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by maxst 1y ago
In 1998, the idea seemed so ridiculous, TheOnion mocked it: https://theonion.com/new-5-000-multimedia-computer-system-do...
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by maxst 2y ago
Dragonfly's landing site is near equator (Selk crater 7°N), but all the lakes coordinates seems to be close to poles, see "Lakes of Titan". Too bad. Would be wonderful to see these rivers and likes up close...
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by maxst 2y ago
It wasn't a big deal in 2012. The popular opinion was "Russia no longer posed the threat" and even can be viewed as "an ally" of the US. See: https://www.politico.com/blogs/burns-haberman/2
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by maxst 4y ago
Screaming what? "How dare Iranian people use the same tech we use!" or something like that?
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by maxst 4y ago
> That makes no sense. First of all most of the sanctions are not "punishment", they prohibit certain transactions and are not aimed at people Visa and MasterCard suddenly blocked all transactions for all credit/debit card
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by maxst 5y ago
“The New York electorate seems to be inured to corruption, they seem to believe it’s normal and expected behavior" "According to a poll released last week by Quinnipiac University, 45 percent of New Yorkers consider corruption to
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by maxst 5y ago
Will there be simple jobs on Mars base? Someone to sweep the floor, someone to bake a cake, etc? Will they produce enough value to justify enormous resources to keep them alive in such hostile environment? And even people with important job
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by maxst 5y ago
That's a big one. Probably hundreds of contributors. But what percentage of FFmpeg code they would actually run?
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by maxst 6y ago
There are dozens of 360 cameras on the market, so I think shutters synchronization is not that difficult to implement.
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by maxst 6y ago
So many algorithms insist on using "single RGB camera" approach, when it would be much more practical to use 2 cameras.
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by maxst 6y ago
And they would know that "maintaining that lie for N years" would prove useless as soon as the powerful cameras in lunar orbit would photograph the landing sites. Who would participate in such a lie knowing 100% it will be exposed
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by maxst 7y ago
I'm talking about WebP vs GIF. Not about video.
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by maxst 7y ago
>I've found that animated WebP can produce files around 10% the size of GIFs. For nicely optimized GIFs like these https://iwdrm.tumblr.com/ then WebP really struggles. Try to convert some of them to WebP and you&#x
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by maxst 7y ago
There is no multiple-pass. libpng only tries to guess the right combination of filters, without doing actual compression. It's not always a good guess, but at least it's fast.
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by maxst 7y ago
Near Stonehenge they found a 4000 year olds dagger. Its handle "was decorated with 140,000 tiny gold studs, each almost as fine as a human hair and set into the wood at more than 1000 to the square centimetre." Even 21-century cra
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by maxst 8y ago
Are the some PI-like constants, but much harder to calculate? Like even a million digits would be hard to calculate?
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by maxst 8y ago
> I just checked the Google homepage, and even the New Year's Eve Google Doodle currently being shown is a good ol' GIF, rather than a modern format such as WebP. And this is with me using a desktop Chrome browser that definiti
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by maxst 8y ago
If PNG-8 will be "preserved unmodified", then APNG in PNG-8 like this one will probably work: https://tinypng.com/images/apng/panda-waving.png
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by maxst 8y ago
Rest in peace, Glenn.
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by maxst 8y ago
It was always burning Since the world's been turning
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by maxst 9y ago
> APNG's palette mode is much worse than GIF In terms of image quality, it's only slightly worse. But having the same palette for all frames helps to make inter-frame optimization much more efficient.
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by maxst 9y ago
Download a dozen random GIF cinemagraphs, and try gif2webp and gif2apng on them.
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by maxst 9y ago
If you convert static GIF to static PNG, 99% of the time you'll get a smaller file. That was the original goal of PNG project, and it succeeded: static GIFs disappeared completely. Converting animated GIF to animated PNG leads to simil
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by maxst 9y ago
Yeah, it was a long time ago (2000-2003) but I still clearly remember implementing everything twice as a Junior Developer - first my way, then their way.
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by maxst 9y ago
> Our lightfield photonics generate digital light at different depths and blend seamlessly with natural light ooooook... How many cameras? Can I make a 3D photo with those cameras? That would be nice.
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by maxst 9y ago
>Most of the major pharmaceutical companies continue to pursue the amyloid and tau pathways. Dementia Discovery Fund complements their work by supporting startups as they explore less mainstream approaches to treating dementia. That&#x27
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by maxst 9y ago
2016 article: http://www.oregonlive.com/travel/index.ssf/2016/08/7_things_... Hotels across Oregon are already booked solid. Court Priday, manager of the Inn at Cross Keys Station in Madras, said rooms h
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by maxst 10y ago
Still, it's not like it was impossible to make some last minute changes, while PNG was still relatively young. See https://boutell.com/innards/apng.html
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by maxst 10y ago
> When designing PNG as a replacement for GIF, they very deliberately and decidedly dropped the animation feature. The goal was to replace GIFs. And look what happened: "GIF" became synonymous with "animation".
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by maxst 10y ago
Something like that: http://littlesvr.ca/apng/inter-frame.html

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