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Is bassoontracker too old-school? https://www.stef.be/bassoontracker/

W3C has been defining SVG Native, but it hasn't progressed much lately — mostly because there hasn't been any interest in it. SVG Native is a small subset of SVG 2.0 which doesn't support scripting, animations or any external references. https://svgwg.org/specs/svg-native/

It isn't only corporate development teams — open source development teams want to spy on their users, too. For instance, Homebrew: "Anonymous analytics allow us to prioritise fixes and features based on how, where and when people use Homebrew." [1]

[1] https://docs.brew.sh/Analytics

Linux kernel version 7.1 will drop support for 486: "Linux devs think even one second spent on 486 support is a second too many." https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/04/linux-kernel-maintai...

The movie was made in 1983 and it already uses the word "hallucination": "what you see on these screens up here is a fantasy; a computer-enhanced hallucination" https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086567/quotes/?item=qt0453841&...

Here's Andreas Kling's general thoughts on Rust:

- Excellent for short-lived programs that transform input A to output B

- Clunky for long-lived programs that maintain large complex object graphs

- Really impressive ecosystem

- Toxic community

https://x.com/awesomekling/status/1822241531501162806

Debian Trixie drops 32-bit x86 support. Ubuntu dropped 32-bit support already earlier, which meant that lightweight Lubuntu and Xubuntu don't support it either. It's sad to see old hardware support getting dropped like that. They are still good machines as servers and desktop terminals.

Are there any good Linux distros left with 32-bit x86 support? Do I have to switch to NetBSD?

Oklab is a nightmare in practice - it's not linked to any perceptual color space, but it has the sheen of such in colloquial discussion. It's a singular matmul that is supposed to emulate CAM16 as best as it can.

Oklab is perceptually uniform and addresses issues such as unexpected hue and lightness changes in blue colors present in the CIELAB color space. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklab_color_space

Oklab is used in CSS because it creates smoother gradients and better gamut mapping of out-of-gamut colors than Lab. Here's a picture how Oklch (on the left) creates smoother gamut mapping than CIE Lch (on the right) ("Explore OKLab gamut mapping in oklch"): https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/9449#issuecomment...

I have been using lima to run Linux VMs on macOS. This new Apple tool looks very similar and I might replace lima with it.

Does your crawler respect robots.txt? Does it request pages with nice delays so that it doesn't bring down servers? Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43422413

Many modern file formats are based on generic container formats (zip, riff, json, toml, xml without namespaces, ..). Identifying those files requires reading the entire file and then guessing the format from the contents. Magic numbers are becoming rare, which is a shame.

Wikipedia has a good explanation why the PNG magic number is 89 50 4e 47 0d 0a 1a 0a. It has some good features, such as the end-of-file character for DOS and detection of line ending conversions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PNG#File_header

Bluetooth is also turned on after every OS update. I don't understand why macOS does these. They can't be bugs because they have been around for years.

That's why I've decided that my next mouse won't have any rubber in it, but it's difficult to find a good mouse without rubber. I'm still looking for one.

Generally, I try to avoid buying anything with rubber. It is usually the first part that goes bad. Either it gets sticky and starts melting or it gets hard and dry and breaks up. Also, I avoid using rubber bands. They usually end up damaging objects they hold together.

Here's a good page about conservation of rubbers and plastics for those who like to preserve their vintage stuff for a long time. https://www.canada.ca/en/conservation-institute/services/con...

Another annoying Xcode feature is that building a macOS app with Xcode command line tools (xcodebuild) sometimes complains that my iPhone is locked:

"An error occurred whilst preparing device for development -- Failed to prepare the device for development. Domain: com.apple.dtdevicekit Code: 806 Recovery Suggestion: Please unlock and reconnect the device. The device is locked. Domain: com.apple.dt.MobileDeviceErrorDomain"

Ideally, you can constrain the set of inputs to only valid ones by leveraging types. But if that's not possible and a truly invalid input is passed, then you should panic.

But how can the caller know what is "a truly invalid input"? The article has an example: "we unfortunately cannot rely on panic annotations in API documentation to determine a priori whether some Rust code is no-panic or not."

It means that calling a function is like a lottery: some input values may panic and some may not panic. The only way to ensure that it doesn't panic is to test it with all possible input values, but that is impossible for complex functions.

It would be better to always return an error and let the caller decide how to handle it. Many Rust libraries have a policy that if the library panics, then it is a bug in the library. It's sad that the Rust standard library doesn't take the same approach. For println!(), it would mean returning an error instead of panicking.

Which open format can handle this kind of video? The Cineform video codec can store stereo video, but I don't know if it would be suitable for this.

There's few new 5K monitors: ASUS ProArt Display 5K PA27JCV (already sold for $799) and Benq DesignVue PD2730S.

Is this an experimental only JS engine or do you aim to implement the entire ECMAscript specification?

I have been following the Rust Boa project, but I think that it isn't production ready, yet. https://github.com/boa-dev/boa

Chinese already did a similar experiment few years ago and the result was that "plants can grow on the moon despite the intense radiation, low gravity, and prolonged intense light"

https://phys.org/news/2023-10-china-tiny-farm-moon.html

what other products with users has Apple acquired and shut down?

Shake was acquired in 2002 and killed 7 years later.

That doesn't mean you can just slap a RISC-V decoder on an ARM chip and it will magically work though.

Raspberry Pi RP2350 already ships with ARM and RISC-V cores. https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/rp2350/

It seems that the RISC-V cores don't take much space on the chip: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41192341

Of course, microcontrollers are a different from mobile CPUs, but it's doable.

VS Code does become slower for me on my MacBook M1. I typically don't restart the app unless I have to. After few days of usage, scrolling the code area becomes so slow (<20fps) that I have to restart the app. I haven't experienced such slowdown in other IDEs, such as Xcode or Qt Creator.

the team at Google has agreed to apply their subject matter expertise to build a safe, performant, compact, and compatible JPEG-XL decoder in Rust

There's already a JPEG-XL decoder written in Rust: https://crates.io/crates/jxl-oxide

It would be nice to hear why it's not good enough.

macOS 14 / Safari 17.6 shows static pics, but no animation.

Honestly, I wish all animated image formats would just die. They are an inefficient way to animate images, because they only use intra frames. H.264, H.265 or AV1 should be used for animations. Fortunately, Safari can display video files in <img> or CSS images, which makes all animated image formats unnecessary.

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Another good web site for media data formats is https://wiki.multimedia.cx

Playstation factory was also almost fully automated: "PlayStation 4 units come off the assembly line at a pace of about one every 30 seconds." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23748664

WPF seems to be one of the preferred native UI platforms:

"Microsoft will refresh WPF with new Windows 11 theming and hyphen-based ligatures support for Microsoft .NET 9 and will continue to invest in WPF as one of the two preferred native user interface platforms on Windows."

The other preferred native UI platform seems to be WinUI 3: "WinUI 3 joins Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) as the two recommended native UI platforms for developers."

https://news.microsoft.com/build-2024-book-of-news/

I don't know about MAUI / Blazor.

The Internet Wayback Machine has archived the instructions how to convert a Microsoft account into a local account: https://web.archive.org/web/20240612104753/https:/support.mi...