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meindnoch

6,365 karma · joined November 23, 2022

My name is Glondheim Habernach, I’m a 34-year old software engineer from Stählbach.
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meindnoch··on My Images Are Dithered
Absolutely! Higher precision is always better. But if you must go as low as 8bits, you should dither.
meindnoch··on How My Images Are Dithered
8 bit per component = 0-255 red, 0-255 green, 0-255 blue

Like ~99% of images you encounter on the Web.

meindnoch··on The Silurian Hypothesis (2020)
Joe Rogan tier pseudoscience.
meindnoch··on My Images Are Dithered
Yeah. But even if you stay in the digital realm, dithering is necessary at 8bits per component. Consider that a grayscale gradient can only have 256 distinct levels.
meindnoch··on My Images Are Dithered
Every image should be dithered below 10 bits/component to prevent banding artifacts.
meindnoch··on IRGC claims it destroyed Amazon's Bahrain data center
Good!
meindnoch··on Show HN: Bento - An entire PowerPoint in one HTML file (edit+view+data+collab)
Stop polluting Wikipedia.
meindnoch··on Understanding the AI Economy
And they will be proven wrong, like with crypto... oh wait.
meindnoch··on OverpAId – Fire your CEO. Hire the future
I think your workplace might have a problem with sexual harassment.
meindnoch··on New US homeownership measure puts people first
Does this look like a bad place to live? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Round_Houses_in_Moscow

Easter European commie blocks usually have strategically placed parks, shopping, kindergartens, schools, medical facilities within walking distance. For this reason, apartments in these areas are actually appreciating at a faster rate than housing built from the 90s onwards. It's hardly a Pruitt-Igoe.

meindnoch··on What does the Riemann zeta function have to do with the distribution of primes?
The first-order difference of the prime-counting function: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime-counting_function
meindnoch··on How Has Roman Concrete Lasted for Millennia? 1,900-Year-Old Latrine Offers Clues
>Cement/Concrete (based on Portland cement) is water proof

That's patently untrue. Otherwise we wouldn't need concrete sealants.

meindnoch··on The lost joy of music piracy
If you have a pretty vanilla taste, sure.
meindnoch··on The lost joy of music piracy
Lost? It's as alive as ever, if you're in the right circles.
meindnoch··on The infinite scroll may become endangered if controversial Calif. law passes
>Should we ensure all interactions have at least 100ms of latency

Web developers are already hard at work on this.

meindnoch··on Grok uploaded my user directory to xAI's servers
Fucked around and found out.
meindnoch··on Yt-Dlp Sequence Diagrams
Auto-generated sequence diagrams are almost always useless. This one is no different.
meindnoch··on Modern decor may be straining people's brains
>I’m pretty sure they mean perceptible complexity at the level of the human eye

That's precisely what they're wrong about.

Take a look at tree branches. A field of grass. A stone cliff.

Now take a look at human-made decor: drywall, plastic, laminated boards.

Which one has more visual detail?

meindnoch··on SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth
And how many people each serve?
meindnoch··on Modern decor may be straining people's brains
>Eyes and brain alike evolved over millennia to process natural scenes, forests, rivers, coastlines, open skies. These environments share a specific mathematical pattern: their visual complexity decreases predictably as you zoom in on finer and finer details.

Wut? It's precisely the opposite. Natural patterns have infinite complexity as you zoom in, and human-made patterns (most often) not.

meindnoch··on AI 2040: Plan A
Is anyone taking these people seriously?
meindnoch··on SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth
How much does this cost? Something tells me we could have covered the planet in fibre for the price of these Starlink satellites.
meindnoch··on US seeks cheaper hunter-killer drones after Iran destroys $1B worth of Reapers
Depends on who's on the receiving end.
meindnoch··on Tiny data centre used to heat public swimming pool
>Air conditioners could do it too, right?

Some heat pumps do this. E.g. Panasonic Aquarea EcoFleX. When cooling the house, the domestic hot water tank is used to dump heat into (up to a certain temperature).

meindnoch··on What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL (2014)
That's why it's called SQL aka String Query Language. The queries are just strings.
meindnoch··on Zuckerberg 'Admits' Meta's Layoffs Were Ineffective
Layoffs will continue until morale improves.
meindnoch··on Please stop the AI confidence theater
The people selling shovels.
meindnoch··on Spain Orders Blacklist of Palantir from Public and Private Companies
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/peter-thiel-israel-palanti...
meindnoch··on I don't maintain my homelab, it maintains itself
Yeah, and what happens when every now and then upstream changes break your config? Like when Debian removed systemd-resolved, breaking mDNS.
meindnoch··on Historical memory prices 1960-2026
>it also enables software that was not possible before

Which is not always a good thing.

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