>Anime is not the dominant form of media in Japan, and is largely targeted at a relatively narrow age band But it seems very popular, out of the top ten highest grossing films in Japan, 5 are anime (Spirited Away, Demon…
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…
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.
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,…
>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…
>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…
Another 'estimate' by a 'analytics firm' and this still does not say anything about 'The Mandalorian' specifically.
>is the most streamed television show in recent history Where did you find those numbers ? All I could find was: 'The Mandalorian earned nearly 40 million “demand expressions” during the week of Nov. 10-16, according to…
Blender, Krita are notable FOSS projects being sustainable through donations. I'm not saying it's easy, just that it's not impossible.
>why do I have to pay for 250 channels when I only watch 5 of them? Let me pay only for what I watch. But that is still the case. If I could only pay for the shows I watch, I would not complain. But if I watch one…
Sure, but sex is something practically every human will engage in, and typically starting at a young age. I don't know exactly what the fetishes/unrealistic expectations you say mainstream media is promoting, but I…
>This taboo against sex, one of the most natural acts of almost all lifeforms We're not talking about just 'sex', we are talking about the creation of entertainment media were a person is paid to have sex with another…
>These are hardly extraordinary claims. Then they should be easy to substantiate. I've heard about a mexican issue before, which turned out to be a statement directly addressed at the mexican cartel gang MS-13, not…
Yes, that is the one thing that keeps me from using Restic as my backup solution. Unfortunately it does not seem like it's a prioritised feature given that it has been planned since late 2014.
How is american society 'openly fostering fascism' ?
I disagree, these are VERY old papers (~30 years old) of comparisons containing very little data from what I can see at a quick glance. I saw a talk a couple of years ago by Tanenbaum where he said he would be ok with…
>Anime is not the dominant form of media in Japan, and is largely targeted at a relatively narrow age band But it seems very popular, out of the top ten highest grossing films in Japan, 5 are anime (Spirited Away, Demon…
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…
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.
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,…
>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…
>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…
Another 'estimate' by a 'analytics firm' and this still does not say anything about 'The Mandalorian' specifically.
>is the most streamed television show in recent history Where did you find those numbers ? All I could find was: 'The Mandalorian earned nearly 40 million “demand expressions” during the week of Nov. 10-16, according to…
Blender, Krita are notable FOSS projects being sustainable through donations. I'm not saying it's easy, just that it's not impossible.
>why do I have to pay for 250 channels when I only watch 5 of them? Let me pay only for what I watch. But that is still the case. If I could only pay for the shows I watch, I would not complain. But if I watch one…
Sure, but sex is something practically every human will engage in, and typically starting at a young age. I don't know exactly what the fetishes/unrealistic expectations you say mainstream media is promoting, but I…
>This taboo against sex, one of the most natural acts of almost all lifeforms We're not talking about just 'sex', we are talking about the creation of entertainment media were a person is paid to have sex with another…
>These are hardly extraordinary claims. Then they should be easy to substantiate. I've heard about a mexican issue before, which turned out to be a statement directly addressed at the mexican cartel gang MS-13, not…
Yes, that is the one thing that keeps me from using Restic as my backup solution. Unfortunately it does not seem like it's a prioritised feature given that it has been planned since late 2014.
How is american society 'openly fostering fascism' ?
I disagree, these are VERY old papers (~30 years old) of comparisons containing very little data from what I can see at a quick glance. I saw a talk a couple of years ago by Tanenbaum where he said he would be ok with…