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- Comment on Forbidden Tech 2 days ago:
What would they even be used for except to short a circuit?
- Comment on Mozilla is killing Pocket and Fakespot 5 days ago:
I was using this a lot to read stuff on my Kobo e-reader, and I’m sorely going to miss that feature. There’s no replacement unless Kobo puts out a huge firmware update.
- Comment on I'm a businessman, I do business 6 days ago:
As a bonus, you get the identity of the person who owns the card
- Comment on quick health tip 2 weeks ago:
Or get better taste buds
- Comment on this post is just 42kib 2 weeks ago:
I’m thinking of file compressoin formats like Zip, LHA and ARJ, which would work particularly well if the image was not dithered and used run-length encoding (e.g. the PIC format of the Atari ST). The PNG format still uses the deflate algorithm which is essentially identical to the compression used by PKZip in 1991.
- Comment on this post is just 42kib 2 weeks ago:
At the time when dithering was commonly used to achieve the illusion of more available colors, i.e. the 80s and the first half of the 90s.
- Comment on this post is just 42kib 2 weeks ago:
It’s really only helpful for formats that will be directly read by hardware (the video chip) and where the “compression” ratio (I would prefer the term quantization) needs to be fixed. For file compression, which was quite mature but CPU- and memory-intensive at the time, the dithering only makes it more difficult to compress further.
- Comment on this post is just 42kib 2 weeks ago:
This.exe file including music and visuals is 4KB
- Comment on Forced to lie on a questionnaire 2 weeks ago:
Why are people who make questionnaires so bad at making questionnaires? It’s baffling. This is particularly glaring but I always find stupid errors or assumptions like this.
- Comment on The ones and zeros and tens 3 weeks ago:
Is this satire or real? I really can’t tell
- Comment on French culture 3 weeks ago:
Like the Concorde?
- Comment on Firefox could be doomed without Google search deal, says executive 3 weeks ago:
I think such projects don’t exist precisely because Mozilla is still developing it. If Mozilla abandons Firefox then someone else will take up the torch.
- Comment on Firefox could be doomed without Google search deal, says executive 3 weeks ago:
I believe the Firefox development organization could be a lot leaner, and not all of the work has to be directly salaried. There are plenty of huge open source projects that are progressing fine without being run by a single for-profit company. E.g. the Apache ecosystem, the Linux foundation projects, FreeBSD, etc.
- Comment on Firefox could be doomed without Google search deal, says executive 3 weeks ago:
I am. Why not make it a nonprofit?
- Comment on Even Atari Game Cartridges Are Getting More Expensive Because Of Tariffs 3 weeks ago:
Well, duh
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
The biggest scandal we had in all of my school years was that when I was 17 there was a girl in my class who was dating a 25-year-old. Nobody was ever interested in anyone’s dad.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
He’s eating snowflakes
- Comment on Companies that list all their products, but don't explain the different product lines suck. 4 weeks ago:
So why not sell only the cloud version? Does that version somehow prevent management from another cloud key? If not, having the functionality dormant costs nothing.
- Comment on Companies that list all their products, but don't explain the different product lines suck. 4 weeks ago:
Ubiquiti devices. What’s the difference between “UniFi Gateway Fiber” and “UniFi Cloud Gateway Fiber”? Last I checked they were even the same price.
- Comment on Why doesn't Steam support Android? 1 month ago:
It’s not that simple. Proton implements the Windows API functions required to run a Windows game on Linux, but it’s not a CPU emulator. Emulating x86 on ARM at the speeds required by a game is virtually impossible.
If Steam comes to ARM / Android, it would have to be a whole separate ecosystem of games. But Valve is late to the game there since we already have several players on that market, not least the standard Google Play Store.
- Comment on Describe conservatives with one picture 1 month ago:
The irony of the Reddit banner saying you should stay on Reddit for the empathy
- Comment on Can you believe it? 1 month ago:
When the pot hits just right
- Comment on Maybe it's just a human thing. 1 month ago:
You implied that an egalitarian person doesn’t have the goal of furthering equality, did you not?
The Wikipedia article on egalitarianism says:
By promoting equal opportunities, egalitarianism aims to level the playing field and reduce disparities that result from social inequalities.
and
Egalitarian doctrines have supported many modern social movements, including the Enlightenment, feminism, civil rights, and international human rights.
Do you not feel that what you claim and what Wikipedia says are in conflict? At any rate, what I mean by being egalitarian is also to work toward achieving an egalitarian society and I do work toward that goal in practice as well.
- Comment on Maybe it's just a human thing. 1 month ago:
I disagree and as far as I can tell, so does Wikipedia.
- Comment on Maybe it's just a human thing. 1 month ago:
I prefer to call myself egalitarian
- Comment on Maybe it's just a human thing. 1 month ago:
The number of assholes calling themselves feminists vastly outnumber the actual feminists.
- Comment on The cat turns him in 1 month ago:
I love me some multi-meme drifting
- Comment on Get that Musky Grindset going 1 month ago:
What happened?
- Comment on Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE 1 month ago:
I hate to break it to you but… millennials are old
- Comment on ghibli posting 1 month ago:
Come on. Public figures need to be able to deal with satire and mockery, and this isn’t even a deep cut. Besides, have you seen how Miyazaki treats his family? That man has no empathy or humanity to offer his peers either.