10+, or DolbyVision ever answered the question of how to adapt for varying ambient brightness levels, either, which is again a very important question to answer…

Round trip time is actually much faster than Postgres, since there’s no need to touch the network. You can get massive single threaded throughput. In order to achieve comparable th…

> As you said it is hard to create with AI without losing your soul but that’s not inherent to the tech. It definitely appears inherent so far. You could say infinite feeds optimiz…

> They could inspect stdlib source code to fix compatibility issues with newer compilers and quite prolific with idioms. In order to even say this, you need to have knowledge and u…

Yeah I implemented my own in Go because I was unhappy with the 3p ones, so that’s why I reacted. It’s surprisingly hard to get right, in particular: 1. Backoff and timer logic to n…