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Omar Rizwan @omar

Interesting how this unlearns the equivalence that gets seared into you in elementary school math (4/6 = 2/3 and so on) https://merveilles.town/@neauoire/113178881180514551

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Omar Rizwan @omar

the CRT store called

Figure 2.16
Williams-Kilburn tube with a 1,024-digit store image, University of Manchester, 1947. Courtesy of the Computer History Museum and the University of Manchester.

(it says "CRT store" in white dots and dashes on a black background)

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Omar Rizwan @omar

Good logo idea

Holy C logo which looks like C++ logo but with one + and it's a Christian cross

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Omar Rizwan @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

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Omar Rizwan @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

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Omar Rizwan @omar

insiders & outsiders

i was more struck by being on campus, which was totally empty

something you realize when you come back to campus -- that you forget when you're a student there - - is that there are insiders who belong on campus (students, faculty) and outsiders, and when you're an outsider you don't really mean anything or have any status, you're not really supposed to be anywhere

and it's hard for an insider to perceive this line even though it's very real (and this line alienates anyone who's an outsider from contributing much since it's ultimately futile)

i think Dynamicland is similar

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Omar Rizwan @omar

Comics! https://glammr.us/@overholt/113062618157465162

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Omar Rizwan @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

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Omar Rizwan @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.

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Omar Rizwan @omar

"in general the cost of rendering geometry should scale with screen resolution, not scene complexity"

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