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New comment by bla3 in "this css proves me human"

bla3 — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 00:32:38 +0000

I like to think everyone came to the conclusion that it would strengthen the piece if most comments on it appear to miss the point and are slightly robotic.

New comment by bla3 in "Block the “Upgrade to Tahoe” alerts"

bla3 — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 01:02:54 +0000

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/02/how-to-downgrade-fro... describes how to downgrade.

New comment by bla3 in "Swift is a more convenient Rust (2023)"

bla3 — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 03:57:13 +0000

Since then, Swift also grew excellent C++ interop, something Rust doesn't have at all.

New comment by bla3 in "Chromium Has Merged JpegXL"

bla3 — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 13:03:50 +0000

It's a shame that JpegXL doesn't have a freely available spec.

New comment by bla3 in "Rust in Android: move fast and fix things"

bla3 — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 20:38:03 +0000

If they use Rust for new code and C++ changes are all in old code, this could be explained just by older code being more risky to change.

New comment by bla3 in "Buckle Up, the Smart Glasses Backlash Is Coming"

bla3 — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 11:35:20 +0000

There was a ton of backlash when Glass launched. Search for "glassholes" to find articles on that topic from back then.

New comment by bla3 in "Gemini 2.5 Flash Image"

bla3 — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 19:17:03 +0000

Why do Hunyuan, OpenAI 4o and Gwen get a pass for the octopus test? They don't cover "each tentacle", just some. And midjourney covers 9 of 8 arms with sock puppets.

New comment by bla3 in "Carbon Language: An experimental successor to C++"

bla3 — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 18:55:04 +0000

I think that might be true of the language committee, but there's presumably a huge crowd of people with existing c++ code bases that would like to have a different path forward than just hoping that the committee changes priorities.

New comment by bla3 in "Death by a Thousand Slops"

bla3 — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 12:32:15 +0000

The "Possible routes forward" section in the linked post mentions this suggestion, and why the author doesn't love it.

New comment by bla3 in "WebAssembly: Yes, but for What?"

bla3 — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 15:08:10 +0000

Sounds like they compile rust to wasm, so regular wasm instead of WasmGC is probably enough for them.

New comment by bla3 in "A new PNG spec"

bla3 — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 16:12:04 +0000

WebP lossless is close to state of the art and widely available. It's also not widely used. The takeaway seems to be that absolute best performance for lossless compression isn't that important, or at least it won't get you widely adopted.

New comment by bla3 in "JavaScript's New Superpower: Explicit Resource Management"

bla3 — Sun, 18 May 2025 02:21:45 +0000

That's a critique of `async`, not of `using` though, right? This doesn't seem to make functions more colored than they already are as far as I understand.

New comment by bla3 in "Watching o3 guess a photo's location is surreal, dystopian and entertaining"

bla3 — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 22:56:15 +0000

In my experience they're not great with mathy code for example. I had a function that did subdivision of certain splines and had some of the coefficients wrong. I pasted my function into these reasoning models and asked "does this look right?" and they all had a whole bunch of math formulas in their reasoning and said "this is correct" (which it wasn't).

New comment by bla3 in "Bilinear interpolation on a quadrilateral using Barycentric coordinates"

bla3 — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 16:26:12 +0000

How does this compare to https://jcgt.org/published/0011/03/04/paper.pdf? It seems superficially pretty similar.

New comment by bla3 in "No elephants: Breakthroughs in image generation"

bla3 — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 10:40:26 +0000

The pictures on the wall change too.

New comment by bla3 in "AI 2027"

bla3 — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 02:12:32 +0000

> The AI Futures Project is a small research group forecasting the future of AI, funded by charitable donations and grants

Would be interested who's paying for those grants.

I'm guessing it's AI companies.

New comment by bla3 in "Everything is Ghibli"

bla3 — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 00:04:07 +0000

Exactly. New image models are always exciting for two weeks or so. New LLM models are useful until the next,. better model comes out.

Which probably is just a small integer multiple of two weeks, but hey!

New comment by bla3 in "Apple will soon support encrypted RCS messaging with Android users"

bla3 — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 22:38:14 +0000

Because it leaks the device type of your messaging partner.

New comment by bla3 in "Apple will soon support encrypted RCS messaging with Android users"

bla3 — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 12:08:24 +0000

Really shows how apple is only into privacy when it's self-serving.

New comment by bla3 in "WASM Wayland Web (WWW)"

bla3 — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 12:49:02 +0000