There’s also music outside North America. As an example, South Indian Carnatic has some similarities to jazz but some great divergences (tunings/microtonalty, complex percussion, devotional, etc).
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With MacOS I felt there was a major quality change for visual quality & animations when SwiftUI was used BY Apple for the OS and applications.
I'm not a developer, but it felt there were areas where an icon or window just didn't visually work the way it used to or SHOULD in placement or animation.
The hackish-ness hasn't changed over time: there are so many examples throughout the OS/Applications that I want to say "it was always like that", except it wasn't: Apple set the bar and it was high, the quality was exceptional.
I feel there are a lot of hacks going on with SwiftUI to achieve the same UI placement or animation.
Last quick note I think about often: a lot of analog creation was really hard. It still is. When it comes to digital we've been thinking we'll come back to things later, but never do... we build more bad on top of bad... sadly.
The illustrator credits are easier to see in print, easy to miss in this story.
My Labrador says a/ he’s neutered c/ dogix user b/ his teams always begin with empathy: people (and retrieves) over outcomes
If there’s a large amount of paper that’s been purchased for a job, I definitely wouldn’t want to be the one who’s responsible for using JPEG XL and – for whatever reason – something going wrong.
Pixels are cheaper than paper or other physical media :)
FFmpeg has complex syntax because it’s dealing with the _complexity of video_. I agree with everyone about knowing (and helping create or contribute to) our tools.
Today I largely forget about the _legacy_ of video, the technical challenges, and how critical it was to get it right.
There are an incredible number of output formats and considerations for _current_ screens (desktop, tablet, mobile, tv, etc…). Then we have a whole other world on the creation side for capture, edit, live broadcast…
On legacy formats it used to be so complex with standards, requirements, and evolving formats. Today, we don’t even think about why we have 29.97fps around? Interlacing?
We have a mix of so many incredible (and sometimes frustrating) codecs, needs and final outputs, so it’s really amazing the power we have with a tool like FFmpeg… It’s daunting but really well thought out.
So just a big thanks to the FFmpeg team for all their incredible work over the years…
Anything personal would have been appreciated, especially in this context. Maybe “I’m one of the thousands that work here but this means something to me…”?
Actually even a professional stance that showed concern: “One of our shared company values states…”
Sadly Jamie’s response didn’t build any trust of Slack from me…
It was sweet to see “over the Net”…
(The responses are generally far better than other products.)
Priests were highly trained in recitation and memorization and the oral texts were consistent across vast regions.
My source is vague memory but I think it was from JAB van Buitenen speaking about oral transmission and accuracy in the intros for either “The Bhagavadgita in the Mahabharata” or “The Mahabharata; Book of the Beginning”.
Desktop web versus phone/tablet/tocuhscreen? I’d take the innovations and how forward they’ve moved us and society over anything in the past… they’re not just about input but forced new solutions and took us to new places.
Can anything be implemented better? Of course, and I agree with you: the next disruption will be better.
BUT will also expose more challenges in how we deal with tech, each other, and the planet.
ChatGPT can help with learning a lot now but the mailing lists are incredible sources of kind and wonderful (and incredibly knowledgeable) people… go there!
Handbrake, Permute are super as mentioned… I’ve put down a couple to add to the list.)