Yes you are correct. Take something like the Super Nintendo, it typically displayed hundreds of colors on screen, however each graphical element could have a maximum of 16 colors (4 bits). The way they solved this was…
As I understand it, the reason for child separation is that they can't certify that the adult traveling with them is their actual parent, and given that child trafficking is a reality and much worse than potentially…
>I don't think someone is free if they don't have the material resources to make their own decisions. So who is the one who is to be forced to provide them with said material resources ? They don't just magically…
Well, video and audio should be fine either way, right ? Downloading and running executable files from file sharing networks seems like asking for trouble no matter what the network is.
Anyone know what the state of the network is these days ? I haven't used it for at least 8+ years, I remember servers drying up but with kademlia that's not really a problem.
>In Finland we put Vitamin D in milk that’s sold on normal shops. I'd wager it's the same in all the Nordic countries, at least it's the same here in Sweden. A couple a months ago when I spoke to my dad, he told me he…
For good reason, this is an emulator for a current-gen system, and from what I've seen on Youtube, a lot of games are fully playable. Companies are likely not that bothered by legacy systems being emulated, but this is…
Yes, correlation is not causation and all that, but when I was there I was struck by how very little obesity there was. I later learned that Japan has the highest life expectancy in the world.
I don't think so, I believe the worst case scenario is they might have to rename the project to not have 'Diablo' in its title. Only project that I know Blizzard shut down was a Starcraft server re-implementation,…
>Why are calls to violence bad, but spreading misinformation about a pandemic How do you know what is 'misinformation' ? WHO claimed that face masks were worthless, now you are forced to wear them in lots of places. WHO…
Then why was this legislation introduced ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_230_of_the_Communicati...
>Patreon became successful mostly because of the girls charging money for their nudes. Do you have any numbers to back this up with ? I think you are likely right but if there is any data on this then I would love to…
>A lot of prominent gatekeepers are all about the status quo. Who are these ?
>The thing that has put us off the last few cruises is realizing how workers on the ships are treated. I read somewhere that the main reason these cruise ships, including those owned by well known US companies like…
>Sorry, but look at how China, South Korea, Taiwan etc. are doing right now I'm taking China numbers with a LARGE grain of salt (basically I don't believe them at all given how they have lied from day one of this…
Very anectdotal, but the three Japanese persons I know have told me that people in Japan are generally negative towards holding an Olympics and think it's just a waste of resources.
Do new Android phones save photos in HEIC format ?
>Then HEVC isn't doing so bad Sure, but it was massively pushed as the successor of h264 as the new de facto video codec standard, after almost a decade in use it has clearly failed in that respect. IMO this codec…
>They get slammed for being funded by Google I don't see that at all, I mean they've been funded by Google for practically their entire existence. On the contrary it seems to me that Firefox users find that funding the…
I've not seen any indication that users wanted it, I've also read that Mozilla developers agree that it should be an extension. Yet Mozilla buys this and puts it inside Firefox, where it can at best be disabled by going…
>You can go back from XL to jpeg losslessly as well I don't think so, but I don't quite see the point unless you are thinking of using it as a way to archive jpeg's, but in that case there are programs specifically for…
Yes, it losslessly recompresses existing jpeg's into the jpeg XL format, while also making the files ~20% smaller, key point being lossless. Thus it is the 'perfect' upgrade path from jpeg which is the current lossy…
>Interesting. Where have you seen that adoption will be swifter with JPEG XL instead of, say, AV1/AVIF? Well, it's not finalized as of yet (though it is imminent), so rate of adoption is just pure guesswork at this…
>Likely the format with the best chance of overthrowing the jpg/gif/png incumbents is AVIF I used to think the same as well, however I now think Jpeg XL is poised to be the 'winner' among next gen image codecs. It's…
>Linux purposely makes proprietary drivers crap. No it doesn't, the devs refuse to provide stable in-kernel APIs because they want the flexibility to be able to modify them as they please when a better solution comes…
Yes you are correct. Take something like the Super Nintendo, it typically displayed hundreds of colors on screen, however each graphical element could have a maximum of 16 colors (4 bits). The way they solved this was…
As I understand it, the reason for child separation is that they can't certify that the adult traveling with them is their actual parent, and given that child trafficking is a reality and much worse than potentially…
>I don't think someone is free if they don't have the material resources to make their own decisions. So who is the one who is to be forced to provide them with said material resources ? They don't just magically…
Well, video and audio should be fine either way, right ? Downloading and running executable files from file sharing networks seems like asking for trouble no matter what the network is.
Anyone know what the state of the network is these days ? I haven't used it for at least 8+ years, I remember servers drying up but with kademlia that's not really a problem.
>In Finland we put Vitamin D in milk that’s sold on normal shops. I'd wager it's the same in all the Nordic countries, at least it's the same here in Sweden. A couple a months ago when I spoke to my dad, he told me he…
For good reason, this is an emulator for a current-gen system, and from what I've seen on Youtube, a lot of games are fully playable. Companies are likely not that bothered by legacy systems being emulated, but this is…
Yes, correlation is not causation and all that, but when I was there I was struck by how very little obesity there was. I later learned that Japan has the highest life expectancy in the world.
I don't think so, I believe the worst case scenario is they might have to rename the project to not have 'Diablo' in its title. Only project that I know Blizzard shut down was a Starcraft server re-implementation,…
>Why are calls to violence bad, but spreading misinformation about a pandemic How do you know what is 'misinformation' ? WHO claimed that face masks were worthless, now you are forced to wear them in lots of places. WHO…
Then why was this legislation introduced ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_230_of_the_Communicati...
>Patreon became successful mostly because of the girls charging money for their nudes. Do you have any numbers to back this up with ? I think you are likely right but if there is any data on this then I would love to…
>A lot of prominent gatekeepers are all about the status quo. Who are these ?
>The thing that has put us off the last few cruises is realizing how workers on the ships are treated. I read somewhere that the main reason these cruise ships, including those owned by well known US companies like…
>Sorry, but look at how China, South Korea, Taiwan etc. are doing right now I'm taking China numbers with a LARGE grain of salt (basically I don't believe them at all given how they have lied from day one of this…
Very anectdotal, but the three Japanese persons I know have told me that people in Japan are generally negative towards holding an Olympics and think it's just a waste of resources.
Do new Android phones save photos in HEIC format ?
>Then HEVC isn't doing so bad Sure, but it was massively pushed as the successor of h264 as the new de facto video codec standard, after almost a decade in use it has clearly failed in that respect. IMO this codec…
>They get slammed for being funded by Google I don't see that at all, I mean they've been funded by Google for practically their entire existence. On the contrary it seems to me that Firefox users find that funding the…
I've not seen any indication that users wanted it, I've also read that Mozilla developers agree that it should be an extension. Yet Mozilla buys this and puts it inside Firefox, where it can at best be disabled by going…
>You can go back from XL to jpeg losslessly as well I don't think so, but I don't quite see the point unless you are thinking of using it as a way to archive jpeg's, but in that case there are programs specifically for…
Yes, it losslessly recompresses existing jpeg's into the jpeg XL format, while also making the files ~20% smaller, key point being lossless. Thus it is the 'perfect' upgrade path from jpeg which is the current lossy…
>Interesting. Where have you seen that adoption will be swifter with JPEG XL instead of, say, AV1/AVIF? Well, it's not finalized as of yet (though it is imminent), so rate of adoption is just pure guesswork at this…
>Likely the format with the best chance of overthrowing the jpg/gif/png incumbents is AVIF I used to think the same as well, however I now think Jpeg XL is poised to be the 'winner' among next gen image codecs. It's…
>Linux purposely makes proprietary drivers crap. No it doesn't, the devs refuse to provide stable in-kernel APIs because they want the flexibility to be able to modify them as they please when a better solution comes…