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by yboris 5y ago
Unlike preceding formats that tried to replace JPEG, this one was designed with the replacement challenges in mind. A great blog post on this by one of the creators of the format, Jon Sneyers: https://cloudinary.com/blog&#x2
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by yboris 5y ago
I'm looking forward to the wide adoption of JPEG XL (.jxl - "jixel") file format. It's the format that will replace JPEG! https://jpegxl.info/
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by yboris 5y ago
> We all sometimes have a tendency to talk about the things we know jack about Why not participate in the norm of stating the source of your claims. It's easy enough to start a sentence with "I read in the Guardian" or &qu
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by yboris 5y ago
"plant monocrops" -- like all the soy that is planted to grow so it can be fed to the cows?
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Facebook will open up the Oculus Go to tinkerers with an unlocked OS(engadget.com)
14 points by yboris 5y ago|3 comments
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by yboris 5y ago
The pinnacle of sharing music was Audiogalaxy
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by yboris 5y ago
The shapes showing up during psychedelic experiences probably have to do with the geometry of our visual perception apparatus: Uncoiling the spiral: Maths and hallucinations https://plus.maths.org/content/uncoiling-sp
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by yboris 5y ago
My commercial project Video Hub App is nearly free: https://videohubapp.com/ It's a Gatsby website and I used to use Vercel with their free deployments, but because I also needed a subdomain with PHP I switched t
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by yboris 5y ago
Correct! I've even tried transcoding via FFmpeg - successful video playback on PC over WiFi but not on iPhone - https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App/pull/611
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by yboris 5y ago
News do not give you an accurate picture of the world. Almost by definition, if something is statistically average (happens all the time) it is not news. So seeing all the murderers on TV makes people think there is more of it going on than
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by yboris 5y ago
[help request] I created a commercial product Video Hub App and have been trying for a year to get streaming a video from a PC to an iPhone working (through a PWA, not a dedicated iOS app) and have had 0 success. I could get the video str
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by yboris 5y ago
A nice "gateway drug" is an addressable (programmable) LED strip. Hook it up to a Raspberry Pi or Arduino and have at it! I bought cheap motion sensors and will be installing a strip along the inside of a staircase to light up whe
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Countries failed on promise to cut greenhouse emissions(npr.org)
1 points by yboris 5y ago|1 comments
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by yboris 5y ago
One of my favorite philosophy papers: Vehicles and Crashes: Why is this Moral Issue Overlooked? by Douglas Husak. Author argues that because of the high crash incompatibility of SUVs, they are immoral - imposing needless harm on others (a
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by yboris 5y ago
Related thread on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28561941
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by yboris 5y ago
Twitter thread on this: https://twitter.com/ThomasPogge/status/1438849929175355396
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Apple Now Facing Class Action Suit for Cracked M1 MacBook Screens(tomshardware.com)
2 points by yboris 5y ago|0 comments
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For a PHP based forum, glance at Flarum - I have not tried but it's been on my radar for years. https://github.com/flarum/flarum
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A Node based forum - NodeBB . I've not tried but this has been on my radar for years https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB
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by yboris 5y ago
Relevant quote: "Nvidia has pledged to honor Arm's commitments and to continue licensing the architecture, even to its rivals, if the [Nvidia ARM acquisition] deal does go through" I'm looking forward to a bright future
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The Rate of Global Warming During Next 25 Years Could Be Double(insideclimatenews.org)
2 points by yboris 5y ago|0 comments
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New York passes law that will ban all gas-powered car sales by 2035(engadget.com)
50 points by yboris 5y ago|84 comments
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by yboris 5y ago
Why fight over a minor problem with my example? If you can't come up with a parallel statement that shows the absurdity of the claim, you're not trying hard enough. Pick a society that didn't have women voting; imagine someon
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by yboris 5y ago
You are claiming that people who make predictions of this sort are not making a "serious" prediction. And I am claiming that you don't get to say that. You may dismiss their predictions; you may feel they are worthless to lis
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by yboris 5y ago
You wrote "all animals are ultimately consumed". So if an animal dies of a disease, is it "consumed"? Could you explain your claim?
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by yboris 5y ago
My response was to parody the statement I was responding to, specifically "Veganism has no solid basis in that there is no precedent." I was hoping replacing just one word would have made the connection as clear as possible. Is ha
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by yboris 5y ago
Are you making the argument that decomposing in the ground is "consumption"? We are animals too you know. If all animals are "ultimately consumed", so perhaps there is no problem if I kill and eat some close friend of yo
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by yboris 5y ago
I'm unsure what kind of an argument you are making. Consider a parallel that could be uttered in the past: "Letting women vote has no basis in that there is no precedent." We know enough about nutrition that we could get all
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by yboris 5y ago
> Or perhaps plants are just as sentient as humans The burden of proof is on you. Humans are animals. We have evolution linking us together at a more-recent junction than we do when compared to plants. Humans and animals have brains; bra
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by yboris 5y ago
Do you suspect rocks have conscious experiences? With animals there's a clear connection: they have brains and brains is clearly the part that enables us humans to have conscious experiences. The burden of proof of the claim "plan

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