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>The more threads you add into a pool, the more encode overhead you will experience, since every row of encode requires the upper right CTU block to complete before it can proceed.

Nowadays, we don't have to worry about that, since we can use scene-based encoding instead. [1][2] In addition to allowing for full use of all cores, without any loss of encoding or processing efficiency, different encoding settings may be chosen for each scene, increasing potential efficiency.

[1] https://netflixtechblog.com/optimized-shot-based-encodes-for...

[2] https://github.com/master-of-zen/Av1an
I agree that a possessive concept shouldn’t be used as a generic. I’m sure mistakes of that nature are made all the time by non-speakers of various languages.

Neither person in the discussion above claimed bahasa means “our language”. The positions were “bahasa=language(generic)” vs “bahasa=also colloquially used to mean Indonesian”.

It was your assertion/conjecture that it actually means “our language”. The (seemingly) native speaker posting the original comment did not make a similar claim.
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Well, I hope this does some good, but I'm a bit skeptical. I think we need more focus on how to help freelancers, gig workers and microbusiness actually succeed as a counterpart to preventing big business from preying upon small business.

It's something I personally try to promote but I feel I have little in the way of success. I still struggle to make it through the month myself and my various projects intended to help others seem to mostly kind of languish, with one exception and I have no hard data on how much good that is doing.

I think my efforts aren't pointless or fruitless, but it never seems to be enough to actually resolve my chronic poverty and I don't get enough feedback affirming that the lives of others suck less thanks to me.

That kind of thing is maybe part of what helps drive a concentration of money and power.

I think we overregulate small business. You need to know a lot of laws and regulations to operate at all and if you are one or a few people, that's a big burden. It's less of a burden for big business to play that game because they make enough money and have enough people that it's a relatively small part of what they do and I think that regulatory burden is one of the things hampering small business, just like it tends to impede the development of affordable housing.

I don't know the answers. I just am skeptical that focusing exclusively on breaking up monopolies and putting a break on big business actually breathes life into small business. It's perhaps a necessary but insufficient precondition.
Accessing the .COM page from Canada seems to work fine for me.
Exercise also frankly just doesn't burn many calories. It only really takes two candy bars to undo two hours at the gym, calorie wise.
Welcome to manufacturing. How much ore do you think it takes to make a roll of aluminum foil that sells for $3?

Obviously it takes more than 4g of raw materials to produce AirPods. But it takes extra material to make pretty much everything. So comparison-wise, it's still a tiny, tiny amount next to your TV or even laptop.
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The price of insulin specifically is largely a consequence of perverse regulatory incentives, particularly the Obamacare-related expansion of the 340B Drug Pricing Program and its mandatory, byzantine, opaque rebate structures. Don't think it's just the manufacturers who are at the center of this price gouging, not by a long shot; hospitals and pharmacies are all too happy to ride that gravy train.
You moved the goalposts from "it's impossible for shortsellers to bankrupt a company" to "it's impossible for shortsellers to bankrupt a healthy company." Rather than continue to argue and get nowhere, let's just disagree.

Have a good night.
The price is usually more indicative of how much value it creates for the buyer, with a lower bound being how much it costs the producer to produce.
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> Even if you tried to stem the drop, the short sellers can just borrow even more stocks and continue to overwhelm you with selling pressure.

The problem with this kind of reasoning is that it applies even more strongly in reverse, because herds of long-oriented speculators aren’t bound by the need to borrow stock or sell on an uptick, etc. Short-oriented speculators need capital, stock borrow, and upticks to sell stock. Long-oriented speculators just need capital.
Trying to find the right answer often isn't the point.

Social forces often dominant decision making.
If I read it right - that Apple support article says "$ 49 each"... meaning $49 per AirPod; while Podswap covers a pair for $59?
People get this idea in their heads somewhere in their teens to early twenties, and they start to 'think for themselves!' but often what they've done is scrapped a common majority set of ideals, for localized, usually contrarian ones.

Nirvana had a 4th band member (Jason Everman) who quit because according to Dave Grohl, he thought 'the punk scene was too conformist!' - i.e. you had to dress a certain way, act a certain way, hold specific beliefs or else you were 'uncool'.

In other words: Punk Wasn't Punk! It could be argued it was a counter-cultural/mainstream movement, but a very specific and narrow one at that.

And so he joined the Army and became special forces.
You can personally import up to 3 months worth of medications if you have doctors prescription.

https://www.fda.gov/industry/import-basics/personal-importat...
RE: The Article - Python is good for a lot of things except high performance, mission critical and web-browser-based code.

RE: The Question -Everyone should learn FORTH first and C second ;) but that's not practical anymore. For those with Apple gear, I recommend Swift (in "Swift Playgrounds"), otherwise I recommend CircuitPython (on Raspberry Pi) to all but mid-career professionals. For mid-career professionals, I'm going to recommend JavaScript because of needing to build things that are of practical value rather than spending countless hours on building foundational skills and then migrating to JavaScript, all while carrying the weight of the world. For just about everyone else, Python3 as your first computer language is The Way.

PS: I have over four decades of industry experience and am not eligible for the senior menu at Denny's yet.
Oh. This is our mock data. We must have made a mistake during deployment.
/s
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Whatever it once may have been, it's now apparently a malware site.

I don't know whether it always was or if it was sabotaged (by its owners or by others) over the past few months, but in its current state it has negative value.
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There is something I don't understand in the Chaebol strategy: Why is it considered a controlling share if it is less than 50%? I can see how owning 51% of a holding that then owns 51% of another company can be seen as a wealth multiplier, but at 20%, you run the risk of losing control if the other entities ally against you, don't you?
Does anyone else feel this is more like founding team recruitment platform for founders than a co-founder match?
Is this normal?
Do you guys factor the deplatforming they do into this or are you not aware that they are heavily involved in censorship on their platforms
This function is handled by the DOWN arrow in other text editors!

I just tested a bunch:

VS Code: UP
Visual Studio: DOWN
Notepad++: DOWN
TextPAD: DOWN
IntelliJ: ALT+DOWN
MS Word: DOWN

Sigh... I have no words. It's just so sad that I expected this. I literally pressed "DOWN", it didn't work, there's no drop-down GUI indicator, so I just assumed it was a missing feature.

Instead, it's yet another feaure where the VS Code team picked something at random without apparently ever having used any other text editor or IDE in their lives. Ever. Ever before. Of any type, from any platform. Certainly not Microsoft products on Windows.

It boggles the mind. Are they all JavaScript front-end developers with no previous IDE experience other than notepad.exe or something?

Wait... Electron. Ah. They probably are.
Which means it has to be a malware site by definition? ;-)
The one exception being any sort of chat app. Now they're going from crusty old Hangouts to Chat while plenty of other chat apps have been far more polished for a long time
To this day I have no idea what that statement is supposed to express despite seeing it about a dozen times per week.

Google makes money selling ads yes, but their core product is search. Like a newspaper, which does journalism, and also has an ad department, or a TV show, with ad breaks, or a sports broadcast.

Do people think Google makes their search worse to... sell fewer ads?
I think this explains it fairly well

https://www.usmint.gov/news/press-releases/statement-on-circ...

"In normal circumstances, retail transactions and coin recyclers return a significant amount of coins to circulation on a daily basis. However, precautions taken to slow the spread of the virus have resulted in reduced retail sales activity and significantly decreased deposits from third-party coin processors, resulting in increased orders for newly minted coins produced by the United States Mint (Mint). Third-party coin processors and retail activity account for the majority of coins put into circulation each year. For example, in 2019, the Mint contributed 17% of newly-minted circulating coins paid into the supply chain, with the remainder coming from third-party coin processors and retail activity.

Simply put, there is an adequate amount of coins in the economy, but the slowed pace of circulation has meant that sufficient quantities of coins are sometimes not readily available where needed. You may be experiencing this in your local communities. We are asking for your help in improving this coin supply issue."
That isn't how this works, Google doesn't have good enough content to compete with other tech giants without the open web. If Google kills the web then Google kills itself. Most of their money comes from their search web page and not the ads from other sites, so people browsing the web is their main source of revenue. Their other sites are big, yes, but not big enough to make them one of the few most valuable companies in the world.

Anyway, Google works hard to make the open web competitive with all the walled gardens around. When they do that they put up some fences to make the experience a bit more like walled gardens, but the open web is still just a few seconds and a click away.
There are more options than "makes sense" and "nonsense" here. To draw a parallel to a work much discussed on HN, TempleOS is both a functioning operating system and a product of madness, and yet a future archaeologist would have a very hard time extracting a meaning or purpose out of it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TempleOS
Why can inlining functions cause disasters? Just instruction cache misses, or other things as well?
This event already happened. Any puts you buy tomorrow will have taken this outage into account.
The list price will nearly always be a multiple of your cost with insurance. The issue here is that insurers have provisions in their network contracts that prevent providers from publically advertising lower prices than what's charged to the insurer, which mandates discounting. In many other industries, these most favored nation arrangements are considered anti-competitive and, thus, illegal.

Large hospital systems totally separate business and care, so it can be difficult to negotiate a discount. Smaller and independent providers are often more accommodating. However, you need to ask for a discount, you can't simply offer to pay cash (i.e. "If I pay cash, can I get 40% off"). The providers can counter your offer, but can't discount you off the bat or else they invite legal action from insurers.
You are making a lot of unsubstantiated statements that rely on personal anecdotes (a lot of my friends type stuff), lumping cannabis with other drugs, and in a tone that implies a whole lot of serious bias. I am not saying I don’t believe you, but you aren’t giving me a lot of reasons to believe you.

I don’t know what the situation is in the UK. In the US cannabis is considered schedule 1, meaning it’s harmful and has no medical uses. Cocaine is schedule 2 and can be administered to a patient at a hospital if appropriate. I am not saying that cannabis is harmless. I am saying I don’t know and I would like my tax dollars to be spent to find out what it can and cannot do. Currently researchers in the US have a very hard time getting funding for cannabis research (that is research that involves cannabis, not surveys of its users, etc.). Universities won’t touch it, and getting actual cannabis to experiment on is nearly impossible because again the federal government considers it to have no medical uses based on very little prior research that is now widely thought to be outdated.

I don’t really get your point. Is it that cannabis == bad so let’s not study it? Or cannabis has been studied enough so let’s not take it off schedule 1? You also called it a psychedelic which it isn’t, so I am confused by that.
Heck, can he list even one company?
More succinct:

https://youtu.be/sgWHrkDX35o?t=34
Have seen the remnants of large oak root systems completely burned in the LNU fire. Holes 4’ deep and 1’ diameter roots extending at least 10 feet out underground. Oaks are usually very resistant to fire, but these extreme fires light them up.

I wonder how easy it will be to suppress roots long term when PG&E had a hard time maintaining distances between branches and overhead lines in rural areas (which I think is impossible in this era of 70 mph winds).
Relying on giants to defend the interests of the rest of us mere humans sounds dangerous.
He is perfectly fine person. I don't think he is "toxic".

When someone has different opinion on certain thinks, it does not make them toxic.
Intel settled the lawsuit (over DEC's Alpha tech winding up in PentiumPro) by agreeing to purchase DEC's Hudson division (that produced Alpha and StrongARM chips).
Wow, no kidding? I used to wear mine for months, maybe even close to a year. Anytime I had my eyes examined I asked how my eyes looked due to the constant wear and the optometrist told me they looked great but frowned at me doing so. I figured the disposable contact thing was mostly a racket, but I had some doubts. I wear glasses now.
Concrete channels and root barriers are options depending on the hazards you’re defending against. People need power and it seems as if overhead power is unsustainable in these environments.
Glad it worked for you. I've had both good and terrible experiences at Kaiser (in pretty serious circumstances such as major op and post-op experiences), and a similar spectrum at other HMOs. I don't think Kaiser is a panacea, although I agree single-payer looks like the only way to fix the systemic economic issues and Kaiser is a bit closer to that model than other HMOs.
If OPs experience is anything like mine, they just suck at doing their job.

There's often some silly reason its stuck, or it prints wrong, or the colors are off, etc, its really just a super painful experience and I can't believe its still so bad.
That'll be due to the file system filter driver[s] (i.e. antivirus). This should impact most/all file systems where the file system filter driver supports said file system.

Disable/remove the file system filter drivers and the performance issues largely disappear.
is it maybe the fact that they're scary?
There are multiple options to run it in a container. I'm not advocating for any of them because I just broke down and bought a dedicated machine running Windows for it. Some examples:

https://hub.docker.com/search?q=Blueiris&type=image
That actually happens a lot. Mass Effect Legendary Edition is missing a DLC because the source code was lost. Many of Square Enix's hit games like the PS1 Final Fantasy games and the PS2 Kingdom Hearts have lost the original source code and the modern ports are either based on PC ports or are rebuilt from the shipped assets.
ARM cores today descended from StrongARM, which was a joint venture between DEC and ARM. What I said was that DEC's Alpha project was a response to SPARC to save the VAX market. The StrongARM project was unrelated.
Yep. That's a very common practice even on "legitimate brands". Easy way to detect those is by turning off the wifi and noticing those messages keep popping up without internet.
Working in IT but having a commercial pilot license, it's bizarre how continuing education in IT is non-existent, yet mandatory in the aviation world - and IT people don't even know it.

To teach in aviation in the US, you need a Chief Flight Instructor (CFI) rating, where you demonstrate to an examiner how to teach the various maneuvers.

IT could learn a lot from regulated industries like aviation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_instructor
That’s just CDN, not the real service.
I’m writing one right now (unrelated issue)
The COE pain is real.

Good luck fellow Amazonian, wherever you are.
Truth has a certain inevitability, doesn't it?
Yes they might even save money from this downtime.
> First, companies with strong fundamentals and short term liquidity issues rarely go bankrupt, because there are plenty of entities willing to lend them money to smooth out their cash demands. This is basically the entire reason that commercial lines of credit exist.

A company in a precarious position has trouble finding new creditors. Not many banks will give you a loan if there is only a 50% chance you'll be able to pay it back.

> Second, believe it or not companies can go bankrupt without wiping out their stock price. Bankruptcy courts are smart enough to not give away the entire company to the debtors when they are short $1 today but will receive $2 tomorrow.

Failure to raise capital can make a company worthless when it wouldn't be otherwise. You have customers willing to buy products but no equipment to make products, so without capital the customer demand can't be turned into money. But customer demand can't be sold to a competitor in bankruptcy court.

> Second of all, and more importantly, if the stock is illiquid enough that (Downtick Rule notwithstanding) a short-seller can manipulate the price downward, that means the stock is illiquid enough to manipulate in the other direction when a buyer decides to execute the same strategy in reverse (and buyers have no stock borrow requirement and no equivalent to the Downtick Rule to worry about - you can absolutely drive up stock prices perfectly legally, provided that act isn’t part of some other illegal scheme like a pump and dump).

But then how does the buyer make money? They buy a ton of stock of a company that still might go out of business. It's less likely to go out of business that way, but you don't get to find that out for another year, and it's not so much less likely that this strategy would have the same level of profit as short selling a company that then goes to zero right away because they couldn't raise the capital immediately required to continue operations.

> Think about it this way: if short selling were the act that it is often made out to be we would see every stock driven to zero by these all-powerful short sellers.

You can't just go short Apple and expect it to drive them out of business. It only works for a company which is already at risk, to push them over the precipice.

And it's a high risk strategy. If you fail to drive them out of business you could lose a lot of money. But if you succeed, you make a lot of money at the expense of the people who lose it to you.
yeah no. installing spyware and taking pictures of people without their consent is shady af.

also the logic of “oh the apple store has glass windows” therefore i can do this illegal shit is mind boggling
Does anyone read the whole article before commenting? They did an experiment with a tribe that does not have a word for blue, and they were significantly better at discerning subtle (to a western observer) shades of green than green versus blue.
The person you're replying to was likely being sarcastic.
If vaults are holding wads of paper are gathering dust while everyone is using some others currency else's currency (like the eCNY) over the internet as the global reserve currency, that's a pretty convincing case about the potential for a loss of relevance.
I find myself wondering how old this man was when he did this. It kinda feels like the sort of antics someone gets up to before their brain has fully developed the capacity of understanding things like "consequences". Although it got him in the NY Times and that's pretty good from the perspective of "all publicity is good publicity" I guess. He's wikinotable but neither the wikipedia page nor his website has a date of birth.

The earliest work listed on his site is some Processing sketches from 2004; this piece was from 2011, seven years later.
Maybe I'm in the minority but if I wanted to buy something on Amazon and it was down I'd just do something else and then come back later. They wouldn't actually lose my sale.
I think peak Christmas time shopping was a couple million per hour back in 2006.

I know we used to contrast that to million per minute (or second) kinds of outages that NYC financial firms could have (along with the SEC escorting you out in handcuffs if you really screwed up).
IMO it’s actually Twitter.
Some people don't know why must not do something.
Did you really read the article? It's packed with references, so you can go as deep as you like...
But why not use the scripting languages built in to Excel?
Operating systems have different features and conventions. And why would vendors care what cross platform technologies you use?

I doubt the framework you want them to create would change much. Many Electron fans talk about how apps should look and feel exactly the same on every OS. They say web technologies are the best UI layer by far. And it isn't like Slack or Microsoft don't have the resources to make native apps.
If you restrict yourself to a reasonable-to-understand subset of possible macros - such as those that could be expressed as monads in Haskell - then a reader that knows that you've so restricted yourself can work in your codebase without understanding all your macros (as long as you don't have any bugs in your macro implementations). But in that case why use a language with macros?
I believe that this is a core problem with the human condition. Humans naturally imitate others subconsciously. We are herd animals. For example, people will get in line for a show, just because there is already a line for it, without even knowing what it is.

And in general most rationalizations people make come after the fact. Including things like software architecture. Everyone is using React so I have to use React. But wait, now all the cool people are using Svelte, so that must be th way.

But the hardest part is that those social considerations as I said are not conscious. They go on in the background pushing the rationalizations without people even knowing.

But the worst part is when this stuff gets official with things like 'best practices'. Which are usually just rationalizations for doing what most people are already doing.
Ethics != legality
https://www.pnas.org/content/109/40/E2657
For all my scathing criticism of Google I actually wish them well.

There is a whole lot of things they did right (and do right), only they are now often messing up even basics.
What is a use case example of needing to generate vector tiles on your own server?
> The author installed software on computers in Apple Stores, without Apple's permission

They had at least some level of permission:

> I saw people taking pictures inside all the time, so I just had to double check with an employee.

[...]

> We got situated in the store, double checked with an employee that it was ok to shoot video, and I triggered the slideshow
How are they going to regulate defi?