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by bscphil 5y ago
"A full day's work" is still one 8-10 hours. If you go a single week without needing to tinker with your installation significantly, you're still spending less time on administration than the OP claimed to be.
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by bscphil 5y ago
I'm sure it happens but it's hard for me to imagine someone knowledgeable enough to port forward 22 and possibly other ports across their NAT to a Raspberry Pi but not knowledgable enough to realize that enabling themselves to acc
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by bscphil 5y ago
This is sort of like claiming that the spread of encryption is bad and dangerous because it provides tools to terrorists. The problem with the claim is that even if every person or organization producing end-user software stopped developing
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by bscphil 5y ago
> The government tightened the lending rules so regular first home buyers and owner-occupiers can't get such a big loan anymore. I know nothing about the situation in New Zealand, but taking what you say at face value, they are th
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by bscphil 5y ago
The standard method for including album art (outside of iTunes world, I don't know what things are like there) has always been folder.jpg or folder.png in the folder. (And several other common names.) It can be as big as you like. Soft
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by bscphil 5y ago
Yeah this is the correct take on all this. It's simply not reasonable to add more than 10% to the size of a file on the off chance you need to perform a tiny manipulation to the file's metadata later.
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by bscphil 5y ago
OP specified reencoding , which probably means converting lossy to lossy. Despite the fact that modern codecs (and even mp3, LAME is transparent at V2~192kbps for most tracks and everything except killer samples at V0~256kbps) are generall
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by bscphil 5y ago
> why post Because it gets upvoted to the sky every time, for reasons unclear to most of us. Maybe there's an "I've heard of that - upvote" effect.
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by bscphil 5y ago
I apologize to wongarsu - I'm mildly dyslexic, and I missed the part of their comment where they mentioned that PNG uses DEFLATE, and leaving out that part totally changes the meaning of the comment. Their comment makes total sense aft
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> compressing them as much as I could Yes, this is technically not 100% true, it's just 99.9% true. Previous tests have found those additional options to provide negligible improvement in compression. Very rarely do I get even 1% mo
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by bscphil 5y ago
This is not true at all. PNG uses the DEFLATE algorithm which is a perfectly general algorithm for compressing data, it's not just a matter of encoding pixel differences. That's the real reason it doesn't make sense to zip a
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by bscphil 5y ago
What command are you using? I find `ect --strict -9` to be extremely fast, much better than oxipng or zopfli. `-9` provides the maximum compression level built in to the program; you could use the advanced options like `--allfilters-b` but
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by bscphil 5y ago
> It losslessy compresses images to a similar size of PNG It's worth pointing out that in cases where PNG is still the most reasonable format to use, compression gains are frequently left on the table. I frequently see 20-30% additi
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by bscphil 5y ago
Yeah I did my best to compress it but it's so noisy that there's very little compression that can be done without turning it into a blur. I can give you the original lossless PNG frames if you want them, but honestly I don't
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by bscphil 5y ago
I made a video showing a slow zoom-in to Waldo in the first hundred million hex digits of pi, using your color palette. Feel free to use it if you want with a link back to this comment, I release it under CC-BY. https://0x0.st&#x
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by bscphil 5y ago
> The trick is that we can reassign the colors using a palette. And in fact you always need to do this; you have to somehow decide which color each byte should represent. Hmm. I don't know that I agree. There are certainly more obje
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by bscphil 5y ago
> There's no legal requirement to issue a retraction if you later know that your previous statement was false. The public speech -> printed statement -> online publishing transition problematizes the meanings of "retracti
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by bscphil 5y ago
It's actually a bit worse than open core, in that the closed source version of the program works with versions of Python that have not been end-of-lifed [1] but the open source version of the program does not [2]. Because of that I&#x2
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by bscphil 5y ago
I think you're lashing out at Google for a variety of different (and very good!) reasons, but they're outside the range of my comment. People getting banned from Google services because of broken automation is bad, of course, but
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by bscphil 5y ago
What libraries should I rely on to create cross-platform native (or native-approximating) UIs in JS?
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by bscphil 5y ago
The top comment in the thread says > Free fbs doesn’t work with recent versions of python (>3.6) Is this true? What are the plans (if any) to update the GPL version of the project?
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by bscphil 5y ago
Very well said. People often claim that everyone complains about every Firefox UI change, but this is a perfectly consistent thing to do if you think Firefox has been getting slowly worse since v3.5 or so. The one thing I will say in its
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by bscphil 5y ago
> Contrary to Google Don't know that I really agree with this. Google does have experimental services and tools that they've killed (RIP Google Reader), but they have always provided migration for their core services. Look at
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by bscphil 5y ago
Counterpoint: a lot of work in R is not "development" in the ordinary sense. The outcome is not a piece of maintainable code that needs to be built on later or be generally useful in any way other than copying an occasional snippe
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by bscphil 5y ago
On the other hand, I'm curious what you've found to be lacking about the standard library documentation. I've found it to be generally very thorough, in some cases fantastic, though there's an occasional weak point.
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by bscphil 5y ago
Let's assume you only care about cracking one word messages in English, and only the 10000 most common words. The time stamp is granular to the hour, and there are ~10000 hours in a year. Easily available hardware can create 10 billion
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by bscphil 5y ago
> colors seem to be more accurate on Wayland That's odd. The one difference I can think of is that if your screen is not native sRGB, it likely needs to be color managed for colors to display correctly. Currently, Gnome on Wayland d
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by bscphil 5y ago
Wait, so the two examples given are someone who can't figure out what their out-of-pocket costs will be, and someone who hasn't heard back about an application, and your conclusion is that universal health insurance, which wouldn&
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by bscphil 5y ago
It's interesting how the simulated view makes errors in the terrain data obvious. The view from Santa Cruz island (off the coast of California) is almost completely obscured by single-pointed errors in the height map along the coast th
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by bscphil 5y ago
I agree with you, but I detect a certain level of irony in > managing to pick something that attracts others denotes a certain vulgarity in your choice

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