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by bscphil 4y ago
I'd love to hear if anyone has suggestions with an additional feature: - No internet access / sign up / data syncing to the cloud is required (ideally it wouldn't exist at all). The ideal would be connecting the device d
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by bscphil 4y ago
> Most FE devs consider this a dark pattern and refuse to implement it. How common is it for FE devs to refuse to implement features that their employers tell them to implement?
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by bscphil 4y ago
Elon has been so hands-on and vindictive that it's hard to rule out him personally deciding to ban pg and then going back on it, but that's not the only possibility. If you looked at the replies to pg's initial "I'm
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by bscphil 4y ago
> Be generous; you even said in your previous sentence you don't know if it's common or not, so how do you know developers refuse to implement basic compression? If it's that easy, I'm sure there are plenty of AAA gam
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by bscphil 4y ago
Yeah, I believe the issue here is that games are not usually color managed because that would require tagging the rendered image with a space and then converting it, which would probably delay the render by at least a frame.
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by bscphil 4y ago
> This claim needs some real world evidence to back it up (and usually it's not about a performance impact, but instead a perceived image quality impact). We're talking lossless compression here, so image quality is not the iss
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by bscphil 4y ago
Are the best available compressors for the format open source as well? That would be news to me, although I admit I haven't looked into the format in quite some time. More generally, my point about video games was just that you can fre
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by bscphil 4y ago
Normal maps, certainly. I was more confused by the parent's claim that this applied to "pretty much all modern 3D rendering". With video game graphics I'm surprised that PC games aren't handled differently. To the e
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by bscphil 4y ago
It's true that lossless is often not the best approach, although it's worth pointing out that anyone can implement Quite OK while both the approaches you mention are not really friendly to open source.
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by bscphil 4y ago
I think it's in the title: assets . The example case is replacing the BMP assets used by a game with QOI with a resulting 10x size reduction: https://github.com/skeeto/chess/commit/5c123b3 I think this
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by bscphil 4y ago
Does that just mean that the color space is untagged / undefined? (That is in practice how I see a lot of games rendered - way oversaturated on my wide gamut screen.)
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by bscphil 4y ago
You could probably do the same for Guassian blur too, right? At least if you could get a reasonable guess for the parameters of the blur. Any case of obfuscation where plaintext and ciphertext characters have a 1:1 relationship should be tr
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by bscphil 4y ago
> Nuclear is dead on arrival because there is no industry demand for additional base load, regardless of whether it comes from uranium or coal. What if there is a political demand for phasing out existing coal / gas plants, there
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by bscphil 4y ago
> I predict A.I. trained on LOTR will be found to be infringing because it's a derivative work unless the court determines that use of the original work constitutes a fair use. Okay, but that's just a prediction, not an argumen
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by bscphil 4y ago
> If principles mattered more than convenience What principles? Is this another BSD vs GPL licensing turf war you're trying to start here? I think there are obviously coherent sets of principles on which it makes sense to prefer the
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by bscphil 4y ago
I didn't say that? The act of piracy is an act of copyright infringement. The act of watching a legally owned copy of LOTR until my brain remembers almost every single detail down to the smallest element is not copyright infringement,
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by bscphil 4y ago
Right. Most of the conversations about IP on this site seem to rely on extremely abstract reasoning or idealist thinking about what constitutes "property" or what a "copy" is. My understanding is that judges are not so e
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by bscphil 4y ago
> unvaccinated people are more likely to be infected and become a vector for the virus, infecting other people. I'd add to this the fact that it was especially true earlier in the pandemic, and at that time COVID was significantly m
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by bscphil 4y ago
> If condoms had the same failure rate in preventing STDs/pregnancy as the COVID vaccines do for preventing infection, we wouldn't use them. No? If they were the best form of contraception we had (which is the relevant comparis
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by bscphil 4y ago
> From my understanding it's initially meant for use e.g. in slow moving traffic jams on highways. I'm guessing the feasibility of this is very city-dependent. in LA, the usual traffic pattern is "drive 60-70 mph for 20 se
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by bscphil 4y ago
> they will most likely get a more stable app when the average developer doesn't have to write C/C++. vidcutter is written in Python, built on top of Qt, which is very stable.
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by bscphil 4y ago
It's quite possible that LC is far better than vidcutter, I agree. Another reply to me mentioned better keyboard shortcuts, for example. I don't think this speaks to the point of whether or not the extra storage usage is justified
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by bscphil 4y ago
I've never dealt with dependency hell, even once, on my current distribution. When necessary, distributions can ship multiple versions of a library and the software that requires each version will be linked appropriately. Basically, th
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by bscphil 4y ago
> It lets you easily build a cross-OS app on a super optimised, stable and secure platform ... Storage is cheap, and what is 500mb when working with 4K video anyways, so optimising for size is mostly a waste of time I get this perspecti
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by bscphil 4y ago
Not sure exactly what your use case is, but I use vidcutter for lossless clip extraction and it works great and does not require Electron (it's QT based I believe). https://github.com/ozmartian/vidcutter To answer
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The odds of it ever being noticeable are indeed quite low.
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by bscphil 4y ago
Great point, thanks!
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> My CD ripper/burner is going on twenty years old and it works flawlessly. This is probably a good example though. The state of the art in CD ripping has advanced significantly over the last 15 years. If you care about bit-perfect
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by bscphil 4y ago
Would be interesting to see a poll on which is worse - slightly blurry "square" pixels, or slightly non-square "perfect" pixels. At a glance, I immediately noticed how blurry the shader's pixels are, but it wasn&#x2
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by bscphil 4y ago
Think they probably meant a user exodus, as that's where the revenue comes from.

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