50% figure for vinyl sounds plausible to me, considering cost of turntable and hassle of actually using it (unless you enjoy the ritual and experience of physical media). And vinyl makes great merch.
Single file + CUE sheet solves lead-in thingie problem, by storing both timestamps (time when player should start showing 'Track 2', and time which servers as zero for track-relative timestamps)
It pretty much mirrors actual CD structure of TOC (containing all necessary timestamps and metadata) and continuous sequence of frames with audio data
Cdrdao preserves all lead-in data for rips in DAO mode. I split tracks to separate files with lead-in of the following track included at the end. Combined with Lame's gapless encoding support you can have seamless playback of CDs that blend tracks.
At least globbing should return fully qualified paths (not sure there is an established term for `(<directory>/)+<file>' paths, as opposed to `<file>` ones).
>Some things you need to hide from the end user.
De-emphasize - maybe, hide - no. Garbage pile that is average Linux home directory is pretty much result of 'out of sight - out of mind' practice, enabled by dotfiles being hidden. I wish Linux settled on single `~/System/` directory, mirroring `/` structure.
On the other hand, dotfiles convention is useful for meta/"parallel" data, `.git` being prime example - something tighly linked with abitrary file structure.
Intelligence (in a metric, "this is intelligent way to do X", sense) implies some purpose. But life is just one big 'systems that survive and grow - grow and survive' tautology.
Only if you are designing another TempleOS. Thing for it's own sake, unaffected by any external requirements and completely specified, designed and implemented by one person.
That's not strictly true. GIF can have a maximum of 256 colors per block, but different blocks can have different palettes, and each frame is not required to fill every block, so you can build up images with more than 256 colors using a series of incomplete frames. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIF#True_color
Convert a video of black video to mp4 and gif, both will be lossless.
Whilst some gifs are not compressed it appears to be niche for them to not have been. Or for the creator of the gif to have not constrained themselves during the creation process.
Perhaps important for NFT creators. Whilst not overly concerning themselves with the resources involved, they shouldn't be troubled by file size either.
webm & mp4 can deliver vastly higher resolutions at a fraction of the size of GIFs, though. So while a GIF is "lossless", that doesn't help when size dictates that the quality is still crap anyway.
It can be also tied to bespoke equipment, hard-to-transfer expertise and experience. If consumption grows relatively slow, it makes sense to expand single installation, rather than duplicate it with 'copy exactly (which might take too long to pay off).
50% figure for vinyl sounds plausible to me, considering cost of turntable and hassle of actually using it (unless you enjoy the ritual and experience of physical media). And vinyl makes great merch.