At this point, web design 'ecosystems' are essentially money whirlpools. They're complex, so they require programmers skilled in using them, who in turn make more sites which need more programmers, and so on, and the network effect takes over and cements this feedback loop in the structure of the jobs market.

And the frameworks are churned continuously and are also bug-ridden nightmares, so that continuous development and support is needed to keep websites functioning and secure.

Any reduction in framework complexity threatens the whole edifice.

SVG without <script> would do just fine.

I have always loved this work. A classic example of the effective application of mathematical principles to a computing problem.

I'm sure when this is all over there will be interesting stories to tell. Does anyone know why they failed?

SPAC.

Luminar was an exit scam in the SPAC era, they went public during that time and they have been struggling.

Also Lidar is hugely expensive.

Their Lidar deal with Volvo fell through and now it's bankrupted them.

Sadly such things do happen:

https://metro.co.uk/2017/02/20/gang-of-beggars-pictured-gett...

I look forward to you donating that $200 to a homeless charity, KingMob.

> Romania-registered VW Passat

Gonna need a Benz for the full $200.

And I always donate directly to the homeless, too many charities have excessive overhead.

I have on several occasions offered to pay for food at a nearby sandwich shop or fast food place for beggars who were asking for money for food. None of them accepted the offer.

Yep - I do the same thing. Offer to take them anywhere they want to go and get a meal. I used to get takers, but I haven’t in the last 10 years or so.

Claude is insanely good at grunt-work maintenance coding, which is a fairly formulaic exercise that mostly requires RTFM and simple code changes that look a lot likw the surrounding code. Designing new things from scratch based on human specs is something which Claude still struggles with.

The problem is that it often doesn't get it right the first time. You have to sort of have a conversation and it eventually gets there but if you have no idea what the destination should be like, you can't guide it there.

It's presumably only a matter of time before there's a Wikipedia article for "Brightness war"

The numbers are used as labels or indicators, not for their numerical values, so I think the title is still correct.

The numerical value is a label or indicator for an abstract property of physical sets of things, so I don't see how this is anything different.

AV2's mission is to nip VVC in the bud. They seem to be more or less at parity, and given that, why would anyone want to use a royalty-based codec when they could could use an essentially equivalent free one? There's no massive hurry to implement either - we have existing codecs that are largely good enough for now - this is technology which take 5 to 10 years to fully deploy, as has been seen with other codecs.