MrRadar

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by MrRadar 5y ago
I can agree with that.
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by MrRadar 5y ago
While I understand that you don't like the way that's phrased, those are definitely two of the main groups currently involved in cryptocurrency. The only other group I can think of that has seen significant uptake of cryptocurrenc
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by MrRadar 5y ago
Would anyone who downvoted this comment please write why you did? It seems well-reasoned, factually correct, and does not violate any of the HN guidelines.
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by MrRadar 5y ago
That's probably the street date of the physical issue of the magazine that will contain this article.
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by MrRadar 5y ago
JPEG XL has a party trick where you can losslessly transcode JPEG files to JPEG XL for a ~20% size savings. I imagine that every CDN out there will enable transparent conversion of JPEG to JPEG XL and that will drive adoption just by itself
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by MrRadar 5y ago
Ah, I missed your last sentence. Either way, though, I still think there is a benefit to banning anti-vaxx content from general-audience platforms in that it stops people who are not necessarily seeking out anti-vaxx misinformation from bei
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by MrRadar 5y ago
While none of the widespread variants show increased mortality compared to the original strain, the Delta variant is significantly more infectious than the original strain meaning that even if you're still taking the same precautions y
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by MrRadar 5y ago
I think by now we should understand that it usually takes an order of magnitude more effort to counter-act a false claim than it takes to make it in the first place. If your proposed approach was viable there shouldn't be people around
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by MrRadar 5y ago
So you understand and acknowledge that this vaccine can literally save your life, and you accept all the science that shows that it is safe and effective, but you refuse to get it because some people are being forbidden (by a privately-owne
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by MrRadar 5y ago
This reminds me of the XKCD What If series. I wish Randall was still doing that.
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by MrRadar 5y ago
When was that? I've been supporting people on Patreon since 2014 and it's basically been the same mix of independent comic artists and Youtubers the entire time. I know there was a ruckus when they kicked porn off the site, but I
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by MrRadar 5y ago
While I do not condone any harassment, the American Egg Board's core complaint that "Just Mayo" isn't actually mayonnaise because it doesn't contain eggs (which are an essential ingredient of mayonnaise, to quote Wi
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by MrRadar 5y ago
Yeah, at least in the US T-Mobile already has 5G deployed in most of their network footprint and AT&T and Verizon are quickly playing catch-up.
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by MrRadar 5y ago
Widespread issues like this on major CDNs tend to be configuration errors.
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by MrRadar 5y ago
They definitely underestimated the market's requirements for DOS compatibility. Microsoft in contrast understood that which is why Windows (though technically inferior to OS/2 in many respects, at least until Windows 95) ultimatel
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by MrRadar 5y ago
No mention of the PS/2 and Micro Channel Architecture? MCA was IBM's attempt to put the genie back in the bottle and redefine the PC back to being something they wholly controlled, and it utterly failed. It also didn't help t
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by MrRadar 5y ago
Also, CHaDEMo is only still being used on one or two new models in the US. Everyone else (except Tesla) has adopted CCS on vehicles that support fast charging.
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by MrRadar 5y ago
I definitely agree that paid services should not be allowed to use public broadcast spectrum.
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by MrRadar 5y ago
ATSC 3.0 has a new modulation scheme with more robust error correction and modern codecs, but it will take years for people to upgrade and for ATSC 1.0 to be phased out. Here's a video giving a preview of how 3.0 compares to 1.0 in rea
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by MrRadar 5y ago
Though most broadcast stations have sub-channels which eat some of that bandwidth. In my market, almost every station broadcasts at least 3 video channels. A few of them even manage to squeeze 6(!) into their 20 megabits (which would be fin
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by MrRadar 5y ago
It's likely a custom chip designed by their "semi-custom" division, like the APUs in the PS4/PS5 and Xbox consoles.
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by MrRadar 5y ago
Of course you can MITM HTTPS if you get the end user to install a custom CA, the point is that those are extra steps that few users will take (and if my ISP ever required that I would switch to a different one immediately since that's
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by MrRadar 5y ago
Seconding this recommendation. As long as you have a basic understanding of electric components he's really easy to follow and does a great job of explaining how the circuits work.
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by MrRadar 5y ago
Yeah, I mostly collect(ed) films and TV. I can imagine that the people authoring music DVDs would decide the bitrate tradeoff would be worth it to get the better quality when the focus of the disc is on the sound.
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by MrRadar 5y ago
DVDs can use PCM, however every commercial release I've seen uses Dolby Digital/AC3/A52 or DTS. (Apparently PAL DVDs may also use MP2 but as an American I've never personally encountered that on a commercially-released
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by MrRadar 5y ago
As the article points out, if the source is already lossy (which is (almost) all broadcast, DVD, and web sources) then you should just copy that bitstream into the resulting video (transcoding lossy to FLAC gives you the same quality at hig
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by MrRadar 5y ago
I'm not sure what would lead you to that conclusion. Starlink is another asymmetric service. This page[1] shows an average of 100 Mbit down and 16 up on Starlink. If they can get the upload slightly faster they would qualify for subsid
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by MrRadar 5y ago
I just signed up for fiber internet service at my new house and it's 940/940 symmetric. I'm 99% sure the service is some form of GPON so I don't think there's any inherent limitation that you can't have symmetr
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by MrRadar 5y ago
I think science fiction author Charles Stores put it best in this 2016 blog post[1]: > 2007 is when the human species accidentally invented telepathy (via the fusion of twitter, facebook, and other disclosure-induction social media with
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by MrRadar 5y ago
I think most activists recognize there will still need to be people authorized to use violence in certain circumstances, they just want to minimize the number of those people and make them more accountable. Most of the proposals I've s

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