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Regressive JPEGs 4 days ago

I guess this is related, but I knew too little to tell: Safari can't do MJPEG in <img>.

Using my USB-C cable tester, I can be sure all the cables I have can deliver the amount of power my devices need.

Wait until they discover off brand usb cable with incorrect e-marker.

Sometime a wrong and misleading README done more harm than good.

It is not that rare to see LLM waste hours on a wrong path because a misleading line in README. Even worse, they can't learn. Spawn a subagent and it repeat the same error again

Filevault for MacOS (which is wonderful and never sends your key to be kept somewhere else)

Did you read the documentation?

https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/protect-data-on-you...

"iCloud account: Click “Allow my iCloud account to unlock my disk” if you already use iCloud. Click “Set up my iCloud account to reset my password” if you don’t already use iCloud."

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/devicemanagement/f...

"FileVault Full Disk Encryption (FDE) recovery keys are, by default, sent to Apple if the user requests them. Only one payload of this type is allowed per system."

If you consider non-English script, traditional OCR is not more reliable.

CJK have lots of character and high confusion rate.

Arabic scripts are complex and have lots of morphs.

Vietnamese have easily confused diacritics.

Thai have lots of non-standard fonts.

What we needed, in hindsight, was to treat segments as true selectors — opaque handles with no arithmetic meaning. If you can’t assume the next segment is 16 bytes ahead, you’re forced to use segmentation as intended.

Except we couldn't. If we made each segment isolated from other, we would waste so much memory because memory are allocated in segment.

If we made each segment dynamic, we need something to manage them.

This "hindsight" is just a MMU in disguise.

Most of their practice are illegal already. The problem is lack of enforcement.

We are not suing polymarket. We are not suing the marketing company. And we don't want online censorship.

IMO, the marketing company / media company should be sued. -- They are (relatively) easier target to sue. Many are US based and not going anywhere. With enough luck, this might give us a better internet with less SEO bullshit.

The real question is -- how much of them are bot traffic?

We knew bot traffic is more than half of the internet, right?

I hate compilers 1 month ago

What do you do when the client has WebAssembly disabled?

Do people really do that? -- disable, not just using old browsers with no wasm.

Disabling wasm while keeping js enabled is a configuration i can't understand

Canadian tech is nonexistent because every Canadian pension fund, family office, and bank prefers to invest in American equities over Canadian equities.

I was told that we should never invest pension fund on local, because you salary is basically based on local industry. One need diversified investment.

Not sure how true this is, but that's what I have been listening for years.

(disclaimer: not canandian, not american

<begin devil's advocate>

This is extra work on human.

Many artist and content creator is now asked to show the "behind the scene" or a full session recording, which nobody care enough to check. This is frustrating and demotivating the artist.

Expect the same demotivating effect on the software contributor.

If you think reading _forwarded_ AI response are cheap, you can run your own LLM. It is the same amount work on you

</end devil's advocate>

That recording capture code, but not intent and thought.

The only alternative to PR review is pair programming - where you can discuss with your peer in real time, discuss the design, asking questions or clarifications.

Without real time communication, those small delta are pure noise.