TD-Linux

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by TD-Linux 9y ago
Patents are entirely unlike copyright in this, in that you can come up with a totally independent implementation, and still infringe the patent. The patents are very similar to audio or video codec patents - for example, they patent the pro
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by TD-Linux 9y ago
It's actually a pretty nice value add - you don't have to pay transaction fees, nor wait for confirmations. Of course, this assumes the implementation is competent, which seems to be under question in this case.
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by TD-Linux 9y ago
Why is that bad practice? Creating a duplicate transaction only doubles your transaction fees.
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by TD-Linux 9y ago
Cisco provides a fully licensed encoder, OpenH264, that you can download for free (Firefox uses it). That loophole was removed for H.265, though. I would have rather had only VP8 mandatory to implement in the standard, but at least this sit
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by TD-Linux 9y ago
WebRTC has codec negotiation, which means you can give preference to a particular codec while still supporting both.
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by TD-Linux 9y ago
It does support Opus for audio! No VP8 yet, but halfway there.
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by TD-Linux 9y ago
It guarantees UDP for all of the cases when UDP would work. You can choose to not use TCP if you like, though I think most games would actually desire a TCP fallback.
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by TD-Linux 9y ago
You can also fall over to a classic client/server model with WebRTC for one to many broadcasting, while still keeping the advantages of very low latency (and reusing much of the same code).
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by TD-Linux 9y ago
Plan B is pretty disappointing, Chrome compatibility winning over standards compliance :(
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by TD-Linux 9y ago
The license in the provided implementation seems to be a custom, non-commercial, non-OSI-approved license [1]. It also includes a patent grant, but excludes codec patents, making it even more useless (Nokia can't license other people&#
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by TD-Linux 9y ago
We've already implemented this as part of a web-based AV1 analyzer tool. You provide the URL to both the image and the decoder, which is very convenient because the decoder is constantly changing [1]. Wikipedia also does this to enable
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by TD-Linux 9y ago
They've already specified three different codec mappings - JPEG, AVC, and HEVC - so to open all HEIF files, you presumably need to implement all of the decoders. Worse, there is a financial incentive to implement only a subset of the d
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by TD-Linux 9y ago
Pretty bad. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Efficiency_Video_Coding#P... If you choose to implement this format, I hope you enjoy negotiating licenses with at least four different entities so that you can display pi
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by TD-Linux 9y ago
It also relies on centrally signed checkpoints in order to survive stake grinding attacks. I'm pretty sure such a solution would not be considered acceptable for Ethereum. https://download.wpsoftware.net/bitcoin/al
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by TD-Linux 9y ago
The author's assertion that "nobody uses Bitcoin Script" is a bit silly - EVERY transaction uses Bitcoin Script, just a very simple one, for addresses [1]. The next most popular scripts implement multisig. OpenTimestamps also
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by TD-Linux 9y ago
No. RTMFP is more akin to WebRTC - it provides a way to transport video and data in a P2P manner, but not any of the higher levels needed to behave like a CDN.
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by TD-Linux 9y ago
I don't know of any working non-proof-of-work cryptocurrencies ("byzantine fault-tolerant" sounds like a federated or centralized system to me, hardly a cryptocurrency IMO).
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by TD-Linux 9y ago
Most "printed" electronics mean either organic semiconductors, which generally have poor performance but are very cheap to print and flexible. This company also offers polysilicon, which is generally more expensive but is higher p
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by TD-Linux 9y ago
I still have my grandparents' Franklin Ace 1200. It's actually quite a beast for an apple II+ clone, fully loaded with 64k of RAM and two disk drives. It also comes with the fastest CP/M card available. Unfortunately, it uses
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by TD-Linux 9y ago
It's a feature originally developed for Bitcoin: https://bitcoincore.org/en/2016/01/26/segwit-benefits/ Litecoin is based on Bitcoin Core's codebase and therefore inherited it as well. Due
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by TD-Linux 9y ago
My local dealership in California was packed more Bolts than they know what to do with, so it sounds more like they just aren't being distributed well yet.
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by TD-Linux 9y ago
The "fast enough Vorbis" was likely the addition of Tremor, the first fixed-point Vorbis implementation. There's a nice (but with many old entries) chart of decode speeds here: https://www.rockbox.org/wiki&#x2
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by TD-Linux 9y ago
If buying from iTunes, you can choose ALAC, which is royalty free. Patent-encumbered audio codecs are popular at this point because of network effects, not technical superiority. There are many ways to reduce the network effect, even withou
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by TD-Linux 9y ago
Not believing in software patents is unlikely to change a court's mind. Instead, support formats that are royalty free from the start - Vorbis, Opus, and Codec2, for example.
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by TD-Linux 9y ago
MP3 is the worst performer of the lot, but is suddenly more attractive because it's free and AAC is decidedly not. If you don't need compatibility (like for bgm/sfx) it's still a worse choice than Vorbis or Opus because
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by TD-Linux 9y ago
It made them a lot of money.
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by TD-Linux 9y ago
You can accomplish the same with the OP's Bitcoin implementation just by having the charity own all of the Bitcoin addresses used.
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by TD-Linux 9y ago
Rails allow the sleds to not require batteries. This is especially important if you're moving things at inefficiently high speeds.
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by TD-Linux 9y ago
The rails are a rather interesting vote against batteries. Previously, the hyperloop designs were all gung-ho about loading batteries, however that's not shown here, implying third rail power.
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by TD-Linux 9y ago
This code is running on a dedicated Zynq SoC on the miner, where it's treated more as "firmware". Any capability based system running on this SoC would be designed by Bitmain, so they could just backdoor it as well. In additi

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