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- Comment on quick health tip 1 day ago:
Or get better taste buds
- Comment on this post is just 42kib 4 days 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 4 days 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 4 days 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 4 days ago:
This.exe file including music and visuals is 4KB
- Comment on WhatsApp provides no cryptographic management for group messages 1 week ago:
How bad can it be, it’s not like we’re sharing state secrets
- Comment on The ones and zeros and tens 1 week ago:
Is this satire or real? I really can’t tell
- Comment on French culture 1 week ago:
Like the Concorde?
- Comment on Is Duolingo the face of an AI jobs crisis? 1 week ago:
When a news headline ends with a question mark, the answer is no.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week 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] 2 weeks ago:
He’s eating snowflakes
- Comment on Applying 'extreme heat' to lithium-ion batteries reportedly restores their capacity, and I think it's the sustainable tech breakthrough of 2025 3 weeks ago:
Well if it was a human it wouldn’t be a peer, would it
- Comment on Tesla (TSLA) has to replace computer in ~4 million cars or compensate their owners 4 weeks ago:
That’s the drawback when “everything’s computer” in a Tesler
- Comment on Describe conservatives with one picture 4 weeks ago:
The irony of the Reddit banner saying you should stay on Reddit for the empathy
- Comment on Can you believe it? 4 weeks ago:
When the pot hits just right
- Comment on How a false X post about pausing tariffs led to multi-trillion-dollar market swings. 5 weeks ago:
Someone made millions off of that Xeet.
I prefer to call them Xcrements
- Comment on The White House orders federal agencies to name chief AI officers and expand the use of AI, rescinding Biden-era orders intended to place AI safeguards. 5 weeks ago:
If the safeguards can be so easily removed, what’s the point of putting them there in the first place
- Comment on Maybe it's just a human thing. 5 weeks 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. 5 weeks ago:
I disagree and as far as I can tell, so does Wikipedia.
- Comment on Maybe it's just a human thing. 5 weeks ago:
I prefer to call myself egalitarian
- Comment on Maybe it's just a human thing. 5 weeks 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 - Buy Once Software 1 month ago:
Sure, as long as it works. Software has a tendency to stop working on newer OS:es or become subject to security exploits though.
- Comment on - Buy Once Software 1 month ago:
That sounds good on paper, but the chances that someone else will pick up the ball if they abandon it, even if it’s open source, are very slim. If you care about keeping it alive then paying them is a more effective strategy than hoping for random volunteer work by internet strangers.
You, on the other hand, have good chances of being able to learn new tools. So I think the need for this guarantee is exaggerated.
- Comment on - Buy Once Software 1 month ago:
The IntelliJ products are not exactly “buy once” - if you want updated versions you need to keep paying periodically.
Not that I think that’s a bad thing necessarily - it doesn’t make sense to expect devs to continue working on something year after year when you’re not paying them for it.
- 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.
- Comment on ghibli posting 1 month ago:
Sounds to me like Miyazaki needs to lighten up.
- Comment on Something Bizarre Is Happening to People Who Use ChatGPT a Lot 1 month ago:
I use it many times a day for coding and solving technical issues. But I don’t recognize what the article talks about at all. There’s nothing affective about my conversations, other than the fact that using typical human responses (like “thank you”) seems to increase the chances of good responses. Which is not surprising since it matches the patterns that you want to evoke in the training data better.