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Findecanor
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Findecanor
5y ago
Digital cinema uses a kind of Motion-JPEG2000. The encoding of the coefficients is so convoluted that cinema projector systems require custom hardware to do decoding in 2K at full speed. The only software algorithm that could decode it at r
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To me, it was a computer magazine that introduced me to BBS:es. It had articles on how to use them, on good etiquette, and there were phone numbers to some newbie-friendly ones. Eventually I became a "co-sysop" / moderator on
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Sure, you can bullshit your way out of a bug. It is called making a "kludge", also known as "technical debt". It happens all the time... unfortunately.
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"Westarctica" is a stupid name. First. Without the "ant(i)" it refers to the North pole, not the South. Antarctica" means "land on the opposite side from the Arctic". "Arctic" is formed from &quo