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by vortico 7y ago
If you have an application where you need lossless and optionally low FPS, then GIF is fine (and APNG and webp for smaller filesizes but less compatibility). But the average GIF in the wild these days is a reencoding from a video that doesn
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by vortico 7y ago
All browsers except IE/Edge support it, so it "caught on", but I don't see it in the wild, so it hasn't caught on with web publishers.
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by vortico 7y ago
You're right, but I think the purpose of the article is to spread word about AV1 as a comparison with h264 and vp9 through the fun example of GIFs. Most people know that at least h264 should be used for looping movie clips if your se
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by vortico 7y ago
Set `media.av1.enabled` to true in about:config.
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by vortico 7y ago
That is correct. Safari supports neither of these.
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by vortico 7y ago
At similar bitrates, they would be barely disinguishable visual garbage. At similar visual qualities, they'd be 10-20x filesize. It would be useful for the author to make this point by example though.
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by vortico 7y ago
libaom support in ffmpeg is still experimental. ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -c:v libaom-av1 -strict experimental out.webm Encoding on the CPU is less than 1fps now. rav1e is a bit faster. Hardware encoder support might be available on CPUs
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by vortico 7y ago
anovikov and I are referring to filesize.
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by vortico 7y ago
How much? Probably only 25-50% more? It's hard to guess, but I imagine it isn't more than a factor of 2.
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by vortico 7y ago
This game really opened me (and possibly other people) up to indie gaming. They're definitely not the first small team to tackle a fun game concept like this (The first game companies were 2-4 people.) but maybe the most influential of
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by vortico 7y ago
Dupicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19768012
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by vortico 7y ago
In order to correctly implement PayPal subscriptions, vendors must check the status of each users' subscription before renewing their service each billing period. If the vendor fails to do this, this is their problem, not the users&#x2
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by vortico 7y ago
>What's the underlying reason for people wanting to use PayPal? That's a good question, and here's what my customers have said. My company's market is digital products at around $10-100. Not saying everything here is
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by vortico 7y ago
An abstraction layer is the primary service Shopify, Braintree, etc provide.
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by vortico 7y ago
Some companies do that, but then you'd have two completely different systems to interact with your subscription system / shipping processor, handle refunds/chargebacks, automated emails, tax forms, etc. You've just gotta
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by vortico 7y ago
This is a good list, but many customers (i.e. more than 50% in my experience, especially if they're non-US) prefer to pay with PayPal rather than bank cards. Some don't even have bank cards. So if you use a service on this list, b
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by vortico 7y ago
IMO the perfect fifth interval sounds boring. Equal temperament fifths at 2^(7/12) = ~1.4983 are close enough (and actually amazingly close to 3/2) to be recognized as a fifth, and they offer a nice chorus/unison effect tha
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by vortico 8y ago
Makes sense with the rise of unmanned enemy drone use.
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by vortico 8y ago
If you need native look and feel: https://github.com/andlabs/libui If you need HTML5 canvas-style drawing: I propose building an (abstract) SVG document and render with Skia. When part of the SVG document changes, that
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by vortico 8y ago
The name "license zero" might be a bit too close to the CC0 license. Maybe a rename might be a good idea? It also doesn't describe the license accurately.
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by vortico 8y ago
"Low power" or "slow CPU" has nothing to do with it. When you have a bottleneck (GTK, X11/Wayland, video drivers) that is 100x more significant than the binding language (Python), switching languages will only buy y
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by vortico 8y ago
>It's harder to remove bottlenecks from mature applications than it is to plan ahead for the target platform and common use cases. I disagree. It's easier to release first and change what you need later, since there might only
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by vortico 8y ago
jononor should have recommended Gtk for Python via https://pygobject.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ . Not sure why PyQt was suggested instead.
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by vortico 8y ago
Rendering a GUI is much more overhead than the business logic to set up the GUI and make it interactive. A GUI is only "slow" if there is a user-triggered operation that takes more than 10ms. Interpreting a Python callback is many
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by vortico 8y ago
By the name, I was expecting this article to be much more technical, giving examples of common errors made by attempted proofs or reasons why certain cruxes in possible proofs would be difficult to overcome.
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by vortico 8y ago
See also http://lab.ejci.net/favico.js/
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by vortico 8y ago
Ah, that makes sense, question answered. My second question is that if bongs and water pipes are the same thing, why does the law distinguish their purpose by their name? It seems like given " I want to buy a water pipe for smoking the
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by vortico 8y ago
Sun Microsystems maybe?
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by vortico 8y ago
Only one way to find out!
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by vortico 8y ago
Totally off-topic question to this thread, but what's the reason for being kicked out of those stores for saying "bong"? I would have guessed that as long as employees don't use the term, it's fine for the company f

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