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by 4ad 1y ago
HDR is just a scene-referred image using absolute luminance.
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by 4ad 1y ago
Deleted my account many years ago when it became clear that I was the product.
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by 4ad 1y ago
Doesn't really answer the question of why does the military use the L-band. Whether it's jammed or not is immaterial (of course they are going to jam it if it has military use), but what specific attributes makes L-band useful f
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by 4ad 1y ago
It is simultaneously possible that Ericsson banned Erlang in 1998 (a statement claimed multiple times by the creators of Erlang) and that Ericsson rescinded the ban later in 2004, when they hired back Joe Armstrong.
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by 4ad 1y ago
No, scene-referred vs. display-referred. These are standard terms. https://www.color.org/scene-referred.xalter https://ninedegreesbelow.com/photography/display-referred-sc... https://ansel.p
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by 4ad 1y ago
All raw means is scene-referred data. The idea that somehow raw means "raw" data from the sensor is an often repeated idea, but unfortunately is completely nonsense. Modern sensors do on-chip noise reduction, they can be programme
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by 4ad 1y ago
Iridient X-transformer produces a linear (demosaiced) DNG, that's its sole reason to exist, to do a better job at debayering than other software like Adobe. So it wouldn't make any sense for Iridient X-transformer to produce a mos
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by 4ad 1y ago
He probably compares a mosaiced RAF with a debayered (linear) DNG. Just... don't do that. Use a mosaiced DNG. And certainly don't embed the RAF file. Plus with lossless JPEG-XL, the difference is trivial (under 5%): On my own file
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by 4ad 1y ago
DNG has nothing to do with free software, it's an Adobe format similar to PDF. It is an open standard, but it is covered by patents and it comes with a no-cost patent license (except that it's less open than PDF because it doesn&#
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by 4ad 1y ago
No it doesn't. A DNG is just a container that can hold anything, including compressed data, just like the RAF. Coincidentally, most proprietary RAW formats are just bastardized TIFFs, and DNG is also a TIFF derivative... There is zero
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by 4ad 2y ago
At some point I was contacted to do a VMS port of Go, for the new x86 port (I have written the Go ports for arm64, sparc64, and for Solaris). In the end it all fizzled out because they couldn't arrange for some sort of license for me s
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by 4ad 2y ago
Hyperscaler companies or the TOP500 don't need high reliability, especially the latter. With cloud computing reliability is achieved through software, distributed software which needs to be horizontal. On a mainframe reliability is a
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by 4ad 2y ago
I'm not a fan of OpenAI, and certainly not a fan on Sam Altman, quite the opposite, it's anything but open, and at a fundamental level I believe it does the opposite it claimes to do—benefit humanity. In fact I've often calle
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by 4ad 2y ago
The Turing test is a test for people, not computers. I am not at all amazed that people are getting fooled by a computer program.
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by 4ad 2y ago
OpenBSD was the first system with an IPv6 stack.
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by 4ad 2y ago
Perhaps "everyone" was really just two groups of people all along, one which kept silent in one occasion and the other in the other occasion. Or perhaps you're right and people really have no moral principles and just say wha
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by 4ad 2y ago
Considering the near complete overlap of people comprising the Bytecode Alliance with the people who created WebAssembly and people who maintain WebAssembly (especially the formal specification), I very much doubt that the Bytecode Alliance
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by 4ad 2y ago
No, Go can never use WasmGC because Go has interior pointers. Not even fat pointers help because Go has unboxed types. Go will continue to use its own GC for the foreseeable future.
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by 4ad 2y ago
Great, there are other Wasm runtimes to choose from.
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by 4ad 2y ago
Predicting things is hard, especially about the future, that being said, the people doing the Wasm work for Go want to move to the component model.
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by 4ad 2y ago
At some point Wazero will have to support component model, regardless of their opinion about it. Otherwise they will lose any relevance. But I agree with you, the tooling is very immature.
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by 4ad 2y ago
Poorly. The tooling is very bad. But to be fair, this is not specific to Go.
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by 4ad 2y ago
> why is Go compelling as a source language for WASM? "Compelling" has nothing to do with it. People write Go code (or have already written it) and want to run in Wasm, just like they want to run it in any other environment. It
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by 4ad 2y ago
Just the same as it works on amd64 or arm64 or any other architecture.
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by 4ad 2y ago
WASIp2 implies component model. WASIp2 is implemented using component model.
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by 4ad 2y ago
The component model is... part of WASI, so that criticism doesn't make any sense. When Go adds support for WASI Preview 2 (or 3), it will have no choice but to support component model. The way WASI Preview 2 works is by making use of t
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Turning Down Upspin Infrastructure(groups.google.com)
11 points by 4ad 2y ago|5 comments
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by 4ad 2y ago
The interface layout has changed since the article (although this specific article doesn't mention interfaces, a later article in the series does). Additionally Go now has generics. It's true that little has changed, but very litt
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by 4ad 2y ago
An expressive type system absolutely, positively, unequivocally does not imply slower build times (especially with a Church-style type system). There are plenty of programming languages with advanced type systems which compile extremely qui
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by 4ad 2y ago
It's exactly backwards, YouTube favours short videos and frequent uploads. People doing long videos do it purely out of passion. The claim that most videos nowadays are hitting the one hour mark is trivially false.

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