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It’s unclear why Google stuck with PNG for HDR screenshots instead of a format supported by Ultra HDR such as JPEG.
Because for good lossless HDR you’ve got a grand total of 2 options, PNG and JPEG XL. And Google don’t want people to know of yet another use case for JXL.
Do they really not realize this literally covers everything NOAA does?
That’s the whole point, they do.
He named the recovery barges after sci fi spaceships (modern sci fi, not old nazi stuff)
It’s pretty clear to me that Elon’s never read a Culture novel, they’re antithetical to him.
A lot of the GPU drivers back then sucked since it was a rather large departure from how stuff worked under XP.
Like in one release we went from a model where only a single app could use the 3D bits of the GPU at once, to the system itself relying on them to present the UI and letting multiple apps share it at the same time.
Not really, with a GPU compositor it’s basically free.
That’s a fantastic recreation
NTFS was designed back in the mid 90s, when the plan was to have the single NT kernel with different subsystems on top of it, some of those layers (i.e. POSIX) needed case sensitivity while others (Win32 and OS/2) didn’t.
It only looks odd because the sole remaining subsystem in use (Win32) barely makes use of any of the kernel features, like they’re only just now enabling long file paths.
Yep, Apple paid with shares (More specifically, the right to buy $1 million dollars worth at the initial share price) which, according to a share calculator I just tried, would be worth nearly $328 million these days, I wonder if Xerox kept them or offloaded them early.
Considering Xerox was utterly uninterested in any of the tech they had, it’s worked out well.
If somebody is playing a game with the gamma set to 3 and brightness at 120%, and they’re still finding it too dark, they need to check if their monitor is actually turned on.
They really want to promote their AVIF format, and supporting JXL would hinder that (Since JXL is a much nicer upgrade path from JPEG/PNG than AVIF is)
Like you can transparently go from JPEG to JXL and back with no loss, which isn’t possible with AVIF. And PNG to JXL gives you a smaller file, while it’s usually the opposite with AVIF (Unless you get lucky, as lossless AVIF can be beaten by a BMP in a ZIP file). There’s also the issue of speed, AVIF is slow to encode compared to other formats (And while hardware decoding is possible, it’s also geared towards video, so the quality is often lacking, and can sometimes be slower than plain software encoding)