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(Earlier also had @sga@lemmy.world avatar sga for a year before I switched to lemmings)

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sga ,
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what if the root cause was some system variable, which got reset on boot and never happens again (for example some code you wrote accidentally triggered lower voltage for your cpu, and you have hitches)

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I can almost guarantee that they would be using different things. usually you have simpler libraries to decode formats (almost 1 for each codec), and separate programs plug these libraries in to generate the output. previews do not have to be accurate and have to be fast, so a simpler program with just linear scaling or something, where as actual image would be complex which has to worry about accuracy.

still not a excuse to not have support for a free 15 year old format

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avif is better than it in almost all ways, and jpex xl is even better than that (but not about gifs i think)

webp is essentially a webm file (which is mkv with codec restrictions(vp8/9 and ogg vorbis or opus))

avif is av1 encoded files in a webp like container (but not webm afaik)

jpeg xl is a format made specifically for images

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yes, because we just have 1 good libwebp library

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what would they be?

do you mean in sense of lossy or lossless? if so, in theory both webp and avif could have lossless photos, but i do not think they are designed for that (think in terms of their backrounds, they are kinda like a single frame videos. and usually you only have lossy video).

jpeg xl in theory aims to take job of both jpeg and png (it can handle lossy as well as lossless). In theory, we (as in all of computing and media people) decide to back on jpegxl, we could potentially just have 1 format, and accordingly 1 library which provides support. but that is just a dream i do not see happening. google essentially paralysed jpeg xl by removing it from chromium , and that is the largest userbase.

almost all other big companies want to use jpeg xl. meta, adobe, intel and others. the main benefit to them is reduced bandwidth cost (for exactly same data, jpeg xl can be ~20% smaller than jpeg), and jpeg can be losslessly translated to jxl, and even for backwards compatibility, reverse can be done on client end. but without chrome, no web developer will adopt. if web people do not, the demand for format would be extremely small, no hardware manufacturer will include hardware support (your gpus have "special" stuff for almot all codecs and formats, but that is not the case for jxl for now), so jxl operations currently are slow, so end user might not even be motivated to use (other than space savings).

https://jpegxl.info/

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okay. it is a lot simplified, but mostly correct. ideally image format for drawn out stuff and other flat animated stuff is svg (vector graphics - ie - infinitely scalable yet crisp), but png is usually used because it is defacto lossless standrad. lossless here roughly translates to - sensor produced a matrix of colors - lossless photo preserves all data. lossy discards some data. For irl stuff, usually lossless is overkill for end user, hence you see jpegs (defacto lossy standrad)

jxl can so both. others can do that as well. jpegs can be lossless, but that is usually not the standard we use. you can store lossy data in pngs, but the loss is not created by png. jxl behaves by default like lossless (like png), but due to newer algorithms, size when lossless is closer to jpeg. if you prepare loss jxl - it can be close to half size of jpegs.

there are other benifits to jxl (extreme future proofing (extremely high bit depth, and pixel size limit, large amount of channels), progressive decoding, etc.), but our reality has to suck because of google.

I locally use jxl to store family photos, but this means i can not send them, because they are using stuff which does not support jxl, so have to convert and share.

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yes, but that is a bit apple specific, and on intel side, they support hwdec since 2021. and since these are just images, even software decoding works (although a bit slower)

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svg is great, but at vector graphics. we are mostly discussing raster formats.

sga ,
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that is indeed the sad truth

sga ,
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this is true, but gifs had some other license related issues early on so did it was behind jpeg. now jpeg has momentum far superior to anythinng else

sga ,
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:puke: "using reddit"

spoiler

I myself use it, but for very few comms (one piece and localllama and commandline)

sga ,
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data harvesting wise, yes, but they still get traffic, which means ads, which is money. I am not blaming you, reddit in some sense is cultural heritage of internet. I was mostly doing a joke bit (mentioning reddit on lemmy)

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it is not net negative. they do not earn from you, but server (redlib) still counts as a visitor. what advertisers usually want is site wide traffic, and not individual people to advertise (that is more of google/meta job), so they still report the traffic to advertisers. if everyone switched to redlib, then no one will click on ads, and hence advertisers will not gain anything and stop paying.

sga ,
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it is wrong, kinda. It would be correct if brains worked like a electrical conductor, but we are more like batteries (so ions move under electrochemical potential). in short, W = V I does not apply here.

If it did, the amount of heat produced would be humongous.

here is a reddit thread I found about this - https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/5ijvvd/what_is_the_amperage_of_the_human_nervous_system/

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but computers can calculate a 9857408293304297*3729892093829/3809389312893382 in less than 10 ms using microwatts of energy, and humans would need a solid hours (at best minutes i presume)

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you can check out some training databases on hugging face, and there is 100s of gibs of porn there. it is one of the best ways to understand human antomy for image/video gen

sga ,
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absolutely. were you not trusting their scientific integrity?

sga ,
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we do not know if rohit is already present here or not, for all i know, it could be you!

sga ,
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you do more than your civic duty, sire

sga ,
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is there a like a community for thoughts, but which is like eye bleach?

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  • sga ,
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    you should not know what a grenade casingg looks like. in a ideal society, average people shoukd not know anything about any of the weapons. if they do, they either were using them (which is bad), or they were being used against them (which is worse).

    Customized Distro Questions

    I have a couple of questions about a customized Distro I'm making for my dad (sending him a USB to install it from) that's easy to use (he's always been extremely tech illiterate - he only learned how to use a computer thanks to Linux, but that version of Ubuntu he had learned on is over 10 years old now) and I can connect to ...

    sga ,
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    is it possible that he can use something like puppy linux like distros (essentially live usbs, where you can make a persistent partition and make changes)? that way you can prepare a usb, and maybe teach them how to plug the usb in, and change the boot order to include usb? it would be slow (for boot times, if you use some faster usb, that would help), but does not require any fancy operation requiring him to open his computer.

    Or if opening the computer/laptop and installing ssd/hdd is within scope, then maybe you can prepare a ssd with complette install, and just ship that. give him additional video/text instructions on how to open a computer, and install it. (In case their system supports ssds, then I highly recommend ssds over hdd, as they do not require special packaging, would be much faster, and ssd installations are also easier(detachhing and reattaching sata ribbon is hard imo, where as with something like nvme ssd, it is very close to like plugging in usb, and then just screwing or something similar.)) If their system is old, and does not have nvme/u.2 connectors, i would still recommend ssd over hdd, then you would also have to procure (and ship) an extra enclosure (i think they are called caddys) to fit a ssd in a husk, which after closing looks like a harddisk and connects via sata. these steps are tad bit hard, but if it is within scope, then I do not think their is a better option.

    sga ,
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    ideally do not send a hard drive, as shipping might corrupt data. if you do, please package it with good care - hard disk inside sponges inside softer thermocol insider harder thermocol inside cardboad. it is overkill, but hard drives really do not like to be shaken, and stuff in courier is often shook violently.

    sga ,
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    US really needs to increase it's nuclear energy output (i know that current amount is also big, but it needs to be increased). Nuclear is one of the most cleanest forms of energy, and depending on the age of existing coal plants, some of them can even be converted to nuclear.

    sga ,
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    meme template choice was pretty good. tips hat

    sga ,
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    on my laptop (specs wise - consider steam deck non oled, but worse graphics performance, 1080p screen (IPS)) - 5.3-6 Wh for 2x speed playback. for full hd playback 6-7 Wh. Idle power is much higher though 4.5 Wh, on my old laptop, video power consumption consumed similar power, but idle power was close to 2.5-3 Wh (in terms of specs, it had halve the number of cores, and a tn panel)

    sga ,
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    Indian babies are mostly free (or a much more reasonable charge)(assuming no pregnancy complications requiring a very fancy operation in a private hospital)

    sga ,
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    how much is the cost of running libretranslate (i am presuming it is not a small amount)? this can be abused to run commercial translation jobs for free by just posting comments. I know libretranslate by itself has a free website available, but i presume they would restrict the free apis, but I do not know how would they restrict here

    sga ,
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    that is great. I feared that it may cost way too much and libretranslate folks might not like the cost

    sga ,
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    i would presume yes. you could run cinnamon wayland since early 2024 (iirc), but it was only experimental, so i would presume it might have become more stable since then.

    sga ,
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    a serious question - snails must be using more than 2 brain cells right? i presume that for most beings with a brain that almost all are always working, some less activated some more?

    sga ,
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    thanks matey

    sga ,
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    I would have to get playstore back probably (that would mean i would have to make a google account now). I need whatsapp and banking apps. maybe whatsapp can work with direct download from their website (it used to work in obtanium too, but stopped), but banking apps are notorious. they want to be installed by playstore, so i have to keep playstore installed but disable it, and that can "sometimes" (i have to keep enabling/disabling play services and play store until it sometimes works) trick the apps that they were installed by playstore.

    sga ,
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    yeah, they even worked on that this time (90+% of packages are now reproducible)

    sga ,
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    did not everyone but the ones who were above c level died (the non avian ones)?

    sga ,
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    On a side note, I have no idea which arc does this belong to? I am guessing dressrosa because of some character design? I am a manga guy, so not used to seeing stuff in color.

    now to the question - nothing. sentence is a bit too provocative (was this editted or translated differently?)

    sga ,
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    I am really surprised some common shit is not there, like hello, hello1234, abcd1234 (and other perms have numbers in front, etc)

    Air India Tragedy | The Pilots Tried to Save the Airplane ( www.youtube.com )

    It is a technical reconstruction of the flight path, by starting with a cctv footage, then manually stablising it and obtaining key frames from it. then starting with a simulation model, and setting it up to match the key frames, they find a reconstructed path. with this, thy can comment on the time when engines lost fuel, when ...

    sga OP ,
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    did it really have to removed like an hour after I posted it here? (curses gods).

    A pilot turned off the fuel.

    there is no evidence of that happening. we know that engines did not get fuel. the other pilot asked first pilot if they cut of the fuel, and they replied that i did not (from the black box recordings afaik).

    Everything else is speculation

    while i agree, i feel the wording "speculation" is not appropriate. the guy seemingly has done all things correctly (i am not exactly from the same domain, but I have done similar simulations based on real snapshots(in my case, for material in various kinds of loadings) and methodology seems sound).

    Update: apparently there was another upload (seemingly the same video, but like uploaded twice, maybe because the first one was removed). I have updated the link in my post.

    sga ,
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    honestly, size of european countries is very small. we got states with larger area (and population) in india. Although more likely reason for this is probably "opposition" cities near swiss borders, which lie like within 10 km radius were likely bombed instead of like interiors.

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    so you are in the android camp. i am in lizard camp

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    or (hear me out) - get everyone to leave their mortal bodies and be replaced by lizard like limbs (which can grow back)?

    sga ,
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    I get your perspective, and would not even deny that when you added that, you got better response

    You act like it wouldnt be helpful at all

    what part of above made you blive i suggested always?

    I do not hate ai (at least not as much as an average fediverse person). As a researcher, i know what ml can do. llms are fine for language processing, and i even run local models (less than 10B). I do not like how a lot of things are going on (not going about them here), but I do not hate ai.

    I even suggested a way that can be implemented to tool call whenever it reads verifiable sources, but never said never. I would recommend you to read my original comment.

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    can you please describe a use case for this? (sorry for posting on a old post)

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    ah that makes so much sense. I frequent to llm related comm, and most posts get immediately downvoted because of lemmy's general opinion on llms. Now that you have described this, I think this should be a feature upstream