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Gwern has a useful page about this:

https://www.gwern.net/Lithium

Re:Most scientists 'can't replicate studies by their peers' on Thursday February 23, 2017 @02:08PM (#13716730)
www.slatestarcodex.com ?
Re:Show HN: Swiss Army Knife for Mac OS X on Thursday July 14, 2016 @10:25PM (#12098606)
Karabiner allows you to change the default behavior of the volume keys to use quarter steps with the "Fine grained volume controls" option (it simply adds the alt+shift for you). Very useful with headphones that are too sensitive. https://pqrs.org/osx/karabiner/
Re:High quality GIF with FFmpeg on Monday March 16, 2015 @09:12PM (#9215679)
Yes, all frames will be in memory prior to making the GIF. Probably fine for most GIFs, but if you want to go FFmpeg | ImageMagick | FFmpeg for processing a video, or maybe for a longer GIF, you can use this script to keep only a frame at a time in memory: http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/scripts/process_ppm_pipelin...
Re:Daala progress update on Tuesday December 23, 2014 @06:11PM (#8790741)
Did you compare h.265 with the original images? It trades a lack of artifacts for a fairly significant reduction in detail.