Ambroos

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by Ambroos 7y ago
Yeah, my daily driver was an Audi with a rotary dial for about a year (no touchscreen at all), and Android Auto was great on it. You get to know the structure of all menus and can take actions blindly after a while. It's been almost a
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by Ambroos 7y ago
Highways are relatively easy (always the first target for almost any type of driving assist). And highways account for large amounts of the distance people drive. Maybe not for the time spent driving though. If you can do full self-driving
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by Ambroos 8y ago
We have those in Belgium and they work great. It's three years and you'll go out with a "professional" bachelor's degree in applied IT, with one of the specialisations being software development. I did this and am n
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by Ambroos 8y ago
VW has a massive battery order spread between Samsung, LG and CATL, but yeah, I agree Tesla will have a solid lead on battery production for a while. I wonder if Tesla/Panasonic will at some point start selling mass produced batteries
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by Ambroos 8y ago
Tesla has been very fast to release their self-driving capabilities (navigate on autopilot is pretty spooky), but in general the VW/Audi group shouldn't be too far off. The e-tron that was just released isn't as efficient as
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by Ambroos 8y ago
There's been an uptick in conspiracy theories lately, I kinda blame the whole "mainstream media lies" movement. Some people are starting to believe that if almost everyone believes something, it has to be a conspiracy. My fav
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by Ambroos 8y ago
Two years ago when we checked out the DASH and HLS support in Edge it turned out to be so unreliable we still just went with Shaka instead. Fun fact: besides FairPlay compatibility, HLS in Safari is way more annoying to deal with than HLS v
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by Ambroos 8y ago
It's impossible to play DRM video without heavy JS (except in Safari). Netflix probably uses a similar library to Shaka for their DASH streams. HTML5 video is only really simple if you want to just play MP4's with H264 encodings.
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by Ambroos 8y ago
Plyr is really good and has an impressive UI and accessibility. But there is no way extend the player with new complex functionality or a tighter integration with Shaka/hls.js/other ad providers/... I think Plyr can be seen a
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by Ambroos 8y ago
The way plugins/backends work in this is fundamentally different. Video.js at it's core does very little and doesn't provide a very strict API. The result tends to be that every ad provider you add on does things slightly dif
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by Ambroos 8y ago
If all you want to do is play a simple unencrypted video without ads, a <video> tag is indeed all you need. As soon as you start working with adaptive streaming (DASH/HLS), need ads, need a more advanced UI or need better metrics
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by Ambroos 8y ago
Some extra background: I worked on a predecessor of this with Matthias about two years back. We had to build a web video player with a lot of advanced capabilities, and found that no open source or commercial player framework would give us
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by Ambroos 8y ago
I recently moved abroad and tried to change my phone number in my Uber account. Uber wouldn't let me because it said there was a driver account associated (there wasn't). Their support told me to delete the driver account, but sin
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by Ambroos 8y ago
It's a pretty cool device. The title would be even cooler if it'd say "make-up printer" because it's a bit clickbaity.
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by Ambroos 8y ago
Images are hidden by default until a script shows them with an animation (fade) once they're loaded. The script is part of the Wordpress theme this site is using. Clearly it's old code considering it's relying on code only co
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by Ambroos 8y ago
If it becomes possible to get the key and decrypt content in a user-friendly package, it enables downloading of content from smaller providers that currently isn't pirated widely. I used to work for a commercial Belgian broadcaster tha
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by Ambroos 8y ago
Generally quite well. Pairing means your devices know to look for eachother, and the bitrate of music streaming over Bluetooth combined with the low range means you'll need some unrealistic congestion before things really start to fail
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by Ambroos 8y ago
Coming soon: Amazon launches free DNS service on 3.3.3.3 and 3.4.3.4? It's pretty crazy though that that huge range goes to Amazon in full. Wouldn't it have been better for the health of the internet as a whole to get them back to
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by Ambroos 8y ago
Android TV is free of ads. There's some space in the launcher for recommendations from content apps and Play Store, but those can be customized and turned off. Samsung doesn't use Android TV, so it's definitely 100% Samsung h
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by Ambroos 8y ago
Yeah, I regret living without Windows for one thing only: good and accurate video playback. Got close with LibreELEC, can't get anything right with macOS.
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by Ambroos 8y ago
There's the great http://www.ro.me/ - unfortunately they haven't made it work without www. Interactive music video for a track on the album Rome by Danger Mouse. Cool song, great video experience thing.
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by Ambroos 8y ago
Huh, interesting! I wonder where the discrepancy comes from.
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by Ambroos 8y ago
I wonder when a country is going to overtake Belgium in IPv6 adoption. Belgium has been slightly above 50% IPv6 traffic to Google for quite a while now, thanks to major ISPs switching to native dual-stack setups (and those ISPs being in ful
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by Ambroos 8y ago
Google has been actively trying to get people to stop using security questions in favour of various kinds of two-factor for quite some time now (mainly mobile phone number based stuff). They'll be fine.
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by Ambroos 8y ago
It bothers me endlessly about Apple's new marketing materials. When comparing the iPhone X and XS on their site it seems like they got rid of the notch in the XS, even though the phones are almost identical. Screenshot of apple.com&#x2
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by Ambroos 8y ago
Anecdotal, but still: I used to drive an Audi with a ton of advanced L2 systems (adaptive cruise control + lane assist). Both systems work from standstill to ~180km/h (well above highway speeds). While not perfect, I did use them both
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by Ambroos 8y ago
Yes, the cause for throttling is only thermal as long as your battery is over ~5% charged. In fact, while charging performance might even be a bit lower because charging the battery generates some heat as well, further lowering performance.
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by Ambroos 8y ago
To be honest, Apple's MBP CPU upgrades have never been worth it. They are advertised with these big turbo frequency increases that are rarely ever achieved. Even the base frequency doesn't matter because they'll clock far low
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by Ambroos 8y ago
That is very impressive! I wonder if a WaveNet decoder could be built for phone calls, as those still sound awful. If it's possible to do this only on the decoder side you don't have to wait for your network to start supporting HD
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by Ambroos 8y ago
Chrome with certain privacy-conscious settings disallows access to localStorage as well. It broke something we built too.

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