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Beware: the TeX justification algorithm is quadratic-time.

I've been doing this for a quarter of a century with any browser and a filtering proxy.

13 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6759426

This is a tradition over a century old: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_sign

would make phones somewhat more expensive

"somewhat" as in the ballpark of a few cents, definitely less than $1, because it's already there in the reference designs and deliberately removing it would actually take extra work and cost far more.

I remember all the no-name/generic MP3/MP4 players had an FM radio, while Apple's iPods did not. They deliberately chose not to include one, and definitely not because of cost.

MTK still has the largest marketshare of smartphone SoCs worldwide and they still use their combo RFICs.

https://pccentral.net/q1-2026-smartphone-soc-market-share-me...

https://www.androidheadlines.com/2025/03/mediatek-leads-glob...

The vast majority of anime has a very similar style, which is why it's immediately recognisable as such; AI has picked an average of that.

I have seen a few samples of AI anime, and it is impressive how far the technology has come; the only thing that really stands out are the cuts every few seconds, because video generation currently can't produce anything longer. However it's definitely enough to tell a story, particularly one that's nearly 100% fast-paced fighting scenes.

Exactly. Everything is a derivative work, and AI is now making people realise the full extent of that reality.

"You can't QoS that" sounds like the title of a nerdcore rap song.

Really odd to look at, considering if I saw any of these drawings from a human kid, I would say "good job buddy" and put it on the fridge.

The Grok ones in particular gave me that thought. Most of them really look like what a kid would do when given the same tools, while the other models' output have distinctly more "AI-ness" to them (for lack of a better term.)

No.

It just has more isoamyl acetate, which is what artificial banana flavoring uses.

"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants." -Isaac Newton

I'm referring to anyone who whines about "animal rights".

Vibe coded software is the modern equivalent of the shovelware of the 90s.

I don't think so, especially as the latter was attempting to make a profit but this clearly wasn't done with a for-profit motive in mind.

2G is still active in a few areas as a low-speed, long-range fallback while 3G is being shut down.

It's interesting to see how LLMs have definitely become a force-multiplier to motivate people into doing things they wouldn't otherwise have the time and effort to.

Those patents may not necessarily be required to encode or decode, if they're just a new way to implement some part of the specification.

I don't think video resolution will increase all that much in the future, except for niche uses, as the resolution of the human eye becomes a limiting factor.

H.263 was definitely a standard in videoconferencing and low-bitrate video in general (YouTube and many other streaming sutes used FLV1, which was a variant of H.263) prior to H.264.

just that I think the h264 long tail will be one of the longest long tails of a video codec.

I think MPEG-1 and 2 (from which MP3 comes) might be even longer.

DivX/XviD yes, but not H.263. Patents for H.263 expired long ago. This is MPEG-4 ASP, which is a superset of H.263.

(Source: have written a H.263 decoder as a learning exercise.)

If we don't have empathy with victims of that

Classic suicidal empathy. What's next, crying about the billions of bacteria people kill every day? It's fucking idiotic.

When you can't stop talking about how you're morally superior to the majority of the population, people naturally get pissed off.

Care to elaborate? Or are you just parroting some ideological belief with no basis in fact?

All AI-generated content is the result of one or more humans who decided to use AI to create it.

People have gotten sick of the constant virtue-signaling.

On the surface, identifying and automatically installing drivers and software for the devices you add is not a bad idea. It's how plug-and-play works.

The problem is with companies that want you to run their horrible piece of bloatware, and that incentive increased even more with the advent of "telemetry" (spyware).

Those complaining about "consent" don't realise that this stuff has definitely always been passed through the legal department, and was likely in the Windows EULA (which amounted to giving Microsoft full control over your machine the last time I looked, several years ago.)

As always, "the road to hell is paved with good intentions."

VGA still has EDID which this is based on, so this situation could've happened in that era if companies were less hostile.

But this is definitely something Windows does.

You can also spoof a keyboard and simulate keystrokes to open terminals and run arbitrary commands

This is what any decent barcode reader does, by the way; and before USB, they would be inline taps that pass through a regular PS/2 keyboard.