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New comment by ta8645 in "Blacksky grew to millions of users without spending a dollar"

ta8645 — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 02:34:18 +0000

waterfountain.com ?

New comment by ta8645 in "Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android"

ta8645 — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 23:04:54 +0000

These companies are in bed with the government, you're not going to be saved by any legislation. Many people on this site supported Google censoring the Covid anti-vax idiots, but it should have made it very clear that Google was working at the behest of the government. They're in bed together; the government gets to do an end-run around the constitution, and Google gets to rely on special government privileges and protection. Win-win.

New comment by ta8645 in "YouTube made AI enhancements to videos without warning or permission"

ta8645 — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 21:48:01 +0000

> Instead it is being used to make everything it touches worse.

Your bias is showing through.

For what it's worth, it has made everything I use it for, much better. I can search the web for things on the net in mere seconds, where previously it could often take hours of tedious searching and reading.

And it used to be that Youtube comments were an absolute shit show of vitriol and bickering. A.I. moderation has made it so that now it's often a very pleasant experience chatting with people about video content.

New comment by ta8645 in "YouTube made AI enhancements to videos without warning or permission"

ta8645 — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 21:44:33 +0000

And shovelling leads to actual muscles in our arms. People said that calculators would be the end of mathematical intelligence too, but it turns out to be largely a non-issue. People might not be as adept at calculating proper change in their heads today, but does it have a real-world consequence of note? Not really.

New comment by ta8645 in "YouTube made AI enhancements to videos without warning or permission"

ta8645 — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 12:37:24 +0000

My guess is that guys being replaced by the steam shovel said the same thing about the quality of holes being dug into the ground. "No machine is ever going to be able to dig a hole as lovingly or as accurately as a man with a shovel". "The digging machines consume way too much energy" etc.

I'm pretty sure all the hand wringing about A.I. is going to fade into the past in the same way as every other strand of technophobia has before.

New comment by ta8645 in "What are OKLCH colors?"

ta8645 — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 07:34:00 +0000

But once an algorithm to drag the colours back in-gamut was applied, would the lost perceptual uniformity still be a problem practically speaking, with DCI-P3 monitors?

New comment by ta8645 in "What are OKLCH colors?"

ta8645 — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 07:16:12 +0000

Very interesting. Is this just a limitation of our current hardware? How much of this problem would still exist if everyone had a wider gamut monitor, say full DCI-P3? That still doesn't cover the full gamut of Oklch, but would it make the problem practically disappear?

New comment by ta8645 in "Ban me at the IP level if you don't like me"

ta8645 — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 06:07:50 +0000

Let's ignore those people too. A master branch is just fine, and should offend nobody who has a real life to live.

New comment by ta8645 in "Ban me at the IP level if you don't like me"

ta8645 — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 06:02:11 +0000

If ipv6 ever becomes a thing, it'll make blocking all that much harder.

New comment by ta8645 in "BBC Micro, ancestor to ARM"

ta8645 — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 09:51:20 +0000

There was nobody named Sophie Wilson at the time the ARM ISA was being developed, and the reason the docu-drama was called Micro Men, is because there was nobody who appeared to be a woman amongst the key players at the time. It's not a good example of women's contribution to the field.

New comment by ta8645 in "Polarizing Parsers"

ta8645 — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 20:33:20 +0000

Well that's a view from the Go world, but it's the first that I've heard of :

https://http1mustdie.com/

Should be interesting, and worth keeping an eye on. Only a week away.

New comment by ta8645 in "The Tabs vs. Spaces war is over, and spaces have emerged victorious"

ta8645 — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 19:24:48 +0000

Just define Tab as 1 space, and they can be used interchangeably. Peace in our time.

New comment by ta8645 in "China develops new method to mass-produce high-quality semiconductors"

ta8645 — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 04:56:02 +0000

FWIW, reader view in Firefox made it easy to read.

New comment by ta8645 in "China develops new method to mass-produce high-quality semiconductors"

ta8645 — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 04:52:58 +0000

It's slightly worrying that they talk about its applicability in "smart terminals" rather than personal computers. I hope that's not them saying the quiet part out loud, about the future (or lack thereof) of personal computing.

New comment by ta8645 in "US AI Action Plan"

ta8645 — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 03:38:43 +0000

Perhaps, but it is a historical fact that religions often define themselves on their moral superiority. Anyone can claim that their position is the one that is morally correct. If you just assert it without any supporting evidence, you're doing the same thing religions have been guilty of for a lot of history. In any case, it's not useful in the context of a discussion like this one, where it is little more than a blanket dismissal and adds nothing to the argument.

New comment by ta8645 in "US AI Action Plan"

ta8645 — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 03:16:42 +0000

Perhaps you could add to the conversation, rather than slinging personal attacks.

New comment by ta8645 in "Reversing a Fingerprint Reader Protocol (2021)"

ta8645 — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 18:30:02 +0000

Can you please post a link to high quality images of your own fingerprints? It should be fine, probably nobody has the technology to make them show up on a threatening letter mailed to the government, or anything like that.

New comment by ta8645 in "Font Comparison: Atkinson Hyperlegible Mono vs. JetBrains Mono and Fira Code"

ta8645 — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 22:43:49 +0000

Thanks, that is very helpful!

This particular font seems to have very inconsistent kerning. The "isMultipleOf" identifier pushes the s & M & u and e & O way too tightly together, and the remaining letters seem inconsistently spaced as well.

New comment by ta8645 in "“The Bitter Lesson” is wrong. Well sort of"

ta8645 — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 16:08:01 +0000

I must not be communicating very well, because everyone is arguing with me about points i'm not trying to make. Sorry for that.

New comment by ta8645 in "“The Bitter Lesson” is wrong. Well sort of"

ta8645 — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 02:27:51 +0000

Indeed. But the premise of the objection, was that it is understandable, and a shame that we're not putting such understanding before implementing these systems.

If you're right, and it's essentially impossible to understand (and we still want to advance these technologies) we will have to do so in some degree of ignorance anyway.