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Comment · 9 hours ago
Thank you for putting in words why I struggle with OKLCH. I found it non-intuitive to learn as a human being despite its "gradient" advantage. I still stick to HSL. (Though I wish web had adopted HSB)
Comment · 2 days ago
Yes, my bad, replied in a hurry. Technically, the arena size will be function involving both the request body size, the response body size, along with the sizes of any intermediate results of processing.
Comment · 3 days ago
> And how do you size the arena?

All HTTP servers have a configurable maximum request size. Ex: client_max_body_size in Nginx.

Comment · 3 days ago
I am confused. Why can't they have an experimental, optionally-enabled feature for a few years while they iron out all the issues ? What is wrong with that ? The JDK keeps doing this all the while. They write a new JEP if there are changes across previews.
Comment · 5 days ago
It was extremely amusing. Brazilian election law generally sets 5 p.m. Brasília time as the deadline for closing polls. The judge who made the emergency ruling to pause counting and extend voting hours by 2 hours was Cristiano Zanin Martins - Lula's former personal attorney. The same guy who Lula nominated to the Supreme Federal Court of Brazil in June 2023.
Comment · 7 days ago
>He loves being able to just dump in a bucket of seemingly unrelated data, and getting actionable BI from it.

Sorry, just don't trust accurate LLM data analysis even from the latest claude model. Have had some embarrassing bloopers over the last year. It is just better to code a deterministic tool to do the data analysis.

Comment · 7 days ago
Seriously - why can't the browsers just natively support a common UI component framework. Its 2026 and they still haven't done it. That old excuse of: webtech needs individual flair and diversity is now a fraudulent argument considering that everyone uses Claude to generate the same look and feel everywhere.

Might as well get it natively supported in the browser.

Comment · 7 days ago
No, US companies can sue Indian companies. It doesn't need the state department. U.S. companies have sued Indian companies in Indian courts and won rulings or favorable judgments across various commercial, patent, and trademark disputes.

Famous examples include: Samsonite vs. Indian Competitors like VIP - Samsonite won the case.

Novartis vs. Indian Generic Makers. This went all the way to the Indian supreme court before Novartis lost the case. (And thank heavens for that).

Microsoft and Dell: They have won nearly all their cases in India involving unauthorized software and misuse of trademarks.

These are just the big names. There are dozens of smaller US companies.

Comment · 7 days ago
The USA should formally change its name to CSA (Corporate States of America) or OSA (Oligarchy States of America). A product should advertise its functionality.
Comment · 10 days ago
Wow - looks so good in LISP syntax. They could have probably also introduced compute restrictions (Execution Time Cap) by limiting nesting.
Comment · 16 days ago
How is it "irrelevant" when there was a deal struck but its terms were violated ? Are all Western deals this way ? No wonder Minsk broke down. How is Russia 100% responsible for any ships being sunk in the Black Sea when Ukraine has sunk >100 vessels in the black sea? Try and separate basic logic from partisan emotion please.

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