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by bscphil 3y ago
> Rural America is emptying out. Rural America, in the sense that the OP meant it - "It is just a lot of physical work and being in the sun" - effectively no longer exists. "Rural America" is largely a term used by pe
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You're probably aware of this, but the comparison tool allows selecting larger images. That first image is 3 bpp if you select "large". > Usually we store images at 3.5 - 5 BPP (Cameras) That's appropriate for JPEGs,
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Agreed that large double-blinded surveys with trained participants is pretty much the gold standard, and that there's no true objectivity about e.g. blurring vs blocking. > Showing a smaller file that "looks the same" is e
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I think this is definitely the most common response. AVIF, as a video intra-frame based codec, works best at very low bitrates. JPEG XL is considerably better at high bitrates.
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by bscphil 3y ago
Objective metrics (like dssim) are not the best way to compare image codecs. This is in part for the obvious reason - that none of them are perfect and the human eye is better - but also for other reasons, including that some codecs use met
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And those would be good arguments, if the SMTP landscape looked different. I think the OP's views would be best summarized by "either host your own server, or go back to Reddit". Similarly, you shouldn't be using random-
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> Those suggesting this could be used to "just" hack random citizens are exaggerating. That would not be accepted by the oversight agencies. In most countries, good governance is considered to be writing laws in such a way that
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by bscphil 3y ago
I think the argument you want to make is not about Reddit's costs (which are low), but rather that should be charging some fraction of their lost revenue per-user for API use, since API users don't see ads. (Or else require app de
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Even for power users, I could see it being a pretty minor thing. Just speaking for myself - I don't really care about any of this as long as they keep "old" Reddit alive. I've been on Reddit over a decade at this point,
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> What i don’t understand is why they can’t outcompete these apps by providing a better app. The good apps are (a) free, and (b) don't show any ads. Pretty much by definition they can't compete with that and make money.
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I say pretty clearly that I'm talking about purely theoretical numbers. The underlying fact is that the status quo is probably unsustainable for Reddit. It's hard to be "blatantly wrong" about a series of hypotheticals,
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Aren't they effectively just offloading this whole question onto the apps? For the sake of argument, let's say what they are charging for the API is about 80% per-user of what they make for users who use the official app (and ther
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by bscphil 3y ago
Apple has been pushing Swift on Linux enough that I've been checking out its progress every so often. It will probably never get entirely free of ObjC but it's a nice enough language that I'd really like to be able to use it
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> you can send abuse requests to people's ISPs In practice it's very rare for me to see a direct ipfs protocol link, almost all the traffic goes through HTTP gateways (which frequently cache the content as well). Hard to imagin
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by bscphil 3y ago
I liked this piece a lot. However, I think one failing, which is also tripping up many of the commenters here, is this insistence on ordering one's relationships. Who's my number one? The moment you ask that, you end up with the
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On the Catastrophic Risk of AI(schneier.com)
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by bscphil 3y ago
Yes, this post is nonsense. The biggest issue is that macOS doesn't do sub-pixel anti-aliasing and hasn't for many years: the "after" picture looks nothing at all like macOS! You'd achieve macOS style rendering on
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by bscphil 3y ago
Eh. It got raided, was down for two months, and for a while it was unclear whether it would come back or not. https://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-back-online-150131/
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by bscphil 3y ago
> For political reasons, to avoid supporting DRM. This is very much a practical reason as well, though this overlaps with "not available in a usable form". DRM is the reason I can't watch movies at the highest bitrates and
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> we've re-evaluated the Bible without any pre-conceptions, which is why a lot of other religious that believe in things like the Trinity or the immortal soul look at us as heretical or crazy Kinda reminds me of what the Christadelp
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by bscphil 3y ago
I'm not totally sure about the relevance of this to my argument, but it is funny that Signal literally does have a money transfer feature in-app with a cryptocurrency called MobileCoin: https://support.signal.org/hc&#x2
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This is actually sort of an example of what I'm talking about. Yeah, part of the strength of cryptocurrency is that it allows bad people to do bad things. Sort of how part of the strength of encrypted messages is that they allow bad pe
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by bscphil 3y ago
Sincere question: when did you join JW, and what was your immediate reason for doing so? The reason I ask is that there are a lot of people recommending churches (of various kinds) in this thread, and I take it most of the non-religious amo
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The point is that crypto used to be able to do that, trivially. So it very much speaks to the question of whether crypto has any strengths versus other approaches to the same problems. It used to , and doesn't anymore.
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Part of the issue is that rightly or wrongly, all of its strengths have effectively been regulated out of existence. I needed to quickly send some money internationally for a perfectly legal purpose. I have an old Coinbase account I wanted
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That appears to be incorrect. https://support.google.com/mail/answer/7126229
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by bscphil 3y ago
> Just from that, the government now immediately knows what site you've been to If I understand the idea correctly, this isn't how it works. Your user agent sends a signed request (with proof of identity) to the GOV.UK verifica
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The real problem with the article is that it's conflating two things: the absolute rate of survival for cardiac arrest after CPR, and the relative rate of survival for cardiac arrest after CPR (versus doing nothing). > In real life,
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by bscphil 3y ago
> routers normally have uPnP enabled these days From what I understand, uPnP took off for a while, but started to become much less common about a decade ago because of the security issues it caused. I think most routers come with it disa
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by bscphil 3y ago
Cost. If you've already got an old, cheap server lying around, then having an 8 TB box at home is very cheap. Say, $15 a month for Mullvad + power usage. Reputable seedboxes seem to be in the range of ~$60 a month for 8TB of storage.

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