Cosmic rays ruin photos in space, so Nikon built custom firmware for space cameras which increases noise reduction at low ISO/shutter speed settings
Sat, 9 Dec 2023Smidgeons
Inspired by Maggie Appleton's smidgeons
The SVG spec allows you to use “foreignObject” to insert arbitrary HTML, which will display properly if your SVG is being rendered by a browser
Fri, 8 Dec 2023The brain may have a self-defence mechanism against epilepsy which impacts cognitive performance
[https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-11-brain-epileptic.html](https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-11-brain-epileptic.html)
> This observation suggests that the cognitive difficulties—in particularly, memory deficits—experienced by individuals with epilepsy may be attributed, in part, to the brief impairments induced by these slow waves.
Sun, 3 Dec 2023 If you want to write a video web app, you cannot avoid transcoding video if you want it to work on all browsers
Safari uses `video/mp4`, which other browsers can't record to.
Thu, 30 Nov 2023 Facebook spends about 6 billion USD per month and has about 3 billion monthly active users (meaning Facebook’s monthly cost per user is around $2)
Wed, 29 Nov 2023There are already people calling collections of AI models “zoos”
Like [here](https://github.com/xetdata/onnx-models), where machine learning models are being gathered together like animals in a zoo. I’ve actually started a novel about AI, this idea of “model zoos” will for sure make an appearance.
Wed, 29 Nov 2023 If you could 'see' all of Andromeda with the naked eye, it'd be bigger than the moon
It's the biggest and most distant thing you can see with the naked eye. It's 152 000 light years across, and about 2.5 million light years away from Earth. That's a bit surprising because it means it's only 16 times further away from us than its own diameter.
Tue, 28 Nov 2023 You can get drafts coming in through your electrical sockets
[https://lifehacker.com/home/fix-drafty-electrical-outlets](https://lifehacker.com/home/fix-drafty-electrical-outlets)
Sun, 26 Nov 2023 Coffee might be making my brain less plastic (and therefore less able to learn new things)
Based on [this article](https://neurosciencenews.com/caffeine-neuoplasticity-ltp-25255/). Maybe I’ll go caffeine-free too in Fun Free February?
Sun, 26 Nov 2023 PocketBase saves authentication details in localStorage
It can also get the details itself when you initialise the SDK and will take care of validating your auth. **Nice!**
Fri, 24 Nov 2023 There’s no ‘aside’ in markdown
Fri, 24 Nov 2023You can hide the default arrow dropdown marker in a details/summary accordion
This'll do it:
```css
details summary::-webkit-details-marker {
display: none;
}
```
Fri, 24 Nov 2023 The PowerPoint morph transition will tween objects from one place to another
Fri, 24 Nov 2023Select elements can emit ‘invalid’ events
If there are constraints on the select (e.g. `required`) which are not fulfilled, the select will emit an invalid event if its `reportValidity()` function is called.
Fri, 24 Nov 2023 We go through approximately one Jura filter every 20 days (2-3L per day)
A three pack costs 20K, so that’s around 10K/month on filters. Add on the cost of the cleaning tablets both for the system overall and for the milk, we're paying 500 HUF/day for coffee... **before we've even bought any coffee!**
Fri, 24 Nov 2023