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by derf_ 1y ago
> But still you might need to decode between 1 and N frames to get the frame you want, and you don't know how much memory it will consume... All of these things are bounded for actual codecs. AV1 allows storing at most 8 reference
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by derf_ 1y ago
My favorite is the sites who do parse Accept-Languages, but then pick the last one in the list instead of the first. I have mine in rough order of my competence in them, which gets me my least-competent language on some sites even when my
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by derf_ 1y ago
I once asked someone at a large Bay-area tech company why they did not invest more in fundamental R&D, and they told me, "We just buy the winners. 'All of Silicon Valley is our research lab'" (the last being, I belie
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by derf_ 1y ago
> > Codecs. VP8/9 and AV1 broke the mpeg alliance monopoly and made non patented state of the art video compression possible. > Could agree. Not sure of Google's real contribution to those. They were not the only contri
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by derf_ 1y ago
If you are referring to the standards-based "Unified Plan" vs. the Google proprietary "Plan B" for handling multiple media tracks in SDP, I believe that "Plan B" was finally phased out in 2022.
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by derf_ 1y ago
> I code with SIMD as the target, and have special containers that pad memory to SIMD width... I think this may be domain-specific. I help maintain several open-source audio libraries, and wind up being the one to review the patches wh
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by derf_ 1y ago
> I think our laws and institutions should strive to be race blind and treat people equally, as individuals... One of the things I was told in my mandatory DEI training was that male job applicants will frequently apply for jobs even w
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by derf_ 2y ago
> Recognising the flow of a conversation is just pattern recognition. That is what machine learning is good at. And surprisingly hard to do well in practice. My guess is that the problem is that there is very little information in your
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by derf_ 2y ago
> Sorry if you're having a car crash every 6 months or less, you shouldn't have a license. Actual traffic enforcement does not seem to produce this result. This woman is fairly famous on Reddit for her erratic driving, and wa
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by derf_ 2y ago
It looks like a straight-up bug in chroma quantization. libaom has never had good chroma RDO tuning.
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by derf_ 2y ago
Ask yourself: if 99% of the volume is being traded inside the house, how much easier is it to move the "fair" price in that street auction?
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by derf_ 2y ago
These kinds of wealth transfers have been studied, and you do not need dark pools for them, just predictable trading patterns. See, e.g., https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5080459 on index funds or h
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by derf_ 2y ago
One of the things I really appreciated when I worked for Mozilla was their legal department's policy that Mozilla employees not sign over-reaching NDAs [0]. Some of the points they insisted on: * It has to be limited in scope. It can
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by derf_ 2y ago
I think this is completely rational given a realistic threat model. As a customer, I've had my browser hacked exactly never, but examples of feature downgrades from vendors abound. Vendors are a much more serious attack vector than a r
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by derf_ 2y ago
In short: no, it shouldn't be. The Netflix post is sort of bizarre. They claim to be optimizing for minimum mean-squared error (MSE) given a conventional (bicubic) upscaling process [0], but... that should have an analytic closed-for
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by derf_ 2y ago
I am reminded of https://alphahistory.com/chineserevolution/great-leap-forwar...
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by derf_ 2y ago
Management often gets rewarded for new "launches", and rarely for things that already worked continuing to work. To some degree, so does the business (although a track record of things continuing to work over a long period has val
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by derf_ 2y ago
The author makes this point only somewhat implicitly, but I think for a lot of people, new feature development is the fun part of software engineering. Not for everybody (do not let me tell you how to have fun), but a substantial majority
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by derf_ 2y ago
> There is no general compression theory in which BWT could be described as a special case. I would not really say this is true. BWT is spiritually similar to the various Prediction by Partial Matching (PPM) algorithms, except that ins
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by derf_ 2y ago
> ...even if it's grouped somewhat incongruously under Department of Homeland Security. DHS is arguably a much more appropriate home for the Coast Guard than its previous department, Transportation, given all of the facets of thei
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by derf_ 2y ago
> it’s ok if insurance is expensive - let it result in the insured goods or services having a serious price adjustment. Long term, sure. In the short term, the rapid rise of housing prices combined with the increased rates and severity
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by derf_ 2y ago
If you do not need to handle gray-level inputs, but still want a signed distance transform without a step from 1 to -1 across the boundaries, some years ago I wrote a clever bit of 80's style C code which is O(N), has lots of 1-letter
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by derf_ 2y ago
> Also, how did Blackrock get so wealthy so fast? They've only been around since 1988. It is not their money. They have roughly $11.5 trillion of assets under management, but their market cap is only $161.5b (on net income of abou
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by derf_ 2y ago
A contemporaneous blog post about this case from 2022: https://ipde.com/blog/2022/11/04/a-wild-hearing-chief-judge-...
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by derf_ 2y ago
On the contrary, the Fed came out and pretty much guaranteed that depositors in any bank will not lose money, regardless of FDIC limits [0]. It was people "assessing their banks' solvency" (all at the same time) that caused t
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by derf_ 2y ago
> On the other hand, if everyone had access to this capability then society and civilization would grind to a halt. On the contrary, everyone does use this capability. It is what makes the concept of "retirement" possible.
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by derf_ 2y ago
> Apropos of nothing, what other country besides the US has a law that specifically prohibits giving a bribe to a foreign government? Every member of the OECD (including Japan and South Korea) and 8 more countries besides [0]? At a min
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by derf_ 2y ago
> (As I understand it, every reputable Ph.D.-granting institution requires the candidate to do a literature search to demonstrate novelty.) It is also worse than that, because for most dissertations, your committee is generally going t
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by derf_ 2y ago
> I wonder what percentage of http traffic is redundant compression dictionaries. How much could this actually help in theory? A lot of times you will send a (possibly large) blob of text repeatedly with a few minor changes. One exampl
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by derf_ 2y ago
Probably every video coding standard published after c. 2012 has some version of it in its toolbox (including VP9).

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