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I tried compressing some CD quality PCM audio: wav=54MB, zstd=51MB, zl=42MB, flac=39MB.

So OpenZL is significantly better than zstd, but worse than flac.


Out of curiosity, what was the input file format?

We actually worked on a demo WAV compressor a while back. We are currently missing codecs to run the types of predictors that FLAC runs. We expect to add this kind of functionality in the future, in a generic way that isn't specific to audio, and can be used across a variety of domains.

But, generally we wouldn't expect to generally beat FLAC. But, be able to offer specialized compressors for many types of data that previously weren't important enough to spawn a whole field of specialized compressors, by significantly lowering the bar for entry.


The input was just CD audio, "One More Time" by Daft Punk.

test.wav: RIFF (little-endian) data, WAVE audio, Microsoft PCM, 16 bit, stereo 44100 Hz


Is that with training or without?

I think training is mandatory. These are the commands I used:

https://gist.github.com/pmarks-net/64c17aff45e7741f07eeb5dd0...


I first heard about these islands when they built a roundabout under the ocean: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVD0hG-_5gQ&t=47s


Wow super cool. That’s got to be a ton of money to spend on these islands with such a small population.

It was (by major western country standards) remarkably cheap.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EruSZNI4th4


SSHoH


SSHoH3

Pronounced "Shoe"


It looks a bit better with Tux's face: https://pmarks.net/posted_links/tux-weeble.png


Uh, it kinda brings me memories of "Ugandan Knuckles" meme

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/ugandan-knuckles


lol. That looks like some haunted playground toy found in a backrooms level. The eyes follow wherever you go!

It’s all good though. Most of the “Linux logos” don’t look very good to be honest.


Instead of click-to-copy, you could do click-to-highlight, so that "right-click > Copy" highlights the text on right-click if it's not initially selected. There is some subtlety in the logic, because it shouldn't interfere when the user manually selects a substring.

For a demo of click-to-highlight, install IPvFoo and use your mouse in the popup window. See the 'selectWholeAddress' function in https://github.com/pmarks-net/ipvfoo/blob/master/src/popup.j...


I'm aware of that gesture, but I think it shows the point that it requires extra intention from the user to do select+copy on an input-looking field with copy button attached, instead of being part if the default ctc button experience.

Not that I am searching, but I wonder if there's already tog/nielson/other ux research on this specific interaction.


More OSs should adopt X11 paste from the primary selection. It can safely coexist with a regular clipboard.


Why Anna, and not a thousand other people in the area? She must've done something to enter the group in the first place.


You're sort of answering your own question. It was a matter of proximity. The thousand others were a greater distance in the initial conditions.


Why not everyone invite a different Anna?

I think the moral is for everyone to be individually a bit nicer, not one friend group to support an entire community.


Friendship


Nice map, but on mobile it doesn't let you zoom out enough to see both coasts.


Evaporative cooling effectively "uses up" the water. It's possible to run chillers instead, but that consumes more electricity, and some power plants also use evaporative cooling.


Some water usage has highly questionable counting methodologies.

Like using if a datacenter is using hydroelectric power you count the evaporation from the dam reservoir as "used water".

I'm not an expert but imo correct accounting should really only consider direct consumption. It's very silly when we play games like having petro states have very high carbon footprints even if they don't actually burn the fuel.



Thanks - that's it


If you have a circuit rated for 15 amps, and plug in 12 amps of solar, then the breaker won't trip until the circuit load exceeds 27 amps, which seems bad.


Hmm, if you have an appliance (like a clothes dryer) with a dedicated circuit, it seems like you could solve this by connecting there. If you have the balcony solar device plug into the wall and the appliance plug into the balcony solar device, then you can easily put an additional circuit breaker where it's needed.


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