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Comment Re:Why? (Score 1) 30

It's the wrong thing in production

Based on what? What makes something wrong or right in production providing the toolkit works and exists to allow it to be widely adopted and mass produced, and the end goal of the device is achieved?

I've seen similar complaints before: "Arduino has no place in production, it's too heavy on flash for microcontrollers, blah blah blah blah". Yet it too does the job, and does in fact get used in some production cases as well.

If you want to gatekeep, fine. Justify your position with points specifically relevant to production. Let's hear it.

Comment Re: Why? (Score 1) 30

I was referring to the cost of materials in education.

So completely off topic and irrelevant post then? Got it.

then there’s obviously demand for those types of end solutions

False. Not all products meet a demand. In fact the vast majority of novel products actually create the demand in the first place. There is zero demand for Python on a microcontroller. But that doesn't mean it's not a good idea, and that on release of the product it will become adopted. Take for example the Arduino platform. There was no demand for a simplified abstracted C API for Atmel microcontrollers, ... until someone made it. The idea created the demand.

Comment Re: Feature Request (Score 1) 98

Features I'm not using which are built into the browser increase the attack surface if an attacker can enable them remotely, and I don't take for granted that this is impossible. Also Firefox has a habit of enabling things you disabled on an update. HTH, HAND

Not every feature presents an attack surface, even more so "remotely". Also you're dealing entirely in theoreticals. My theoretical is I suspect you likely are complaining about Firefox while having piss poor security practices yourself. You have far bigger things to worry about.

Comment Re:The hidden subsidies to the nuclear industry (Score 1) 113

Saying nah-ah isn't being clever, it's just cementing your ignorance. Fissile material for bombs isn't made from commercial reactors. There's a difference between "reactor-grade" plutonium and "weapons-grade" plutonium. The plutonium that is generated in a commercial reactor is heavily contaminated and incredibly difficult to separate from spent fuel rods. It's simply not done for military purposes anywhere other than one waste reprocessing plant in France, and there were talks about shutting that one down due to its cost.

All nuclear power use special reactors are run to create weapons grade plutonium. They aren't used for power production in any meaningful way as they can only run them a couple of weeks at a time between shutdowns and removal of rods.

Being ignorant doesn't mean someone is "lying" to you. You can use the opportunity to educate yourself, or continue to look like a moron in public.

Comment Re:JPEG 2000 (Score 1) 98

Why? JPEG 2000 is as rare as hens teeth. It's not actively used by anything other than some extreme niches, has a complicated spec, and frankly was well and truly surpassed as an image format. Heck the only reason anyone is talking about JPEGXL is because PDF/A is planning to adopt it in an upcoming spec, and browsers have integrated PDF readers.

Comment Re:Why is XL smaller? (Score 1) 98

Aside from the actual reason mentioned there's multiple "eXtra Large" aspects to this format.

- It supports more bits per pixel than JPEG (which is very important since we've had a use case for high bitdepth images for decades now).
- It supports larger image sizes than JPEG (JPEG is limited to 65535x65535 which is only 4.225 gigapixels if your image is square - trivially hit with panoramic photography. JPEGXL supports 1.12 exapixels which is very large).
- It supports more channels than JPEG (4100, vs ... 3)
- It has a larger specification document too :-)

Comment Re: Why? (Score 1) 30

Fine. Then justify it with cost then. They sure as hell justified breadboards in education due to cost.

What are you talking about? Breadboards are used both in education, hobbyist, and professional environments for variable prototyping where possible due to their flexibility. The only time they aren't used is if a specific design doesn't function on breadboards (high speeds, high currents, noise, etc). Breadboards have nothing to do with being a training tool nor have they anything to do with cost.

Comment Re:What? (Score 1) 98

20%, but it's only when loading very large images that are scaled down for display.

Once again showing the world you guess and bullshit with authority while not doing the bare minimum to educate yourself. Or do you think 4MB is 20% of 84MB?

If you're going to "help" someone, be right for a change. The screwed up symbol was the multiplication symbol. It's 20x less, or 5% of the original memory use. Stop spreading your ignorance.

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