What’s even more absurd is the Chinese vehicles in the same class have better tech and prices. German auto manufacturing is cooked unless they manage to legally block the Chinese in their primary markets.
Well of course they are cheaper because China has much lower labour costs and they prop up their own industry. The same way they did with solar panels which killed the local EU industry for those.
However we can get one back at China and help our own climate goals more by not buying cars at all
Engineers are also cheaper, and electronics are cheaper so you can throw more at the problem. You have much less pressure to design towards a price if your costs are lower.
I'd happily drive a Chinese car but I've yet to see one which has physical buttons for controls. They all seem to have gigantic tablet displays. I categorically refuse to buy a car where I can't adjust the climate controls while keeping my eyes on the road.
And yet still in the standard "Jeep Grand Cherokee melted in the sun" shape. I wouldn't mind so much if the popular land yachts of decades past like the 1957 Cadillac Eldorado were revived, but today's most common passenger vehicles are still being made in the same boring sad-beige-mom shapes.
> The regulation should not include AI-generated ads "not intended to mislead users, for example, generating an image of a living room to showcase a sofa, or enhancing product visuals for presentation purposes", the letter said.
While ads have always been misleading (think gluing burgers together) this just seems lazy to me. Put a real sofa in a room. If that's so hard to do then how am I going to put your sofa in my house!
Building a map guessing game where you're given a map with the labels/axis redacted, and then you have to guess what it's a map of.
e.g. the map would be average height by country, but you would just get a map where countries like The Netherlands were the darkest, and then you'd have to try and figure out that it's average height!
The hinting system for it is a bit work in progress (trying to tune the difficulty and feedback from hints)
I think it’s the fact that my eyes have been blasted with a certain visual ‘vibe’, and I’ve come to associate it with apps that are, on average, a bit lazy
I wonder why the firefox CSS rendering engine prefers to smooth out. Looks like a dramatically different implementation, but maybe that's just because it's an edge case of rendering
Stroke expansion is a complex topic, with more than one reasonable result (subjective preferences), and a whole lot of corner cases and incorrect answers.
Firefox has chosen to expand based on distance at all points, which is one of the reasonable answers and probably the most general one; a cusp then expands to a curve.
The others have chosen to retain cusps, which can be a reasonable answer and I believe is a lot cheaper to compute; but degenerate cases abound as you expand past the feature size (distances between nodes), so that by the fourth red ring it’s obviously incorrect.
Box shadows are another case where expansion occurs: the fourth length parameter, spread distance. If the corner is a cusp, the shadow corner will be a cusp. If it’s rounded, the shadow corner will be rounded. See https://drafts.csswg.org/css-backgrounds/#shadow-shape for some helpful diagrams. A sneaky trick: .1px border-radius means the box still looks square, but the expanded shadow will curve. Sometimes useful. But back on the original content of the article—if you use a font with microscopic curves instead of cusp nodes, Chromium/Safari will look more like Firefox.
While I don't entirely love the rounding effect of firefox, I feel Chrome interpretation is just wrong in creating spurious spikes. Intuitively for the asterisk shape I'd expect the outline to go towards a plain hexagon, something that neither browser accomplishes.
I would assume they are just drawing the outline, not performing any distance calculations, and the differences are just a result of different linejoin choices. [1]
I'd imagine that at some point during the text rendering process, they have to generate an SDF of the text they want to render (it's what I did when I wanted to manually render text anyway). If they do, then they can generate the extra text-width lines basically for free, just fill everything with distance less than the property.
I may be entirely wrong though, I don't know in detail how browsers render stuff
The Firefox one looks like exactly what you’d expect from stepping the result of a SDF for that character. The rounded corners of the first layer would all be equidistant from the nearest corner of the original character.
I think Firefox applies more aggressive subpixel rendering and path smoothing before stroking. It resamples the glyph outline path at a higher precision level before handing it to the stroke algorithm.
Ran into this discrepancy myself. On top that, what seemed also odd to me were the "dots" (tittle, period, semicolon) where oversized becomes hollow in the middle, like it cancels out itself. No other shape I've tried did that. And browsers surprisingly agreed on this.
I’ve never seen people on the likes of blackhatworld selling hacker news accounts or services. The glass half full take on this is that hn is surprisingly robust in its ability to deal with vote manipulation.
> “It has to be worth it for the pleasure it’s brought me to see them,” Levine said. “Doctor Who runs all night in my bedroom, complete, nothing missing.”
Well heck - many don't even like the originals at all :p. On the contrary I found these much more enjoyable than the audio and stills! Of course I'd prefer more of the original copies be found... but for now the AI ones fill the gaps in my collection instead of the audio reconstructions.
They animated a lot of the missing pieces of the missing episode Shada with excellent results. If AI could do something of similar quality that would be wonderful.
Please don't capture my cursor on your homepage, and if you have to, please don't apply smoothing to is so that it doesn't go where I want it to! I appreciate that it's pretty, but making your site annoying to use can only increase churn
