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·há 27 dias·discuss
For the implemented formats, wuffs is safer and also often faster: https://github.com/google/wuffs
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·há 4 meses·discuss
It’s hard to say that one needs unused variables.
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·há 6 meses·discuss
“The bugs are real. The math is not. All estimates are made up. Your frustration, however, is valid.”

I’m pretty sure it’s way less than 2%, but I definitely notice running into the same bugs many times.
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·há 6 meses·discuss
I think the point was that people care about ppd, not ppi. 218 ppi would be too low if the screen is 1 inch from your eye or too high if it’s 100 inches from your eye.

Retina probably means 60 ppd.
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·há 7 meses·discuss
Isn’t it somewhat common to say something like “slow this down by a factor of 2”?
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·há 9 meses·discuss
Looks like it's probably https://thinkingmachines.ai/blog/defeating-nondeterminism-in...