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by bscphil 4y ago
I'm not sure what HTTP headers have to do with anything. Using "bpp" to mean bits per pixel is extremely common in image encoding. See e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_depth where an uncompressed
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by bscphil 4y ago
> and was amazed that JPEG XL has more detail than AVIF at 0.05-0.1 bpp (~120KB 1080p) bpp = bits per pixel, not bytes. At 1080p, "0.05-0.1 bpp" is 13-26 KB. Much smaller than what you were testing. Might want to recheck your s
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by bscphil 4y ago
You replied to a thread about a photography website. I don't think 720p images are the norm for that use case. In any event, I don't think the AVIF result at 250 KB is acceptable for photography either: https://0x0.st&#
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by bscphil 4y ago
What if it will be displayed at 3000x2000? I mean that's the whole conversation here, we're talking about images that are the focus point of the page.
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by bscphil 4y ago
That's correct, but it's important to keep in mind that JPEG XL is tuned for high quality images. If your baseline is heavily compressed JPEGs or AVIF images, switching to JPEG XL might save you nothing at all. However, if you&#x2
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by bscphil 4y ago
This is simply false, even if you mean using AVIF. Here's a test case, using a moderate sized (3000x2000) image. Nothing ridiculously huge or anything, and it's not an especially complex image. I'm linking the best I can do f
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by bscphil 4y ago
Meanwhile here in my large California city the best service I can get at my apartment is 100/10. That's because it's negotiated by the landlord with some kind of corporate rate (it's not shared, we still have our own mod
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by bscphil 4y ago
They are referring to the fact that Firefox does the exact same thing as Chromium if certain settings are changed via enterprise policy. Here's a screenshot from my browser: https://i.imgur.com/pNMMKUC.png I really don
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by bscphil 4y ago
> The whole "telephone number as identifier" bit, and the network discovery it provides, is the primary reason Signal has had the level of adoption it has. I agree. Signal absolutely should not abandon this. Rather, it should a
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by bscphil 4y ago
> if I was a security researcher, journalist, abortion seeker or dissident, I wouldn't use Signal either. I mean that's really bad, right? Supposedly Signal is the go-to alternative to doing things the hard way (e.g. GPG over
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by bscphil 4y ago
The best programmers don't take months to fix critical security issues caused by their trivial mistakes.
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by bscphil 4y ago
> if you finance most vehicles they will install a poorly hidden cell tracker that usually draws power from the OBD2 port. I have never heard of this. Do you have any reference to learn more? Who exactly does this installing - someone hi
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by bscphil 4y ago
What I do is probably more similar to you than you realize. I'm not categorically placing all images in ~/Pictures, rather I'm using that directory primarily for pictures that I've taken. Each photo taking session gets
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by bscphil 4y ago
My point is that that sort of person is not organizing their files at all. They're not refusing the Linux/Windows/Mac hierarchy and choosing a different one consciously, they just don't understand that the hierarchy even
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by bscphil 4y ago
I don't know anyone, other than a few tech-ignorant people who put everything on the desktop, who doesn't use them. Where else would you put stuff like music, pictures, documents, etc? These different types of files usually call f
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by bscphil 4y ago
You raise a good question. Actually, it's interesting that the article doesn't have a DOI number at all it seems, which is usually how it would be linked to the definitive source. IMO that's a bad sign and I'd treat this
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by bscphil 4y ago
1. I think giving a proper set of rules in the screen incorrectly titled "how to play" would help a lot. Currently it doesn't tell you how to play, it just says what the win conditions are: "Get rid of all of the tiles b
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by bscphil 4y ago
Excellent comment. I think the issue is that "better" is underspecified and needs some precisification to be useful. The metric you are using here is the proper response to the question "how many times more surprising is it
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by bscphil 4y ago
Yeah @dang this title is terrible. Maybe "Upgrading from x86 Debian Jessie directly to x64 Bullseye" would be better?
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by bscphil 4y ago
Looked this up. A standard serving of wine is 5 fl oz. Two servings a day makes 10 fl oz, and let's say we're talking about a household of two adults for 20 fl oz. At $20 per 750 mL bottle, that's $15.77 a day or about $5757
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by bscphil 4y ago
Re 1: the "average" may not matter all that much. The study's suggested 2 drinks per day is the same as the American average, which according to some web sources I found is 1.94 drinks per day (among adults). [1] The differ
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by bscphil 4y ago
And "drinks one to two servings of alcohol a day" is a pretty good proxy for "has enough money to afford to drink wine regularly, but is in a stable enough community to not slide into alcoholism".
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by bscphil 4y ago
I would be stunned if the median laptop purchased from Dell cost more than $750 before tax or was used less than three years. I think you're significantly overestimating that - maybe it's the median cost of a MacBook, but with t
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by bscphil 4y ago
That's true, but OP did ask a question "How come...". Your answer is that the Rust ecosystem is to blame for encouraging micro-dependencies, like Node.js, and not the author. I think that's a pretty reasonable take! But
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by bscphil 4y ago
Yep. Even taking the most obvious approach, PDF -> PNG, PNG -> PDF, and running the PDF through Acrobat's "Optimize Scanned Pages" feature results in a PDF that is almost the exact same size as the original and has copy
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by bscphil 4y ago
That's a fair point. I was trying to point out an interesting relationship between your approach and various forms of cryptography, but obviously this would not be the first line solution to the problem. I think the resistance to crawl
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by bscphil 4y ago
This is broken in multiple ways, some obvious, some not. 1. Obviously most people jumped directly to OCR, and that works of course. So counter to the OP, you can trivially render the first page to a high resolution PNG and then OCR that wit
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by bscphil 4y ago
I've recommended Inoreader multiple times on this site before, but unfortunately the service has gotten worse over the years by a couple of metrics. Most of the worthwhile features are now gated behind the most expensive plan, rather t
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by bscphil 4y ago
Issues are not a help forum, they are a way of reporting definite problems with a piece of software.
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by bscphil 4y ago
I assume they're referring to the fact that it did not show any issues for ~5 or so minutes after the outage began.

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