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I am completely on the side of Hey and other non game apps. Especially if they are a cross platform service where almost all of the value is on the back end. All they wanted was to be treated just like Netflix. They didn’t care about not being able to link outside for payments. I’m also completely on the side of WordPress
Yeah, my favorite part of the article was the warning to please use proper safety precautions with liquid N, right under the no-gloves picture...
I think it's a question of timescales, disruption, and definition. If Zoom were totally unreliable or became expensive, within a quarter almost no one would use it. In that sense I agree with you. But the next week would be a disaster, and that may be enough to call it "critical infrastructure", whatever that means.
>I just was completely flabbergasted by someone getting so mad about it.

Because, to me, having been brought up and educated in British English, reading American English is like reading text which is full of typos and illogical grammar. I can tolerate it when I'm reading American writing, but it irritates the hell out of me when it's put out by British, Irish, European, Australian, Indian, etc. English speakers.
5-10 years ago the Intel C compiler produced significantly faster code than gcc (and clang was even worse back then), so there was a bigger reason to use it back then.
I've noticed that ATV+ looks the best, which is much appreciated.

However, what has been driving me insane with all these services is how the bitrate is completely inconsistent throughout, depending on network congestion. Every service I subscribe to will "automagically" lower the bitrate if the network can't handle it.

Which is fine, I get it. The thing is, it's the only way to watch anything, and depending on the content, it can absolutely ruin it. I'm on Comcast, and Netflix will constantly ping pong between 480p and 1080p, and is very unpleasant to watch. It's ok for some shows, but certain ones like Planet Earth 2 become unwatchable (to me).

I really wish there was a setting to add a bit of wait time before playing to avoid this. ATV+ buffers a bit more than the rest, but has the same issues.

Edit: To clarify, this issue happens both wired and wireless. The main contributor to the inconsistency is the time of day I decide to watch.
I don't get this argument. The walled garden is something users opt into because it has benefits.
WebAssemblu + WebGPU is the only hope of breaking free of the walled garden that is the App Store.

I wish Sweeney would wake up and realize this. Sure, PWA support isn't great on iOS, but if you click this link below you will be transported into a web version of Diablo that is completely playable on any iOS device:

https://d07riv.github.io/diabloweb/
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I’d want motion blur on then for super natural looking motion
And that's why it's competition. Steam could offer the same, but they don't. Epic is offering a service that Steam isn't.
Because their current behaviour is anti-competitive rent-seeking, and limits innovation.

Anti-competitive by mandating use of their products, rent seeking because 30% is absurd (but alas legal), and as one twitter thread pointed out, if the web hadn't already existed, no existing web browser could possibly have passed Apple's app store policies.
I personally have way more than ~4 hours of movie watching time per month. I usually spend about an hour (often more) per day watching movies and TV shows on Netflix, HBO, Hulu, etc.

I've never cared too much about the quality though. The old school dvd rips that were compressed to 700mb to fit on a CD were usually fine by me.
Nobody’s calling him an angel, but unlike the guy you’re praising, he wasn’t a murderer.
Then where is the option to use some other IDE, language, servers, etc.?

The "platform" is the thing the customer paid for when they bought the phone.
> people want to order on a whim and have it arrive at their home the next day

Some people don't mind giving up convenience (price, shipping time) to help their local bookstores. From the article:

"The vitality of our neighbors and neighborhoods depends on the ability of local businesses to thrive. We will not participate in undermining that vitality."
It’s “possible”? Both Spotify and YouTube did exactly this before they pulled out of in app purchases entirely
The paper is 2y old - which is a bit of time in blockchain space - and yet, no one has performed this attack successfully in the wild. So, either everyone is just loving Bitcoin and wouldn't harm it for profit, or it's not so easy (hint: you cannot short Bitcoin for hundreds of millions, it's not liquid enough).

Also, this is strictly about PoW, the ETH roadmap (and this is where we are coming from in this submission) is moving to PoS where attacks are potentially way more expensive.
Used games.
> If a company I worked for was ever late on a paycheck, or refused to continue paying for a pension/matching 401k, I think it's perfectly reasonable that the company should collapse.

Perhaps. Personally, I'd take it as a sign of whats-to-come, and leave. If other employees decided to stay, and agreed to some terms to save the company, let them.

In Hostess' case, I believe it was the Teamsters that had negotiated an equity stake in the company during a previous bout of poor financial times. There's always options.

I have a hard time believing the 30,000+ employees wanted their union to destroy the company, particularly since many of them had worked there all their life, their town had little or no other large company to provide jobs, and their pensions/retirement were tied to the entire mess. It's entirely possible Hostess was in bad times partly due to Union negotiated wage and pension funding levels.

In general, I guess I'm more skeptical of Unions than some. I've never been in a Union personally, and would chafe at the idea of being compelled to pay union dues (some jobs require this), and not being able to negotiate my own salary and benefits that fit my situation best.
To gain what?
That's how Japan abolished the samurai. The Meiji emperor promised very generous pensions to all samurai if they turned in their swords and retired.

A few years later, there was a budget crisis and the government cut the pension to a fraction of what was agreed on. But the ex-samurai were too demobilized to overthrow it by then.
Seems to me that if the frame-to-frame difference isn't big enough to detect that way, it's not likely to benefit from a new I-frame, yeah?
> how are you getting this information?

Does your router report its current throughput?
The article addresses this point:

> As a side note, we do have some additional points, not shown in the plots, that are used in resolution limited scenarios — such as a streaming session limited to 720p or 1080p highest encoding resolution. Such points lie under (or to the right of) the convex hull main ladder curve but allow quality to ramp up in resolution limited scenarios.
It's not much more data entry than entering in an insurance card. But yes, they are dependent on being accepted by large chains. I believe GoodRX was not accepted at CVS for a long time
This could be the contemporary equivalent of the lie detector test -- unlikely to be proven wrong for a long time, yet influential despite of questionable results.
Do you mean if I download Chrome for iOS and use it to purchase a Netflix subscription through their website? I’m quite sure Apple has a general purpose web browser exception for a number of store rules, though I don’t know if that is explicitly documented.
I'm in Europe, so I can get blu-rays from some alternative source, but not from Netflix.
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Although I guess it depends what you mean by "stack". My test shows that it isn't tied specifically to [rsp], the register used to address the stack, but I suppose it could still be tied to the region of memory the CPU heuristically determines is part of "the stack", regardless of what memory is used to access it.
Never really understood this meme. Imagine liking a show so much that it's one of the only things you care to watch, yet depending on streaming services to watch it.
No, not the users. It's Epic not paying Apple's 30% cut. You have that backwards.
Ok, sorry, definitely not the experiment I planned with the ink drop effect. What's your browser/device? It should be just a drop on click/touch that disappears with further clicks or scroll.

The custom size for each installment is interesting, but tricky to do right. I'll think about it.
I think we're just in a societal trough right now. There's a broad swing that's constantly happening throughout history between selfishness/selflessness. Right now, we're going through a selfishness phase. It doesn't matter how well you appeal to people to be less selfish. They'll come up with justifications for why selfishness is better/more rational, etc. Current trends in thought dictate that people start with differently tuned assumptions. You can logically justify anything if you start with the right assumptions.

After a few decades, we'll be swinging back to selflessness and doing just as good a job of justifying why that makes more sense.
Check out: nodegui (https://github.com/nodegui/nodegui), electrino (https://github.com/pojala/electrino) or muban (https://github.com/yue/muban).
I don't know of any consumer company that has taken privacy and security more seriously than Apple.

They led the way on iOS with Sandboxing, Secure Enclave, forcing HTTPS, on-device ML, on-use permissions model, fingerprinting prevention. And TouchID/FaceID both were popularised on iOS and made simple and reliable enough to be used by tens of millions.
You are never going to be able to control others' speech. The internet went wrong in my opinion when folks started using their real identity and their real life information. When I was growing up and getting online in the early 90's it was the most common of knowledge to use a handle, and never endanger yourself or contaminate your real life with your online persona. I have an ongoing theory that quite a lot of modern day anxiety and stress levels is due to making this switch to always being connected to online conversations with your real identity that you cannot back out of or turn off.

All that aside and not trying to go really in depth into that whole pocket theory of mine, it's the same as in real life, it's just amplified. You can't do a whole lot about other's opinions about you, or what they say to you and if you're online and you become a target for any reason it just becomes something you have to deal with on your own terms.

It's nasty, it's petty and it's a hurtful thing to continually attack someone else, but it's the internet. All celebrities deal with the way they are talked about online in their own terms. You do understand all the mainstream Brad Pitts, Britney Spears and whoever get death/sexist/racial harassment all the time as well I assume. It's being a public persona that now becomes the problem. You are willingly putting yourself out there where essentially millions of people can online swarm you. It's a responsibility to have all your personal information online, and to talk about what you like, who you are, hobbies and passions and associate these things to your identity on platforms in which millions can hate/obsess/harass.

I think it's a very serious mental and social problem, a load that is taxing the entire human psyche right now. It's obvious to me what this is doing to humans, with everyone trying to be a public celebrity for likes and fans. I don't think it's good.
I just discovered sdf.org through your post.

Can you please validate my account? because I can't send them
1 USD in the mail as I don't live in the US (and thus have no
access to its currency).

Thanks!
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I mean, that's an ordinary business deal. Presumably, the $10m price was chosen because it's at a point where both parties believe they're benefiting from the deal.

The colloquial definition of an "offer you can't refuse" is one that would be a bad deal for you, but that you have to accept anyway because otherwise the counterparty would do something even worse to you.
>I use an Apple device and it’s decisions like this that make me glad of that, however, it’s just the lesser of two evils right now.

Be aware that while it's possible for Android users to download Fediverse apps from an alternative app store like F-Droid instead, the same would not be possible on an Apple device if Apple were to do the same.
This is what my googling pulled up, which matches my memory of it: https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2020-02-23...

It was an interesting situation because in some ways, I prefer the transparency involved? But it's sort of like any sale of an account, even if temporary - it seems disingenuous by nature. Almost like how an MLM makes you sell to your friends.
We don’t have insurance. We find the lowest price and pay it. This year alone we’ve saved thousands using stuff like GoodRx and just paying cash.

Edit: not to mention no premiums.
>and his position on technology and freedom issues.

In the linked article he is cheerleading in favour of closed-off platforms, and promotes ceding control of your software to a third party as a good thing.

But even before this Miguel de Icaza had no integrity left to speak of in my opinion. Some random schmoe actually would have been more believable.
Interesting that it makes sense now because the economics of it have shifted, as the shift away from broadcast and towards individual stream has happened.
Fair enough. There is a fine balancing act with heavy-Union shops.

My experience might be more sour than others... I've never personally seen a Union step up to help someone justly... it's always been to keep bad employees employed, and to sue management for various things, and demand higher wages even though the business can't afford them.

You end up spending a bunch of time worrying about what the union will think, instead of what the employee needs.
This guy is the worst presenter ever. His narcissism reached a point of no return.
> Apple does ban apps that replace built in functionality.

So now it went from Apple “bans” apps to it has tighter security restrictions?
These faction wars exist for most brands that have any adversarial relationship or buy-in.

Another major example is Xbox vs Playstation. Often because mom is only going to buy you one and not both, so now you're part of that faction when duking it out online. That's certainly how I spent my summer at age 15.

Ideally you grow out of caring which corporation stacks more money, though. Very boring hobby.
The premise of browser lock-in was that Microsoft was tying IE to Windows and then encouraging the creation of websites that required IE. If Europe broke the lock on global websites that required IE, that would enable people all over the world to switch to other browsers at the same time.
Insurance companies are already making money from Medicare, and not just on Medicare Select. The Feds pay the bills, but there are 5 regional contracts under which private insurance companies actually administer Medicare.

If you work for a large company it’s pretty much the same thing. Your employer brings a risk pool and then a private insurance company like Cigna quotes for how much it takes to “fill” it while taking their vig.

I would expect the same under M4A: 5 really big insurance companies would continue to cost-plus bill the Feds, and then maybe there would still be a few re-insurance companies to cover stuff M4A doesn’t cover.
Sure, they won't ban them for themselves, they'll just ban them for the regular people. Then iPhone will become an even bigger status symbol.
Epic brought this upon themselves.
But you understood it anyway, didn't you? And on the off chance that you would not I provided sufficient context making it plain that this was not intended in the original version but in a slightly modified version, which has been used often enough in my hearing that I got to notice it.

Those two cases stand out for me because they ended exactly like the one on display here.
IBM did wish to maintain control, that's why they copyrighted the BIOS. But when Compaq reversed engineer it, it was obvious that there was no way to sue without inviting more legal scrutiny.

My other point is that some Apple app store apps can use APIs that every other app would get banned for. People complained about that when it came MS; It's not better when Apple does it.
yes, if you like to do that and find stuff, it's great. Especially if you're a fan of their comedy stuff (which is about the same level as public TV here... - just a little more international). If you'd like to watch a nice movie you get about 1 good one per 2 months.
What part of this would you consider murder?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbsOIoqcit4
And this is why I still get discs by mail. No dropouts, no unexplained drops in resolution, and it has a deeper catalog.
And yet shipping prices rose quickly when there was a spike in diesel fuel costs several years ago.

Trucking companies could solve some of their work environment related employee retention problems for free. For example by firing toxic managers, and treating drivers with a little more respect.
Yes there are some other tropes that are into play, but those aren't always important - e.g. there are Cyberpunk works where you do not play the antihero or villain. E.g. in movies Alex Murphy in Robocop isn't exactly an antihero and certainly not a villain. Similar in games with JC Denton in Deus Ex (though of course in such games this particular aspect isn't clear since it is up to the player - but you are essentially playing as a glorified cop).

That some popular works in the genre share some of these tropes doesn't mean that the genre is all about those tropes.
And honestly, getting rid of apps would do wonders to the openness that all these app developers are complaining about.
I built one of these things when working on a very complex graph algorithm a few years ago. It took a month, but without it I wouldn't have been able to spot my bug. I am glad this exists and is general.

The reason this one feels distracting to me is the animation, and the use of force-directed graph layout. Graph layout is hard but I hope they can implement Sugiyama or something instead.

Instead of animation, they could do something like showing deleted nodes in red and new nodes in green, a bit like online chess.

Maybe I'll send a PR their way..
The average age of a gamer in the US is 35 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_games_in_the_United_Stat...):

> The average age of a U.S. gamer is 35, the average number of years a U.S. gamer has been playing games is 13, and only 29% of the gamer population is under 18 years old.

Given you’re listing some of the most popular games, I think it’s fair to assume those games are targeting the average age?
You’re right, the judge has not ruled that Epic is likely to win the lawsuit in the end, given that the case only just started. But you claimed that iOS was clearly not a legal monopoly, when Epic is suing to establish this point and a federal judge has entertained the argument and made orders based on it.
I'd be curious to know what compiler Unity and Unreal Engine are using.
I had tried it a while back stopped because anytime you go into or out of video streaming it would black out the whole screen for a second or two before starting to buffer the content. It’s particularly annoying if trying to search for a particular episode of something.

That’s probably the ticket for it though. I find the lack of audio pass through to be the more annoying piece though. I have a machine that costs significantly more than the Apple TV and has knowledge of all of the attached speakers to do that decoding.
That comment does not understand how pharmacies get paid. The patient pay amount is irrelevant to how much the pharmacy makes. Pharmacies make money from prescription dispensing fees, which are generally around 1-2 dollars. PBMs are the ones that make money on patient pay amounts and are the same ones that pay the wholesalers, and they have different payout contracts depending on which card is being used. GoodRx relies on these PBMs for business, who have done the math on the arbitrage being in their favor. Source: I worked at a GoodRX competitor a couple years ago.
> Unfortunately we don't have enough information. If a guy with a gun threatens your life, it's reasonable to act in self defense, but we don't know whether or not that happened.

Yes we do: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=25&v=pbsOIoqcit4...
The arguments Netflix made for this highly model-specific DRM never made sense to me. There are 4K rips of pretty much every Netflix show available for download on various bays related to piracy.

So why bother locking your paying customers out of 4K content? What's the upside?

Also: I'm reasonably convinced that NetFlix is violating the law, at least in Australia, by advertising that their content is 4K and then arbitrarily blocking access to the 4K streams. This is called "bait & switch", and the fines are eyewatering, even for large corporations.
I don't agree with you. That kind of camps should be called prisons or something else.

Now when people talk about concentration camps, they mostly refer to the camps of Nazi's or the US's for Japanese Americans during WWII.

I mean that is the most insidious side of the concentration camp accusation against China.

Reliable source means established entities like media or research institution that verify what they get. I would name New Yorker as an example, which manages to maintain very high standard of professionalism.
Could be something like this:

Had first.last@comcast.net, but migrated to gmail and had to use something else. Then they misremember and hand out first.last@gmail.com.
That doesn't have much bearing on the cost of switching considering most of that friction is borne of investment into a particular platform and the intentional difficulty in migrating to another platform. This is the central caveat of walled gardens, the walls do not only serve to keep unwanted things outside, they also serve to keep you inside.

The analogy to a company town is apt. When you embarked for a town, both AndroidLand and Appletown were the same distance away, but now that you have settled down the prospect of migrating outside is considerably more difficult.
That's the basic idea, yeah. It falls apart in a couple places, e.g. when the cut or fast-fade goes to a very cheap frame like a mostly solid color, and it may not detect stuff like whip-cuts (since a whole chunk of frames are expensive), but so many scenes in so much of media has single-frame cuts that it's well within that "good enough" range.

And for dynamic encoding like this: when it's wrong, it's not visually worse in that scene than choosing that sub-par encoding for the entire movie, which has the same "choose the best encoding" problem as individual chunks have. I assume it'd be relatively rare for it to result in anything worse than a one-shot strategy.

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ffmpeg will let you easily do frame-to-frame-diff logic that lets you chop videos into scenes, for example: https://video.stackexchange.com/a/30701 I'm not sure how much it handles compressed-frame differences, but it shouldn't be too hard to build around it. Just might be a bit beyond bash-friendly.
I think it's just one of those things nobody's gotten around to reforming. I've never seen an explicit defense of the practice.