CharlesW

Pangram's marketing always reminds me of Anchorman's Sex Panther cologne: "They've done studies, you know. Sixty percent of the time, it works every time." Pangram's &quo…

> A dithered image almost certainly beats a non-dithered JPEG compressed image in terms of file size, because you can JPEG compress the dithered image. Thus, if you like the look of a dithered ima…

> …but then it takes me 2 weekends to break up the changes into smaller commits using jj, which also gives me the chance to review and understand the code myself. I just tell Claude Claude code, …

> If not, why not? At least on Apple devices, this is not something anyone has to worry about. For example, on my 2022 Mac Studio daily driver, on 24/7, DriveDx ( https://binaryfru…

How was OSA/AppleScript not an OS-level malleable computing layer?

Out of curiosity, are you now or have you ever been a "Mac person"? I'm curious if you've ever gone down the rabbit hole on Apple's history of technologies for what I think yo…

https://help.kagi.com/kagi/search-details/search-sources.htm... …

To “yes, and” this, avoid Android Automotive. This is a different thing than Android Auto, so don't let Google's legendarily-poor product naming fool you.

Aperture (RIP) is never coming back, but many of us Aperature fans have been happily using Nitro¹, built by the guy who led Aperture and other imaging teams at Apple². ¹ https://www.gentlem…

Thanks! For me, learning more about the setup for that (mostly autonomous?) build process would be more engaging than spending a minute with the result.

I know I could've done this at any time, but I cannot wait to sit my kids down in front of full-screen Oregon Trail and King's Quest experiences.

What are the broad strokes of K3's design? What did you learn?

> It would've been nice to reserve "AI" for superior human-like intelligence capable of genuine common sense and reasoning. We've called that "AGI" since the late 90…

Or if we want to be slightly more pendantic, why `libfdk_aac` (not SoundCloud per se) defaultly restricts the input's frequency range when encoding. My guess is that this default surprised Soun…

Of course.

You can do `/code-review low` to more closely match Codex's default behavior.

FWIW, Via Licensing listed this patent as standards-essential to several MPEG codecs (AVC/H.264, HEVC/H.265, VVC/H.266), and it's also listed for VC-1 (a SMPTE standard).

For anyone who may not be aware it exists: https://unsloth.ai/docs/new/studio

I believe the point is that emoticons/emoji/kaomoji were never literal, and that it's surprising that anyone whose job is communications-related would say this.

Not to bikeshed, but isn't the word "mojibake" synonymous with "when character encoding breaks"?

Notably, PrismML CEO Babak Hassibi told CNBC this, so it’s either (1) bullshit, or (2) he just ended any chance of a relationship by leaking news of the talks.

> He was not annoyed about the closed garden, he was annoyed that it wasn't his. Those are reasonable guesses, but as someone who was at Apple at the time (in developer relations, with Adobe…

> I don't like USB-C because they all look the same on the outside, but they're not all the same on the inside. Many people don't realize that USB-C (USB Type-C) just refers to the…