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When I download a photo to send to my family webp always causes some kind of problem so I end up screenshotting it

Always always always -- and it's often multiple problems, where the filesystem preview generators don't support it or don't support it over a network or the social media used by the other person doesn't support it (often egregiously so, where an unrecognized drop bubbles up to browser scope and blasts the page you were on) or there's a weird problem with a site/app that is supposed to support it, such as it turns into a black box.

Support for webp is still so rough that I have to wonder what one's ecosystem must look like for it to be seamless. Maybe if you are a googler and your phone/computer/browser use entirely google software and ditto for your friends and your friends friends and your spouses? Maybe?


To my knowledge, not even every Google product supports it, but I have not verified support myself.

I blame Google for pushing it, but I also blame every third-party product for not supporting it, when it is mostly free to do so (I'm sure all of them internally use libraries to decode images instead of rolling their own code).


I think it works better in a totally open source ecosystem. I can share webp pics to my daughters via xmpp for example regardless if I am on my smartphone (conversations) or desktop (gajim)

I hate to admit this but I was struggling with a dbt at work and I had copilot scan what I Was doing and it found a type that was almost impossible for me to notice. lol. It really can be useful.

SpaceX showed it was possible and also a crappy place to work means those knowledgeable people go work elsewhere for less work and more money.

inb4 blue origin / DC-X did it first


Actually, the DC-X did it first, in 1993. The DC-X was the first vertical rocket landing, Blue Origin was the first vertical landing of a rocket that went to space, and SpaceX was the first vertical landing of an orbital rocket.

This Honda landing neither went to space nor was orbital, so it was a similar test to the DC-X test.


Actually, retropeopulsive landing was demonstrated during the Apollo program, both on the moon with the LM and with LM trainers on the earth. Those systems were human controlled, of course.

Crappy for 10% amazing for 90%, somewhat better than the 80/20 70/30 seen by most F500s.

I imagine they mean crappy as in really poor work life balance.

What the hell is this comment?

Curious how whatsapp makes any money besides the handful of companies that use it as a customer support portal

> handful of companies

Go to India. Way more than just a handful of companies using it


WhatsApp integrates into the rest of Meta ads machine so it distribute leads from facebook and instagram directly to whatsapp. It also makes money with spam.

WhatsApp makes absolutely no money with spam. There isn't a per-message cost or however you think that would work

There absolutely is a per-conversation cost for marketing messages.

https://business.whatsapp.com/products/platform-pricing?coun...

See also here

>With marketing messages, you pay for each message that is delivered to a receiver you chose within five days of being sent.

https://faq.whatsapp.com/178447635241069?cms_id=178447635241...


You are wrong.

On a global level it's completely pervasive.

They did charge me and I gladly paid.

I haven't watched the show but I watched the first season and loved when the guy from my homestate (GA) did the right thing and just wallered in a mud pit for the whole thing to win. One random dude was trying to build a kayak or some shit. lol

I'm pretty sure I bought one for 99$ but I can't remember if that was directly from HP. I LOVED that thign

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