pik refer to the male sex organ.
Pik – a new lossy image format for the internet
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#12"This is not an official Google product." Can anyone explain this to me? It is posted under the Google organization. Are they just not actively supporting it?
Usually these are 20% projects that googlers are allowed to make the MVP of the project. Those same people that created it will support it on their own time.
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#13"This is not an official Google product." Can anyone explain this to me? It is posted under the Google organization. Are they just not actively supporting it?
It's written by a Google employee, and therefore Google owns all rights to it. However, in all other respects it's just an open source project written and supported in the authors' free time.
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#14Unfortunate name if you happen to know Dutch.
its for images on the internet - are you sure it's not a good match?
Joke aside, Pik is also Spades in German. Since its a compression library and it looks like Jan Wassenberg works at the the Zurich office, it might also be some food, in line with the other work they have been doing: brotli, butteraugli, brunsli, guetzli
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#15Unfortunate name if you happen to know Dutch.
Oh... (NSFW) https://www.google.com/search?q=pik+meaning+dutch
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#16I speak a bit of Danish and can't help but to giggle at the name.
(Yes, it means dick)
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#18Why?
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#19Any patents on this?
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#20Is this what Google Photos uses for their unlimited "high quality" image storage?