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by gardaani 8y ago
FF65 also supports WebP images and animations. Here's few test images: https://developers.google.com/speed/webp/gallery1
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I have tried AV1 video on Chrome and it seems to be using the same amount of CPU as VP9 on my computer. I can't test Firefox support for AV1 on my Mac, because it seems to work only on Windows.
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Bluetooth 5.1 has new direction finding feature(bluetooth.com)
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steveklabnik: "Not even Rust people think that the kernel should adopt Rust." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16547450
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I found an article which has similar rules: * Use FP when you need to build something purely computational. * Use OOP when you want/need to build something generic for other people to use. * But if you are application or game developer
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This C++ code actually compiles with clang++. Incredible! int main(int argc, char *argv<::>) <% if (argc not_eq 1 and argc not_eq 2) <% return 1; %> return 0; %> https://en.wikip
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Thousands of Swedes are also doing that. They store credit cards and key cards under their skin. https://nordic.businessinsider.com/swedish-people-embed-micr...
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Here's the simplest AI example I have found so far. It is called Binary Driver AI. if (car.distance < 5) { [car slowDown]; } else if (car.distance >= 5) { [car speedUp]; } This AI was created by Apple. You can see i
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This is what every software should do. I don't care if software isn't free or open source, but file formats should be documented so that they can be read later or processed by other tools.
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If you think that the # syntax for private fields needs to be improved, then go to JS Committee's GitHub Issues and give feedback about it: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-class-fields/issues There's at
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Spektral, a Danish company, has been doing this in real-time on iPhone for live video. No surprise, Apple bought them for more than $30 million: https://www.digitaltrends.com/photography/apple-spektral-aqu...
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This is the first time a space flight from U.S. takes humans to space after the Space Shuttles were retired.
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There's SailfishOS, which is an alternative to Android and iPhone. It's a mobile Linux OS with an optional support for Android apps. It's not the world's most advanced mobile OS, but a good way to escape the Apple and Go
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Many old FreeHand users have moved to Affinity Designer. You should try it, it is available for Mac and Windows.
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The lander plans to transmit data to Earth using a relay satellite orbiting at the Earth-Moon L2 halo orbit: http://www.planetary.org/blogs/guest-blogs/2018/0519-change-... The relay satellite included two mi
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According to this article, they try to build a mini biosphere: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/04/13/china-plans-grow...
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This is the second rocket launch today! The earlier one was Soyuz Launch to ISS: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18587943 I didn't know that there are so many rocket launches going on all the time. Here's a l
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Live: SpaceX Falcon 9 Spaceflight SSO-A: SmallSat Express Rocket Launch(spacex.com)
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OpenSchufa: The first results reverse-engineering Germany's credit score agency(blog.okfn.org)
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It was sad to read the thread where Jarek Duda introduces himself to the WebM codec developers group and suggests using Asymmetric Numeral Systems for VP9 / AV1. Then he notices patent applications about his algorithm and asks Google t
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Previous comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18518302
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Iron Sky End Sequence tries to show how those plumes would look like. Although, there's only a handful of them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvtxFnG9pD8
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Does dav1d support scalability, such as spatial scalability? Is is possible to decode only 1920x1080 frames from a 3840x2160 video (if the video has been encoded with spatial scalability)? It would be nice to be able to decode smaller frame
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New Sailfish X support for Xperia XA2 variants and free trial(blog.jolla.com)
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How it works for modern color photos which have been converted to BW? It would be interesting to see how the colors change compared to the original color photo.
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For anyone looking for those videos, here's a link to them: https://eater.net/quaternions Each video is interactive, just pause and tweak the 3d visualization. The videos are very good!
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Popular projects seem to be flooded with issues. Visual Studio Code release notes [1] has interesting graphs showing how the number of issues start to rise immediately when no one is taking care of them. [1] https://code.visualst
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Apple gamifies their upcoming event invitation(gamificationgeek.com)
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The prefers-contrast media query is even better for accessibility [1]. It allows checking if the OS is in high contrast mode and adjust the colors appropriately. I think the idea is to replace the Microsoft's proprietary -ms-high-contr
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Apple is proposing a new CSS color-filter property [1], which would do the same thing as Mail does for its content. Actually, Apple is already using color-filter internally in the Mail app. Safari allows setting user style sheets in its Pre

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