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  • You can't use a color picker see color fringing due to subpixel rendering. (There's tons of info about this for font rendering). Your display doesn't map pixels 1-to-1 in most cases. But like I said in my edit, I'm fairly sure that part is irrelevant here.

    The blue/gold dress was not related to screenshotting and compression. People were arguing about the color even when looking at the exact same image. It all depends on which color temperature the dress was lit with. Noone can know for sure, and your brain just picks one (maybe depending on the room you're in).

    It's the same sort of deal as those rotating optical illusions. It's possible to see it both ways, but your brain usually picks one and it's hard to switch.

  • Yeah, you can buy humidifiers that work by aerosolizing water, and they're very energy efficient, but the problem is any bacteria that grows in it will just get spread all over your house if you don't clean it frequently.

    The ones that operate by boiling water are definitely a lot better for health reasons, but it's a trade-off.

  • I personally don't appreciate jokes about violence either, but whatever. I'm not policing the Internet.

  • I know you're making a joke, but this doesn't really feel like the place to do it given the subject being discussed.

  • Do you want your drunk antics livestreamed and recorded for the entire world to see forever, instead of just the few people in the bar paying attention?

  • I think what we actually need is someone to take a picture of their screen with a microscope while the image is zoomed out.

    Based on some comments I've seen, it seems likely this is just an artifact of how the red/green/blue pixel layouts work when drawing the edges of white things.

    Edit: I don't have something to check the actual display pixels, but I realized I could just rotate the image and see if the colors change, which they don't. So this definitely seems like more of a white balance effect, similar to that old Gold/Blue Dress meme.

  • Based on a world population of 8 billion, that would be roughly 0.000000000000008% of a person. It's also not even representable as a 64 bit float so I had to do this math in my head (Calculator just says 0)

  • A phone call? Like... the original use of a phone?

  • I've been using an ad blocker for at least 15 years. I'm not about to stop now. I can't imagine paying only to see less relevant ads...

  • Dang, I kind of want one of those glass dragons. That sounds awesome

  • That's kinda fucked up. Almost sounds like laws targeting homeless people living out of their cars. And for anyone else, why shouldn't I be able to just tour around and look at sights without necessarily stopping anywhere? That's basically what I do every weekend for fun.

  • Interesting that strtol in C does that. I've always explicitly passed in base 10 or 16, but I didn't know it would auto-detect if you passed 0. TIL.

  • Yep. Ubiquiti sells wifi 7 APs and the latest phones support it as of some time last year I think. The big new feature is 6GHz and the ability to automatically hop between frequencies (You can use 6, 5 and 2.4GHz all at once). Latency has been great, and I easily get 1Gbps+ in the same room as my wifi.

  • Well, you're right. I wasn't getting it, but I've also never seen any piece of software that would treat a single leading zero as octal. That's just a recipe for disaster, and it should use 0o116 to be unambiguous

    (I am a software engineer, but was assuming you meant it was hardcoded to parse as octal, not some weird auto-detect)

  • Well shit, my zip code starts with a 9.

  • You have a very twisted view of the world. No one was "allowed" to shoot Abe Lincoln or JFK. It was very much not allowed, but murderers don't usually care about what's allowed and do it anyway.

  • Damn, I didn't even see that until you pointed it out. I would have died.

  • If Trump was in my living room, I'd spit in his face. He's so far removed from how I live my life, it's hard for me to even acknowledge people like him exist.

  • Hahaha, that hardware is built to be as cheap as possible so they can make money on this scam of a product. I doubt the people making it even know what a TPM is from everything else we've seen.

  • Thanks for the links. I was able to find the original source for that claim, which has actually usage numbers: https://iea.blob.core.windows.net/assets/18f3ed24-4b26-4c83-a3d2-8a1be51c8cc8/Electricity2024-Analysisandforecastto2026.pdf

    0.3Wh / request for Google 2.9Wh / request for ChatGPT

    That does however reference the same paper as your linked articles, which I can't find without a paywall: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2542435123003653?dgcid=author
    I'd love to know how they came up with that number for ChatGPT, but it looks like I was a bit off with my estimates regardless. There's probably some scaling efficiencies they're taking advantage of at that size.