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by alwillis 3y ago
> The benefits of JXL when it comes to losslessly saving space for pre-existing images is so massively significant, it's hard to believe that this single feature alone doesn't meet the bar of worth. The old Google that cared de
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by alwillis 3y ago
> The argument is: (1) the cost is large -- implementation and maintenance of a complex image codec takes time, and image codecs are high-risk from a security perspective. If you look at the history of Google employees created the basis
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by alwillis 3y ago
> This only points to one things: developers strictly don't understand how politics work. No lies detected and so painfully obvious.
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by alwillis 3y ago
> Safari (finally) supports WebP. Sure… if by "finally" you mean 1,175 days ago—November 16, 2020. That how long ago WebP has been supported in Safari [1]. [1]: https://webkit.org/blog/11340/new-webkit
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by alwillis 3y ago
> It's the exact opposite of .WEBP which can't open on Mac I suppose it depends on what version of macOS you're running; on my Mac running Sonoma, WebP files open just like JPEGs, PNGs, etc. and have for the last 2 or 3 ma
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NBA Looks into Using Next-gen Apple Camera for Vision Pro(sportico.com)
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by alwillis 3y ago
> Color functions seems a bit weird to bring up since back then Apple were the only ones using higher gamut displays making the color functions useless for everyone but them, while also doing their best to hamper the web making the colo
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by alwillis 3y ago
You can read about the privacy concerts the community group published [1]. [1]: https://wicg.github.io/file-system-access/#privacy-considera...
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by alwillis 3y ago
margin-trim shipped in Safari 16.4 nearly a year ago [1]. leading-trim—the new name is text-box-trim —is behind a flag in the latest Safari. [1]: https://webkit.org/blog/13966/webkit-features-in-safari-16-4...
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by alwillis 3y ago
> All those Apple-specific icons with the different dimensions- really a pain for a casual web dev like me. You'll be glad to know you it's not like that anymore; you just need one Apple-specific icon now [1]: <link re
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The Essential Aquifers Are in Deep Trouble(wired.com)
2 points by alwillis 3y ago|0 comments
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by alwillis 3y ago
> I think they missed an opportunity by not making the surface of the battery a trackpad. Apple for the most part doesn't merge two unrelated functions in a peripheral or component. For example, they never did the "2 in 1"
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by alwillis 3y ago
IME, this is like the golden age of terminal apps in general and macOS-compatible ones in particular. There are several really good terminals for macOS: iTerm2: ( https://iterm2.com/ ) Kitty terminal ( https://sw.ko
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by alwillis 3y ago
> The best thing about Emacs compared to vim/neovim is that it has first-class GUI support that's not simply a terminal emulator in a window. Not true. There are lots of native front-ends for Neovim; Neovim was architected fr
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by alwillis 3y ago
> The process of typing pwd, and copying the location into emacs (similar applies to Neovim) already is too much friction, that it's easier to just open the barebones Vim on the remote. Vim has had the ability to open files remotely
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Makers of Twitterrific want to defragment online media with Project Tapestry(9to5mac.com)
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by alwillis 3y ago
Switched to doas a couple of months ago on my FreeBSD box; it’s been a seamless switch.
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by alwillis 3y ago
+1
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Texas Is Already Running Out of Water(wired.com)
2 points by alwillis 3y ago|1 comments
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by alwillis 3y ago
> The blog post didn't mention iOS at all. Probably because iOS 17.4 is in beta and just got released a few days ago.
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Apple Shares List of Alternate Browsers That Will Be Available to EU Users(macstories.net)
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by alwillis 3y ago
> The priority should be sustainable development. We have enough water, just not great usage. We may have enough water for now but we're using it faster than it can be replenished; our reserves in aquifers is starting to run out.
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by alwillis 3y ago
> That is a positive trend, but a few good marketing campaigns can increase eating beef again. It's not that simple. Millennials don't eat meat in the same quantities as their parents did and that's not going to change any
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Google Chrome for Mac Gets Generative AI Features(macrumors.com)
1 points by alwillis 3y ago|0 comments
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by alwillis 3y ago
> This isn’t actionable, though. Of course it is. If you bought Bitcoin five years ago, you'd be up about 1000% and could sell. That's actionable. Long term Bitcoin investors believe it'll be significantly higher in the ye
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by alwillis 3y ago
> someone could have said the same about Enron's initial 15% drop in 2001 Not someone who's been paying attention to Bitcoin and knows you can't compare it to a stock, especially one that became the poster-child for corrup
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by alwillis 3y ago
In the big picture view of bitcoin, a 15% drop in the price is meaningless. Even with the drop, the 5-year return for bitcoin is 995%.
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by alwillis 3y ago
> Why anybody should actually want to, still not clear. Including the recent drop, if you bought bitcoin a year ago, you'd be up 71.77%; the 5-year return is 995.26 %.
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Apple Vision Pro being resold on eBay at a premium(appleinsider.com)
2 points by alwillis 3y ago|0 comments
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by alwillis 3y ago
There’s no need for Apple to buy a foundry when they can afford to purchase virtually all of TSMC’s capacity for any new chip process.

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