As the other replies say, git is already decentralized. What we need is a decentralized way to recognize one of those mirrors as the main one. I think gitchain: http://gitchain.org/ was supposed to solve that.
We don't currently have ebooks available for our Modiano titles unfortunately, though reprints are already being scheduled so it's possible ebooks might be a part of that. I can't personally make any promises. Edit: The office is very much aware of the interest in an ebook edition!
Read two books by him, both had the same exact plot except for locations. There's a man, loses his cat, loses his wife, loses his job, and then there's something magical that is somehow related to the Manchuria war.
The only Murakami novel that has the author lose a cat, his wife and encounter "something magical that is somehow related to the Manchuria war" is The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. I can only assume you read it twice by mistake.
Several of his novels do feature a man with a cat, and several novels feature distant women. But if I remember correctly, the only other married narrator is the protagonist in South of the Border, West of the Sun, and there is a character in 1Q84 who is married and divorced.
To say that the plots of any of his books have exactly the same plot would be a huge mischaracterization, though. The only two books that are even vaguely similar are Wind-Up and the earlier Dance Dance Dance (the last part of a quadrilogy about the "Sheep Man"); the latter feels a lot like a preliminary sketch for the vastly superior Wind-Up, in particular the fascination about hotel rooms and shared dreams. But the plots are completely different.
Kafka by the River is also related to missing cats (killed), ancient wars and something magical.
I loved Kafka by the River, but couldn't finish The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.
Kafka by the Shore. It is very different from Wind-Up Bird even though there are cats in it.
I recommend trying Wind-Up again. The first ~100 pages are difficult to get through at times (the narrator is infuriatingly apathetic), but one you get past that, it's an incredible page turner. I liked Kafka a lot, but Wind-Up is his masterpiece.
There are a lot of uses for dumb, audio-free video files. Web forums, for instance. You can allow users to embed them without worrying about 100 different auto-playing videos with sound on your page.
Plenty of ways to implement that and I'm not sure this is the best approach, but it's not just "worse video". More features is worse, not better, a lot of the time. Like when people used to build entire websites in Flash before the iPhone's lack of flash player finally made them stop.
>entire websites in Flash before the iPhone's lack of flash player finally made them stop
I have a setting flipped in Chrome such that I have to click to enable each plugin on a page. This made me realize that the iPhone sadly didn't stop all such website builders (rare as it is to encounter one now.)
I feel especially bad for local restaurants that have sites built all in Flash. When I look up who designed their website, it's proudly hosted on the only local dial-up ISP left in town, designed by a "company" which is really just a high schooler who took a digital media class once.
I know there is no way that site is being redone, and they're now completely at the mercy of Yelp.
Only if they're all visible at once. Unlike GIF, which has to do CPU-bound stuff to compute its next frames even if it isn't visible in order to stay synchronized, videos that are scrolled off the screen take effectively zero resources. (Well, they'd take resources to play audio if there were an audio track, but not when they're muted like GIFVs are.) You could have e.g. a Tumblr dashboard loaded with hundreds of screens worth of an infinite scroll of GIFV-containing posts, and your computer would only be worried about the one on the screen at the moment.
Good point, hadn't thought of that. If I'm recalling the differences correctly, GIF will let you layer new frames with transparency directly over old frames basically forever, while video formats have full keyframes at regular intervals that allow you to jump to anywhere in the video by only calculating the chunk since the previous keyframe?
I haven't made any gifs since flashing "Under Construction" signs were a thing on web pages, so it's been a while. Maybe I should put some up on tilde.club.
