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The noise floor is per-page: pinned tolerances are load-bearing on CI - #570

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Two update-baselines dispatches of the same commit, twelve hours apart, left
135 of 147 Linux baselines byte-identical - CI is deterministic for ~92% of
pages. Eleven font/SVG-heavy pages moved 0.0003-0.002, and every one of them
pins tolerance 0.03 at its call site. Those pins absorb a rasteriser; they are
not padding left over from the blind era, and lowering them toward the 0.0001
default would redden CI permanently on pages with no defect.

The ~1e-6 noise figure this repo has been quoting is macOS-local and was
being read as universal. Corrected in both places it appears, with the rule
that a page's floor is its measured noise on the platform that judges it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 noreply@anthropic.com
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_011SP5gaqXEgUie8pdFrmbeJ

Two update-baselines dispatches of the same commit, twelve hours apart, left
135 of 147 Linux baselines byte-identical - CI is deterministic for ~92% of
pages. Eleven font/SVG-heavy pages moved 0.0003-0.002, and every one of them
pins tolerance 0.03 at its call site. Those pins absorb a rasteriser; they are
not padding left over from the blind era, and lowering them toward the 0.0001
default would redden CI permanently on pages with no defect.

The ~1e-6 noise figure this repo has been quoting is macOS-local and was
being read as universal. Corrected in both places it appears, with the rule
that a page's floor is its measured noise on the platform that judges it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_011SP5gaqXEgUie8pdFrmbeJ
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