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TJSomething··on Polychromatic Pixels
One thing I noticed is that they were talking about demoing 12,000 ppi displays, which is way more resolution than you're going to resolve with your eye. So using 2 pixels is still probably a win.
TJSomething··on Writing GUI apps for Windows is painful
I currently see two international keyboard issues:

- French Keyboard and Backend SDL2 - Several keys are not checkable with IsKeyDown

- Wrong ImGuiKey keydown indexes reported from Win32 backend for some keys when using UK keyboard with UK keyboard layout

There are also 2 issues with IME:

- Marked Text / SDL_TEXTEDITING Event / IME Composition support

- Backspace handling by text widget in default Windows IME environment.

TJSomething··on Employees who stay in companies longer than two years get paid 50% less (2014)
If you love in the USA, I don't know how you job hop if you have more than two specialist doctors. Everytime I have to figure out how an insurance plan works is suffering.
TJSomething··on FBI raids Atlanta corporate landlord in probe of rental market price fixing
The thing about monopolies is that the monopolist still has to deal with the demand curve, but they get to set the supply curve. As price goes up, demand goes down; they can't change this. In healthy markets, when supply goes up, prices go down because of competition. Then the price ends up at the intersection of the two curves.

The monopolist doesn't have to follow this rule: they set the price to whatever makes the most profits and leave the price there regardless of fluctuations in housing supply.

TJSomething··on Elixir and Machine Learning in 2024 so far: MLIR, Arrow, structured LLM, etc.
I feel like a big audience would be people moving away from Spark.
TJSomething··on Sakuga-42M Dataset: Scaling Up Cartoon Research
A lot of the dancing stuff is about the ability to spin the camera around a moving subject to the music, which is quite difficult otherwise.

There's a lot of impressive work in 3D animation that looks quite good. Outside of Bandai Namco's work on idol anime, Studio Orange has made some of the best looking 3D modeled anime lately and a few other studios have been getting into it. I'm more familiar with video game animation, where Arcsys Works has made great strides too, by using animation on threes, manual tweening, stretch and squish bones, and carefully UV mapped textures for crisp color boundaries.

TJSomething··on The Super Mario Maker community faces its final boss
Seems like it might still be worth trying to recording tool-assisted run for.
TJSomething··on I Fucking Hate Jira (2022)
> Basically, to get anything done you have to create channels, which is great for "top down, I know ahead of time what I need / want to enforce" structure, but awful for "this started as a one-on-one and is now a massive discussion with 17 people"

In Slack, you can turn a group DM into a private channel and keep the history.

https://slack.com/help/articles/217555437-Convert-a-group-di...

TJSomething··on ZX – A tool for writing better scripts
My big use case for this is that it's quite good for glue scripting when you're already in the context of a JS shop. My common use cases are tooling setup, CI scripts, and API response sanity checking.
TJSomething··on A lesson in dockerizing shell scripts
Overwriting what? The destination's a completely empty root.
TJSomething··on The Far Side – By Gary Larson
I just found out that Larson started drawing comics again on a very irregular schedule: https://www.thefarside.com/new-stuff
TJSomething··on The optimal amount of fraud is non-zero (2022)
Ah, the shared information is actually a low, though it was not set until the Real ID Act of 2005, which has required: full name, date of birth, gender, photograph, address, signature, and the license number.
TJSomething··on Fewer people are buying electric cars in the US
I've been considering an EV, but this got me to look at the break even point for how much I actually drive (5,000 mi / year), my gas mileage (30 mpg), my offpeak power costs ($0.20 / kWh), and typical gas prices here ($4.50 / gal). It would take me about 20 years to save $25,000, which is about the difference between my current car and a Tesla. That said, I probably shouldn't consider a Tesla, since it occasionally snows pretty hard here in Northern Nevada and the Tesla's snow handling is not the best.
TJSomething··on FXYT: A tiny, stack-based, postfix canvas colouring language with 36 commands
I got this fun little ripple effect by implementing Newton's method to do a square root.

https://susam.net/fxyt.html#MXN127dDpYN127dDpsN5qDN2qNN6bRRS...

TJSomething··on Ozempic could change the economy as we know it
While I'm sure there's real value in the drug, articles like this one in Reuters [0], noting how much Novo Nordisk is spending on promotion, makes me suspicious that it's being overprescribed.

[0] https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/health-o...

TJSomething··on Elixir and Phoenix can do it all
I'm not sure how it makes sense to claim that an action is "everything except impossible." This is more in the classic sense of "the battle was all but lost" for a battle was practically but not actually lost. You could implement a queue in a Python server, but it would be technically awful to do.
TJSomething··on The copyright fight over authors and OpenAI's ChatGPT
My impression is that attribution on limited datasets isn't terribly hard. If you can prompt the LLM to say a sentence that is approximately in the source material, then the nearest sentence vector in the source material can be looked up in a vector DB, which can attribute it in context.

I think this might be one of the few places where LLMs can provide straightforward value, since it can work as a search engine that can accept vague queries, create approximate answers, fetch the real answers, translate the source material into layman's terms with citations, and allow the newly informed user to refine or dig deeper with that context. The most dangerous part is translation, and the data I've seen show that transformers almost never hallucinate on tasks where no external knowledge is needed.

TJSomething··on Free IRS-run tax filing pilot to be available in 13 states
It's free for me, but I don't have state income taxes.
TJSomething··on Is there such a thing as the perfect game?
While I agree, I understand that some people can prioritize the feeling of mastery over all other aspects of gameplay. When there's no randomness, then the game is a pure test of skill. If you want to get into a single game as a hobby, then having low chance and a high skill ceiling is a feature that allows for continuous fulfillment of that need.
TJSomething··on Cloudflare is free of CAPTCHAs; Turnstile is free for everyone
I'd be interested in other DDoS mitigation providers for any site in the sub-$100/month price category. The only other ones I know are Amazon and Microsoft, and those tie you to their clouds.
TJSomething··on Rails 7.1 Released
I don't know. I've always found that Symfony in PHP is pretty flexible with its setup. I feel the complexity to be proportional to how far off the beaten path I'm going. I've heard that Spring is also like this.
TJSomething··on Chromebooks will get 10 years of automatic updates
I run a small convention that just needs some easy to setup web kiosks to use for checkin. We bought a lot of 30 surplus Chromebooks at $15 each a few years ago, but we're throwing them out because of lack of support.
TJSomething··on Chromebooks will get 10 years of automatic updates
I don't understand how that math could work. Assuming random assignment, the probability that a given computer is given to a one of those students is identical from year to year.
TJSomething··on Leaving Haskell behind
Gradle can be quite good, but it's also really easy to make a completely unmaintainable Gradle file.
TJSomething··on If it can be designed on a computer, it can be built by robots
I would add that the numbers are possible to compare, but container shipping is pretty efficient.

One container from Shenzhen to Oakland (~10,000 km) is going to be the CO₂ equivalent of burning 60 gallons of gasoline.

TJSomething··on Cryptography may offer a solution to the AI-labeling problem
In addition to siblings notes, we need to assume that a large chunk of AI generated content will be generated by bad faith actors using custom implementations. If you're generating a lot of images, it's going to be cheaper to run your own infrastructure.

Also, many digital asset management pipelines are homebrew hacks built into bespoke CMSs and are terrible at maintaining metadata.

TJSomething··on TiddlyPWA: putting TiddlyWiki on modern web app steroids
That part still works in modern browsers. What broke were the browser extension APIs for automatically saving to the file system without a dialog.
TJSomething··on Bluesky facing degraded performance due to record high traffic
It probably also surged specifically today since the API change actually occurred yesterday.
TJSomething··on TypeScript 5.2's new keyword: 'Using'
Based on my reading of the spec, you can't actually return a resource, since the disposal semantics need to map exactly to calling [Symbol.dispose] in a finally block at the end of the current block. Also, unlike C#, you can have multiple using statements in the same block, which will be disposed of in LIFO order.
TJSomething··on Open source hospital price database
Specifically, $100,000 is about 80th percentile income in the US.
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