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New comment by anikom15 in "HERMES.md in commit messages causes requests to route to extra usage billing"

anikom15 — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 22:50:38 +0000

If a merchant tries to claw back a disputed charge they are going to get a big fee at the least.

New comment by anikom15 in "HERMES.md in commit messages causes requests to route to extra usage billing"

anikom15 — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 22:39:22 +0000

Haiti comes to mind.

New comment by anikom15 in "Apple CMF (Color-Matching Functions) 2026"

anikom15 — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 17:19:28 +0000

That’s not what happened. The phosphors chosen for CRTs were pretty much unchanged from the late 80s through the end of the CRT era. There were minor differences in formulation, but often that was at the expense of color accuracy for motion clarity.

The early LCDs were poor because of limitations of the backlight’s spectrum. Once LED backlights were introduced, this was no longer a problem.

New comment by anikom15 in "Apple CMF (Color-Matching Functions) 2026"

anikom15 — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 17:10:56 +0000

It’s independent of white point. The metamerism problem is fundamental to the methodology of the 2° XYZ colorspace because it doesn’t model the entire real response of the human eye. Instead it underestimates the response of the blue cone. This can lead to blue becoming purple as Y is reduced. This is because the experiment used lamps with colored filters (broadband light) and not lasers or LEDs (narrowband light).

It’s not just a matter of introducing a correction factor (although that exists, see Judd-Vos) because the solution is more complex than that. The practical take away is that color matching cannot just involve comparing a narrow point in isolation but also needs to have a baseline of controlled surround and specular reflections in addition to understanding the nature of the perceived color (reflective, emissive, narrowband, wideband, etc.).

New comment by anikom15 in "Data center boom strains Texas homebuilders' need for electricians"

anikom15 — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 16:42:33 +0000

That’s not necessary. There’s nothing particularly fancy about data center power that warrants it.

New comment by anikom15 in "I won a championship that doesn't exist"

anikom15 — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 22:42:19 +0000

The OED’s goal isn’t really to be every nation’s dictionary.

New comment by anikom15 in "GPT-5.5"

anikom15 — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 21:47:00 +0000

I think calculator is the wrong analogy. Go further back before even mainframes, when their were just a handful of purpose-built computers.

New comment by anikom15 in "Who owns the code Claude Code wrote?"

anikom15 — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 20:33:40 +0000

LLMs aren’t human.

New comment by anikom15 in "IPv6 is the only way forward"

anikom15 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:51:18 +0000

Does the mailman come around and change house numbers and street names every month, too?

New comment by anikom15 in "IPv6 is the only way forward"

anikom15 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:47:30 +0000

NAT is good enough.

New comment by anikom15 in "Supreme Court Sides with Cox in Copyright Fight over Pirated Music"

anikom15 — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 18:47:35 +0000

Most opinions from the Supreme Court are unanimous.

New comment by anikom15 in "A new California law says all operating systems need to have age verification"

anikom15 — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 17:59:09 +0000

At the very least, the affected parties would know if a crime has been committed.

Preventing the crime from happening is out of scope of the government, as it should be.

New comment by anikom15 in "A new California law says all operating systems need to have age verification"

anikom15 — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 03:56:54 +0000

The same way anything illegal is detected: a police report.

New comment by anikom15 in "A new California law says all operating systems need to have age verification"

anikom15 — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 03:56:04 +0000

What does this have to do with software distribution?

New comment by anikom15 in "A new California law says all operating systems need to have age verification"

anikom15 — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 17:15:17 +0000

New Hampshire

New comment by anikom15 in "A new California law says all operating systems need to have age verification"

anikom15 — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 16:50:35 +0000

The solution is parental liability.

New comment by anikom15 in "Physicists prove the Universe isn't a simulation after all"

anikom15 — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 17:19:23 +0000

There are a lot of things in the universe that are not computable.

New comment by anikom15 in "Shaders: How to draw high fidelity graphics with just x and y coordinates"

anikom15 — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 17:51:51 +0000

OpenGL and pre-12 DirectX were the attempt at unifying video programming in an abstract way. It turned out that trying to abstract away what the low-level hardware was doing was more harmful than beneficial.

New comment by anikom15 in "Calculus for Mathematicians, Computer Scientists, and Physicists [pdf]"

anikom15 — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 17:39:24 +0000

I think there are usually two: Calculus for scientists and engineers which is analytical and has lots of symbols, and Calculus for everyone else which is more practical.

Math majors might have their own. I also know they end up taking complex Calculus.

New comment by anikom15 in "Britain's railway privatization was an abject failure"

anikom15 — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 17:41:54 +0000

The only issue I have with British rail is the expense. Otherwise, seems rather well done. Much better overall experience than I had with DB at least.