"Premature optimization is the root of all evil" - Donald Knuth. It's also my sig, in optimized form.

The point is worrying about optimization when it's not necessary can make it hard to get the app working at all. But now is a good time to worry about optimization.

They're actually working on something like that. It currently weighs 57 pounds, so it's not comfortable.

Upscaling an image with AI can absolutely make it sharper and more detailed. It's just that the added details are all hallucinations.

One day there will likely be an AI image compression system similar to the Brotli text compression system.

I have a very old car, but I recently drove a new rental. Radar has two huge benefits for me. First, I'm bad at checking my blind spots. On a self driving car it could fill in for camera glitches. Second, radar can detect when the car I'm following slows down faster than I can see that the car's getting closer. Especially if it's doppler radar. A self driving system deserves the same info.

They kept airing The View, and resumed airing Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Both shows may at some point have called him Mango in Chief, but they've said worse about him.

Notable that both were snubbed for not being ready.

So they're just preparing students for the real world. I think this is the best argument for the limit I've heard so far!

The minimum wage going up does cause inflation, e.g. in restaurant prices. It made me less likely to get restaurant food.

Nowadays there's been so much inflation that I don't get restaurant food at all.

Including HTTP servers hosting websites like this one? Will all but the largest web sites become too expensive to host?

The LTX 2 series appears able to do all the same things locally.

Nobody in CA or CO is verifying the number.

Yet.

It's a gimmick on an EV. It could be really useful on a plug-in hybrid.

The difference is you're very likely to plug in an EV even if it has solar. Many people don't plug in a hybrid. But if your hybrid has solar and enough batteries, you'll get carbon free power whether you want it or not. Especially if the government mandates all cars be EV or such hybrids, which I think they should.

"Draw a kitten" would not be worthy of protection.
A two paragraph detailed scene description would be.

OK, but does the description being copyrightable mean the work also is?

Suppose some guy commissions an artist to make a painting based on a two paragraph detailed scene description. Further suppose the artwork gets entitled by that two paragraph detailed scene description, so others know what it was. (Weird, but that's par for the art world.)

Now suppose some other guy commissions another artist, who has never seen the first painting, to make a painting based on that same two paragraph detailed scene description. It gets a regular, short title. Is that new painting a copyright violation?

I used to have a Sony Blu Ray player. I discovered about 10 years ago that I could record TV, compress it with H.264, fit about 6 hours of 720p content on a DVD-R, and it would play on that Sony player. Not perfect quality, but the goal at the time was to be better than VHS, which was easily achieved.

Eventually I learned about Jellyfin and that player got stolen, so I hardly care about any disks anymore. But my point is that modern compression makes Blu Ray data density unnecessary.

Seemed stupid for sharks, but maybe it's better for hard drives?