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Re:Jules Verne's Lost Novel on Friday October 30, 2026 @05:35PM (#50310458)
Amazing blog post! Except for the spoilers, I enjoyed the reading, thanks for sharing
I saw numbers in GW where I was expecting numbers in GWh ? How does the amount of energy produced compare ? "In 2025, nuclear plants generated 2,703 TWh", how about solar and wind ?
Re:C-style: My favorite C programming practices on Monday May 20, 2024 @02:15PM (#40418366)
"We can't get tabs right, so use spaces everywhere"

I'm more like: Always use tabs, never use space. Code doesn't need to be "aligned" it's not some ASCIIart masterpiece...

One tab means one indentation level and if your taste is to have tabs of pi chars wide, nice! But it won't mess my code

Re:Wuffs: Wrangling Untrusted File Formats Safely on Sunday May 19, 2024 @02:49PM (#40408930)
Cool project, I'm eagerly waiting for a jpegxl decoder to be written in wuffs so that Google won't have any reason not to support the format...

I would be glad to have a try but the language specification and documentation is almost non existent.

Re:First automatic JPEG-XL cloud service on Monday September 25, 2023 @03:08AM (#37640478)
if I understood well, AVIF encoder is quite fast for ugly qualities and very slow for standard and higher quality. https://cloudinary.com/blog/contemplating-codec-comparisons#...