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No mobile support. I get that a desktop UI framework doesn't want to target smartphones, but I think iPads (and bigger Android tablets) can cope well with more traditional desktop paradigms.

I think often it's also a combination of what you described and big companies being super risk-averse. Why risk breaking regulations if you can just say no?

Then again, lots of Wi-Fi-enabled devices support simply changing their region setting and will happily let you use different Wi-Fi bands or increase signal power.

The changes have been committed and pushed to a branch of the main (Apache-licensed) repo, with the clear intention of eventually being merged into the main branch. So it’s hard to argue the code isn’t published under the same licence as everything else. Still, I think they should have created their own website.

As someone who moved to the UK from abroad, it was crazy for me to see how unequal the UK is geographically. The main one is obviously the divide between London/everywhere else, but the general lack of infrastructure between places is wild.

On the other hand, the whole HS2 debacle is a great way to explain this to my friends outside the UK. Bizarre to think it was promised as a way to connect the north of England (and Scotland) to London and the SE...

Yeah, I don't mean to indicate that the model is bad. It's just that statistics are notoriously complicated (both in terms of the mathematics involved but also intuitively understanding the impact of non-perfect data and potential interactions is really hard), and most people really, really suck at it. Once you move from the maths to actually modelling data, you have to rely a lot on (niche) domain knowledge and experience.

I'm a bit biased because I work in a space with actual statisticians, but I'd wager that it's almost impossible for current LLMs to distinguish between good and bad examples in their training data. After all, even very smart humans fail to do that.

This is not at all how laws actually work. If you sell a product to customers in a specific country, you generally have to comply with local laws. You might be able to avoid this if you're very small and your service is entirely virtual. However, as long as Starlink needs to provide their customers with physical hardware, there are numerous ways to enforce regulations.

And you can always go after people - and I mean both Starlink executives and customers.

It's just a typical response. What he means (in an admittedly unnecessary, snarky way) is that this is not going to revolutionise perceptual colour science. It's not going to be an out-of-this-world experience, nor will it change our understanding of how humans perceive colour. I personally think it's pretty cool, though.

The Guardian's article on this[1] includes a quote from an eminent colour expert at City:

The claim left one expert bemused. “It is not a new colour,” said John Barbur, a vision scientist at City St George’s, University of London. “It’s a more saturated green that can only be produced in a subject with normal red-green chromatic mechanism when the only input comes from M cones.” The work, he said, had “limited value”.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/apr/18/scientists-c...