See this ugly pixel shift when upsampling a downsampled image? My post describes where it can come from and how to avoid those! It’s been more than two decades of me using bilinear texture filterin…
Many electric cars will still have more than 80% of their initial capacity after 200,000 miles.
Houston and Dallas reduced street homelessness dramatically not by being more compassionate or cruel than California, but by building working systems
An article from dylanbeattie.net
Mozilla forcing llm features and providing no gui for users to disable them
Toyota organizes a car-hacking event that captivates participating students. We uncovered the important purpose behind the event. #TOYOTATIMES
A detailed critique of WIRED's AirGradient ONE review, focusing on methodology, product understanding, and what trustworthy monitor reviews require.
The rationale and transition period to moving to the new “core:os”
As a result of a long sequence of coincidences I entered the programming profession officially on the first spring morning of 1952 and as far as I have been able to trace, I was the first Dutchman to do so in my country. In retrospect the most amazing thing was the slowness with which, at least in my part of the…
Kids were not meant to be brought up in the digital world that exists today as it is incompatible with human neurological development.
We've lowered the entry price for using PlanetScale Metal to $50 and added more flexibility in storage-to-compute ratios.
Reviewing the few changes in the Claude 4.0 system prompts, we get a sense for how system prompts program chatbot applications.
The lottery ticket hypothesis explains why massive neural networks succeed despite centuries of theory predicting they should fail
No-one really likes engineering war stories, but this one's relevant because there's a moral to it. I've talked before about defining technical debt as technical decisions that provide immediate value, but with long-term negative impact if they aren't cleaned up. Sometimes introducing technical debt
Researchers from the Bakkers group at the Hubrecht Institute have successfully repaired damaged mouse hearts using a protein from zebrafish.
A technical investigation into information uncovered in a class action lawsuit that Facebook had intercepted encrypted traffic from user's devices running the Onavo Protect app in order to gain competitive insights.
A computer scientist working in open source towards a more hopeful future.
In Ukraine suicide drones strike critical infrastructure regularly. Some outages are caused directly by the attacks - destroyed power plants, substations, transformers, power lines, some are scheduled in advance - power grid wasn’t designed to work while some of its power plants and transformers are destroyed and are…
For sure easier than solving it in SAT!
Why network effects and distribution will be king, once more
Site about nature and political themes. Europe, Capitalism, anti-captalism, communism, socialism, animals, cats, veganism, astronomy, religion and more
We are announcing a new Crystal release 1.16.0 with several new features and bug fixes.
We’re excited to announce Flummoxagon, a new geometric puzzle game that might just leave you flummoxed. Imagine a mash-up of Pentominoes and Sudoku. Your goal is to fit all the pieces into the hexa…
We explore language models that recursively call themselves or other LLMs before providing a final answer. The aim is essentially unbounded context, and a way through context rot.
Or four kinds, or six kinds, I'm not picky about how you count them
