Archive: 2024-08

Halide can now strip away (almost) all the iPhone's processing: Digital Photography Review — "Halide iOS alternate-camera app that tries really hard to reproduce the actual data the sensor saw, with no smoothing or color-tweaking or AI voodoo." (2024-08-26 · camera, halide, ios, mlp, photography )

Vocabulary for describing whisky varieties — Stumbled over this today, a URI vocabulary for use in things like RDF for describing whisky. Posting just to remind myself how weird the standards communities are as I poke at adjacent things. (2024-08-26 · data, mlp, rdf, standards, whiskey, whisky )

Y Combinator is backing a weapons company for the first time, entering a sector it has previously shunned. — “Specifically, it’s a low-cost cruise missile startup, which the Financial Times reports would be suitable for use in a potential war between the US and China. The cruise missiles are 10x smaller and 10x cheaper than today's alternatives, but presumably still murder people.” (2024-08-25 · ben.werd, military, military.industrial.complex, missiles, mlp, us-china, war, ycombinator )

COVID-19 Home Treatment and Prevention - mostlyobvious - Perlite — LHL’s roundup of what’s known for preventing and mitigating COVID-19 (2024-08-25 · covid19, health, lhl, mlp, research )

feedsin.space — A service that allows you to publish a RSS feed to the Fediverse. And in particular the one I use to publish these links. (2024-08-18 · atom, fediverse, feed, links, mastodon, mlp, rss, rust, syndication )

Hugo 2024 Best Novella: Thornhedge by T.F. Kingfisher — I immediately read anything Vernon writes under her Kingfisher pen name, but even as an avowed fan this felt inventive and delightful. (2024-08-18 · books, fantasy, hugo, hugo.2024, kingfisher, mlp, scifi )

Hugo 2024 Best Novel: Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh — It was great. Recommended. (2024-08-18 · books, emily.tesh, hugo, hugo.2024, mlp, novel, scifi )

U.S. to Announce Prices for First Drugs Picked for Medicare Negotiations - The New York Times — One of the nice little side provisions tucked into the most substantial climate bill ever is also to put PBMs out of business. This is step 1. (2024-08-15 · healthcare, ira, medicare, mlp, pbm )

Platform Engineering: A Guide for Technical, Product, and People Leaders — I've been eagerly awaiting Camille and Ian's new book. An understandable push by many companies in response to growing software development costs and challenges has been to embrace platforms. But platforms are hard. And there hasn't been a good book before now on how to build and operate them. (2024-08-13 · books, camille.fournier, engineering, ian.nowland, mlp, platform )

FLUX from Black Forest Labs — “Flux, 12b parameters open source text-to-image model to date, developed by Black Forest Labs—the original team behind Stable Diffusion.” (2024-08-05 · ai, genai, mlp, stablediffusion )