My thoughts, exactly: Why is this a big deal? Imagine the positive press it would be if Apple came out and said, “We did that on purpose. More companies should be this open!”

The security impact of this: Zero (clients are already given the code)

The reputational impact: Could be great! Or could be bad if they play this the wrong way.

Google search: “scientific articles about (whatever)” Then you get tons of ads and irrelevant results.

LLM search: “Find me scientific articles about (whatever)” Then you get just the titles and links (with maybe a short summary).

It’s 100% better and you don’t have to worry about hallucinations since you it’s wasn’t actually trying to find an answer… Just helping you perform a search.

It’s ok: Google and all other ad-supported search is about to go the way of the dinosaur as soon as local AI search catches on. When your own PC runs a search for you, it basically googles on your behalf and you never see those ads.

It’s going to change everything.

No, actually! There’s no metadata option in .WebM to tell it to loop! It’s not in the spec (which is just a subset of matroska).

The format literally does not support looping. Whereas the .WebP spec does provide a looping option:

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc9649/

It’s in the ANIM chunk which specifies the “loop count”. If it’s zero, loop forever.

WebM has no built-in loop flag 🤷

I really like WebP. It has a super annoying issue though: Animated WebP can’t take advantage of hardware acceleration.

And the real problem there is that WebM doesn’t support looping. So if you want an auto playing, looping gif-like video you have to use WebP and thus, give up on hardware acceleration.

AI adds too many details. When a person draws an anime/cartoon character they will usually put in minimal details or they’ll simply paste the character on to an existing background (that could’ve been drawn by a different artist).

AI doesn’t have human limitations so it’ll often add a ton of unnecessary details to a given scene. This is why the most convincing AI-generated anime pictures are of one or two characters in a very simple setting (e.g. a plain street/sidewalk) or even a white or gradient background.

Humans can tell when art was put together by different artists. Such as when the background is a completely different style. AI doesn’t differentiate like that and will make the entire image using the exact style given by the prompt. So it’ll all look like it was “drawn” using the same exact style… Even though anime/cartoons IRL aren’t that uniform.

Ugh, if only that worked for longer than like a month.

Eventually all these materials you can throw under throw rugs to make them stickier end up failing. Catastrophically.

Make sure to get a throw rug that has the non-slip feature sewn in. Make sure it’s nice and heavy too and never put it in the dryer (it’ll ruin the non-slip part). You should probably air dry throw rugs anyway, actually 🤷

The rug threw you. That’s why they’re called that!

Xerox is a bad copy of themselves from decades prior.

Try this and the result may shock you!

Doctors hate it!

…and people that work with resin and 3D printerers.

I’m going to assume the standard was poorly understood because I can’t imagine a multi-billion dollar company hires idiots to set standards.

Ahahahahahahaha! Oh man, you got a good laugh out of me this morning 🤣

When you work on the same thing for 8 hours a day for years and then suddenly management decides that they need “detailed time tracking.”

They just gave you a new job without additional compensation. New responsibilities, no new title, no raise, etc.

Then—months later—they realize that everyone’s spending at least half an hour, regularly to figure out how they’re spending their time. Some bean counter adds up how much that costs in real money and then—out of nowhere—management decides they don’t need detailed time tracking anymore.

Frogamagogery

I guess it’s just too late for all those children that viewed porn. The piles of their dead bodies must be enormous!

Donut transform the soccer ball!

Any of these people who take the time to learn what any of these policies actually mean quickly become not-Republicans start to disbelieve reality and declare the truth as, “fake news.”

FTFY 👍

The truth is, anything but saccharin.

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FTFY 👍

I dunno. For hundreds of thousands of years we’ve been selectively breeding puppies.

Puppies