Random / Interesting

Why do color TVs make black and white snow? | Hacker News

The other question is “why don’t you see that noise when the TV is tuned in?” The TV has automatic gain control. When the signal is weak, it will amplify it up to the right level. If the signal is just background noise, then it will amplify that background noise until it’s at the “right level” for a proper TV signal. So, the gain is lower for stronger signals, and very high when there is no signal at all.

the artefacts created in the black and white picture by the colour signal are hardly noticeable, but they are enough to recover the colour from a black and white recording! The Unofficial Colour Recovery Wiki | Fandom

Programmer competency matrix

Programmer Competency Matrix – Sijin Joseph, I don’t agree with everything but looks like a nice blueprint

Random

Picture from xkcd what-if 0034 found on this article about evaluating LMs: Evaluation Metrics for Language Modeling and hotlinked from what-if 0034.

Qutebrowser

Added to config.py:

c.tabs.pinned.frozen = False
c.tabs.title.format_pinned = "{current_title}"

German / Deutsch

Cabinfever is der Lagerkoller.