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The us banking system is multiple orders of magnitude larger than the crypto markets.

That's only true because you took my quote completely out of context.

The point is not needing to store multiple copies of an image. You can simplify the back-end if you serve the same file to all clients.

Sqlite is running on billions of devices and has a test suite with 100% branch coverage.

Only a fool would put more trust in Oracle.

The big benefit of progressive decoding is one high resolution file supports responsive apps that can fetch smaller images just by download part of the full file.

FLTK is permanently stuck in the 90s. It doesn't have full unicode support, right-to-left & bidirectional text, and doesn't support accessibility tools.

Not to mention that development has been stagnant for 15 years since it's flagship application (Nuke), was ported to QT.

They are talking about using webgpu for rendering to screen without going through a browser.

Webgpu and wasm without a web browser would be a nice way to distribute portable sandboxed code.

The reason for Webgpu is that it it has semantics closer to modern modern apis like Metal or Direct X.

No, you don't understand how Gore-Tex is made.

Gore-Tex is a PTFE membrane laminated one side of a fabric.

The other side of the fabric is coated with a DWR (durable water repellent) coating.

The DWR finish prevents the outer fabric from being saturated with water.

The DWR is not made from PTFE and historical has contained PFAS compounds.

It is not a permanent finish, so it definitely ends up in the environment.

That page says MM is antiquated, falling out of favor, and M is the more modern way to represent a million.

PFAS are in the DWR coating on the outside of Gore-Tex fabric. The PTFE membrane is on the inside. The DWR finish definitely ends up going down the drain or wears off in use.

There are new PFAS free DWR finishes, but don't know if Gore-Tex is using them yet.

Gore does not consider PTFE to be environmentally friendly and is working on flourocarbon free fabrics.

I've heard of at least one isp that is IPv6 only and tells customers to use whois to find someone to help them with sites that don't work.

I like your photos, but you should use small thumbnail images, instead of having the browser scale the full size images to thumbnail size.

Sony has the worst case of not-invented-here syndrome. If they released a great mp3 player before Apple we could be living in a very different world. Instead they forced you to convert your MP3s to ATRAC.

They haven't been made in more than a decade. A guy in the US (floppydisk.com) acquired a few million disks, but I read his supply will run out in a few years.

It's not fair to compare a web app to a native app.

A flutter desktop app will perform a lot better.

You can use dart without flutter.

Jpeg XL is the so much better codec. It's not being adopted everywhere because the guy behind webp format blocked it from Chrome.

How do you expect applications to implement it without a renderer?

The problem here, is that you have no clue what the core features of a UI toolkit need to be.

If performance was the primary concern, GTK and QT, would not be generations behind (a claim I am skeptical of.)

UI toolkits have a much larger audience than the tiny corner of the industry you work in.

Cairo and Skia can do this.

How many of these game engines are abstracted at a level where you can swap in a pdf or svg backend? How many of them support cmyk and and print units? I'm only scratching the surface of things a gui renderer needs that a game engine doesn't.

I'm very skeptical that a bunch of game developers are going to whip together something that crushes Skia in performance without sacrificing a ton of capabilities.

Not being approached at my desk is a feature, not a bug.

Plenty of web stuff gets lost to the sands of time.

I hate the idea of having restrictions on photographing things in outdoor public places.

I have been harassed by building security for taking photos from the sidewalk outside my cities tallest skyscraper.

An architect might own the rights to a buildings design, but they don't own the right to the cities skyline. City photography would become impossible if photographers have to acquire a license for every building in their photos.

It's a problem for me as a skier. Give Blackstrap products a try, I've found them to be much less problematic.

It's impossible to secure a dumbphone too. The baseband processor is a black box that can execute code and is completely outside the control of the user or mobile os.

Why are you concerned about a specific version released 7 years ago?

You can't use Jai. It is an unreleased pet project of one developer.

Lathe and Plaster wall construction is not WiFi friendly. It was the dominant interior wall material during the Victorian era until drywall became popular in the 1930s and 40s.

If you don't believe in evil, then you must not believe in friendless, meanness, empathitic, or any other adjective for describing how a human acts.

I suggest the two videos by NightHawkInLight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqR4_UoBIzY