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by bscphil 5y ago
Exactly. Many people are insensitive to blurring / smearing artifacts, and so what you very often see is a comparison between an old codec at a medium bitrate with noticeable artifacts (e.g. JPEG picking and ringing) and a new codec at
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by bscphil 5y ago
The main update is that JPEG XL is still not supported out of the box by any web browser, so it's not something you can use just yet. But if you're just looking for a comparison, there's one here: https://afontenot
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by bscphil 5y ago
That's why the only acceptable way to compare codecs is to have two images of exactly the same size. At significantly different sizes, the compression artifacts will be different enough that the comparison becomes subjective, at best
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by bscphil 5y ago
I apologize if this isn't useful, but I played a lot of Minecraft back in the day, and I seem to remember that the login cookie check was only done in two places: the launcher, and in multiplayer (servers could request you send proof o
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by bscphil 5y ago
I think your parent comment is saying MS flags the account as questionable and asks you to confirm your current phone number (the one you already used a burner for).
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by bscphil 5y ago
> it's probably a bit of a process for the host of the frontend to update the database Right, I suppose I didn't put my point very well, but as I see it there are only two options: * Everyone gets their code (with the built-in
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by bscphil 5y ago
> so long as the name of a piece of data is known (its hash) But that's also the fatal flaw. It's pretty definitionally true of stuff on the web that the person who owns / controls it wants to be able to change / upda
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by bscphil 5y ago
> You might ask, what about modern websites, built with D*t compiled to webassembly, GPU acceleration, reactive frameworks, material design and capable to load the multi-core CPU at 100%? I am not using such sites so I don't care. D
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by bscphil 5y ago
Sounds sort of like Celestia, but I'm not 100% sure from your description what the program was like.
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by bscphil 5y ago
Good question! Keep in mind that I'm not a regular rST user, so I'm not the best person to make complaints about it. I dislike both the inline links and the footnotes. I agree with you about the underscore and that is the main aes
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by bscphil 5y ago
What I'd love to see is a general-purpose human readable format for documents. Markdown is handicapped by being (effectively) an HTML pre-processor for a tiny subset of HTML. Poor support for math, no captions, but more importantly ver
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by bscphil 5y ago
Yeah, I'm not sure exactly what ruleset is described by that comment. The use of offsets seems to suggest that the card needed to play starts at a particular offset "A", and then rotates as the turn moves around the table. Bu
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by bscphil 5y ago
One very useful thing you could add to this (if you feel like it) would be to make it work with snapshotted directories, rather than a single HTML file with inlined data. You can get the former with SingleFileZ and then extracting the resul
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by bscphil 5y ago
It does, although I doubt you would want to do this, it's rather slow.
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by bscphil 5y ago
As I see it, part of the drive behind tools like Scoop is to overcome the limitations of the binary-shipping strategy common to Windows developers. They are successful at this, I agree, but only partially successful. They come from the tr
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by bscphil 5y ago
> Despite fully reloading the page, the HTML version of Gmail consumes fewer network resources (~70KiB) and takes less overall time to return to interaction. Reminds me of the article "Browsers are pretty good at loading pages, it t
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by bscphil 5y ago
Well said. Dynamically linked packages managed by a package manager and created and distributed by maintainers is the Linux Way of doing things for multiple very good reasons. In fact, the article brilliant describes one of them: > Moder
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by bscphil 5y ago
Or that the Internet access they do have is often metered. A friend tells me 100MB costs about 1 USD where he is, which is not an insignificant amount of money. Really puts the whole 300 MB electron app thing in perspective; at any rate it&
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by bscphil 5y ago
The difficulty with Duolingo (free tier) is that it's so limited in how much you can learn per day. I have a streak of about 600 days and I'm only about a third of the way through the total program. I average about one lesson a da
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by bscphil 5y ago
> grow your customer base > give away your services for cheap I think your parent comment's view is that these go hand in hand. Sure, there are tons of bad examples of this which really do only amount to selling $1 for 90c. Somet
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by bscphil 5y ago
> It is kinda fun to work directly at IP level and not use TCP or UDP at all. Possibly dumb question: if you're not using ports (because you're not using TCP at all), what does routing look like, in terms of this article? How d
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by bscphil 5y ago
It's worse than that, because updating a Linux system is updating ~every application on your computer, not just the operating system. If you were just updating the core system, it would likely be even faster than that!
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by bscphil 5y ago
It's not correct, I pasted the code from the article directly into ipython. It filters out cases where the corresponding character in the answer is correct (a 'Y'), but not cases where it's used in another maybe (a &#x
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by bscphil 5y ago
It wasn't obvious to me when I first started playing Wordle, but you can actually share an emoji-fied version of your game (without the letters) by clicking "Share" when the statistics window pops up. I didn't think to d
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by bscphil 5y ago
This is a cool project, but I wanted to tell you that your evaluate_guess function is wrong. evaluate_guess(answer="crest", guess="erase") "MYNYM" Many people misunderstand this but it's not h
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by bscphil 5y ago
I think abut it kind of like this (as someone who has never used Gemini): There are all sorts of uses for cryptographic proofs; e.g. you can sign a document and prove that you were the one who signed it, or you can do a bunch of double-SHA
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by bscphil 5y ago
> You could cancel Brave because you think Eich hates the gays. You could cancel Apple because their phones are made in sweatshop conditions that drive workers to mass suicide. Cancel electric cars because the cobalt batteries are mined
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That's not at all the same thing as the person I was replying to was claiming, though.
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If you just brute force solve with greedy search (always pick the word that results in the highest average reduction in remaining possible words), you get a solution with an average of 3.47. Even only guessing words on the primary word list
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Is that true for Apple?

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