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> You can do [direct use of YUV] today, but you need to do the color conversion manually in a shader

Many mobile GPUs support an extension that does YUV conversion for you (GL_EXT_YUV_target). Maybe it's of less interest to desktop GPU vendors?
The actual billing rates for an investigation aren't that bad (and can be found here: https://www.dcsa.mil/mc/pv/gov_hr_security/billing_rate/). I'm not sure where the 50-80,000 comes from, but somewhere around 70k average total cost is what I remember being cited when I was first getting a cleared job years back.

It wasn't the direct charge for the investigation that caused that, though. It was the wait. You can obviously mitigate that by finding something productive for people to do while they await clearance, but a lot of employers struggle quite a bit to do that if all or almost all of the meaningful engineering work they do is classified. When I was still at Raytheon, it was becoming fairly common to see people waiting for over two years sitting around in what they called "ACES" or the awaiting clearance employee station. They tried to find some way to put these people to use, but for older programs with very limited unclassified code bases, there wasn't much to do. We had guys adding unit tests and setting up SonarQube for over a year, to code they had no context for and no understanding of how it was used.

It was quite frustrating, to the point that the President of our business unit testified to Congress about the costs of the investigation backlog, which lasted years in the wake of the OPM hack.
I can see where some of that is valuable and the whole pull of the JVM ecosystem and stuff that you get to pull on a lot of other packages and libraries but the majority of what I've seen is a lot of packages we use are just thin wrappers around existing Java and most of the time they have functional paradigms anyway. something like resilience4j for example.

The other large issue in packages ive found is using some performance and monitoring tools to our clojure apps such as DataDog. The java tracing brings the app to a crawl based on how it instruments the compiled clojure code. Since clojure is a dependency itself the core language ends up having instrumentation code injected and the app grinds to a half. Something the Datadog team has not been able to solve.

Overall unfortunately I've just found Clojure isn't really particularly good at anything. It can hog memory, lib support seems iffy, Codebases never seem to have this "wow" factor that lots of people mention about clojure's elegance. I just don't see the promised land.
OTOH "tank man tiananmen" is also censored. It's pretty clear that there are some specific queries being mishandled here.
IIRC this optimization has already been used by Opera Mobile and Edge in the past: upload YUV to the GPU RAM, and then convert pixels to RGB on the fly when displaying. Unfortunately, I can't find the links to their respective blog posts (<shakes fist at Google substituting all keywrods with their synonyms and searching recent pages only>).

However, chroma subsampling is a very primitive form of 2x2 block compression (NB: not related to JPEG's DCT block size). These days GPUs support much better compression natively, with 4x4 blocks, and much fancier modes (ETC1, ASTC). With clever encoding of such textures, it's even possible to achieve compression ratio comparable with JPEG's, while having a straightforward way to convert the compressed file to the compressed texture format.
Not to forget WIV1 virus..
Server name indicator from ssl is not encrypted and neither are most dns queries.
What's impressive? If you look at the board, it's literally directly connecting the CPU to appropriate GPIOs. Then the wiringPi library is extremely slow, so you can't really do anything useful apart from controlling lights or idk your garage door. Anything with a frequency higher than 30-40kHz is unreliable (jitter an all that).
You can do that with any controller that gives you I/O headers and you wire it correctly.

But I can give that it's a bit more than the usual "look I connected these things to RPi and they work! I am now a superstar engineer"
To the people whose lives are at stake, what difference does it make?
a number of utilities we work with, including several larger players, currently rely heavily on third party forecasts of demand, wind generation, etc

but you're right, some folks we've approached have built large in-house teams
Is Paul B getting kicked out the same thing as "cancel culture"? It seems like he's violated a rule of a voluntary group he was in, and was kicked out of that group. I know its subjective, but I don't think that's "being cancelled" in the sense that it's usually used. Its more like if you lost your diving license for speeding.
Sorry buddy but if you don't accept my truth and also check your privilege and agree that hearing things I don't agree with causes me harm, how could we possibly discuss anything?
Probably starting with Puritan (proper noun, religious sect) witch hunts.
This is very strange to me, coming from a culture of "food is what is cooked". There was no stress around it because that's the way the world worked, sometimes you don't like the food but you still eat it. The same way you'd prefer to play all day instead of going to school. I can't fathom how one would call this traumatic, it's just part of learning to not be a spoiled brat that gets everything their way.
The idea was to have a virtual machine based language like java was. Originally, it was not cross platform. Today it is. I know I'm not going to convince you to give a try but C# is a very neat and capable language, and the CLR is a blazingly fast runtime.
Probably, but different ones. This is somewhat reminiscent of the old advice (which I could swear was Schneier’s, but can’t seem to actually find) to layer ciphers developed by mutually hostile countries, seeing as it’s highly unlikely the same actor would know how to break (e.g.) US, Chinese, and Russian crypto simultaneously even if each of those can be broken by their origin country.

Although I have to note that I’m not aware of any censorship in Yandex web search, unlike for example Yandex News where pretty blatant examples occur regularly—but Yandex News is pretty irrelevant outside ex-USSR anyway. Except for apparently socially acceptable censorship like that engendered by “right to be forgotten” laws and DMCA, of course.
If FinCEN were to take the position that all exchange of Bitcoin to or from other currently were illegal, then there would be at least two major impacts:

1. US people or people in any country that respects FinCEN would have a hard time paying ransoms in Bitcoin, and

2. The value of Bitcoin paid for ransom would go down. What exactly is the criminal holding Bitcoin that is, by the very fact of being Bitcoin, dirty going to do with it? No matter how mixed and laundered it got, it would still be dirty.

At the end of the day, the result would be a lot like trying to extract ransom in the form of Rubles held in a Russian bank. I think this would strongly disrupt the business model.
Glad to share but I'm not sure if I'm representational - I'm a data analyst who is learning more about backend engineering.

I think if you're a SWE or has a CS education or worked with a compiled language before, you know exactly what kind of problem typing is solving. For me, I have to first discover the problem, slowly learn that there is a solution out there, and finally realizing that my problem can be solved by this solution.

The formalization of problem space + the discovery of solutions + the final realization of matching solutions to problems are non-trivial. I'm a bit embarrassed that it took so long and a bit sad. But it is what it is.
> and optimize the entire Mac software stack for their processors.

And vice versa.
On the internet, anyone can drop in and out of any conversation they want. Combine that concept with anonymity/the ability to disparage people you will never meet, and you've got a recipe for disagreements starting from positions of extreme toxicity.
"Yeah, I don't buy this line of argumentation. Suppose the locked room is an apartment and the person with a key is your landlord"

So he would not be Breaking and Entering, and if he has a valid reason such as emergency it would be legal.

There are different crimes with different punishments and it's important the right ones are applied.

Fraud and theft are different. Manslaughter and murder are different. Sexual harrasment and rape are different.
Which might make sense for variable bitrate content, but makes no sense for videos that were only ever 360p in the first place! Youtube basically made a lot of old videos unwatchable.
The story has been picked up by Reuters as well [1]. From a quick look at DuckDuckGo and Ecosia, it seems their image results are similarly restricted because of their reliance on Bing. I am getting results, but they're entirely unrelated to the Tiananmen Square massacre.

[1]: https://www.reuters.com/technology/microsoft-bing-raises-con...
Is this a real problem? Surely something in the current pipeline understands what YUV flavor JPEG uses.
Fortunately Tiananmen Square Massacre works.
As others have mentioned, Bing now shows some results for 'tank man' with tanks and men but no Tiananmen square photo (DDG had the same image results, btw). 'Tank man China' had no results on Bing
> Sometimes they turn off for a bit and need a little rest.

Could it be because of a helium leak?

https://hackaday.com/2018/10/31/helium-can-stop-your-iphone-...
Sounds like you're saying it was flagged because veteran users knew it would be a shit show which it is. lol
OP didn't say that there aren't any Chinese citizens who genuinely support their own government - only that said government is well-known for organized brigading by its agents. Including in China itself, I must add, so it affects plenty of Chinese citizens, too.
>It's not like researchers are "engineering a virus to do exactly what they want it to do", what they do is observe the evolution of cultures of viruses, in an environment that's conductive to it, to see where that ultimately leads.

No, I think some researchers are trying to do that. From the article you linked:

>In an article published in Nature Medicine1 on 9 November, scientists investigated a virus called SHC014, which is found in horseshoe bats in China. The researchers created a chimaeric virus, made up of a surface protein of SHC014 and the backbone of a SARS virus that had been adapted to grow in mice and to mimic human disease. The chimaera infected human airway cells — proving that the surface protein of SHC014 has the necessary structure to bind to a key receptor on the cells and to infect them.

This isn't merely observing viruses in a lab environment. It's combining parts of different viruses to create a new, more effective virus. This is gain of function research, and there's an allegation that SARS-CoV-2 may have been created in a similar way.

>Sure, an argument can be made how that's one way of how we could end up creating and releasing such a virus ourselves, but even then: Wouldn't it be preferable for that to happen in a controlled research environment, instead of it just emerging in some remote obscure place? At least then are in a way better position to understand why and how it happens, giving us an edge in fighting it.

Let's hypothetically assume SARS-CoV-2 was created through either this lab-monitoring method and/or gain of function methods. (Not saying it was or even that it's likely; just for the sake of argument.)

Would that adjust your stance towards the risks?
Same. I enjoy my current work, but I need to rest from it in my free time, otherwise I'd risk another burnout. I have little side projects implementing free software around the house, but it's mostly fiddling with new things.

There's no shame in doing pleasurable things with our free time, not everyone has the same way of resting from work.
Sure, if you can use a YUV framebuffer then that can save memory bandwidth during scanout (though the conversion to RGB still happens because the screen is not YUV). But that doesn't apply in the tiled page background case I mentioned, as web page contents are composited in RGB.
The rats aren't in danger though...that's the whole point.

> Though they have terrible eyesight, the rats are ideal for such work, with their extraordinary sense of smell and their size – they are too light to trigger the mines. When they detect a mine, they lightly scratch atop it, signaling to their handler what they've found.
They are not really friends since https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Sino-Japanese_War
You really think Germany couldn’t build all the nuclear weapons they wanted to?
I think the problem is moving the dev flow from layered bitmaps to a shaded flow.
I was always ready to be part of the solution, so I don't think I was being empty when complaining about things. But I have to add that I wasn't maximizing for appearing polite. I never cross the line of not being respectful, though.

Indeed, the management could have a different idea of what was an ideal direction. I just happened to disagree. It was a very small company, so I don't think I had a lot of different information. But even if that was the case, this was a good opportunity to have a perhaps heated but interesting discussion.
The situation hasn't changed since Scott left; it's just that we were the only two public mods so now I'm the only public one.
Christ. I wasn't avoiding mentioning it out of fear, I just thought that the three links in the parent would be sufficient for people to resolve the anaphor.
Also, for those that are interested, we’re going to have a release party tomorrow live on Twitch. Andrew will demo some highlights from the release and answer some questions from the audience.

https://twitter.com/zigshowtime/status/1399634302833471491?s...
For the same reason voting is, if not more so.
Because I'm going to be working in the area later this year, I've been looking at Irvine, where it seems to be true. I don't make it a habit of looking into real estate in places I don't live, but a rule of thumb is if it's a new development or not on a main road it's in an HOA (and of course multifamily housing probably has one). The house I live in now is on a main road and not in an HOA.
He posted elsewhere that a mod has to approve it but they may glance at it without tons of focus
Is it really that out of character for a tech VC company to have no objections to "disrupting" government processes?
Yes that phone would cost me about 2 weeks pay. Sounds pathetic compared to some of the people around here but I actually have a very high quality of life in my opinion, just no iPhone 12. For 2 weeks pay I am going to make a solid effort for sure. On top of the cost, most people these days despite knowing the importance of regular backups, will not do so and most likely have some photos on the photos or information on the phone they can not lose so getting the phone back would be important in that aspect as well.
I hope the guy's immunizations are up to date, given that he initially jumped into the canal and tried diving down for his phone.