It is, but it probably shouldn’t be any more. WebP has good support everywhere now and is slightly better than JPEG and PNG combined. (Better lossy compression than JPEG, plus transparency support, and better lossless compression than PNG). But even WebP is considered lame these days compared to the new crop.

E.g., JXL (JPEG XL) is much better WebP and is supported by everyone except Google (which is ironic since Google helped create it). Google seems to want AVIF to be the winner for the new image format, but not many others do.

Anyway, until the Google JXL AVIF hissy fit is dealt with, at least we’ve still got WebP. It’s not super great, but it’s at least better than JPEG and PNG. A lot of web developers are stuck in their old JPEG PNG mindset and are being slow to adapt, so JPEG is still hanging around.

After reading the article (and others), I think this is giving him too much credit.

He was the BBC studio controller at the time and pushed to have the matches broadcast in colour. The BBC ignored him for years and then suddenly changed their minds without reason, and in 1967 they ordered David Attenborough to do the next Wimbledon in colour.

However, the colour of the ball wasn’t changed. Balls remained white even while being broadcast in colour.

Yellow balls had actually already been used since the 19th century, but not consistently, and not at Wimbledon. After a few years of tennis matches being broadcast in colour, the ITF (without David Attenborough’s involvement) conducted a study and found that flourescent yellow balls were easiest for viewers to watch, and so they started being used at Wimbledon starting in 1972.

Thank you!!

Subscribed! My daughter is super into beavers. Though I don’t want to get into a conversation about what “fucking” means yet, so maybe I’ll be selective which posts I show her.

You’re not wrong, but there’s a kind of irony in it when you talk about ending humanity because of it. There’s a lot to hate about humanity if you have humanity and have human values. There’s nothing objectively wrong about being cruel or destructive or dishonest or greedy or abusive or murderous and I imagine most hypothetical alien species would look at those things and say “what’s wrong with any of that?”

But because humans evolved as social creatures and our survival depended upon trusting one another, we’re constantly trying to judge ourselves against values that can’t actually be met. So we look at ourselves and say we’re a really horrible species, but that statement only makes sense because ironically we’re a really glorious species that’s fabricated these completely irrational things like love and compassion and empathy and honesty and sacrifice that no other species has (though many other social species do have bits and pieces of them).

And we’ll forever hate ourselves for not being able to live up to our own values.

Presumably high-medium-low. Sorting them as medium-low-high is a little weird.

It is the ticket. Tickets don’t really exist. Even before the Internet and digital technology, what we called a “ticket” (a slip of paper that you showed to get in) was in reality just a receipt/proof of purchase. “Ticket” and “receipt” are 100% synonymous.

Yeah and I don’t think OP’s labelling this as a “myth” is really clarifying anything. It’s not “true” or “false”: it’s an overly vague and broad generalization from one study. It’s like if someone told you “You eat half of your fat at breakfast”. Is that true or false? Well, it depends a lot on which “you” you’re talking about and which day you’re talking about, but in any case it doesn’t make much sense to generalize it into some sort of bizarre universal truth or falsehood.

Yeah thanks for the COVID-19 there, buddy.

I had a very realistic visual hallucination once (hypnopompic). I was coming out of a nap while I had a fever. I looked over, and beside the bed was a young woman staring at me intently. She leaned over to bite/eat me, but calmly and without any emotion. As soon as she got within touching distance of me, she started to vanish, from the centre-out, and within a couple seconds was totally gone.

I was really struck by how real she seemed. She looked exactly like a real person.

But I just knew she wasn’t real (the same way that you just know things in dreams). Because of that, I didn’t find it scary at all. I remember being a little curious what kind of sensations I would “feel” when she actually made contact with me, and was a mixture of disappointed/relieved when she vanished at that point. But strangely(?) not scared.

Except for the fact that testing began before release, this is totally accurate.

I should try this manoeuvre when my friends need help with something.

Here’s what I think you’re asking about: Move all your furniture this weekend. Is that correct?
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No

We will see!

Traditionally it’s been a day for young people to go out partying and clubbing in costumes.

But last year 67 people were crushed to death and we had an official week-long period of mourning. We will see how Halloween is treated this year.

I don’t know that this one really counts. First, as stewie said, Edison didn’t electrocute Topsy (though he did film it).

But anyway, what “stupid prizez” did Edison win? An enormous pile of money and immortal fame and admiration?

Assuming you’re a man, 32 is definitely not too old. In my personal experience as a 40-something, 32 is right around your peak.

Are you hot? If the answer is “no”, that’s fine. Most of us aren’t. But it means that you’ll have to do a little bit more work in figuring out what kind of people (women?) are attracted to you, why they’re attracted to, and what might be the best way to meet them. The answer may not be Tinder.

Any algorithm can be O(n^2) if you only want it to be occasionally right.

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I don’t think “greed” is quite the right word. “Greed” would be the right word if they were trying to make themselves more profitable. But they’re not: they’re trying to make themselves profitable at all. That’s not about greed, but about surviving. You can’t survive unless you stop hemorrhaging money at some point.

Maybe the question is “Why do investors invest so many hundred of billions of dollars into companies that cannot be profitable without becoming super-shitty? And why do users join them knowing that they’re going to become super-shitty one day?”

just assume everything actually costs 20% more and tip.

And by “everything”, you mean “not actually everything, but you’d need a 400 page manual to describe what gets tipped and what doesn’t”.