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  • Tiff is for science. Like for actual values that need more than 0-255 level of precision.

    For example we use Tiff (or GeoTiff because it has coordinates) for storing elevation, temperature, slope, etc variables of an area for processing. It can also have a lot of bands not just RGB.

    For example, satellites record RGB, infrared 1, infrared 2, and many other bands and even if we can’t see them it’s useful to get that information for processing. That helps for example to recognize river from forest even if both look green to our eyes.






  • Arch also kinda allows that if you write custom PKGBUILD file. It’s easy to write for simple stuffs that are based on make/cargo etc.

    It’s time consuming if some program gives you 100s of lines of code in bash script to install their program though.

    Edit:

    Another disadvantage of building from source is dependency management. You might accidentally uninstall some dependencies, the standard library versions might change and break your packages, etc.

    Using package manager mitigates that.


  • Extensions are just suggestions to your OS on how to open the files.

    I use it to know the filetype for binary files, or what is the purpose/format of the text inside is for text files. But you can just save anything as anything. You can open PDF in text editor and edit things inside too if you know what you’re doing.


  • I learned English reading so many books that I just pronounced how it’s spelled in my head. Combine that with general non-social tendencies I didn’t really heard or had to say a lot of those words.

    I had to spell out words to people because of that. Then I came to US, and now I can’t even spell the words because the alphabets are pronounced differently lol.





  • I mean if you believe in God knowing everything and everything is happening because of his will, then that gives you the ability to rationalize everything, doesn’t it?

    Oh you have cancer? God gave it to you, if you didn’t deserve it he’d have cured it. Done, use that everywhere: poor, homeless, immigrant, race, sick, traffic, lightening, flood, airplane crash, school shooting, …

    That’s why blind faith is dangerous. And the idea of afterlife because they just do whatever now.




  • I think most early users do check further than open source licenses. It’s possible they’ll add things later, but if they add after it has enough users we have significant number of users to have some people check. And if the user base is small then they’re probably more involved, or are reading/modifying code for their use cases.

    Of course it’s not foolproof, but it has worked for a long time because of things like that