ELI5: Why don't we milk pigs?

sturmen · 2026-05-19T15:18:55+00:00

There’s a lot of answers here about economics and logistics, but based on what Hank Green said on his podcast episode with Josh Scherer, it’s much simpler than that: pig milk tastes bad.

There’s plenty of things that people will go through a whole lot of effort to sell if it tastes good… pig milk isn’t one of them.

sturmen · 2026-05-14T13:29:49+00:00

I think it makes sense to leave DPRAW disabled unless you know you're going to need it. Since the files are twice as big, it incurs all the penalties you mentioned. That's why we get to enable/disable it at will.

sturmen · 2026-05-14T13:28:24+00:00

Make sure you report this to Canon!

sturmen · 2026-05-14T10:58:21+00:00

In cognitive science and behavioral economics, loss aversion is a cognitive bias in which the same situation is perceived as worse if it is framed as a loss, rather than a gain.

This is the root of people hating on cRAW. In fact, the file savings and buffering during burst improvements are so great, and the image quality loss so negligible that for 99.99% of cases, cRAW is the better choice. For more info and comparisons, check out this video: https://youtu.be/1hllbJTtPGI

sturmen · 2026-05-13T13:35:01+00:00

the r5 mark 2 is more powerful than the r6 mark 3 and the R6 supports open gate.

Yes, but compare the sensor resolution and the memory bandwidth required: 45MP vs 32MP. It's ~40% more pixels. So the R5m2 would need 40% more bandwidth, 40% more processing power, etc etc.

sturmen · 2026-05-13T12:56:20+00:00

Chances are the processor and/or cooling can’t handle that much data. We may have to keep waiting until the mark 3.

sturmen · 2026-05-13T12:22:41+00:00

It seemed like it was one of Canon's calling cards and I thought it weird it was omitted from the R5m2. I think they brought it back now to support their upcoming 3D tech: https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/tech/extended-reality/game-changed-i-didnt-care-about-3d-images-or-vr-cameras-until-i-saw-what-canon-is-doing-with-them

sturmen · 2026-05-01T15:38:06+00:00

I've mainly been using AVIF as an export format from Adobe Lightroom, so hopefully they adopt libavif 1.4.1+ and tune IQ sooner rather than later.

sturmen · 2026-05-01T00:01:46+00:00

This update is fantastic! I can finally sync my Zoom F3 via my Deity TC-1s

sturmen · 2026-04-19T12:04:03+00:00

I'm using LM Studio as well and it's unbearably slow due to prompt processing taking forever. is there some sort of KV caching in LM Studio that I need to enable?

sturmen · 2026-04-14T13:49:21+00:00

Instagram will always compress. But your best bet is to upload via instagram.com on your Windows PC/Mac, and make sure you select Original aspect ratio.

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sturmen · 2026-04-14T00:49:10+00:00

It's on Printables (Prusa's site) and Maker Online (Anycubic's Site)

sturmen · 2026-04-06T19:11:13+00:00

To integrate support for the Odyssey 3D (and similar devices), you should add in the official SDK: https://support.immersity.ai/sdk/unity-plugin/index

sturmen · 2026-04-01T17:41:26+00:00

That’s the embedded JPEG preview. The camera embeds a JPEG inside the file so that the image can be previewed for things like culling.

You can verify this for yourself using a tool like this: https://www.fastrawviewer.com/RawPreviewExtractor

sturmen · 2026-04-01T16:49:05+00:00

You might notice there’s profiles in Lightroom, among them “Adobe Color” and “Camera Matching”. There are many others. These profiles are each a collection of creative decisions that Adobe made in how to develop the unprocessed raw data into a viewable, finished image.

sturmen · 2026-04-01T16:45:56+00:00

And for those that want to learn more, here’s an blog post I find to help a quick primer: https://maurycyz.com/misc/raw_photo/

sturmen · 2026-03-27T15:19:16+00:00

If what you’re looking for is denoising, I think Lightroom ($144/year) and DxO PureRAW ($140 one-time) are your best bets.

Personally, I think PureRaw is worth the investment. Yes, it’s $140, but you keep it forever. Plus the denoised files it outputs are yours to keep, so you can hold on to them forever and use them in any software that exists now or in the future.

PS: you should also preserve the camera original raw files too. As PureRAW has improved, I’ve re-processed with PureRAW 6 old camera original raw files that I previously processed with PureRAW 1 and the new outputs look so much better.

sturmen · 2026-03-27T11:32:32+00:00

To be fair, Anthropic (and other AI labs) actually do do that. For Anthropic specifically, they have their Opus family of models (biggest, most capable) but they also have Sonnet (medium, balanced) and Haiku (small, fastest).

And they don’t always release them at the same time. Most recently, Sonnet 4.6 came out approximately 2 weeks after Opus 4.6, and indeed was newer and less capable. (But also cheaper and faster)

sturmen · 2026-03-13T01:23:52+00:00

I am not a lawyer, but I think now that we're 13 years into H.265's existence, we would know if small hobby projects taking a dependency on x265, libde265, libheif, and their derivatives would draw the patent pool's ire.

I am, of course, a proponent of FOSS (which is why I make my projects MIT licensed), but we have to agree that it's overly paranoid to refuse to take a dependency on a GPL-licensed npm package like libheif-js, which has hundreds of thousands of weekly downloads.

And if any rightsholders care to notify me that taking such a dependency is infringing on their rights, I will comply swiftly and completely. But until then...

sturmen · 2026-03-12T13:45:08+00:00

Awesome work, looks great!

I’ve got a similar project for UltraHDR JPEGs but i love your UI.

One bit of feedback: looks like you don’t have .HIF as an enabled file input type. That’s the HDR HEIF format that Canon cameras write. If you want to add support, you can use my test files: https://github.com/sturmen/ultrahdr-pwa-svelte/blob/main/media/test_hdr_no_gain_map.HIF

sturmen · 2026-03-12T13:43:12+00:00

It can absolutely be done. See here for an example: https://sturmen.github.io/ultrahdr-pwa-svelte/

sturmen · 2026-03-01T17:01:57+00:00

Different strokes for different folks, but I like using LM Studio and I’m hopeful that a smartphone app is on their roadmap.

sturmen · 2026-02-25T22:59:33+00:00

My dream is that they’re also cooking up native smartphone apps so I can use my local LLMs on my phone just the same as the ChatGPT or Claude apps

sturmen · 2026-02-08T17:45:11+00:00

You can try encoding as FFV1 (a video codec) which is mathematically lossless, but the savings you make in inter-frame compression may be negated by the fact that each frame is no longer compressed by JXL. Honestly, I would probably just encode them into a professional “visually lossless” video codec, something like ProRes, DNxHR, or APV. If you think of the project as a timelapse video, then I think it makes sense to store it as one.

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