jfeser | 2 years ago | on: WebP is so great except it's not (2021)
Apple already has! Safari has Jpeg XL enabled by default.
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jfeser | 6 years ago | on: 'Horrible hybrids': the plastic products that give recyclers nightmares
> And realistically, are landfills in the US and Europe leaking or not?
Yes, they are. See https://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/fs-040-03/. A key quote:
> The USEPA has concluded that all landfills eventually will leak into the environment
We can minimize the amount of material that leaks, but it seems that all landfills will eventually leak at least some of their contents.
jfeser | 10 years ago | on: DARPA Is Looking For the Perfect Encryption App
That would make it tricky to change your keys if, for example, your laptop got stolen.
jfeser | 11 years ago | on: The new MacBook
OS X doesn't support Valgrind or GProf. That's enough for me to keep a Linux VM around. Additionally, I've found that software is often easier to build under Linux.
jfeser | 11 years ago | on: LibreOffice Project's Check
It could definitely be a false positive. That said, that would be pretty strange behavior for a function called getColor(). I'd expect that to return a property value, not modify some state.
jfeser | 11 years ago | on: Why OCaml, why now? (2014)
I can confirm that MonoDevelop works reasonably well for F#, but the documentation for F# on Mono isn't great. Coming from OCaml, I love F# as a language, but the tooling isn't as good as it is for OCaml. Might be better on Windows with VS, but I haven't looked closely at that.
jfeser | 11 years ago | on: Nuitka: a Python compiler
That's pretty much what Nuitka is. Unfortunately, PyPy is only fast because it can take advantage of runtime information in the JIT. AOT compilation loses that advantage.
jfeser | 11 years ago | on: Automatically making sense of data
I think it still is. The output is a function fitting the data, so as long as that function is amenable to analysis, it doesn't really matter how it's found.
In fact, the paper discusses some modifications they made (reducing the number of parameters) to make the output kernels more intelligible to humans.
jfeser | 11 years ago | on: Keurig 2.0 DRM Bypass
AFAIK, the original reason for the DRM was to prevent other companies from selling K-cups, so it would need a way to validate each cup, not just prevent reuse.
jfeser | 11 years ago | on: King of click: the story of the greatest keyboard ever made
Some of the Filco keyboards have bluetooth. I was pretty tempted by this one:
http://www.amazon.com/Majestouch-Bluetooth-Keyboard-FFBT67M-...
jfeser | 11 years ago | on: Lightspeed – A Browser Experiment
It's interesting that his concept for inline search looks almost exactly like a current google results page. It would be very cool to have something like that available without necessarily relying on google for it.
Unfortunately, I'm not sure that a composite view like that, which queries multiple services, can be created quickly without aggregating the data before the search is performed. That's problematic if you want to avoid relying on a single search provider.
jfeser | 11 years ago | on: NPR One
It already includes a donation link under the station name. Right now it just sends you an email with donation info. Hopefully they can streamline that in the future.
jfeser | 12 years ago | on: Yellen on Bitcoin: Fed Doesn’t Have Authority to Regulate It in Any Way
Interestingly, no justice has ever been removed for bad behavior.
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