I'm still mostly without words; I just hear Ralph's voice in my head when I think about his passing. He was a force of warm, kind, friendly enthusiasm. We miss you, rillian.
Readit Newsxiphmont commented on Tell HN: Ralph Giles has died (Xiph.org| Rust@Mozilla | Ghostscript) · Posted by u/ffworld
xiphmont commented on Times New American: A Tale of Two Fonts hsu.cy/2025/12/times-new-... · Posted by u/firexcy
xiphmont commented on Times New American: A Tale of Two Fonts hsu.cy/2025/12/times-new-... · Posted by u/firexcy
I'm sorry, you can't argue the font choice signals banality in the same article in which you argue that readers aren't sophisticated enough on font choice to catch that serifs are supposed to signal professionalism.
He can, he did, and we're all here arguing about it, which somehow delights me.
xiphmont commented on When a video codec wins an Emmy blog.mozilla.org/en/mozil... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
It really is amazing how far compression has come in the last decades. Would love to see a chart showing the progress as I think quite a bit of it was very recent. At least, I know that the videos I make on a gopro can't be viewed without effort on a chromebook.
Amazing what you can do when you throw 10 billion transistors at a problem instead of only a few million.
Waiting for the Derek Lowe post, but... if this is legit, it's a 'holy flipping s**' moment. That kind of success in Phase I human trials is incredibly rare.
xiphmont commented on Cognitive load is what matters github.com/zakirullin/cog... · Posted by u/nromiun
This is actually some wonderful work that succinctly explains a lot of my experience. Much of how I was formally taught to program is counterproductive to the big picture the second someone else has to understand the code. It's part of the reason that I hate dealing with Rust and C++, and breathe a sigh of relief when the codebase I need to suck into my head is good old C. C offers fewer ways to hide all the working code in six layers of templates.
Rest in Peace, Bittersweet Prince.
xiphmont commented on YouTube audio quality – How good does it get? (2022) audiomisc.co.uk/YouTube/S... · Posted by u/fhinson
Why would it be 6.5 ms late? It's not much, but way larger than I'd expect. I never knew encoding might shift the audio track.
Short answer is 'bugs', possibly even in the reviewer's own software. Opus (and I would fully expect AAC-LC) preserves time alignment. Something unknown, somewhere unknown, in an unknown part of the unknown software chain caused an unknown shift, and it's not necessarily by an integer number of samples. You can't use this 'enh, whatever, good enough' approach and expect to do meaningful null analysis, even if you're using it inappropriately.
In all seriousness, every aspect of this comparison is somewhere between deeply flawed and invalid. No point dwelling on just one part.