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Same here, I've been using PotPlayer with MadVR for years on Windows. HDR, resolution and framerate matching worked beautifully, long before Windows had proper support for HDR. Even now, some HDR content just looks wrong in other media players.

MadVR know their stuff, they recently announced a very expensive home theatre video processor [1].

[1]: https://madvrenvy.com/
More people should submit their domain with CamelCase
> this is just a one-dimensional understanding of what conservatism and progressivism are.

I think @AnthonyMouse trying to create a label for that axis (necessarily one dimensional), so that’s not really a strong argument against what he’s saying.

I think it’s a bad choice of label because — even if I get people to accept that the terms associated with parties are not descriptions of those parties[0] — the opposite of conservative is “dynamic” and the opposite of liberal is “authoritarian”.

[0] and indeed the actual party names: the party opposite of “Republican” may be “Democrat” in the USA, yet in Northern Ireland there is no single party with that name and the block opposite the group collectively described as “republican” is the block collectively called “loyalist”, while the historical opposite of “republican” is (IMO) “monarchist”.
> The EPR design has several active and passive protection measures against accidents:

> Four independent emergency cooling systems, each providing the required cooling of the decay heat that continues for 1 to 3 years after the reactor's initial shutdown (i.e., 300% redundancy)

> Leak-tight containment around the reactor

> An extra container and cooling area if a molten core manages to escape the reactor (see containment building and core catcher)

> Two-layer concrete wall with total thickness 2.6 m, designed to withstand impact by aeroplanes and internal overpressure
My favourite pre-commit feature is how it'll stash any unstaged changes before running checks when committing. No more irrelevant linter errors when committing part of a change. (And yes, it does the right thing when doing `commit -a`.)

My least favourite bug is that it doesn't always play nicely with NixOS [1], and the maintainer locked me out of the issue for pointing it out.

[1] https://github.com/pre-commit/pre-commit/pull/1938
Actually browser normalized string and it works for me also. Here is original byte sequence:

>>> b'n\xcc\x83'.decode()
'ñ'
>>> b'n\xcc\x83'.decode()[0]
'n'
>>> b'n\xcc\x83'.decode()[1]
'̃'

But I agree, it's rare case when you need to deal with non-normalized data.
Probably fake news.

Tesla cars are not licensed for operation without a control of a driver. It's unlikely Tesla (the company) would take the financial responsibility to cause any damage or injury during an unlicensed operation without a driver.

Straight from the Model S manual:

"Model S may not detect certain obstacles, including those that are very narrow (e.g., bikes), lower than the fascia, or hanging from the ceiling. As such, Summon requires that you continually monitor your vehicle's movement and surroundings while it is in progress, and that you remain prepared to stop the vehicle at any time using the Tesla mobile app, by pressing any button on the
key fob, or by pressing any Model S door handle."

https://www.tesla.com/sites/default/files/Model_S_release_no...
80% of Steam's top games now work on Linux
Or it could be that groups with inherent moral standards survive better than otherwise. We don't know.
Trying to be normal is normal. Being normal may have never been normal, but trying to be was and is.

That's what were losing, people don't even try to be normal anymore, because having a mental illness has been normalised.

It's not the right side of history, it's not progressive, it's not inclusive. There will be a price to pay and we'll only find out how much it is once we get the bill.
I really want to like LibreElec, but the frequent crashes of the entire OS makes it hard for me to do so. A day doesn't go by that the entire system crashes on me. Connecting a bluetooth device? 50/50 chance that it crashes. Attempting to play a video that failed to play just before? Complete crash.
Visuals Increase Attention; Now Science Explains Why
Brainfuck, like assembly and forth, composes by concatenation.
I would like to chip in because I know exactly the feeling of the author. The failure is normal and what makes the difference is the ability to continue trying after one failed and having a believe in yourself, but let’s cut the support bullshit and point out the obvious. The author is a one man army at least from the story that I read. Meaning, the projects that you have done were done individually without much help or partnerships, and such projects for the most part will find failure. Why do people sell shit load of material about building in public, building an audience, connecting and being social? Because this matters for success. Those that teach this approach understood that success of tech startup is in people (and not only tech), inside the venture and outside (customers) and that is also why we are writing such articles, for recognition and visibility. Imagine the number of products that are out there without proper audience? Why do we spent hours and hours writing bullshit engagement posts in Twitter when in reality you could build a product instead? Because without that engagement and community, an internet project will have a hard time for recognition and success. Tech oriented founders usually have a block when it comes to social aspect of the business, we are introverts, the thought of writing pitty tweets and liking other’s comments makes as sick, and that is fine as if you have chosen a path of solo enterpreneur, you need to learn to upgrade other skills. I have failed in more that 20 startups in my life and only when I took a step and overcame my dislike of communication I’ve became successful. The key to big changes is your network, the world is this way and now that you made it to the first page of hacker news, you finally understood how to move your products. Good luck.
Hi joshxyz, thank you for your comment.

Yes, we are building a SAAS platform for mobile developers to quickly spin up engagement tools such as in-app chats, activity feed etc
Which domain do you mean? https://snowflake.torproject.org/ ?
Biology is what happens when you try to decompile code written in assembler into OO language.
If you're worried about reproducible builds, make sure to use a commit ID for the `rev` property rather than a (movable) tag, optionally with a tag comment:

rev: 148ec47877499e3d671f6366f9eed812db181b40 # v1.2.0
I was responding in the context of a grandparent comment, which was talking about features for a fictional MMO which turned out to be infeasible, and then someone asked why they were infeasible
Android Privacy
Anything retro, pre-mouse era, was with the arrow keys, because it made sense. At least for player 1. (Besides, WASD is pretty bad for AZERTY keyboards which is a lot of players.) Some player 2 layouts had a mix of letters, but were usually pretty thoughtful of AZERTY.

Once the mouse came out and gaming started to become 3D "looking around", e.g. Quake, WASD appeared along side the mouse used to look around. So I take it you're a pretty young gamer :-)

WASD only makes sense if you're holding a mouse on the other side of the keyboard. Otherwise, the OG is arrow keys, and even numpad keys, some mechanical keyboard still give the homage by having arrows on 8462 keys of the numpad on the right side. Many games in fact even supported diagonal movements on the other digits.

Ref. https://cdn.thefpsreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/ibm-...
Typo early in the format documentation, where the text has an example:

(byte & 0x1F) >> 3

should probably be

((byte >> 3) & 0x1f)

... or something like that.
It's great for employees, for now at least.

The question is what happens if/when it stops being sustainable. It's not so easy to adjust from those sorts of salaries downwards. The endless flow of VC money into absurd startups with no business plan worth a damn is caused by groupthink and extremely bad monetary policy by supposedly "independent" central banks. They aren't really independent of course, they're creatures of government and politicians can reign them in any time they want.

Why would they do so? Inflation. Bubbles. The sort of problems that have occurred repeatedly throughout history. And what happens when they respond by raising interest rates and ceasing to buy up all the low risk debt instruments? Well, suddenly boring but profitable businesses become useful to invest in again because they pay out dividends and the like. That in turn leads to a sucking sound as money flows out of the venture and equity markets, which makes it harder for those businesses to buy up all the talent, trashes the returns offered by VC funds and makes "sell $1 for $0.90" type business models unsustainable.

Fundamentally, the salaries we earn now from US firms may not be reflective of the value we're actually creating. They may be partially an artifact of money printing. Of course, the Eurozone prints money up the wazoo too so I'm not saying that in relative terms EU/US programmer salaries will get closer just that the very high salaries and proliferation of zombie fake businesses may go away.
Yep. That wasn't the goal for the Covid vaccine. It was to keep people from getting severe cases and preventing deaths. It works, but it should be targeted to high-risk individuals and not a blanket strategy that's not needed for the majority of the world's population.
That's false, Imperial College's modelling of Sweden actually matched real-world deaths fairly closely. For instance, it assessed Swedish deaths to 31 March 2020 as being 240 [140-440] with zero interventions, or 160 [110-240] with slight interventions. It estimated deaths up to 28 March 2020 as 89 [61-120].

Actual deaths to 28 March 2020 were 92.

What someone else did was to take the Imperial College model and run it against a bunch of populations without properly adjusting the parameters to account for factors like population density, age, etc. They had no real idea how the model worked, but then claimed that it was wrong.

I think it's clear the most of the COVID-19 epidemiology models created around the world were accurate enough in their goal, which was to test the relative effectiveness of interventions and give broad predictions of relative impact. None were perfect, but then no model like this whether epidemiological, economic, or similar is ever going to be 100% accurate.
Why not just cast from your cellphone to Chromecast / AppleTV (free AirScreen app for Chromecast devices to accept signal from apple devices)
> No, the best future would be neither fossil nor nuclear.

nuclear is the highest density of energy available to mankind. Refusing to using it is kind of a huge missed opportunity.
Dbt Labs in Talks to Raise at $6B Valuation
This is a similar approach to when i used it long ago when it was xmbc. My media is well organised on my file system so I'd point xmbc at a smb share and navigate from there.

What made Kodi/xbmc great was the interface worked better on a couch using a game controller to navigate versus a traditional desktop where i'd be forced to use a keyboard+mouse.
The tar / star format requires decoding strings of octal numbers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tar_(computing)#Header
Yeah and a huge rock you roll up a mountain will fall with huge force in a few seconds, it doesn’t mean it has any more energy than what was used for elevating it.
> Does this mean that y'all are open to the self-hosted compiler supporting CPU architectures unlikely to ever have LLVM support?

Yes! We won't block 1.0 on the quality of the less mainstream targets, but that's what the tier system is for - to ship a compiler that has varying levels of quality for various targets, while communicating clearly to users what kind of experience they can expect for each one.

SuperH patches are absolutely welcome.

> how is zig cc anticipated to work with a self-hosted Zig? Will there be a dependency on clang [...]?

The main distribution of Zig will be LLVM/Clang-enabled. However it is already possible to build a version of Zig that does not have these features enabled. In such case, compiling C, C++, and Objective-C code will result in an error.

However, the arocc project[1] is emerging, which, depending on a combination of how much funding ZSF gets and how much enthusiasm the unpaid contributors working in their spare time have, is looking like a promising C frontend that would be available even without LLVM/Clang. It is C only, however, with no intention of compiling C++ or Objective-C.

> would zig cc support the planned C backend?

As it is currently implemented: no. Zig invokes clang to turn C source code into object files.

However, with the arocc frontend mentioned above, this would be converting the C source code into ZIR (or perhaps AIR), which could then be lowered with any of the backends, including the (partially complete) C backend. In such case, the C output would look drastically different than the input. It would look more like a machine-generated IR than natural C code that a human would write.

[1]: https://github.com/Vexu/arocc
I don't get what's so hard about it. Most of my programs deal with UTF-8 simply by doing memcpy(). Parsing code just loops over the bytes and compares to ASCII characters (0-9, A-Z, a-z, \n, \r, \t ...). That's how UTF-8 was designed to be used.
Yea "Samantha" isn't a Siri voice. They aren't listed in `say -v '?'`, but you can address a Siri voice directly like this (if it's installed):

say -v "com.apple.speech.synthesis.voice.custom.siri.helena" hi

It'll error out mysteriously with the message `Open speech channel failed: -86`
From an Australian (resident's) perspective ...

Those are utes! You don't see them about as much as you used to, but they've been big in Australia for decades. Not home-built, and regulated like other cars, but that's what they look like!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ute_(vehicle)

(They are also popular with young people, and have a bad rep for causing accidents. This is more because they are usually massively overpowered, and all the weight is on the front.)
Yes has to be a big part of it.

I can feel it myself. I am very reluctant to create a money losing business. It is a deep-seated fear (I'm creating a new business at the moment). Where I got this from, parents, culture, common sense, whatever, doesn't really matter. I would not personally feel successful if I had created Uber, I'd just feel stressed and kind of a fraud. End of story.

So for my new business I'm not getting VC funding even though I know some VCs and they made it clear I could get money from them. I want to build a real business that is actually sustainable on its own terms. This will inevitably limit my reach and likely means I won't create a "tech company", but I've made my peace with that.
Wouldn't it be possible to use SVG for things that are done with HTML+CSS?

Seems like doing a webpage with SVG instead of CSS would also allow more flexible web design.
In France you get a pass for ~6 months after covid recovery, then one booster shot is indeed required.

But with vaccination, you get a pass for ~7 months, then (from Jan 2022) you also need a booster shot...

https://www.gouvernement.fr/info-coronavirus/pass-sanitaire
For imports, at just under 10%. For exports, Russia shares the 5th place with China at roughly 5%, behind US and Netherlands. This is still extremely low given the fact that it's the by far the largest neighbour in terms of economy and accessibility by cheap transportation.

For comparison, Estonia is 3.5% import and 3% export, but has about 1/50th the size of Russia's GDP and shares no land border.
What's the performance of the games? Is emulation killing a hardware? I have a laptop that is some 5-6 years old and has a Intel HD 620 on it.
I use Kodi on my computer with Tiny Media Manager, and loving it so far. Yes, it's not a TV on a living room setup, but being able to browse what I have with good metadata is a much better experience for me, so far.
no - a mushroom is a large fruiting body of a fungi. if you want to know what I mean look at the pictures.
> I'd love to see us build a British Google for example.

Here in France we have (had ?) Qwant[1] that never really worked because at first it was about having a search engine at the level of Google, then being user privacy focused (like DDG), then being focused on kids, then on music, then...

But from the beginning it was failing because they were just providing a proxy for Bing's results. They were not even providing a sanitized version of those results. It was Bing's results with a different UI.
And then, because they needed money, they focused on some topics (like the kids, which provided them public money) or music (income from partners companies).
Also there was a lot of political/bureaucratic crap involved within the direction.

So it looks like the issue is that it was people with money that said "we are going to be the French Google". But they hadn't enough money to do so and being "the French Google" is not enough.

If we look at DDG, first it was a bad search engine but they focused on their promise about user privacy. And then they improved their search engine from there. Now they are a credible alternative to Google because they have something that Google don't, while on the core feature (search engine) they are almost the same. If you want to compete, you have to offer something different while providing the same core features.

I think ProtonMail (Switzerland) is a good example. At the moment they don't provide a webmail as good as Gmail, but they provide great email service while focusing on user privacy. They are trying to compete against Google on email like DDG dig on search engine. And that's why it's more and more popular.

So there's probably a mindset issue : don't compete for the sake of competing. Offer something different and then try to reach the competitors level on the core feature. You can't beat a multi-billion giant at its own game.

[1] : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qwant
How does this cope with the case where the NAT hole-punching fails and both WebRTC clients are unable to accept an incoming connection? A TURN relay seems like it would get blocked.

Edit: I should have just read the documentation [1]. It relies on the STUN/TURN servers being public and commonly used so that blocking them will break many other applications. Unfortunately, I don't know if the regimes where this is needed will care about that.

[1] https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-...
The PS4 9.00 Jailbreak
There are SPI headers for flashing on many many desktop mainboards.
I think the more normal thing to do would be not to buy a TV and just don't make a meal out of explaining why. 'I would never use it, ' is pretty sufficient
https://archive.md/eqRCB
When I did my mandatory service in the German army, we were told that MREs don't have an expiry date - batches are simply inspected once a year or so.
Just curious how does XML prevent you from implementing a subset?
They can't. Teens have a far higher rate of crashing than any other age group with only over 80 even coming close. From the NSC

>Sixteen- to 19-year-olds represent 3.9% of licensed drivers, but account for 8.6% of drivers in all crashes and 6.0% of drivers in fatal crashes.

https://injuryfacts.nsc.org/motor-vehicle/overview/age-of-dr...
There are very few Roman buildings that had survived intact. Besides the theaters and aqueducts there are basically none which were not later turned into churches. While Roman buildings might have been stronger than those built by the preceding civilizations (then again in the case of Europe (outside of Greece) and Northern Africa Roman there was very little competition, who else built massive coliseums at the the time?) most ancient buildings did not just simply collapse due to age but were destroyed by people who wanted to reuse their building material.
The technologies I like provide solutions to the hard problems.

In Finland, the coldest weather is experienced when, during winter months, there is a persistent anticyclone parked overhead. Those can cover the entirety of the country, and inside them there is negligible wind. For example, on 8th of December it was -20°C, and the average output of wind power (nominal installed capacity ~2800MW) over the day was 330MW. The average output of grid-connected solar was <1MW (It's December in Finland, what did you expect?).

Anticyclones can remain in place overhead for weeks. The value often used to calculate the cost of renewable+storage is 3h. This is a reasonable value for California, where solar production correlates well with use. If you built the grid in Finland based on that, we would just die when it gets cold.

There are no renewables that work well in Finland. Water power is fully built out. Solar only produces power when we don't need it. Wind reliably does not provide power when we need it. Compared to renewable with enough storage, even with all it's overruns, OL3 is remarkably cheap.
> I suppose it's possible the prevalence of those tips depends on the course

Unfortunately the interstitial hints do vary by course. Spanish course has stuff like that very frequently in the early lessons (I have not done the later Spanish lessons); the German course barely has them at all anywhere, possibly not at all (if I had perfect memory it would be much easier to learn the languages).
Erlang and ASN.1(Abstract Syntax Notation One)
New topic from Ukrainian Erlanger for Erlang Battleground! In this time we discuss pretty interesting stuff about Erlang/OTP and ASN.1
Bootstrapped founders of Lemlist and Basecamp selling minority stakes
You'll also have a hard time not talking about Spain in the history of Latin America, but that doesn't mean it's part of it.
> Not saying that they're wrong

Then I fail to see how the rest of what you wrote is relevant to what I posted. How is it relevant?
> Jack is what we lovingly refer to as a Bitcoin maximalist.

What is a not so loving term?
When the said plant project started over 10 years ago, I was an opponent of nuclear power, participating in demonstrations etc. Nowadays I'm really thankful for the new plant, as every non-fossil energy source is absolutely crucial, not to mention my electricity bill. Actually nuclear has the lowest carbon footprint, and a big advantage of being able to deliver very stable power output. The challenge with waste storage and other risks are real of course, but we just have to to accept them in the current situation of global warming.
Why are you saying skydiving in Ukraine is dangerous? I jumped here and I only remember one vague story about someone injuring their leg because of technical mistake when landing. I don't think we had any skydiving deaths in at least 10-15 years.
Maybe Java or Python are better choices for your problems. The point of a systems programming language is to allow implementation of specific solutions to specific problems. There are many, many ways to do the things you mention here (and that starts with the strings' storage format and allocation strategy) , so it's the right choice to not include _anything_ like that in the core language.
> if Web3 were such a success they would cease talking about the future and simply show us _the_ killer app that everyone would immediately jump to.

Or, in the immortal words of Linus Torvalds, "Talk is cheap. Show me the code."
Another factor to consider is that unusual strain on the healthcare system lowers the average level of care. For example right now, most planable surgeries are postponed. This is not without risk either.
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