shellac

I've attempted to get researchers to use lossless H.264 to encode CT scans. They typically use directories full of tiffs. Even with intra-slice compression (i.e. tiff compression) they are pretty huge. But H.264 will let you recover the original images to the individual bit, and save a huge amount of space thanks to inter-slice similarities.

They are still using directories of tiff, though.

> The German acronym (DDR) is much better known among Eastern Europeans.

And in the UK. Presumably because it was used in athletic meetings and on cars. Never seen 'GDR', we'd just use 'East Germany'.

The river Taff flows through Cardiff, and 'taffy' was used as a derogatory term for Welsh people from this origin.

I can't pretend I've heard anyone use it since the 80s.

--DRESS means your clothes with fall off.

I think this has just been fixed. A bit of dark mode was leaking into light in the css.

My (really limited) understanding is that 'British subject' was the status of people in the British empire. It's now reduced to just some people born pre-1949 in Ireland and India. They have many of the rights of citizens, and can become citizens via a simpler route than other non-nationals.

No, Braun invented the cathode ray tube.

It's in the article. Not sure it had his name, but certainly his family name since he looked for records concerning his relatives.

Curses, I was close. Also: yikes to the design.

Are you saying WebDAV doesn't support range requests?

> This isn't a pyramid?

Thank you for saying this. It immediately drove me crazy.

Academic publishing is _notoriously_ profitable. Authorship and the bulk of the editorial process is done by others for free, and these days you often aren't even creating a physical copy. Their overheads are really pretty minimal. What the money (subscriptions and / or APCs) gets is the kudos associated with the publication.

It is reasonable to say: well if they aren't providing anything of value then the market ought to bypass them. The reality is that the publishers have been very canny in protecting their position, and sharp practice is rife.