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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (3 children)

That's a good idea. They could probably do something similar for the audio.

They'd have to code around the rest of the animation and audio effects, but the size of that code would certainly be smaller than the rendered audio and video.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (7 children)

Video codecs mostly work by tracking movement, predicting which pixels will change, and striving to only encode the pixels that actually change or change dramatically. In other words, compression looks for patterns.

All of that goes out the window when you try to compress static. There are no patterns. It simply can't be compressed. This isn't a matter of the algorithms not being good enough. It's a fundamental limit of information theory.

Anything fancier amounts to embedding the intro into the compressor as a well-known pattern. And at that point, you're better off just caching a 4K version of the intro as a standalone video file directly in the app.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 days ago

What are you going on about? Have you ever ridden in one of these?

They do have these buttons...

https://support.google.com/waymo/answer/9172373?hl=en

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Doctors with one border

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 weeks ago

I think the reason Zealandia is called a "submerged continent" is because it is made of continental crust rather than oceanic crust.

But IMO the best geologic definition of continents is by tectonic plates, which mostly matches up with the cultural definitions of the continents.

For the major continents, we have these plates:

  • North American
  • South American
  • Eurasian
  • African
  • Australian
  • Antarctic

There are several smaller plates too, like the Caribbean, Indian, and Arabian plates. IMO, we should consider these independent continents.

There is also a dedicated Pacific plate. The ring of fire is the border of this plate.

New Zealand / Zealandia is on the ring of fire. Half on the Australian plate, half on the Pacific plate. You can actually see the border of the two plates when you look at the topographical map of Zealandia.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 2 weeks ago

Sure. But this is not that.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

There's JD Vance.

There's Ron DeSantis.

There's Jim Jordan.

There's Matt Gaetz.

There are plenty of MAGA republicans in Congress who would step up. To say otherwise is to be living under a rock. Trump is far from the only prominent fascist ass hole in US politics.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

Assassination would be good for MAGA. They'd worship him as a martyr.

I'd like Trump to die ASAP. From natural causes, like a heart attack from eating too much McD's.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

In other words "old baby got tired after standing out of his crib for two hours, blames mom and dad."

[–] [email protected] 72 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Trump: incoherent rambling about immigrants stealing then eating pets and Democrat governors aborting newborns

Kamala: "He lost the election, and he's clearly having a hard time processing that."

[–] [email protected] 36 points 3 weeks ago

My money is on cousin Greg to take over.

 

On my "subscribed" page, if I scroll down, the app crashes. Not sure of anything more than that. But it's definitely repeatable for me.

Device information

Sync version: v23.11.29-22:27    
Sync flavor: googlePlay    

View type: Smaller cards    

Device: ASUS_AI2302    
Model: asus ASUS_AI2302    
Android: 14
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/11618012

TL;DR

  • Canada plays in Toronto on June 12 and Vancouver on June 18 and June 24.

  • USA plays in LA on June 12 and June 25 and Seattle on June 19.

  • Mexico plays in Mexico City on June 11 and June 24 and Guadalajara on June 18.

  • Semifinals in Dallas and Atlanta. Bronze Final in Miami. Final in NYC.

The article has a nice graphic schedule you can download if you want to plan travel to specific cities. Groups have not been drawn yet, so we only know USA, CAN, and MEX.

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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

GBoard (Google's keyboard for Android) has a GIF entry feature.

Sync properly uploads the GIF from GBoard to my Lemmy instance, but the GIF does not play in the comments, and clicking on it returns an error "image was actually a web page!"

For the record, they're not technically GIFs. GBoard uploads the image as WebM.

This seems like a user journey that should be supported. Android users who use Google's keyboard to input a GIF comment would expect it to work or throw an error at upload time. Instead, Sync allows us to submit such comments, but they are broken upon viewing.

Device information

Sync version: v23.11.29-22:27    
Sync flavor: googlePlay    

Ultra user: true    
View type: Smaller cards    

Device: ASUS_AI2302    
Model: asus ASUS_AI2302    
Android: 14
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submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Do people intentionally disconnect mid battle?

I've seen a ton of DCs, both early in the game and late.

It really hurts my enjoyment of the game. Like, even if we're getting smoked, I'd rather stick around and work as a team to the end. I mean, it's only a couple minutes. And a DC counts as a loss anyway.

It's really frustrating to see all of these DCs. Are people really rage quitting, or is it just bad networking?

Edit: I just got Splatoon 3 for Christmas, but I'm a veteran of the series. Rage quitting did not seem to be as big of a problem in the previous two games.

 
 

cross-posted from: https://kbin.social/m/[email protected]/t/370751

A recent study highlights the health benefits of particular plants closing and generally reducing exposure to fossil fuels, researchers say.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/2548457

The judge is required to follow the jury’s decision. Here’s what to know.

A federal jury on Wednesday condemned to death the gunman who killed 11 worshipers at a Pittsburgh synagogue in October 2018, in what is considered the deadliest antisemitic attack in American history.

The jury’s decision, which is binding on the judge, was announced Wednesday in the same federal courtroom where the jurors in June convicted the gunman, Robert Bowers, 50, of carrying out the massacre during sabbath services nearly five years ago. The judge will formally impose the sentence at a hearing on Thursday morning, when families of some victims are expected to address the court.

In a statement, the family of two victims — Rose Mallinger, a 97-year-old member of the Tree of Life congregation who was killed in the attack, and Andrea Wedner, her daughter, who was wounded — thanked the jury. “Although we will never attain closure from the loss of our beloved Rose Mallinger, we now feel a measure of justice has been served,” the statement read.

Jurors deliberated for just under 10 hours before reaching the verdict.

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