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> H.264 was notorious for virtually removing all grain making it impossible to have authentic film grain on YouTube for years.

In the YouTube case, the low encoding bitrates make it really difficult to encode fine detail. (Blu-ray discs use H.264 as well, and at those bitrates it reproduces film grain well.)

> Which is an interesting thing to think about - we actually remove the grain for a lot of the work then re add to keep the filmic texture.

This is a great point. Even with older "remastered" movies, analog artifacts like film grain are sometimes removed during cleanup and then recreated during mastering.
My husband and I are pretty sure we must have been in the same room at university on various occasions (we knew lots of people in common) but didn't meet until several years after we both left. I'm three years older and was four academic years ahead so think it is a good thing we didn't meet then - I don't think as a PhD student that I would have dated a first-year undergraduate!
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No, line length is for legibility.

> I could care less [sic] about this design

We can design it to be legible on narrow and wide displays

> your choices are to either leave white space or use larger characters unless we want multiple columns

We want multiple columns. That way you don't have to prescribe one single viewport width, you can support a range (this is called "responsive")
DVDs were region locked but not to the same degree. Digital content is on a country by country level. An American can easily buy and use a Canadian DVD while on vacation and then use it back home. The same is not true of digital content.
Shit, did not know web devs are so bad so you get EU GDPR pops in US, the idiots are showing you what dirty thing they are doing without having to do it, or maybe the devs are smart and wanted you to see all those 100+ partners are giving the US citizens the option to opt out, if the later great from them to give you the option.
Not so sure about that, they already added USB-C to many devices, and there are still plenty of use cases where wireless charging is tricky.

I really need a cable to charge my phone while driving, for example.

Additionally, charging wirelessly is much slower, sometimes you just need to be able to charge quickly.
> Why do people think it is a good thing to have this enforced by law is beyond me.

I'm sorry that we need a law to instil some common sense into some managers' thick skulls. But I'm happy that EU is showing that in, a sane democracy, no huge corporation can force its will on the people.
This isn’t swift I don’t think, we’ve been hearing about this for years now.
Leaving twitter behind will be a net-positive for anyone.
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> Insanely easy to believe. The role of UPS is to prevent data loss when power fails. If something is powered by USB-C it almost always already have its own battery preventing from that.

That's a moot point though, IMO. Like if you're travelling, wouldn't it be nice if your charger and your battery bank were the same device? Just because it doesn't have the same specific utility as a UPS, doesn't mean that it's not useful in other ways.
I don't get it. There are no strings that are good to reject (not even the empty string). You gain nothing but bugs, and people that you turn their lives miserable.
Technically voluntary, but every major phone manufacturer (including Apple) committed to it and followed it (although in Apple's case, with a dongle).
> I really dislike the idea that EU regulators would know what's better for consumers than consumer electronics companies and the consumers themselves.

It's not that, it's that companies know what's good for them and consumers are a secondary consideration, if that.

Consider EU mobile phone roaming regulation: it's an unalloyed good. We've gone from expensive and inconvenient roaming charges and roaming add-ons to free roaming at almost no increase in prices. There was initially some increase in very low priced plans yet I have a 2.65 euro a month 1GB data only plan (with full roaming) which is a blindingly good deal.
what could possibly go wrong this time!

I strongly recommend “Viral” by Ridley and Chan to those who haven’t read it.
You have stumbled upon one of the greatest virtues of owning your bits and bytes, which is something that people seem to be forgetting
Historically ICANN had authority via two mechanisms. The first is that it was appointed as the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority by the Internet Architecture Board (part of the IETF). At a hard minimum that gives it the authority the run the IETF IANA functions, and historically would have been what gave it authority to issue IP addresses and AS Numbers. In performing the IETF IANA functions it has zero regulatory role, it is just a registry. I believe it has slightly more say over policy in issuing AS and IP addresses to the regional internet registries.

The other (no longer applicable) source of authority was the contract from the US Department of Commerce. This is no longer applicable, as the US government decided it did not need to be involved with this, especially because it got a lot of criticism for being involved, but the contract really offered the government no real control over ICANN.

The place where ICANN has the most say is domain names. Here ICANN acts as a full blown policy maker, in addition to running the naming IANA functions (like creation of the root zone file). To the extent that ICANN "regulates 'the Tnternet'", it is restricted to its policy setting over the DNS.

It is less easy to give any current source of authority for this without the commerce contract. But it really comes down to everybody accepting ICANN as the provider of the root zone file, and the fact that ICANN would reassign the TLD delegations to a different registry if a currently assigned registry does not want to follow its rules.

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The regional internet registries nominally get their authority to issue DNS address ranges from a delegation from the IANA (in its numbering function). Like mentioned before, one can trace ICANN's authority to run the numbering portion of the IANA back to being designated as the IANA by the Internet Architecture Board (part of the IETF), but this could be a little misleading, as the "numbering community" now exists, and ICANN claims that it is that community that would be allowed to appoint a new organization to run the IANA numbering functions.

(Also ICANN has created a stand alone nonprofit to actually run the IANA functions. This is a membership based non-profit with ICANN as the sole member, making it basically like a subsidiary without legally being one, because ICANN wanted to make it very clear that the operation of the IANA functions is separate from the policy making part of the organization once the Government contract was stopped.)

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Now perhaps you want to know how the IETF has authority? Quite simply, they are an outgrowth of, and assumed the functions of the Network Working Group, a group a early ARPANET researchers. As the group that defines protocols like TCP, IP, HTTP, etc they derive their authority from just that, that they develop the standards that underlie the internet.
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Well, with inflation, war, various shortages, lack of power for the winter, I'm very trustful in human nature, but that may be a little too much for Europe.
img2img and in/outpainting are already two forms that this idea exists in. Maybe not with textual labels in the image itself, but the concept of having a starting image that a model can modify for a desired change is definitely already a thing.
My bad for implying this based on your shorter answer above, thank you for adding this much context.

You are spot on with regards to potential abuse by career optimizers. I've been lectured by my doc during prescription for that as well.

Again, as someone who really feels badly affected by this I am of course not a fan of the abuse.
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> I am on the side of Neopets forums and Geocities and uploading mp3s of shitty songs onto your iWeb website. I’m on the side of blogging and learning about ARIA roles and finding a small circle of nerds

Worth reading 'What is the Small Web?'[0]

It's worth having your own little corner of the Internet that isn't social media, but a site you own and maintain with care, a labor of love, so to speak. And you have full control over it. You can't get 'suspended' for sharing an edgy meme.

[0] https://ar.al/2020/08/07/what-is-the-small-web/
I’m currently in Chiang Mai, a city known for its digital nomad/entrepreneurship scene. Lots of European natives here who’ve been in the city for months. Many have even moved here permanently.

Talking to them, there is a definite sense of pessimism, bordering on fatalism, about them. Some of this is reflected in salaries - skilled white collar workers get paid well on average in Europe, but their salaries haven’t kept pace with the rest of the world, including (and especially) America. Even as an Indian, most of my peer group makes similar wages as their European counterparts, without even factoring in purchasing power.

What I mean to say is that it might all seem to be crumbling down now, but the decline seems to have started a while back.
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33076821 (20 comments)
There were no mandates to adopt micro-usb in the EU.

As a sidetone it's astonishing how quickly a lie easily disprovable by publicly accessible information, in this case the EU's own website, can be spread around by people that otherwise seem like credible HN members.
OK, I'll whack the hornets' nest here: Base 10 Arithmetic should be the standard, with others being available only when wise programmers explicitly choose it because they have a good reason.

Every tangle I've ever had with IEEE 754 would have been unnecessary if our computers and languages used the same numbers that humans do! (And we have way more than enough compute power now to make Base10 arithmetic the default - I'll cut the folks in the '60s some slack due to resource limits, but why are we still dealing with this brokenness in the 21st century?)
How fast can charging ports evolve even in theory, given that they have to be somewhat backwards compatible to begin with? I think the law can keep up with all these iterations of lightning cables apple invented during its free reign over their port.
1. Install caprover on a fresh Linode instance. Create captain-definition for each app. Add instances as you need.

2. I'm a pretty knowledgeable DevOps guy.

3. Not really valuable but gives me a bit of Linux experience.

4. Flat instance pricing, was able to get all of my stuff into a $5 instance... however I have been increasing it as I get projects from friends and myself in these.

5. Supports almost everything, it just runs your stuff inside a docker container.

6. I liked Heroku, it's where I started with Rails but it gets ridiculously expensive quickly... there's no reason adding a DB should cost $40.
> people have tried and failed for years to come up with a good meatspace model for FP monads

My (very incomplete) understanding is that, while most FP constructs represent either data or operations on data (i.e. functions), monads include both. If that is correct, how do monads differ from objects exactly?
How is this guy not in jail yet? Much less out there receiving more grants?
What it’s the period when it becomes a disease as what you describe is basically how humans generally work?
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Right!!?? You didn't die yesterday, so you won't die today.

In reality, countries collapse in all kinds of different ways quite regularly.
Meanwhile apple switched the connector for both their laptop and their iPad. So clearly they aren't afraid of blowback.
The build system engineer position is 100% Ada if I'm not mistaken :)
I thought so also, but just checked after reinstating my account and, lo and behold, it’s 2003
Playable Worlds is working on an MMORPG that should come pretty close to the original idea. Raph Koster - one of the designers of SWG - is heavily involved.
Relatability. Pretty difficult to be memorialized if the average person cannot understand or identify with your work. Perhaps we can either be more forgiving of the burdens and limitations the average person carries, so far removed from quantum effects and scientific prizes.
perhaps they can be sued for the use of the word buy?
Thoughts on logging your own location with free software instead of Google doing it?
“Tell me how you will measure me, and then I will tell you how I will behave. If you measure me in an illogical way, don’t complain about illogical behavior.” – Eli Goldratt
What MBTI type are you?
I have spent the last two years learning everything I can about my type and it has raised my self-esteem a lot.

Also, and possibly a lot more painful to answer: What attachment style are you?
The draft of this regulation is from 2014, it's the same thing.
Exactly. If your entire right hemisphere is permanently shut down from making computers the core of your identity, these are exactly the same thing.
LOL, I remember hearing this lie too. They are slightly more robust than micro-USB, but so are spaghetti noodles.
How do you find what you're really good at? I don't know. Here's what I did. I started doing a thing I considered intriguing. I tried figuring out how to tell if I'm making a good progress. In the beginning, I was terrible at it. After some time, I was still terrible, but there were I had some "data" about making progress. Only after years did I become good. And yet, the more years I put in, the more ways of being terrible I discover.
Having written that, I'd suggest
1) picking something that seems at least mildly interesting to you
2) don't expect much
3) don't be afraid to start all over again multiple times
DVDs have a limited lifespan as well
I'd be interested what country's propaganda claimed that Christmas (or the equivalent in the Orthodox church) wasn't celebrated in Eastern Bloc countries, because despite a number of exagerations in Western media of the Cold War era this seems a bit far fetched (having been exposed both to Eastern and Western propaganda in East Germany in my childhood). Christmas in the Eastern Bloc didn't have a 'religious undertone' anymore, but that's also been true for a long time in most civilized Western countries.
Unfortunately your comment was too long. I didn’t read it. Try being more succinct next time.
Thank you for the clarification. I didn't know that.

In my experience, cleaning the lightning port with the end of a paperclip was never an issue (dust from my pocket liked the spot; always helped when charging got unreliable).
If you watch a lot of youtube video's it's worth it for just the ad-free experience alone. I actually did some math a while back and figured out based on my hourly bill rate that it's technically costing me money to not pay for YT premium (that is the time spent watching ads times my bill rate was greater than the monthly subscription cost).
The issue I see with that there seems to be no middle ground. An issue is either largely unnoticed or it turns into crusade affecting everyone involved and leaving no winning move for participants in {dramaName}.
Deadlifts will hit most of the posterior chain, but to really grow thickness in the upper and mid back you'd need to add in heavy rows and/or pull-ups as OP mentioned.
Old school approach: only old boring tech + one bare metal server + free cloudflare

- No salt/puppet/ansible, no docker, kubernete, etc. Only standart linux stuff.

- All done with makefiles/ssh/git
- Send email with Mailgun

I try to keep the dependencies as small as possible: external services, programs, libraries.

One server can serve an incredible amount of requests if you only do normal web stuff.

Login with ssh to get stats with top.
Huge performance, snappy, no concern with cost.

You could do the same with a vpn

It took me quite a bit of time, and it’s not perfect. I need to set up a vpn image as a fall over if the hardware break (low probability)
nothing occurs in a vacuum; as has been well-described here, when Freedoms are fringe, then Freedom-minded people get the strange bedfellows of actually depraved and actually criminal, while the Law-and-Order people isolate themselves and their populations with distrust, circular-restrictions and unchangeable rules. Its not the active people, its the bandwagon that the active people have to live with as a social consequence
This is just to note that I cannot slow my brain down enough to respond to your comment.
I hate this as much as anyone, but it's wild that nerds make their stand on the sacred right TO WATCH A MOVIE.

We face incredible political oppression and extreme economic exploitation in the context of global capitalism melting down. There are more important things than whether your $10 Hercules purchase still works in 20 years.

By all means be angry about this, but try to connect it with things that have actual stakes in people's lives. This isn't even in the top 20 worst things Amazon does.
Quoting the article:

>> Exemptions will apply for devices that are too small to offer a USB-C port, such as smart watches, health trackers, and some sports equipment, but the legislation is expected to be expanded to other devices over time. Companies will also have to ensure that dedicated labels clearly inform consumers about the charging characteristics of devices they buy.
> I really need a cable to charge my phone while driving, for example.

Am I to understand you're having issues with wireless charging while driving?

I was having high hopes for this for riding my motorbike because plugging everything in and routing cables is quite the pain...
This depends a lot on your SO and your relationship to her/him/them. Given exactly the pretext from the blog post: I can easily think of a past relationship where I'd totally agree with you (very distrustful person who could not have resisted the urge to maliciously interpreted the data), and another relationship where I'd be totally cool with it (except I wouldn't want the heat map to be public). For most of my past relationships (and my current, final relationship) however such a request is unrealistic anyway; they simply don't have the technical ability to do such an analysis.
I wonder about this stakeholders pov idea. One thing I've seen at big companies are situations where "junior" folks are tasked with a laundry list of bullet points and that's all that they're given.

So then the senior folks are free to do much of what is in that article... because that's their job.

It's not a senior person chooses to do these things and jr do not. It's straight up the roles they're given.

That's not a situation where someone's skills / enthusiasm / intuition means they do these things, they're just afforded / expected to.
A huge +1 for this book: I spent a lot of time reading and re-reading this book while in university, both for classes and my time leading a robotics club.
> How does a company change to a new/better connector, if it's required by law to use an old connector?

EU is pushing for "One charger for all" for a long time. Here is an article from 2011 [1], so this is nothing new. I don't think they enforced it at the time, but the manufacturers (and the EU?) agreed to use Micro USB. Now they are going for USB-C, so they definitely are not in the way of innovation. I think if there is an agreement between manufacturers to support a new standard, it will be adapted.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/apple/2011/10/4/2469886/apple-relea...
On the flipside, this means the thin logic board that connects to the pins is in the host device, not in the cable.

Which means if you break it off, you need to replace the whole port, which might be difficult or expensive; instead of the (relatively) cheap cable.

I _love_ USB-C as a concept, but this alone makes, in my opinion, Lightning the superior physical connector.

And yes, I have had to replace / throw away entire devices because of a USB-C port breaking like this.

Sure, I should be less of a clumsy oaf around my electronics, but I also don't think "not bricking the entire device when extra force is applied to the port" is unreasonable design goal for a physical connector as universal as USB-C is.
> the EU is locking devices into C.

For now. Why wouldn't the EU be able to just change the law? This mandate passed relatively quickly. Why can't they just repeat this?
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This pattern alone is absolutely not enough to suspect it's ADHD. Several other factors need to be present.

In general during diagnosis (I can attest to Germany), it must be credibly shown that multiple symptopms have been present both during child as well as adult age.

Typical patterns are several aborted apprenticeships or studies, inability to hold steady employment over several years, problems with romantic relationships or long lasting friendships.
Closer to mandating common EV charging connectors, which has already happened in the EU (CCS Type 2).
clang-tidy is such a tool, provided with a C++ compiler - although incomplete
> Micro-USB and Mini-USB were both far more robust.

Micro-USB and USB-C both have the same minimum durability ratings, you may just be buying non-compliant cables (or you're encountering selection bias or something):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_hardware#Durability
"Buy" is just "Rent" without a specific end-date. Is this not commonly understood?
Eh, we are talking about games hooking into OS kernels, "rabble rousing", if that's what you want to call it, absolutely is necessary. Do the games even notify the users that this is happening and what exactly it means to the security of their computer - the tool they (or their parents) probably use to manage their entire life on? I really don't think so.

Regardless of what you might think, since I'm not a gamer (the isometric Ultima Online was about the last game I was interested in, more than a decade or two ago) this is the first time I heard about it - and it's completely insane. How can we - the industry, the software engineers - allow it? Why do we even turn on the protected mode?
? how did self regulation fail ? There's nothing wrong with the way iPhone charges. This is an unnecessary intervention. There are plenty of bigger, more relevant fish to fry.
TBF, it was "voluntary" for the old spec too. Everyone agreed to it in writing because otherwise they were told legislation would be swiftly passed.

That's not really voluntary.