Intralexical (u/Intralexical)

Intralexical commented on Google unkills JPEG XL? tonisagrista.com/blog/202... · Posted by u/speckx

xnorswap · 20 days ago

At 600DPI that's over a marathon in each dimension.

I do wonder if there are any DOS vectors that need to be considered if such a large image can be defined in relatively small byte space.

I was going to work out how many A4 pages that was to print, but google's magic calculator that worked really well has been replaced by Gemini which produces this trash:

    Number of A4 pages=0.0625 square meters per A4 page * 784 square miles   =13,200 A4 pages.

No Gemini, you can't equate meters and miles, even if they do both abbreviate to 'm' sometimes.

Intralexical · 20 days ago

"Google's magic calculator" was probably just a wrapper to GNU Units [0], which produces:

  $ units
  You have: (1073741823/(600/inch))**2 / A4paper  
  You want:  
         Definition: 3.312752e+10

Equivalent tools: Qalc, Numbat

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36994418

Intralexical commented on Isn't WSL2 just a VM? ssg.dev/isnt-wsl2-just-a-... · Posted by u/sedatk

finaard · 20 days ago

While I understand _why_ they did WSL2 it's pretty sad that they at the same time they just dropped any WSL1 development.

We're using a lot of WSL in CI - we're mostly Linux based, but for some stuff toolchains came up which didn't work nicely with wine (like MSVC). So for us we want a Linux system that seamlessly can execute Windows stuff in a Linux based build process. WSL1 can do that, WSL2 can be kicked into working somewhat, but needs quite a few ugly workaround as they're not sharing a process namespace or file descriptors. While the faster IO would be nice that's pretty much the only thing we'd care about - and wouldn't work here, as we need shared access to the files. And while we could access the WSL2 files from Windows side that's even slower than just using WSL1.

Intralexical · 20 days ago

For MSVC, have you explored using clang-cl as a drop-in replacement?

https://clang.llvm.org/docs/MSVCCompatibility.html

https://llvm.org/devmtg/2014-04/PDFs/Talks/clang-cl.pdf

XWin for the CRT/SDK:

https://github.com/Jake-Shadle/xwin

https://jake-shadle.github.io/xwin/

A while ago I got some Python C extension modules building using this approach, but didn't push it any further.

Intralexical commented on Show HN: Glasses to detect smart-glasses that have cameras github.com/NullPxl/banray... · Posted by u/nullpxl

icoder · 23 days ago

Comparable to what I read someone say about AI the other day: we're living in the small sliver of history where smart-glasses with cameras are technically feasible yet are still (kind of) detectable.

Intralexical · 23 days ago

There's no reason why stealth technology should have to advance faster than detection technology. In fact, in many applications with strong incentives to advance both stealth and detection capabilities, the modern world has trended towards being increasingly transparent.

If we culturally/economically wanted it, I'm sure we could all have cheap nonlinear junction detectors in our pockets.

Intralexical commented on Show HN: Glasses to detect smart-glasses that have cameras github.com/NullPxl/banray... · Posted by u/nullpxl

Bender · 23 days ago

Semi-related question. Is there a method to print a picture on a t-shirt that can only be viewed by a camera and not be the naked eye? If so I would like to print images on the front and back of the shirt that would get the glasshole or cell phone cameras banned from their platforms.

Intralexical · 23 days ago

Compare human cone cell spectral sensitivity to the camera modules inside the glasses. [0][1]

Usually digital cameras have some major differences from human eyes, particularly near UV and IR. Find dyes with spectral albedo that integrates to the same strengths for (most) humans' cones, but not for the glasses.

Though human eyes have pretty good dynamic range, and some degree of variation. Maybe add dithering around the edges.

[0]: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cone-fundamentals-wi...

[1]: https://www.strollswithmydog.com/camera-spectral-sensitivity...

Posted by u/Intralexical 23 days ago

The Declining Success of Civil Resistance (2024) [video]youtube.com/watch?v=iDWyO...

Intralexical commented on Steam Controller store.steampowered.com/sa... · Posted by u/tart-lemonade

rft · a month ago

I have to say, I am nearly as hyped about this controller as I am about the frame. I can hook up my gaming PC to my living room TV to play on the couch and a decent controller is all I was missing. I always thought a steamdeck just as a controller would be great, especially the touch pads. I hope the latency feels great over wireless, but I don't mind the USB-C connection if needed.

Valve really did great here with providing all three connection options (BT, dedicated wireless, USB-C).

Intralexical · a month ago

They're saying 8ms real-world latency on the proprietary 2.4GHz protocol with up to 4 devices per hub. Worse when using Bluetooth compatibility.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbNI0rNJVt8&t=1m13s

Intralexical commented on Valve is helping Arm get a foothold in PC gaming with its latest work pcgamer.com/hardware/vr-h... · Posted by u/Intralexical

Intralexical · a month ago

Submission title is taken from the `<meta property="og:title">` tag on the page that shows on search and social media embeds. The full title from the page wouldn't fit.

I think this is the FEX they're talking about?

https://github.com/FEX-Emu/FEX

https://www.phoronix.com/news/FEX-2511-Released

I had no idea this tech was at a stage where you can game on it.

Posted by u/Intralexical a month ago

Valve is helping Arm get a foothold in PC gaming with its latest work pcgamer.com/hardware/vr-h...

Intralexical commented on Perkeep – Personal storage system for life perkeep.org/... · Posted by u/nikolay

profsummergig · a month ago

And here I'm still looking for a way, with one click, to create an offline backup of the webpages each of my bookmarks points to. Such that the offline version looks and works exactly like the online version in (say) Google Chrome (e.g. the CTRL+F feature works fine). And such that I can use some key-combo and click a bookmark in my bookmarks manager (in Chrome) to open a webpage from the backup (or the backup can have its own copy of the bookmarks manager... it needs a catalog of some sort or it won't be useful).

Intralexical · a month ago

WebRecorder [0] is the best implemention of this that I've tested. It runs as an extension in your browser, intercepting HTTP streams, so as long as you open a page in your browser the data is captured to reproduce it exactly. It outputs WARC files that are (in theory) compatible with the rest of the web archiving ecosystem, and has a WARC explorer interface to browse captured archives.

For pages with dynamic content that can't be trivially reproduced by their HTTP streams— E.G., opening the archive triggers GETs with a mismatched timestamp, even if the file it's looking for is in the WARC under a different URI— There's always SingleFile [1], and Chromium's built-in MHTML Ctrl+S export, which "bake" the content into a static page.

0: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/webrecorder-archive...

1: https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile

Intralexical commented on Nim 2.2.6 nim-lang.org//blog/2025/1... · Posted by u/xz18r

tinfoilhatter · 2 months ago

Apologies for not providing a link!

https://github.com/nim-works/nimskull is the hard fork I was referring to.

Intralexical · 2 months ago

Last non-bot commit was over 2 weeks ago, and it seems to be mostly 1 account working on it. I don't think it looks active enough to be the big schism it's made out to be?

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