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I think the technology also dictated it. It’s easy to forget that in those days the idea of window chrome being full color, full transparency, with live window dragging and visuals…

But the intuition based on the constant gravity assumption correctly illustrates the point, and adding in the more complicated picture of non-constant gravity creates new terms tha…

If you're talking about intuitions, you have no firsthand intuitions about lifting effort decreasing with distance to the Earth. We can intuit about constant gravity, and the math …

IANAL, but isn't most of that unenforceable in the US? Typefaces have their own weird place in IP law which is different from copyright.

And I think the answer to the "doing the math" question is, until you've actually collected the data, "what math?" Until someone actually puts a bunch of six-figure value hardware …

WebP generally preserves higher visual quality at the same compression ratios as JPEG. You can make bad looking images with either codec by demanding smaller file sizes, but all el…

> More so than any other image format, JPEG takes advantage of the quirks of human perception to throw away information while largely preserving quality. That is a very odd thing t…

Well, it’s one flaw. I would argue that the bigger flaw, which you alluded to, is that the cost of computing the cache yourself maxes out in the single digit dollars even very larg…

> Then the part that matters: where the KV lives When your abstract was clearly generated by an LLM and not curated to at least make it sound human, it does not make me want to rea…

> And I didn't learn anything. So first off, I mean, of course you didn't, right? You had already learned most of what you were going to learn from this specific project by doing i…

I'm pretty sure they just vibe coded the site in half an hour on a lark. High gloss without any real direction or intent behind it is the new "vanilla html page with no CSS file", …

Are your old hard drives encrypted using asymmetric cryptography? If not, I'm not sure who made you that promise.

My current hunch is that that benchmark captures most of the relevant gap between Anthropic and the rest. “Can’t distinguish truth from fiction” has long been one of the deeper com…

I don't mind if people use AI to help them write, but when I see this kind of thing, it implies to me that they're barely even skimming it before posting. Surely people don't want …

> Maybe its because I'm using not-frontier models to do the coding IMO it’s probably that. The difference between where this was a a year ago and now is night and day, and not usin…

Flax seeds are a very tedious and inefficient way to get omega-3 as a vegan, particularly because they contain ALA, a short chain omega-3, which our bodies are extremely inefficien…

Fine, luma, not luminance. But what you're describing is exactly that calculation. This does not change my point. Again: If you’re doing this correctly, the perceived brightness st…

So specifically on a backlit LCD screen with dimming zones, and in the specific case where an entire zone would have originally been blue or red (which are perceptually dimmer), yo…

Yeah, that’s the only explanation that makes sense. It’s just so strange to think that color pixels would use more energy.

> It seems obvious that a higher perceived brightness can be achieved for any given pixel if using greyscale instead of using colors, just because less of the backlight's area is o…

> Color pixels drain more energy than grayscale ones. Personally found my phone lasting twice as long as before. Over time, a considerable extension of your phone’s lifespan. What?…

> and don’t think that the programmer more than the languages contribute to those problems This sounds a lot like how I used to think about unit testing and type checking when I wa…

Multiple severe attacks on browsers over the years have targeted image decoders. Requiring an implementation in a memory safe language seems very reasonable to me, and makes me fee…

Seems like the normal usage to me. The post above lists other criteria that have to be satisfied, beyond just being a Rust implementation. That would be the consideration.

1. “High resolution” in this kind of context is generally relative to previous work. 2. “Postage stamp sized” is not a resolution. Zoom in on them and you’ll see that they’re quite…