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by derf_ 4y ago
> 1. Can you point any company in recent history that went through bankruptcy/auction to pay is retail investor their money back... Hertz: https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/01/business/hertz-bankruptc
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by derf_ 4y ago
There is latency associated with coming out of deeper C-states (from hundreds of microseconds to milliseconds, depending on the transition, which may include L1 and L2 cache flushes, etc.), so it isn't just the power. It's faster,
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by derf_ 4y ago
AV1 does not use rANS in any form. The quoted sentence is simply incorrect. However, any necessary patent claims owned by Microsoft, an AOM member, would be freely licensed to everyone for use in AV1 implementations if it actually did use r
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by derf_ 4y ago
We created avenues for open source / community participation in AOM that did not require people to pay any money. Specifically, Mozilla sponsored the membership of VideoLAN, which in theory anyone could join, and a number of people did
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by derf_ 4y ago
That is a common misunderstanding of first-to-file. Under first-to-file, prior art is absolutely still a defense, and much easier to prove than under first-to-invent. If you publicly disclose something before someone who invented, but di
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by derf_ 4y ago
In the IETF's case, this is because, by policy, RFCs are immutable once published. You can update an RFC by publishing a new RFC that specifies the changes, or a new one that obsoletes the original entirely (this document does both to
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by derf_ 4y ago
> I've had more than one customer argue with me over the years that they would rather pay hourly than a fixed price (however that fixed price was calculated) Hello, I have been one of these people. If I agree to a fixed price, the
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by derf_ 4y ago
> Also, I think the intention is that the license you have to grant only covers implementations of AOMedia standards; if a VVC implementation or whatever also used your invention, that would probably need a separate license you could ch
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by derf_ 4y ago
> ... it seems like Buffett is betting that won't happen ... At the end of 2021, Berkshire owned about $4.5 billion of Chevron shares. In that same year, Berkshire Hathaway Energy, which has made huge investments in wind and solar
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by derf_ 4y ago
> Time to take standardization to ISO or another "real" standardization body. If you want to see how the web could be worse, do this. The ISO process is openly hostile to the development of royalty-free standards. You can dir
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by derf_ 4y ago
> ...and this could be for a number of reasons that have nothing to do with anything you did. My father used to captain ships, and once explained to me that if the ship runs aground, it doesn't matter that the captain was asleep i
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by derf_ 5y ago
Maybe from 10,000 feet. Buffett only invests in certain kinds of companies (those within his "circle of competence"), so you only get so much diversity. Also, because Berkshire is a conglomerate, businesses which generate large am
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by derf_ 5y ago
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-iab-protocol-mai...
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by derf_ 5y ago
As someone who sat on a committee handing out (small) research grants in the past (usually as no-strings-attached donations), the concern was never really that you would not deliver exactly what was promised. The concern was that you would
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by derf_ 5y ago
I don't know anything about seismology, and I am going to put aside the money and focus on the math. > The features you're interested in are almost never what's clearly imaged -- instead, you're predicting what'
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by derf_ 6y ago
You are right to be concerned. The primary culprit is the use of C99 variable-length arrays (or alloca when those are not available). I can see why ASAN would want to pad those. Fortunately, the allocation sizes of these arrays are tightly
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by derf_ 6y ago
I have seen false positives in ASAN. In Firefox, media threads use a reduced stack size (128 kB), due to, historically, 32-bit address-space concerns with lots of media elements on a page. Opus, in its default configuration, requires a fair
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by derf_ 6y ago
OpenSSL's API has a lot of surface area. As someone who has used it on a project, once you start trying to do "advanced" things like optimize round trips in conjunction with your application layer on top of it, you have to
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by derf_ 6y ago
You say that like this stuff does not happen in other regulated contexts: https://www.fca.org.uk/news/press-releases/fca-fines-and-pro... Without trying to defend Coinbase in particular, isn't the fact that t
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by derf_ 6y ago
That's great! Take the opportunities you have to do good for the world. Everyone's circumstances will present them with different ones.
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by derf_ 6y ago
I don't know. It was a sincere statement. Let me tell you a little bit about medical software. It is incredibly hard and expensive to get data. It usually involves finding enough people who are dying in a particular way (already hard),
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by derf_ 6y ago
I mean, that's fair. He's not even wrong. I just found it funny that I have literally done both of the things he was trying to draw a contrast between. I mean, not precisely slapping note-taking onto a browser shell, but close eno
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by derf_ 6y ago
> It's not curing cancer. I do believe that creating software can be a deeply meaningful experience, and that software can change people's lives for the better in real ways. But... this is a VC-funded startup for a browser she
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by derf_ 6y ago
I am not certain why you are being downvoted. It is fairly common for voice stacks to include a high-pass filter to remove breathing noises and other low-frequency artifacts, and this could cause exactly the issues you describe.
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by derf_ 6y ago
The reward is that if you are successful, you get to interoperate with other people. That is the value that is unlocked, and it is a pretty huge value. The problem with patents and standards is that people are trying to charge for that va
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by derf_ 6y ago
Buffett likes to tell the story of Rose Blumkin, who founded Nebraska Furniture Mart, and worked until she was 103. Once she retired, she was dead within a year. This is meant to serve as a warning to other Berkshire managers thinking of re
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by derf_ 6y ago
As someone who files patents (and then gives away royalty-free licenses to them), this has not been my experience.
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by derf_ 6y ago
It is literally the same bits. Feel free to change the extension if that helps (it does on some old Android versions, for sure). Source: I am a co-author on RFC 6716 and RFC 7845.
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by derf_ 6y ago
You can replace the --exec 'ffmpeg ...' with just -x (or the long form --extract-audio).
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by derf_ 6y ago
> Unfortunately, it's a problem for a long time. This isn't something that happened in the last few decades. Yes, all of those things have been problems for a long time. However, the application of patent law to software an

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