Omar Rizwan
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@omar,
Good logo idea
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Omar Rizwan.
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"The program should, in some way, expand the concept of what computer paint programs are, as well as what mark making can be."
Joined on Dec, 2022.
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Omar Rizwan
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@omar,
Omar Rizwan
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@omar,
Remember the critique of open-source software (which is completely true, btw): you may have the ability to edit the code in theory, but how many people actually feel comfortable editing it in practice?
(not many, because Linux/Chromium/etc code is way too long, it's not at hand in the UI, it requires a recompile, it requires specialized programming knowledge, it's not socially normal, …)
https://social.omar.website/@omar/statuses/01J778E499DGB6D8FDTKTNNEKR
Omar Rizwan
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@omar,
efficiency
![> Even in this early period, graphics were considered by many to be a frivolous use of computing technology. Computational resources were a limited and extremely expensive commodity, and making pictures seemed to many a waste of time… [extended quote]
So much stuff is like this tbh and has these sort of vision-first (+resentment even after it succeeds) dynamics. Engelbart was similarly marginal, as were neural network people for decades, as was the internet back when it ran on phone networks
among other things it shows the problem with an efficiency mindset, because these are all 'inefficient' uses of available resources
but the thing is that once people actually want something, new hardware can often be created which _makes_ these things efficient, the available resource set can change](https://social.omar.website/fileserver/01PG4R73NMJC888MJM2KBM4CFF/attachment/original/01MBT2636AKJVJBBPH8VF0MA62.png)
Omar Rizwan
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@omar,
insiders & outsiders
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@omar,
Omar Rizwan
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@omar,
feel like they use filesystem extended attributes here just so that they don't have to bother parsing/emitting whatever specific metadata format for each of the different types of files they support; they just stick their metadata in the filesystem outside the file
Omar Rizwan
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@omar,
Path dependences
![Luminance/chrominance systems in general[edit]
The primary advantage of luma/chroma systems such as Y′UV, and its relatives Y′IQ and YDbDr, is that they remain compatible with black and white analog television (largely due to the work of Georges Valensi). The Y′ channel saves all the data recorded by black and white cameras, so it produces a signal suitable for reception on old monochrome displays. In this case, the U and V are simply discarded. If displaying color, all three channels are used, and the original RGB information can be decoded.](https://social.omar.website/fileserver/01PG4R73NMJC888MJM2KBM4CFF/attachment/original/0125YZ66KFKZ2151B20KK1B5PK.png)
Omar Rizwan
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@omar,
"in general the cost of rendering geometry should scale with screen resolution, not scene complexity"
Omar Rizwan
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@omar,
Images in every programming language feel like how people joke about strings in Rust, where there are 800 different types of image that represent different kinds of views and ownership statuses and compression and memory layout (and you get different types of image from network / file / GPU / screen / 2D draw calls and are constantly converting between them to get stuff done)
Omar Rizwan
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@omar,
programming on the Web platform makes me feel like the Web is very complicated; programming on Apple platforms makes me feel like the world is very complicated