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New comment by nyanpasu64 in "Estrogen: A Trip Report"

nyanpasu64 — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 23:29:17 +0000

I think that trans people, being the ones with firsthand experience of dysphoria and misgendering, and being a disadvantaged minority (https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/sustainable-inclu...) threatened by right-wing rhetoric, should be the ones to speak for what is right for them ("nothing about us without us"), individually and as a group.

New comment by nyanpasu64 in "Estrogen: A Trip Report"

nyanpasu64 — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 23:01:15 +0000

On top of that, legislatures, courts, and right-wing agitators are pushing to repeatedly worsen living conditions for trans people.

New comment by nyanpasu64 in "Estrogen: A Trip Report"

nyanpasu64 — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 22:48:18 +0000

I'm pretty sure they're still allowing puberty blockers for premature puberty, inducing puberty in cis teens, and surgically and medically forcing intersex people into a binary sex without consent.

New comment by nyanpasu64 in "Estrogen: A Trip Report"

nyanpasu64 — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 21:28:22 +0000

It's chilling watching the latest political powers openly declare that trans people are not who they are inside and must never be allowed to become what they are inside, while eliminating legal recognition and protection and criminalizing life-saving transition healthcare. I find myself retreating into dissociation because to feel the horrors is more than I can bear.

New comment by nyanpasu64 in "New US visa rules will force foreign students to unlock social media profiles"

nyanpasu64 — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 00:03:41 +0000

Why do half of your comments (most of the ones in uppercase) sound like they're written by AI?

New comment by nyanpasu64 in "Game Hacking – Valve Anti-Cheat (VAC)"

nyanpasu64 — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 22:01:31 +0000

Reminded of the Super Pichu story where someone modded his ISO of Melee to increase Pichu's stats during a Melee tournament.

New comment by nyanpasu64 in "The unreasonable effectiveness of fuzzing for porting programs"

nyanpasu64 — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 17:44:25 +0000

> Most code doesn't express subtle logic paths. If I test if a million inputs are correctly sorted, I've probably implemented the sorter correctly.

I don't know if this was referring to Zopfli's sorter or sorting in general, but I have heard of a subtle sorting bug in Timsort: https://web.archive.org/web/20150316113638/http://envisage-p...

New comment by nyanpasu64 in "The hamburger-menu icon today: Is it recognizable?"

nyanpasu64 — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 21:39:43 +0000

In Firefox if you right-click the title bar and "Customize Toolbar..." you can check Title Bar.

New comment by nyanpasu64 in "Why JPEGs still rule the web (2024)"

nyanpasu64 — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 21:10:49 +0000

My working model is that WebP images are generally a lossy copy of a PNG or a generation-loss transcoding of a JPG image. I know that lossless WebP technically exists but nobody uses it when they're trying to save bandwidth at the cost of the user.

New comment by nyanpasu64 in "Modifying an HDMI dummy plug's EDID using a Raspberry Pi"

nyanpasu64 — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 04:16:26 +0000

A friend had to reflash a monitor (Acer K222HQL) with a corrupted EDID over the HDMI port. I confirmed that it has three input ports (VGA, DVI, and HDMI) each with their own EEPROM chip next to the port (the friend had to lift a pin on the HDMI EEPROM to successfully reflash it; she should've connected it to ground but didn't). I found a manual online (https://global-download.acer.com/GDFiles/Document/User%20Man...) saying that the monitor supports DDC, implying it does do the multi-peripheral I2C trick.

I have another broken monitor's mainboard where the VGA and DVI's EDID pins go through 100 ohm resistors to {unpopulated 8-pin footprints, as well as the main chip}. I think this means the design considered saving EDID on dedicated EEPROM chips, but ended up integrating the data on the display receiver instead.

New comment by nyanpasu64 in "Modifying an HDMI dummy plug's EDID using a Raspberry Pi"

nyanpasu64 — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 01:04:48 +0000

You can override EDID in the kernel options (https://foosel.net/til/how-to-override-the-edid-data-of-a-mo...), but I don't know if you want to add a virtual monitor (unsure if https://askubuntu.com/questions/453109/add-fake-display-when... works).

New comment by nyanpasu64 in "Modifying an HDMI dummy plug's EDID using a Raspberry Pi"

nyanpasu64 — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 01:02:38 +0000

Do any monitors use the I2C multi-peripheral feature to allow both DDC communication and an I2C EEPROM to exist at different addresses on the same bus? Or is it cheaper to integrate functionality into a controller chip? (Though DP tunnels EDID over the aux bus, and (I assume) doesn't use an EEPROM to begin with.)

New comment by nyanpasu64 in "Modifying an HDMI dummy plug's EDID using a Raspberry Pi"

nyanpasu64 — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 01:00:28 +0000

Attaching the write-protect pin to +V is literally free in the PCB design process; IMO not doing so is a design error or decision (though IDK how much thought was placed into allowing users to rewrite the monitor identification).

New comment by nyanpasu64 in "Modifying an HDMI dummy plug's EDID using a Raspberry Pi"

nyanpasu64 — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 00:56:39 +0000

I have (too much) experience in EDID editing. My suggestions:

- AW EDID Editor as you mentioned.

- CRU is a Windows-only tool, and will modify the EDID files it dumps from monitors (removing serial/etc. descriptors to make room for detailed resolutions), but will work. It does not run under Wine.

- 010 Hex Editor has an EDID template.

- On Linux you can install wxEDID from Flatpak (IIRC the distribution packages would crash in WxWidgets). I don't think it can create sections though.

- v4l-utils has edid-decode (which can be used as a git diff textconv tool), though this does not help you encode EDID files.

I found that HDMI EDIDs have a CEA extension block while DP EDIDs have a DisplayID extension block. I haven't done any work in multi-page EDIDs with over 256 bytes (and don't know what EEPROM chip you'd use to emulate them, nor the protocol or APIs to read and write them).

New comment by nyanpasu64 in "Debunking HDR [video]"

nyanpasu64 — Sun, 15 Jun 2025 02:53:07 +0000

Raw photographs, don't, do that?

New comment by nyanpasu64 in "Show HN: Tritium – The Legal IDE in Rust"

nyanpasu64 — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 02:44:31 +0000

I wonder if textbooks and papers could be easier to understand if they had a "go to definition" functionality for technical jargon, notation, or reasoning.

Basic Patterns in How Adaptive Systems Fail

nyanpasu64 — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 09:21:55 +0000

Article URL: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/333952644_Basic_Patterns_in_How_Adaptive_Systems_Fail

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44255604

Points: 1

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New comment by nyanpasu64 in "The impossible predicament of the death newts"

nyanpasu64 — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 00:31:30 +0000

I recently learned that (Wikipedia) "Vascular cambia are found in all seed plants except for five angiosperm lineages which have independently lost it; Nymphaeales, Ceratophyllum, Nelumbo, Podostemaceae, and monocots.[1]" Four of these lineages are aquatic plants (including water lilies) and some scientists theorize monocots may have also evolved in the water. I seem to recall reading that aquatic plants don't "need" woody growth for structural stability, but can't find a source right now.

New comment by nyanpasu64 in "RenderFormer: Neural rendering of triangle meshes with global illumination"

nyanpasu64 — Sun, 01 Jun 2025 06:40:10 +0000

The animations (specifically Animated Crab and Robot Animation) have quite noticeable AI art artifacts that swirl around the model in unnatural ways as the objects and camera move.

New comment by nyanpasu64 in "RenderFormer: Neural rendering of triangle meshes with global illumination"

nyanpasu64 — Sun, 01 Jun 2025 06:39:16 +0000

The output image of the demo looks uncannily smooth, like an AI upscale. I feel it's what happens when you preserve edges but lose textures when trying to blow up an image past the amount of incoming data it has.

(EDIT) Denoising compares better at 100% zoom than 125% DPI zoom, and does make it easier to recognize the ferns at the bottom.