ByTheBook

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by ByTheBook 5y ago
Warner Bros does not get all of the $363 million at the box office, the theatres takes their cut. For domestic gross it's said to be roughly 50/50 during a box office run, with the distributor (in this case WB) getting the most du
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by ByTheBook 5y ago
Jpeg-XL makes use of Brotli, and once it hits 1.0 it will most likely be turned on by default in browsers and thus you will probably see a lot of jxl in the wild, particularly since it provides lossless recompression to existing jpeg files
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by ByTheBook 5y ago
Another strong feature is the great upgrade path from existing jpeg files, which can be losslessly recompressed into jpeg xl with an additional ~20% compression. At this point I don't really see a reason for AVIF, hardware accelerated
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by ByTheBook 5y ago
A very obvious one is that by adding another language, you are adding more complexity. It's not as if C is going to disappear from the kernel as it's something like 25 million lines of C code, and if Rust was to be supported, the
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by ByTheBook 5y ago
He's written about it in his blog: https://cloudinary.com/blog/author/jon_sneyers
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by ByTheBook 5y ago
Well, the author of FLIF/FUIF, Jon Sneyers, is actually a large contributor to Jpeg XL, and from what I've seen he thinks Jpeg XL is superior.
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by ByTheBook 5y ago
I doubt it will be enabled by default until it reaches version 1.0, it is currently at 0.3 IIRC
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by ByTheBook 5y ago
>Selling drugs / buying sex are transactions at the expense of someone else’s body. So how does porn fit into this picture ? Porn actors are selling their bodies, what's the difference between a person having sex in private for
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by ByTheBook 5y ago
Firefox market share down 85%, during the same period the executives get a 400% raise. Then 250 employees are fired. It feels like it's just the top brass getting as much money they can before the ship sinks at this point.
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by ByTheBook 5y ago
Phoronix did a benchmark on Linux, and states that the performance impact was less than a half percent: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd-zen3...
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by ByTheBook 5y ago
What exactly did he do ? From what I've gathered he gave out cards which was basically an invitation to a date with him should anyone be interested, and he made a very ill-concieved statement regarding harm from children having sex wit
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by ByTheBook 6y ago
>Well, suppose there's a group of people saying that another group of people (which happens to include you) should be killed as soon as possible. But that is not protected free speech under the first amendment.
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by ByTheBook 6y ago
His own words: "I love the GPL and see it as a defining factor in the success of Linux" So I very much doubt he would license it under BSD or similar. Having said that, he has also stated that he is glad he stuck to GPLv2, as he i