Validating on disk the benchmark I wrote in the middle of the night
I opened a clean session as if I were a user and asked how to use Nest. The first command returned command not found. The rest of the day went the same way.
• By Brenner Cruvinel
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Raising the CRF until search breaks
A half-gig file, visually awful, finds the right card as well as the 3.6 GB lossless one. The metric I was using to veto it measured the wrong thing.
• By Brenner Cruvinel
At the end of the day it's the same thing, 1.3 GB
Seriously, you used 200 demo cards? I have a client meeting and I still don't have the dataset.
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The encoder had ignored tune=still since the first build
The bytes of a build didn't match an encode done by hand. The tune=still I had been asking for from the start had never been applied, and the manifest said it had.
• By Brenner Cruvinel
My bets before compressing the cards
Lossless means three different things when the source is already JPEG. Separating them changed what I bet on, and the lossless run settled the first bet that same night.
• By Brenner Cruvinel
Nest has the potential to be a Magic card archiver
Can you swap 7 GB of Magic card JPEGs for a single file the app opens directly? The first build said yes, and raised two questions I didn't have before.
• By Brenner Cruvinel