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esperent··on Why don't more developers “use the platform”?
> web components are browser native

I would say very few people are using bare web component. They'll be using a library like Lit at the very least, so your argument is moot.

esperent··on OpenDLSS: A Vulkan Reimplementation of Nvidia's DLSS 5 Neural Rendering Network
> MIT does not wave the right to attribution

Waive. And no, it doesn't but it doesn't require attribution either. So you're falling back on copyright law which is unlikely to protect you here - there's a reason people include licenses, after all.

esperent··on OpenDLSS: A Vulkan Reimplementation of Nvidia's DLSS 5 Neural Rendering Network
Morally, I completely agree, but legally that's not something you can prevent with a weak license like MIT.

It might be possible to pursue this as illegal under general copyright law but it would be difficult.

If you don't want something like this to happen to your work, use a stronger license.

esperent··on OpenDLSS: A Vulkan Reimplementation of Nvidia's DLSS 5 Neural Rendering Network
It's not stolen. It's MIT licensed and the attribution is still there.
esperent··on GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price
> I have deepseek agents doing email responses

So, spam?

esperent··on Nicholas Polson has authored 258 academic papers in 2026 so far
Isn't pangram more accurate with longer texts? Does it claim to be accurate for comment sized text?
esperent··on 1 in 8 cancer cases worldwide are caused by infections, study finds
There's downsides to heavy or frequent drinking, sure. But since the cancer risk is minimal, what's the downside of a glass of wine or beer a couple of times a week?

I'm less convinced of the negatives of this than I used to be. Humans are quite well adapted to alcohol.

If it's something you enjoy, I'd say go for it, in moderation. It's probably less unhealthy than e.g. living in a city, eating processed meat, or working an office job.

esperent··on 1 in 8 cancer cases worldwide are caused by infections, study finds
> Nitrate ridden processed meat already has a “may cause cancer” sticker on it

Not in any country I've ever been in. Do you mean in the US?

esperent··on Jev Can't Be Calibrated
> The true probability of face 1 is 1/6, but Jev always chose face 1 and the probability it returned was about 83%

I think this is a misunderstanding of what that 83% probability means. You think you're asking Jev to assign a probability to a dice roll, and if so then obviously it should pick each answer 1/6 of the time.

However, what Jev is doing is assigning a probability to the answer it should choose. And it's choosing 1 with 83% probability, as the correct answer to give, when there's no additional knowledge available.

1 is a perfectly valid answer here. In the absence of other data there's no more (nor less) valid answer than that. and I assume that just like LLMs, the token prediction must assign higher probability to one outcome.

If you keep feeding the previous answers back in (if you can do that with Jev) I assume it would start giving other numbers because it's no longer operating from zero info. Maybe that would even reach ~1/6 after enough rounds, although maybe not.

esperent··on Apple iPhone 18 Pro Camera test
> You can also zoom into the moon on the night sky with these cameras

iPhone, Samsung, Chinese phones, they all do fake moons now.

esperent··on Replacing Pull Requests with Delta
Really? You don't want to share those messages at the end of a long day where where you found yourself typing "STOP! WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING THAT FOR? I CLEARLY TOLD YOU..."
esperent··on Apple M6 Pro Achieves the Highest Single-Core CPU Score in Geekbench 7
There's also the Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme, 3,438 points in single-core and 27,519 points in multi-core, which I think was the record when it was released a year ago.

I guess they'll release an X3 in six months. So it's interesting to see the race is now between Apple and Qualcomm, both on Arm, with Intel and AMD getting left behind, at least on this benchmark.

https://signal65.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Signal65-Ins...

esperent··on Two parallel neural ectoderm progenitors contribute to the developing brain
I'd imagine the science from the 80s is very dated now, no matter how good the book is.
esperent··on Qwen 3.8 Omni Flash
> hardware that you buy from US or China

... Built using expertise, machinery, and/or factories from Taiwan, the Netherlands, and South Korea.

The supply chain is far more complex and globalized than you're trying to make out here.

esperent··on T. Rex Had a Body Temperature of 97°F
> The US has the widest range of temperatures of any country

I assure you it does not. But I guess American Exceptionalism makes you want to believe that so go ahead.

A 5s google search suggests the country with the widest range is probably Russia.

esperent··on T. Rex Had a Body Temperature of 97°F
No it's not. Room temperature in tropical countries is often 26-30C.

I work in the food industry and this whole "room temperature" thing is a major bugbear for me actually because when so much food dates markings are designed around a room temperature of ~22C, it's a big health and safety issue for people (and shops, warehouses, restaurants) who don't know that and happily store the goods up to the date marking at 30C. Deciding that room temperature ~=22C and basing worldwide food safety on that is absolutely Western centric.

Obviously people here are not stupid and don't store meat etc. past when it's gone bad. But I've often bought e.g. oils from suppliers and it's clear that it's on the edge of rancidity even though it's got a year+ to go on the date because it's been stored at "room temperature".

esperent··on T. Rex Had a Body Temperature of 97°F
I moved from a cold climate to a tropical climate and let me assure you there's no human universal understanding of what's comfortably hot or cold, definitely not to the point of putting a percentage on it. I can walk around in a T-shirt and shorts at 17C (62f) while locals will be wrapping up in scarves and talking about how freezing it is. Meanwhile they'll be fairly comfortable at 35C (95f), at least if the humidity isn't high, and I'll be stuck in with the AC blasting.

So in other words Fahrenheit is a western centric measurement (or at least, temperature climate centric), while Celsius is universal.

esperent··on HarnessTax: How Much Does the Harness Matter for Coding Agents?
What is BBC? Other than the tv network.
esperent··on HarnessTax: How Much Does the Harness Matter for Coding Agents?
> look into the prompts, there are some choices in there

Such as?

esperent··on Chopping up books when they're physically too big
Not on the Guardian I'm fairly sure, or any other "serious" newspaper I read.
esperent··on Chopping up books when they're physically too big
Damn, did news articles ~7 years ago really just consist of a series of embedded tweets?

It feels familiar but also kind of jarring.

esperent··on Anthropic is in regulatory-capture financial loop
https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-cruel-animal-testing-be...

Thomas Edison did not attend the electrocution of Topsy the elephant, but his film company did record it, and he did directly fund electrocution of dogs years earlier (1888 is the year mentioned here).

esperent··on Spaceships (Reverse Asteroid)
One of the most frustrating things about mobile gaming is that you can't just release a game, you have to commit to keeping it updated for the rest of your life or else accept that in 2-3 years nobody will be able to play it.
esperent··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)
It looks interesting but as someone else noted, it needs more images and animations, way less walls of text.

There's a huge database of licensable animations that several apps I've seen use. E.g. take a look at the animations in Hevy. I forget the name of it now but you should be able to find it easily.

esperent··on The GDR and Vietnam: From Fake Coffee to Coffee Empire
Yes I know, it doesn't taste like strawberry, it's fermented with strawberry (or I've also seen orange, jackfruit, etc.). This is what I clearly stated, and the person above you also stated. There's no artificial flavors being added to the coffee at any decent specialty coffee shop in Vietnam, unless you specifically order some sweet flavored drink from the menu.
esperent··on The GDR and Vietnam: From Fake Coffee to Coffee Empire
Any co fermented coffee I've had in Vietnam has been anaerobic fermented with something else like strawberry.
esperent··on How to Use Three.js's New Native Gaussian Splats
>https://superspl.at/scene/7e4e9bcb

If you turn off performance mode this is way higher quality than either of the other two versions of this model linked by bhouston in this thread, although with a much lower frame rate on my phone of course:

https://threejs.org/examples/?q=gau#webgpu_gaussian_splat

https://superspl.at/scene/56155c3f

esperent··on Will There Be a 7G?
I'm not sure what the "SA" part means but my phone says it's on 5g right now and has done most of the time for a couple of years now.
esperent··on DeepSeek v4.1 flash runs 23 seconds/token on a 2020 16gb M1 Mac Mini
That's 23 seconds for 1 token. Unusable, in other words. The title seems to be intentional written to obfuscate that.
esperent··on RTK reports token savings, but our cost benchmarks disagree
Yes rg + python seems to beat far fancier tools.
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