jacobwilliamroy

Unfortunately these images are not going to the web, they're going into a software called ARCH which expects JPEGs specifically. And also I've been told that bad things will happen if we give ARCH files bigger than 2 megabytes. The first idea I had was to export multiple versions of the same image at each quality level (0 to 12 in photoshop) and then use the RGB values of each pixel to calculate the RMSE for each one against the JPEG exported with the highest quality settings. This would be assuming that there is an RMSE which roughly corresponds to what my human eyes consider "acceptable amounts of compression artifacts." The images are so big that even though they are being compressed and checked multiple times the computer is still doing the work faster and more thoroughly than I can.

And thanks for sharing the link to mozjpeg. It's helping me to understand the differences between different jpeg encoders which is very important.

Why not just fire people you dont like? People do it all the time in America.

I wonder what its like making a proposal to the unicode consortium. I watch a lot of c-span and I assume its like that.

I do my hobbies because if I dont I'll fill the time by smoking cigarettes which I am really trying hard not to do. I specifically engage in pointless pastimes because they have better health outcomes than spending an equivalent amount of time smoking tobacco on the porch.

This doesnt make sense because hard hats and high vis vests are not health insurance and youre talking like theyre the same thing.

Juicero has proved to me that no idea is too stupid to win millions of usd in investment capital.

You don't need to be a schizoaffective to develop paranoid delusions about being persecuted by hidden forces that don't exist.

The first idea I had was "don't". We have a VM where we do all of our changes and then the actual production sever is just a copy of the VM. So we test things on the VM and if it doesn't break, THEN those same changes are made on the production server.

Don't let the paranoia overwhelm you. A lot of your conclusions regarding this man are bordering on delusional. You might be catching what he had.

Unless it wasn't of interest to the management. Sometimes people just go crazy an make bad decisions. Sometimes people just go crazy and make bad decisions.

Should say "Facebook owned. Sites are down."

Your suggestions are also the only way I can manage to deal with adults effectively. The only difference is that I don't have any kind of legal or biological obligation to coexist with most adults and since it really does require a lot of energy and time as you say, I rarely ever do it. There's nothing more infuriating to me than being the only person in a room full of adults actually trying to communicate maturely. Especially when the people I'm talking to are older than me.

People will always need to make arrangements for their deaths well in advance before the cognitive decline prevents them from being able to do so. Such has always been the case with or without legal euthanasia.

I thought the number one cause of death in humans was heart disease?

Personally I think collaboration with a government is inevitable in order to get access to the kinds of resources and technology one needs to really cover one's butt on the internet. It seems like government sponsorship is necessary these days just to get a computer that hasn't already been backdoored.

As a man who lives below the poverty line I am extremely insecure about dating just because I worry about my partner trading up for someone with more money than me.

The consumerist culture doesn't help my confidence with women either. That Bruno Mars song "That's What I like" is literally just 3.5 minutes of him explaining how he seduces women by buying them lots of very expensive things. I couldn't even compete with a walmart middle manager at that game.

I try to do this as well but I still have no idea how to shop for pickles. They're sold by the fluid ounce but it's not clear how much of that weight is pickling liquid and how much is the pickles.

I would prefer to have a touch ID peripheral be separate from the keyboard.

I think the touchbar is terrible because I'm constantly fat-fingering it causing the computer to randomly switch fonts or change directories.

I really think this information would have been much easier for me to digest as a chart rather than the current format. I had a head injury recently and my head actually hurts trying to parse and understand this information in the way it is presented.

So what happened to me was I started working in film and TV production, and as things became more complicated I had to start writing scripts to automate our pipelines, building servers to share files and track equipment. But most of the time when I use the computer, it's to teach it how to help me make films faster. Most of the tools I write don't have any kind of visual UI components beyond how the documentation is typeset.

And what is your's based on? It's proprietary software. We're not supposed to know how it works or what it's doing.

My theory is that the OS likes to do a deep inspection of your files in order to feed microsoft's machine learning models.

It was back in 2015, he made a comment on TV about how glyphosate is safe enough to drink, and then when the interviewer offered him a glass he refused to drink it and said "I'm not stupid." Monsanto denies ever retaining him to make these comments and it's probably true that Patrick Moore has never received money directly from Monsanto.

Patrick Moore is proof that with enough money, you can buy whatever you want, including an "ecologist" who says that climate change is a good thing and not caused by humans.

I have no idea what happened to Patrick Moore. He's not actually an environmentalist anymore. He just uses his past affiliation with Greenpeace to make money being a spokesman for companies like Exxon and Monsanto. He doesn't actually care if you live or die. He just wants you to spend more money on fossil fuels.

Just close your eyes. Or turn off the screen.

Spoil it. I don't feel like watching the documentary.

Greenpeace originally was based on The Foundation from Foundation.

Yesterday I visited a friend with late stage cancer. He hasn't eaten or drunk anything for a few days. He doesn't really talk or move around anymore. I was just thinking a system like this would be perfect for him, if he could activate his morphine pump every time he feels pain. It's hard for his family to tell when they need to push the morphine button right now because he's non-verbal.

How am I supposed to aim my guns without fortan?