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ByTheBook

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    Comment #29886769

    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…

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    Comment #29543855

    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 sinc…

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    Comment #28481509

    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 do…

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    Comment #27945630

    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 line…

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    Comment #27593776

    He's written about it in his blog: https://cloudinary.com/blog/author/jon_sneyers

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    Comment #27588542

    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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    Comment #27580522

    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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    Comment #26898077

    >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 differ…

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    Comment #26774542

    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 the…

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    Comment #26691791

    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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    Comment #26646474

    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-concieve…

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    Comment #26313319

    >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 spe…

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    Comment #26109817

    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…