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In 1998, the idea seemed so ridiculous, TheOnion mocked it: https://theonion.com/new-5-000-multimedia-computer-system-do...

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…

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-h…

Screaming what? "How dare Iranian people use the same tech we use!" or something like that?

> 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 …

“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,…

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 …

That's a big one. Probably hundreds of contributors. But what percentage of FFmpeg code they would actually run?

There are dozens of 360 cameras on the market, so I think shutters synchronization is not that difficult to implement.

So many algorithms insist on using "single RGB camera" approach, when it would be much more practical to use 2 cameras.

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 partici…

I'm talking about WebP vs GIF. Not about video.

>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 conv…

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.

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 1…

Thousand feet is an awkward unit of measurement, isn't it?

Are the some PI-like constants, but much harder to calculate? Like even a million digits would be hard to calculate?

> 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 …

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

Rest in peace, Glenn.

It was always burning Since the world's been turning

> 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 …

Download a dozen random GIF cinemagraphs, and try gif2webp and gif2apng on them.

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.…

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.