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Lossless JPEG transcoding making images 20% smaller is nice, though you can already losslessly shrink many JPEG files by up to 10% by using https://github.com/tjko/jpegoptim/ and making them interlaced.

For the person doing it, sharing of such news can be more like the person expressing their own emotions than like sharing information. If that expression gets invalidated, the motivation to express those emotions remains.

The first video iPod has a colour transflective LCD. Why aren't there more colour displays like that?

Those shadows are confusing.

CIELAB colours seem wrong in many gradients.

What does this actually feel like for a driver?

I imagine that spending hours letting the car drive itself while only making sure the car doesn't do something stupid might be less enjoyable than driving for hours.

I can run X in 4 MB on a VAXstation 2000 in Ultrix or Athena-4.3BSD. But a usable Linux 5.10 system in 4 or even 8 MB? That's what I find hard to believe.

I'm disappointed; I thought it would involve storing audio in analog format on a floppy disk.

Is this reasonably balanced?

I'm sure there have been a huge amount of studies of caffeine, and maybe they're favouring those which make caffeine look good.

If some speech is suppressed everywhere, how can one know that it's false?

Probably the USB interface keeps some data for its encryption function on a part of the hard drive which it makes inaccessible. You erased the whole hard drive, including that part, and probably caused the USB interface to malfunction.

Seems to me like Taiwan reacted to an emergency as soon as information was available, while Western countries ignored the emergency until things got so bad they couldn't be ignored anymore.

Others cancelled what was supposed to be happening now. The Olympics were still in the future. It seemed reasonable to wait until there is sufficient evidence that things won't be back to normal by then.

On Saturday March 21st I was at the tip of Canada's Point Pelee National Park, approximately 41.909055, -82.509154. At 9:12 EDT (1:12 AM UTC on the next day), I saw a an approximate disordered line of satellites passing above Orion. They were all going at the same speed and in a very similar direction, west to east close to parallel with the belt of Orion. But they were all on slightly different almost parallel tracks. The spacing was more regular, though also a bit irregular.

Aqueducts are the whole long structure bringing water to a settlement, including bridges, tunnels and channels along the ground.

I find it a bit a bit scary that a microcontroller controls charger voltage. There might be a risk of power glitches or bugs causing output voltages which destroy devices.

Cutting a cable and going through all this effort is stupid when you can probably get the data using your graphics card.

Yeah. The best example was lighting all my clothes with LED lights. Colours seem obviously messed up. Some colours are emphasized while others are suppressed.

Many rear car LED lights flicker because their full brightness is used as brake lights, and they are dimmed via pulse width modulation for normal lighting. This is simply a bit cheaper, which is ridiculous on an expensive car.

I don't actually see the flicker normally, but when they quickly move accross my visual field I sometimes see a line of dots from the flicker.

The market is not "too large to leave". The company is making a choice to stay there because to them profit is more important than ethical considerations.

At the same time, the fact that the West generally doesn't care about ethics shows that the West is not necessarily a good model to follow. Maybe China has a better alternative.

What is needed is some kind of distributed infrastructure like Usenet, which is not owned or controlled by any one entity.

Trolling people in an attempt to get their lawn mowed by others.

This is just one TCP connection though, not like a connection to the Internet which you can use to make various TCP connections.

You can pass PPP or SLIP via WebSockets and connect to the Internet that way. That's already used for connecting DOSBox running in a web browser to the Internet: http://blog.vrcade.io/2017/03/setting-up-a-visp-using-pppow/

The question is incredibly ridiculous. Consciousness is the most first-hand evidence we have. Everything is experienced via consciousness. You could ask if neurons are illusions, or if matter and energy are illusions, but it's ridiculous to ask if consciousness is an illusion.

The problem before was that the symlink creation privilege gets removed by UAC. So, if you gave the privilege to a non-admin user they could use it, but an admin user would always require UAC elevation to create symlinks. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15320550/why-is-secreate...

Some accounts aren't really important, and then I don't care if they e-mail me my password or if I reuse passwords.

There might be some kind of homoeostasis for anxiety. If you're not facing serious threats, anxiety gets amplified, and if you're facing serious threats it gets reduced, so it doesn't vary too much. It would be similar to how some say there is a happiness set-point.

Are they in that type of business generally?

Their ELM327 OBD chip is also a PIC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELM327

I don't like the idea of needing to execute a file to decrypt it. That could be abused by someone, adding malicious code to the decryption code.

Of course you could inspect the file, but that's extra work which many people won't bother with.

I guess what's really needed is a simple encrypted format that's easy to decrypt without needing to worry about command line arguments. For example, people are generally satisfied with .tar.* formats and not looking for self extracting compressed formats.

In the late 00s I remember turning on an old computer with a 650 MHz Athlon CPU and being surprised that web browsing performance in Firefox wasn't bad. Now if I try that with a 1 GHz Pentium 3, performance is absolutely horrible. Is this why?