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New comment by zokier in "What every coder should know about Gamma Correction"

zokier — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 20:52:06 +0000

for lot of image processing linearizing srgb is only half-way measure, and you might want to reach for a better colorspace altogether. cielab is obvious example, or maybe oklab/jzazbz/xyb/something else.

New comment by zokier in "C47/R47 Calculators"

zokier — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 20:52:40 +0000

There is also another major DM42 firmware project: DB48x https://48calc.org/

New comment by zokier in "Are you expected to run five Python type-checkers now?"

zokier — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 21:19:13 +0000

I find it funnysad that python people coined the phrase duck typing and then ended up designing what they have now. Meanwhile TS manages to embody duck typing far better even though coming from very different background.

New comment by zokier in "I'm building a parallel internet, and it's called The Thinnernet"

zokier — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 21:09:01 +0000

I'm struggling to understand what the concrete proposal here is.

> So what is Thinnernet? Imagine a fiber optic bundle of undersea cables- maybe a hundred or so 10Gbps cables comprising....

and the question goes unanswered. is it a protocol? physical layer? guideline? no idea.

New comment by zokier in "Spherical Voronoi Diagram"

zokier — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 14:14:47 +0000

Reminds me of this little map I created some time ago: https://ibb.co/TPVMCR3

My intent was to simplify the shapes of state borders as much as possible while retaining the topological (?) relationship between states. But there is no fancy math behind my map, it's just hand-drawn mess.

New comment by zokier in "Spherical Voronoi Diagram"

zokier — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 14:04:09 +0000

I'm not really seeing the connection to projections here?

New comment by zokier in "Nvidia is proposing a beast of a CPU system for Windows PCs"

zokier — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 20:01:34 +0000

yes, here is 2013 AMD presentation of the topic as example: https://events.csdn.net/AMD/GPUSat%20-%20hUMA_june-public.pd... see slide 14 especially

New comment by zokier in "Nvidia is proposing a beast of a CPU system for Windows PCs"

zokier — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 19:58:15 +0000

AMD Fusion knocking from 2010.

New comment by zokier in "Splash Is a Colour Format"

zokier — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 19:50:09 +0000

or you could use 3-digit octal (so 000-777) for a 512 color palette, which arguably would be even more simple. as a bonus you can use it to color file permissions :)

New comment by zokier in "Gaussian Point Splatting"

zokier — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 17:12:55 +0000

> Plus the fact you can "record" them from a real-world physical environment without ever having to "model" it opens up a lot of utility too.

This is the big thing imho. Sure, you can do traditional photogrammetry to capture meshes and textures but getting the shaders exactly right is afaik non-trivial etc, and if you want real-time rendering then you likely need some further post-processing of the assets. With 3dgs you can pretty much bypass all that complexity and the whole pipeline from photos to rendered frame is much more straightforward.

New comment by zokier in "Gaussian Point Splatting"

zokier — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 12:01:30 +0000

Yea, I think avoiding sorting is kinda the whole point here

New comment by zokier in "Gaussian Point Splatting"

zokier — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 12:00:44 +0000

> It uses the entire width of the monitor rather than a slender column of pixels down the middle with large blocks of unused space on either side

Umm on my machine it has 560px margin on both sides with the content being only 474px sliver in the middle?

New comment by zokier in "HP re-releases classic computer science calculator: The HP-16C"

zokier — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 21:36:41 +0000

db48x/db50x is probably your best bet

New comment by zokier in "Strace-ui, Bonsai_term, and the TUI renaissance"

zokier — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 14:02:53 +0000

That is very rose-tinted view of the era. In reality in early 00s lots of software had their own wacky UI toolkits. MS Office is of course the most notable example, but also iirc all of Adobe/Macromedia or every 3d modeling (Lightwave, Maya etc) and audio production software. In the enterprise realm people were doing Java AWT (and later Swing) UIs. And then there were the classics like WinAmp with its iconic theme support, or Mozilla with XUL (and themes).

New comment by zokier in "Show HN: Eyeball"

zokier — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 13:48:21 +0000

10 round avg 4.5%.

A time limit would make sense imho. For extra challenge, add diagonal or curved lines.

New comment by zokier in "10g Upgrade"

zokier — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 13:14:57 +0000

fyi zyxel has some reasonably priced 2.5G/10G base-t switches with or without poe++. I got myself XS1930-12HP when I updated my home network to wifi6 and 10G. The biggest annoyance was that some features are gated behind "advanced" license, but iirc nothing too critical. Small things, but I like that it has integrated power supply so it just has standard iec connector in the back instead of needing a power brick. I did replace the standard 40mm fans with 120mm noctua; the airflow might not be optimal but I think it'll survive.

New comment by zokier in "Strace-ui, Bonsai_term, and the TUI renaissance"

zokier — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 08:40:31 +0000

> Is it because the perceived alternative is another run-off-the-mill Electron RAM guzzler, because there aren't any _good_ GUI widget frameworks?

Yeah, I think that is 90% of it. And the whole related ecosystem aspect. All the major ways of building GUIs suck right now, especially for tiny apps. And to further exacerbate the problem, GUI frameworks are generally tied to their programming languages, Qt is C++, SwiftUI is Swift, Flutter is Dart so on; spewing some terminal escapes to stdout is something that can done from basically any language with relative ease.

New comment by zokier in "What appear to be biochemical processes may be a natural feature of geology"

zokier — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 18:47:16 +0000

> hardly anything grows there, almost 50 years later.

that seems pretty major exaggeration

https://bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.3732/ajb.0800...

New comment by zokier in "Radxa Dragon Q8B: A Laptop Cosplaying as an SBC?"

zokier — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 18:17:36 +0000

> USB 4, i.e. Thunderbolt

USB4 and TB are different things (confusingly enough)

New comment by zokier in "Sysadmining Like It's 2009"

zokier — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 16:11:29 +0000

2009 was right at the cusp of "cattle not pets" mindset, and many ways a transitional time from physical servers to virtual servers to disposable single-app VMs.