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the surveillance state continues consolidating.

congrats Dennis

but no usb-c port? Nooooooooooo!

NOBODY asked for a proprietary pogo pin usb cable. shame on you!!!!

Atmospheric injections of Sulphur is going to be the only answer.

No, 10X is fine - there is enough resolution on the sensor to just crop the 5x images to 10x without any weirdness.

After 10x it's all over. Which is in itself quite insane. The camera is truly amazing, and complaining that this 10mm thick camera is no good at further than 10x seems utterly spoiled and ridiculous to me.

this is a strong reminder of the character of Toby from The Office.... :-)

there is a lot of money to be made, building more of them :(

codex 5.5 is like that. it refuses

is there a link available that allows us to actually read the article?

this is totally great but... 5 megabytes of useful storage, with micro SD cards being as small as they are? what on earth? lol

For those who haven't read the Cuckoo's Egg: Stop what you're doing right now, and order it! It is a page turner, a great story. Thanks Cliff!

Solid overview, but it underweights what's arguably the single biggest determinant of whether a phone camera produces a "good" photo: ISP tuning. The post frames software processing as a short list of named features (HDR, Night Sight, AI moon shots), when in reality almost every pixel has already been through dozens of tuned pipeline stages before any of those "features" run.

The ISP pipeline that turns raw Bayer data into a JPEG includes black level correction, lens shading correction, defect pixel correction, demosaic, auto white balance, color correction matrix, tone mapping, multi-stage noise reduction (raw domain, luma/chroma in YUV, temporal across frames), sharpening, local contrast, and multi-frame fusion. Each stage has dozens of parameters and most of them are scene-dependent.

"Tuning" means months in a light booth shooting color charts at every CCT from roughly 2300K to 7500K, then more months outdoors capturing skin tones across ethnicities, foliage, sky at different times of day, neon, candles, fluorescent shop lighting, mixed lighting. Every sensor + lens module gets its own calibration. Then you tune the perceptual layer on top: skin tone preservation, sky and foliage segmentation feeding AWB, AE metering weights with face priors, highlight roll-off, the chroma vs luma noise tradeoff across frequency bands.

This is why two phones with the same Sony IMX sensor look completely different. Sony ships a reference tuning. Apple and Google throw it away. Pixel phones famously have small sensors and beat phones with 2-3x the sensor area on real-world output, almost entirely on the strength of ISP tuning and computational photography stacked on top.

The headcount is genuinely large. Apple and Google each have camera organizations in the hundreds, with a substantial fraction doing nothing but tuning: color scientists, ISP tuning engineers, perceptual quality engineers running blind A/B against competitor output. It's why nobody else -- not Samsung, not Xiaomi, not the smaller players -- quite matches them even when they buy the same or better sensors. (Disclosure: I run a camera company and we live this problem.)

The sensor size advice in the article is correct but easy to misread. A small sensor with great tuning regularly beats a big sensor with mediocre tuning, and the gap is bigger than people expect.

Johnny Harris is astoundingly wrong about most things, so I'll skip it thanks

Supersplat is cool, but check out http://www.splatter.app it is the best / highest performance 3DGS viewer. works great on even a low end phone.

What is the end game?

The end game is to cancel the midterms.

At this point I find it incredibly naive to think that there will be midterms.

It is over, folks. The part that blows my mind is how easy it was, and how little opposition there was from anyone of consquence.

Chinese fishing vessels should be sunk en masse.

Actually yes, exactly this. What he is saying is really disgusting.

Even very small and cheap lidar can see cables just fine.

I work with 3d scanning lidar every day and I know this as a fact.

They have no excuse there.

Even very small and cheap lidar can see cables just fine.

I work with 3d scanning lidar every day and I know this as a fact.

They have no excuse there.

I get this all the time. Especially since GPT5, generating an image starts a massive chain where it confirms what you want, and asks you to say yes, and you say yes, and then it confirms again, and this can go on for 5-6 times. Then if you swear at it, it refuses to continue. It is insane. Fuck you, OpenAI

Just tell the other person "please blur my face out if you publish this online" in 2025, this is easy to do.

honestly i find it confusing. it tells me to make a move, but i don't know if i'm playing black or white. sometimes when i click on a point, it puts the opposite color on a different point.

Holy crap there is a boat load of spurious correlation here.

Obligatory link https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations

Please future humans, do not build mirror life.

Thanks.

"Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses are designed to help you look up and stay present. With a quick glance at the in-lens display, you can accomplish everyday tasks—like checking messages, previewing photos, and collaborating with visual Meta AI prompts — all without needing to pull out your phone. It’s technology that keeps you tuned in to the world around you, not distracted from it."

WHAT IN THE HOLY FUCK DID I JUST READ

Yeah it's the bpa more than the waste that would bother me.

Honest question, isn't the bpa free paper just using something else than bpa that is unregulated and potentially even worse?

What on earth did I just read? Is this ai slop that I just read? None of this is correct or true.

What an absolutely perfect encapsulation of the times we live in.

ah, only your opinion is valid?

Yes. I absolutely despise Adobe, and I will not be using this.

They were double charging me for photoshop for two years. I caught them and it took 60 minutes on the phone to get them to do something about it.

They have an entire cancellation department. (!)

this seems like an absolutely terrible idea! I thought this was going to be about editing gaussian splats, which is sorely needed. instead, it's about turning a few pixels into a gaussian splat in order to edit them?! My god, talk about using a nuclear bomb to kill a fly!