Weird sales pitch. I'm not sure who he is trying to appeal to here?

I think one of the better compromises is to post a direct link to the source (bluesky, twitter, whatever), and then post a screenshot or quote as a top level comment.

That way people can follow the link if they want the community responses over there or just read the copy of the post here.

Important to note that:

1. This doesn't meet any of the traditional definitions of "open source"
2. EA isn't using that term to describe their offer.

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Stupid article needs a before and after comparison.

Instead it has way too many ads.

"It's a bit technical," begins Birdwell, "but the simple version is that graphics cards at the time always stored RGB textures and even displayed everything as non linear intensities, meaning that an 8 bit RGB value of 128 encodes a pixel that's about 22% as bright as a value of 255, but the graphics hardware was doing lighting calculations as though everything was linear.

"The net result was that lighting always looked off. If you were trying to shade something that was curved, the dimming due to the surface angle aiming away from the light source would get darker way too quickly. Just like the example above, something that was supposed to end up looking 50% as bright as full intensity ended up looking only 22% as bright on the display. It looked very unnatural, instead of a nice curve everything was shaded way too extreme, rounded shapes looked oddly exaggerated and there wasn’t any way to get things to work in the general case."

This should have been easy enough to illustrate.

Edit: Here is a greyscale illustration of a similar phenomenon:
From https://www.odelama.com/photo/Developing-a-RAW-Photo-by-hand/

Of course in reality it get a bit more complex when we perceive colors as having different brightness too:

From https://www.vis4.net/blog/avoid-equidistant-hsv-colors/

This needs to be killed as we have prior art (Emulators, Braid, Prince of Persia: Sands of Time, heaps of racing games, etc).

If their only significant addition is "we a have a button for it" then we need to ask if a button qualifies as "inventive" in 2024?

Edit:

Announcer: Will he succumb to the maddening urge to eradicate history? At the MERE PUSH of a SINGLE BUTTON! The beeyootiful shiny button! The jolly candy-like button! Will he hold out, folks? CAN he hold out?

- Space Madness (1991)

Or just use one of the hundreds of guides the AI was trained on.

https://www.wikihow.com/Install-Linux

workers who have lost their jobs should "drive an Uber" or "go to the beach for a year" until employment settles.

The second part has real "let them eat cake vibes"!

Dude needs to learn how to read a map.

I might be missing the point but does it matter if it breaks down into micro plastics over 3 years or 13?

If single use plastics are destined to become micro plastics does the time scale matter?

I guess acknowledging the problem is the first step.

If you spend any time on YouTube sponsor block is handy

The op link hit a paywall for me, this one is working:

https://web.archive.org/web/20240401221646/https://www.wired.com/story/google-chrome-incognito-mode-data-deletion-settlement/

the company will now pay “zero” dollars as part of the settlement after earlier facing a $5 billion penalty.

I guess they would call that a win