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No, OS support for H.264 happened because the industry wanted more efficient codecs, and it didn't have much competition at the time. H.265 and AV1 are both competing to replace H.264 and so far neither have a clear lead.
An easter egg for one user: Luke Skywalker (2017)
> Inferno applications are written in Limbo®, a modern, safe, modular, concurrent programming language with C-like syntax. It is more powerful than C but considerably easier to understand and debug than C++ or Java. It is easy to express the concurrency in the physical world directly in Limbo's syntax. Any Inferno application will run identically on all Inferno platforms.

I was amazed by what a great idea this is until I got here. You have to use a special snowflake programming language.

This is the same thing that turns me off from Google's Flutter. You have to use Dart, a language not used anywhere else.

It's not that these languages are bad. They may be fine, even great. It's the cognitive load of learning yet another language. For it to make sense this language would have to be quite a bit more productive or otherwise better than Go, Rust, C++, JS/TS, Python, Java, etc. Otherwise just let people use languages they know. It's not that hard. We now have WASM which can be targeted by all of those either directly or indirectly.
> Mumpower, for his part, is dismissive of Mason’s leaders, telling the Lookout he doesn’t think officials even really know how to run the town, especially with so much investment heading their way.

They’re not scratching the county and state officials’ backs, obviously.
This just proves how the following has happened without many noticing:

Fabrice Bellard has released an Artificial Neural Networks library, LibNC, "C Library for Tensor Manipulation" ( https://bellard.org/libnc/ ). Similar to PyTorch, but in sheer C.

It's the library behind that data compressor mentioned: we do not just have the compressor, he gave us the very AI tool. If that does not make one ecstatic... Summary of features:

> * C API ; * Small library, no external dependency, available for Linux and Windows ; * Define-by-run automatic differentiation engine (same idea as PyTorch) ; * High performance for both CPU (x86) and GPU (CUDA support). Optimized support of float32 and bfloat16 data types ; * CPU backend optimized for inference and small batch sizes ; * Optimized for online learning (i.e. simultaneous evaluation and training) using LSTM or Transformer models ; * Fully deterministic: return the same results at each run ; * Reproducible results (CPU backend only): return the same results regardless the CPU brand and OS
Paywalled, so I can't actually see that, but if anything the fact that I know my personal bubble leans very left and yet I have never met a single person whose beliefs are that extreme that makes me doubt those numbers.

Even the most Covid overreacting people I know aren't anywhere near believing it's a 50% hospitalization rate: they get tested constantly and are aware of multiple cases of Covid among their circle with no hospitalizations. Paranoia about after-effects comes up much more.
Stock buybacks are economically equivalent to dividends, with the one exception that they don't trigger a taxable event.
From the dltoken_data_review.md [1]:

>> 9) If this data collection is default on, what is the opt-out mechanism for users?

>> Standard Telemetry Opt-Out

If you haven't installed it yet, how can you use the standard telemetry opt-out?

[1] https://bug1677497.bmoattachments.org/attachment.cgi?id=9195...
It might have some use in coastal areas where salt water can contaminate wells sometimes. But you are right it might just be worth pursuing something like desalination powered by solar power in those situations.
I have a few Apple branded items from my time there. My email is in my profile if you are interested.

I also have Merb sandals as well from the only Merb conf back in 2008, but I'd have a hard time letting those go.
Hence, why we "flash" certain components.
Farm beside me when I was growing up would kill them with a sledgehammer. So, err, yeah. I'm less concerned about the death (as long as it's over as quickly as possible) than the living conditions.

Either way, I'm basically vegetarian these days. I'll pay for something someone promises me is really organic acorn fed pork or some kind of super happy cow, but I'm not even really sure how much I believe that anymore.

Venison, however, I think is basically guilt free. It's never farmed (at least, where I am from) and it tastes better than beef..
...isn't that the reason they were illegal? It seems you're implying not triggering a taxable event isn't important.
Apple’s charts set the M1 Ultra up for an RTX 3090 fight it could never win
How many folks out there got burned by HP products when they were hip-deep in that step 3 step 4 zone of "strip-mine your own brand reputation selling cheap crap"?
What about Kernel Sanders?!
Feeling good to learn there is a label I can finally identify with.
I think the problem with that approach is that it would be harder to establish a regulatory framework were you can get "I sequestered CO2 credits" if your pumps are out in the ocean and pumping the CO2 into deeper waters. The capturing facilities inland are easier to audit and regulate.

So yeah maybe it's better for the planet but since it's harder to regulate it would be tricky to get funding to build that if the potential profit comes from the government intervening to set a price for the CO2 removal you are doing.
Enlarged prostate blocking the flow of urine for one example. My grandfather couldn't relieve himself without a catheter during the last year of his life.
A lot of terminal programs already use json over stdin and stdout, making it possible to create very long chain of piped programs. Besides the power of jq to filter that data, jc makes it possible to convert output of many classic program to json.
"The simplest way to explain the behavior of any bureaucratic organization is to assume that it is controlled by a cabal of its enemies."
It explains in the first few paragraphs of the linked articled what they're trying to convey.

"...destroy the algorithms or AI models it built using personal information collected through its Kurbo healthy eating app from kids as young as 8 without parental permission."

and

"..forcing them to delete algorithmic systems built with ill-gotten data could become a more routine approach, one that modernizes FTC enforcement to directly affect how companies do business."

Those quotes are from the first 3 paragraphs.
lol did that one Renesas fab with the fire make literally every damn semiconductor in the world that wasn't a CPU or GPU?
Lowering cost by manufacturing at scale is knowledge they don't have, and they do need to make it financially viable. Other people might have it and make it viable.
Some time ago a limit was added to allow 4 posts on the first page of "newest" assuming you have showdead off.
Largest Federal Utility Chooses Gas, Defying Biden’s Clean Energy Goals
There's a raft of product failures across the board. Not making saleable product is kind of a problem. Boeing's been working on Starliner since 2010 and it has yet to carry anyone to the ISS. Then there's MAX. And the SLS (which hasn't failed yet but /will/ be a 4 billion disposable program, at best.)

Maybe true, it's business profitable, successfully extracting money from airlines and government contracts.
Maybe the original founders yes, but the board and the decisions they make on how it's governed now is not the same group. That's like saying the original authors of the constitution never meant for it to be a living and evolving document. I don't think they ever intended it to be the one and only definition of the term and licenses.
*deforestation due to climate-influenced movement of arable land e.g. desertification also harms biodiversity as well
I honestly see no "conspiracy theory": "they", intended as the neoliberals, have declared their intentions even in books like Value(s): Building a Better World for All by Mark Carney (ex UK national bank head) or Covid-19: The Great Reset, by Klaus Schwab and Thierry Malleret. The WEF publish a big load of resources as well, starting from the famous 2015-16 video about 2030's agenda.

Essentially all such publishing depict a society when individuals own nothing and depend of very few hyper-giant conglomerate/zaibatsu/chaebol -alike private companies.

A conspiracy is something done in the dark, definitively not publishing plan for anyone who want to read...

Oh, BTW you can see trends everywhere to confirm those publications: start from the IT, how many do use someone else computers instead of their own iron? How many do have their emails locally, using them locally and relay on third parties just for IMAP and SMTP? How many leave their files on cloud "drives"? Keep going with cars: how many connected cars are on the market where the formal owner can't even repair hes/shes own vehicle? How many choose leasing instead of buying? How many rent a house and how are the trends of real estate market?

In the past was normal in most countries owning a house, was normal owning a car that can be repaired by anyone, was normal have personal archives on personal archival systems first on paper and than with desktop computers and so on.

Now take a look at your own life: how much you depend on third parties services and how few such parties are respect of your own great-grandparents?
The internet has always sucked. dial-up was the worst.
Isn't that GP's point? Parents in 2022 have a dramatically reduced ability to prevent their children from staring at a screen all day everyday. Even in school, they are glued to their screens. Even if you don't provide them a phone, they have cheap and easy ways to obtain their own.

Edit to add: The dad forcing his kid outside no longer stops them from staring at the screen all day.
Perhaps when they actually got serious, they escalated it to legal, and the lawyers shot it down due to your entity not being able to take enough liability off of their hands (conjecture). I can see the execution side stringing you along but no one having actually done the legal due diligence first, who may have shot it down early enough to prevent you wasting your time.
> and extracting from the air is automatically clean and safe to drink

It isn't, though. Bacteria accumulate. Dehumidifiers are generally very nasty. Although bacteria can then be killed (not sure about their toxins), while other contaminants may not be very easy to get rid of.

Almost every place on Earth has humidity above 0%. Which makes it possible to extract water, even if it's very inefficient. People have condensed water successfully in deserts.
Generally I agree, but:

> I think companies have pretty clear life cycles

I think it's not that clear. Where I work (hp) you could argue we're like Intel: large public company, shareholder oriented, buybacks, etc. However, we've also gone through a series of consolidations, split-ups, spin-offs and so on. At this point our own company and all our cousins and step-children all have bits and pieces of a whole bunch of different companies.

Also, I'm not sure why a blue-chip company can't just keep on existing. We pay a lot of dividends to keep our investors happy, which means less is available for R&D. That doesn't mean there's no R&D, though, the challenge for a CEO managing a company like this is to balance the two competing demands. Competitors that aren't focussed on crowd-sourced shareholder demands can make disastrous decisions more easily.
Putin's Chilling Warning of 'Traitors' 'Scum' Signs Things Aren't Going to Plan
IMO as market optimization turns the screws ever harder, the escape hatch is to head towards source distributions. Outrage articles are only necessary because people have come to rely on these monolithic binary downloads with their "channels" and "installers" and "auto updaters", that are gatekept by centralized entities like Mozilla. Whereas if say the source tarball used by Nix is engaging in similar shenanigans, that is fixable with a self-applied patch rather than needing to convince Mozilla to change.
US official: If the war drags, Putin is likely to make nuclear threats/Bloomberg
Since it's your memory I think you should call CFRelease.

on edit: yeah I know a little out of date but...
Do you mean for searchability? There is an indexing tool built in, IIRC built from xpdf tooling.
Sure it very possibly might outperform Go, and almost undoubtedly outperform python and ruby, but it might also make refactoring for further performance down the road very difficult. When I reach for Rust, it's because I want maximum performance right off the bat. Otherwise I'd just use go, or even java/c#.
What possible reason is there to boil an octopus alive?

I come from a shellfish village, and we would do our lobsters this way all my life -- we would put them in headfirst which I guess maybe slightly reduces the time they suffer (although -- personally -- when I am doing it, I kill them with a knife to the brain before they go into the water these days)..

But octopus? How horrifying.
Why bother with 400ppm when there are so many, well, "burning sites" untapped?

The intuitive counter-argument is that long term there shouldn't be any "burning sites" left and that capturing all burning sites would only ever get us to zero but not to negative emissions, but that's not true when you include burning sites that run on biological sources. Let plants deal with the 400ppm problem, use those plants as fuel, sequester where those plants are burnt. Negative emissions.
My solution to your dropbox trick has been: https://jcuenod.github.io/bibletech/2020/06/14/zotero-github...
Early version override exists files, apparently he change it in newer version.
> You need this many people to make this many things and your things sell for this much.

Speaking with no manufacturing experience, but having read some books (Diamandis' Abundance).

You can reduce long-term costs by automating. If each week you buy a robot replacing a human, your operational costs go down permanently. That is because robots are fundamentally cheaper than human time.

Of course, you have to foresee the demand that would make it possible to recoup the costs.
Mozilla does get a lot of their funding from Google...
> When you get care, is a portion paid by NHS and the remainder from the private company?

It’d be NHS if the non-urgent treatment would be immediately available from them (which is basically never), otherwise I’d be sent to a private hospital.

> Or maybe the existence of NHS puts healthcare costs much less than that in the US.

This probably helps, but the US healthcare costs are just fucked for no good reason.
I like to look at South Korea as an example of reasonable costs in a healthcare system that’s 100% private (the government just picks up the tab afterwards).
Sorry for that. In any case, is it practical to design cross-language FFI ABIs with a "wide" API like C++ or Rust code, without constraining interaction through a narrow inexpressive waist like text over HTTP, bytes or serialization over system calls or IPC, or arguably COM opaque objects?
There are so many ways to layout text on a PDF page, that this is nearly impossible to implement for all scenarios. I don't know a PDF editor which works in all cases.

Sometimes text is positioned absolute to the page border, sometimes relative to other elements, where moving a word shifts all following elements around. There can be multiple matrices involved for positioning text elements. Sometimes text elements are all positioned independently, sometimes by using newlines with custom size. Text elements can span multiple lines or words but sometimes each letter is a single text element where it is even hard to determine, which letters go together or if there's meant to be a space. Additionally fonts can be subsetted, where it's impossible to use other unused letters without knowing the original font. And than there can be OCR'ed PDF's, where an image of scanned text is overlayed on top of the real text. Oh and there can be clipping paths: Rectangles which erase all text below.

And each PDF-Producer creates a different PDF structure.

For reading, PDF's are awesome. For editing, PDF's are a nightmare.
they absolutely did. the reason why they had no profit is because they reinvested every penny back in themselves instead of paying it out in dividends or hoarding cash
>Where do you think automation will lead us over the course of ten generations? What will AI be capable of at that point? After, say, 50% of people have nothing meaningful to contribute to society anymore via jobs

It will lead to physical elimination of that 50%, and probably more.

>I don't think this is "so deeply ingrained into our species", I think its nothing but culture, or maybe some middle ground, in which case culture will be the dominant factor over the long run.

Monkeys, from which we split off millions of years ago, have very strong hierarchies. It's great to believe we can fix everything with culture, but biology exists.

>The system design of power/hierarchy makes sense in a partitioned world of limited resources.

Resources will always be limited. Our wants, collectively, are infinite.

Just think about "thought influencers". It's nothing but status games, and that will not go away even if every single physical need has been taken care of. Why? Because the top influencer can program brains of millions, and some - even of BILLIONS of other humans.

How do you fix that with more resources, the competition over who gets to influence and brainwash everyone else?
One of my favorite UChicago Scav list items: "Official swag from Arthur Andersen LLP, Lehman Brothers Inc., or Enron Corporation. [9 points]"

http://scavhunt.uchicago.edu/lists/list2014final.pdf
It seems like he is following a plan.

https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/.premium.HIGHLIGHT.MAGAZI...
Ok. I read "algorithmic" as "done using an algorithm". So (imho) a better label would be "algorithm destruction". Still not a great label though.
When you get a posting-too-fast message when submitting a new article, it would be nice to have an indication of when you will be able to post it.
I am sorry that you feel that way.

Sure, I guess I will try to assume that you are making this comment in good faith.

Tell me the name of your country and I will tell you why it wasn't socialism.

Socialism has properties that defines it, just like State capitalism has properties that defines it.

If the contional of those properties match one over the other, what does that tell you?
Another +1 for Zotfile, but Z6 looks like it bakes in some of zotfile's features.
Wouldn't help, would it? The Attacker would just change the template to not have a url bar (or a url bar with just the domain).
Is this too late? iPhones are shooting in HEIF now, which means there's already millions of HEIF images in the world. Surely that is the de-facto next generation image standard.
Ah, the old "there's no such thing as moral failings" canard. I.e. "you didn't choose to not ruin your body with hard drugs and STDs, nor did the crack hobo shitting in the crosswalk over there choose the opposite, it's solely a result of economics/racism/$(popular politics of the day). Now stop complaining and give us your tax money."
A much better article covered this at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30698803
There is handy functionality to rename pdf files based on parent metadata. I think you can set this up to be done automatically on import too.

This is great to have consistent filenames from lots of different sources. Of course if the metadata is wrong or missing, it won't help.
I appreciate that you used the word "continue" in your first question as tech firms have featured swag seemingly forever. I will just say that my DEC Alpha coffee mug, a multitude of lapel pins from an array of companies, and my Nokia monitor screen brush have all stood the test of time, unlike the many golf shirts, posters, lanyards, and pens. The swag you have received seems to be pitiful and wasteful.
I wonder why their own protobuf of flatbuffers didn't fit the bill.
Possibly neither EU nor USA senders.
Luisa – Turn Figma designs into Vue apps
P&O Ferries sparks outrage by sacking 800 workers
This is our experience with Lowe's almost to a T. We checked refrigerator inventory online and found 3 in stock. Tried to buy one online. No luck as the purchase would not complete. We went to the store to have the appliance person verify that they had them in stock ready to buy. The appliance department person confirmed that they had 3 but told us that none were available for immediate purchase and delivery. They claimed that all were either on hold or already purchased awaiting delivery, therefore we would need to order one.

Once we arrived back home, we tried to buy online again and it failed so we called the customer service desk to relate the tale about trying to buy one online, trying to buy one in the store, etc and the person checked inventory for us. She discovered that they had 6 of the model in stock and we could definitely buy one and have it delivered the next day. We completed the purchase over the phone and scheduled delivery for the next day.

That part went off without a hitch since I just had the delivery people roll it into the kitchen and I set it all up and swapped everything over.

Aggravating.
The one thing to keep in mind is that even though it's written in a literate programming style, it's not in order. So implementation in your own language (say, Rust) is completely possible, but it won't be easy. Especially since the book's code is optimized and idiomatic C++, and that can make it challenging to get past the borrow checker.
Thanks for the question, copying from an earlier comment which touches on similar point --

"Great question. We'd love to capture point-source CO2 from factory flue gas where it is orders of magnitude more concentrated (often >10%) than in air (~400ppm). And fundamentally, there is no reason our process cannot be applied for this type of CO2 capture. For now, we are choosing to focus on air for 2 reasons:

1) Market. Early buyers of CO2 credits are primarily looking to get very clean accounting of who gets credit for the CO2 removed, and will pay a premium for anyone who can do it. If a buyer (say, a software company) pays for a polluting chemical factory or power plant to capture some of its emissions, it requires complex multi-party contracts & the incentives between the parties are often conflicting. That being said, point-source CO2 removal is absolutely needed & a huge opportunity/problem and more work is needed from a technology/policy side.

2) The "extreme user" case. If we give 100% focus to solving the more challenging problem of removing CO2 from air, we may gain learnings & knowledge that will translate to an improved point-source capture process, whether from an energy/efficiency/cost perspective."
What are those places which have NO humidity?

The Sahara desert has a relative humidity of 25% (on average). Humidity tends to be much higher in deserts at night. Atacama can go to 0-2% _at noon in direct sunlight_, but as high as 50% at night.

The driest location on the planet is probably Antarctica. Yes, full of water, in the form of ice, but the air is dry.
Disclaimer: am dev, not designer. Home / welcome feels good, search is front and center but I can find out more easily. Results are eye-friendly as well. I would suggest getting rid of the internal scroll panes in the left bar if possible - it's difficult to scroll that and / or the left nav or the main page. Maybe show the top N and then a "show more" or expand / collapse button.
That's the same argument as :

If nuclear weapons are superior to all weapons, no need to ban them!!
> My takeaway is that working hard to build quality products is more likely to be profitable than working hard to make money.

For big companies. For individuals it might not be the case. Hence why we see this happening.
4 hours? Go longer and lower! I hope 'seasoning' is proper demiglace ;)