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by yboris 3y ago
Exciting news. Next frontier is 4DWW - Four Day Work Week! Achieve a work-life balance you never thought you could have ;)
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I think it's mainly depends on camera movement. Games like I Expect You To Die expect the player to sit (as the game character does) with only camera movement coinciding exactly with the movement of player's head -- do not cau
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A fun thing to do with pen plotters is to use a non-exact medum. Here's Lucia He - an artist working with plotters and watercolor https://twitter.com/Licia_He e.g. https://twitter.com/ZeeZee_ETH&#x2
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Is It Worth Getting an Annual Physical Exam? The answer seems "no" for most people. https://nutritionfacts.org/video/is-it-worth-getting-an-annu...
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Chrome did not settle things with its decision to not use JXL at this time. (WASM) Polyfill and we're done.
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The extension for the file format is .jxl and is pronounced "jixel" :)
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Confirming that JPEG XL is a winner. Here's one of the main developers of the format, Jon Sneyers, writing 3 days ago: JPEG XL: How It Started, How It’s Going https://cloudinary.com/blog/jpeg-xl-how-it-started-
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From the same author: https://giannirosato.com/blog/post/image-comparison/ "Considering JXL has been endorsed by Facebook, Adobe, Intel and the Video Electronics Standards Association, The Guardian, Flic
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Their decision is schizophrenic: the JPEG XL format is a combination of two technologies: PIK (developed by Google) and FLIF (developed by Cloudinary) - one of them developed by Google . It is entirely sensible for them to reverse their de
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In the article they mention JPEG XL (aka .jxl) format that I hope everyone knows about: https://jpegxl.info/ It is supported by Adobe, included in Safari 17, is behind a flag in Firefox, and was behind a flag in Chrome
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Please include a screenshot if it's ever appropriate. You will save your visitors so much time!
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I believe you can disable this newly-added functionality.
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Link to repo from the FAQ at the bottom of the page: https://github.com/dakenf/stable-diffusion-webgpu-minimal
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I think there's a whole book about this: Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seeing_Like_a_State
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Perhaps this is an age thing, but I've been (following) around technology long enough to know what's likely / possible, and a leap into a fully-visible hologram on a handheld device isn't likely in the coming few years (
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"Meh"? Please consider what it would feel like to be the sole developer working on this project and then to hear this response from someone in person who you excitedly share the idea with. This is not a nice way to respond to so
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Minor frustration -- I'm reading the directions to install, but when I focus out (to update my VSCode settings as instructed), the screen goes into low contrast, making it harder to read the directions.
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Recommended (free) reading: Professor Frisby's mostly adequate guide to functional programming https://mostly-adequate.gitbook.io/mostly-adequate-guide/ See discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com&#x
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It's unfortunately Electron. It started out as a 60mb executable, but over the 5 years of updates the installer ballooned (it has to include FFmpeg in it for users' convenience). I do no paid advertising -- promoted it a few dozen
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First $100: Thirty copies sold of Video Hub App First $1,000: Three hundred copies sold of my Video Hub App https://videohubapp.com/ Though I do donate $3.50 of every sale to a cost-effective charity so in theory I ma
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by yboris 3y ago
Probably very related: Bullshit Jobs: A Theory by David Graeber https://www.amazon.com/Bullshit-Jobs-Theory-David-Graeber/dp...
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In Russian all nouns are gendered (he / she / it), and "ship" is "корабль" which is a he.
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Also related, one of my favorite philosophy papers: Vehicles and Crashes: Why is this Moral Issue Overlooked? by Douglas Husak Argues that SUVs are immoral because of the high crash incompatibility. They cause more damage to others (dispr
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I've heard of something called sunset clause which can be included in laws that make them expire if some condition is (not) met . For example, if the goal of the law is to lower incidence of crime X and if crime X has not decreased
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My favorite book on the subject: Legalize This!: The Case for Decriminalizing Drugs by Douglas Husak The author argues that all drugs should be decriminalized. The TL;DR argument: going to jail is the worst thing the state does to a perso
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Thank you for the bug report! I've known about this one for a while -- I think it appeared after I updated Gatsby to the latest version. https://github.com/whyboris/video-hub-app-gatsby-website I'd love to mi
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I don't think you understand the EA movement at all or it history. The foundation of it is Giving What We Can - https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/ - regular people (not rich) giving at least 10% of their income to cost
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I recommend you look at Effective Altruism . Can there be anything more-fulfilling or less regret-on-your-deathbed than helping others (while knowing you're doing it in the most effective way you can)? There are hobbies for sure, bu
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Y'all heard of polyamory ? There are better models out there than staying only with one person and denying yourself the beauty of an expanded heart.
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semi-on-topic: I created Video Hub App that is like YouTube for local files: shows you a gallery with scrub-able (preview on hover) thumbnails. But does not work streaming videos to TV / tablet - only for local consumption. Hope some

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