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811.
by cbhl 8y ago
63% of SF is renters, but are 63% of those eligible to vote in SF renters? If even a quarter of those people are immigrants, that tips the scales quite a bit.
812.
by cbhl 8y ago
Do you know if scalable video coding actually ended up being implemented in industry (YouTube/Netflix/Hulu/Amazon)?
813.
by cbhl 8y ago
(Disclaimer: This comment is my personal opinion, not that of my employer.) Really exciting work. Encoding multiple versions of a video and picking a smaller one in response to congestion already happens for video-on-demand (think YouTube a
814.
by cbhl 8y ago
Neither -- I am saying that scientific funding primarily serves to keep scientists housed and alive (okay, and a little equipment too) and the money would go further without the overhead of means testing (that is, squabbling over which rese
815.
by cbhl 8y ago
Scientific funding is actually one of the things I would want to cut to fund a UBI. I feel like a lot of "college professor/researcher" work is dealing with the paperwork of justifying why someone should give you enough money
816.
by cbhl 9y ago
I agree, the idea that "intelligence is a property of the group" is an interesting idea that is worth exploring further with respect to AI research. I think the indie puzzle platformer Thomas Was Alone explores this idea in a cute
817.
by cbhl 9y ago
We really need to organize "how to write letters in support of nice things" sessions for techies. It really would not take many of us (maybe fifty or a hundred) writing letters to city hall to drown out the voices of these anti-te
818.
by cbhl 9y ago
Have you considered the Voltera PCB printer?
819.
by cbhl 9y ago
It is expensive to figure out the difference between who needs things and who is just good with paperwork ("means testing"). Also, people who need help with basic survival have the least ability to jump through paperwork hoops.
820.
by cbhl 9y ago
The bay bridge and transbay tube are pretty much at capacity at rush hour (8-10a, 3-7p). You can drive over the Bay Bridge in 15-20 minutes if there's no traffic. If there's an accident and a ball game and rush hour, you could eas
821.
by cbhl 9y ago
Indeed, although all the anecdotes in section 3.5 refer to instances where the temperature outside of the body would have been below freezing.
822.
by cbhl 9y ago
Ice destroys the cell walls and thawing turns you to mush.
823.
by cbhl 9y ago
Sometimes carriers will send a "delivered" even though it only made it as far as a cell tower (and not an actual phone)
824.
by cbhl 9y ago
Cities are far too car-centric now. Though I expect the anti-techie/anti-shuttle NIMBYs will be out to "save their parking spots and public rights of way". There's an easy solution to the "blocking the door" pr
825.
by cbhl 9y ago
Having to go down four flights of stairs to go to a bathroom is ridiculous. I wonder if this is an unexpected side-effect of automating warehouses. Normally, bathrooms are required by OSHA, but the relevant code appears to dictate only the
826.
by cbhl 9y ago
If one has a simple tax situation, I'd recommend looking at Credit Karma (US) or SimpleTax (Canada). Unfortunately, I've found TurboTax is better with weird corner cases. It helped me figure out I was eligible for the American Opp
827.
by cbhl 9y ago
In my opinion, the safe thing to do is probably not to "stop very suddenly", but to "pull over and stop in a safe manner, and have the blinkers on". I think it would also be possible to mitigate this problem by not drivi
828.
by cbhl 9y ago
I actually see the cookies remark as a mis-step -- the politically correct answer was "my team will get back to you" but the engineer in him couldn't resist trying to "correct" the senator who was trying to portray
829.
by cbhl 9y ago
AV1 (and thus AVIF) appears to be designed for screens (works in YUV color space). If you want to print, PDF is probably still your best bet.
830.
by cbhl 9y ago
The thing about Instagram is it takes groupthink from just a teen's school to the whole world. The bar is just so much higher. "It’s not enough to just connect people, we have to make sure those connections are positive."
831.
by cbhl 9y ago
Well, if you want hardware-accelerated decoding, you need new hardware. That seems reasonable? Software encoder/decoder implementations will also be a thing in the interim, until the hardware is ready.
832.
by cbhl 9y ago
I believe Google has hired quite a few hardware engineers since 2010. :)
833.
by cbhl 9y ago
Thanks for that explanation!
834.
by cbhl 9y ago
Same as when every new format comes out -- give a few years for the hardware folks to iterate on the hardware.
835.
by cbhl 9y ago
An earth-to-space optical link would still suffer from diffraction, right? As I understand it, this is also the same reason why it's dangerous to point laser pointers at airplanes.
836.
by cbhl 9y ago
I don't work on Chrome OS, but my understanding is that one of the things that makes this possible is that Chrome OS requires device manufacturers to upstream kernel drivers for a device to be supported. This means that -- unlike Andro
837.
by cbhl 9y ago
Presumably, by using a physical weapon to coerce you to give them your hardware. https://xkcd.com/538/
838.
by cbhl 9y ago
I really want there to be a simple benign explanation for this. Like, maybe this is a new privacy-first feature, and Zuck was simply dogfooding it internally, just like with every feature before it gets rolled out.
839.
by cbhl 9y ago
The root cause of this is likely because there is some legacy system at the bottom of the authentication stack. The password rules give this away -- there is an upper limit on length (50 characters), and you can't use symbols (@, $, et
840.
by cbhl 9y ago
To the contrary. Rent in the cities has plateaued, but mostly capped by the amount that banks and tech companies are willing to pay new grads.

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