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by jallmann 11y ago
Gah, a gCaptain article! There goes my evening... Seriously, gCaptain is probably my favorite i-know-nothing-and-this-is-awesome industry blog. Would be fascinating to know more about (and perhaps work on!) the state of the art in maritime
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by jallmann 11y ago
If you want a dedicated circuit, then of course it's going to be expensive. But there's really no reason to spend that much money on an encoder, unless you're doing something like integrating an ASIC [1]. > Video chat syst
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by jallmann 11y ago
The issue is that your criticisms of C range from superficial, to incorrect, to straw men. > Dismissing Go and co as "hype" I didn't read OP as dismissing Go &c, just an acknowledgement that they are getting a lot of a
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by jallmann 11y ago
While the problem space where C would be appropriate has been shrinking, this rant is nonsense. > With C you'd have to install the proper library, then choose a build tool, then learn another language like make , then learn m4 macro
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by jallmann 11y ago
Read my earlier comments again carefully, because everything you've said has been addressed already. Because https://xkcd.com/386/ , I'll just repeat a few things: You keep talking about cost-benefit, but the
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> There are plenty of things we could do that would help certain people in a big way but we don't because the cost would be prohibitive. We certainly can't do everything (and what we can do is subject to constraints of scale)
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>> You spend what's necessary > The question is not necessity, it's cost/benefit. Necessity is everything. Cost-benefit might factor in when comparing different options, but the cost is often very high, especially to
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by jallmann 11y ago
> A bit overkill no? For just potholes, yeah, but there is a lot of other municipal infrastructure that could benefit from aerial inspection, especially if they are in non-public, low traffic or otherwise inaccessible areas.
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by jallmann 11y ago
> an unnamed mayor asked the Marine Corps to use a drone to find potholes in the mayor's city Let's play a guessing game! San Diego? We've got Miramar and Camp Pendleton here, along with crumbling infrastructure and terri
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by jallmann 11y ago
> Starting with iOS 8 they finally allowed linking against custom frameworks I don't keep up with iOS development enough to know if anything has changed with respect to static/dynamic linking in iOS 8, but it has always been po
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by jallmann 11y ago
Massive increase in complexity (distributing and tracking encoding state), significant increase in resource usage for everyone (network transfer, CPU). Not a win.
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by jallmann 11y ago
> offloading youtube video compression onto client machines Interesting thought experiment, but there just isn't a compelling reason for doing so, and many drawbacks. * The encoding might take a long time, users are fickle, and it a
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Yes, with the mediaSource constraint you can do screen sharing in WebRTC, but that's not anything specific to H.264.
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Moreover, there seems to be a contradiction there: they are saying engineering is not inherently domain-specific, but to seek out domain experts when the need arises. Okay? That network engineer isn't REALLY an engineer until he wants
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by jallmann 11y ago
> Well, I think blind people would disagree with you. Answered downthread. > Any speech interface could be trivially translated to a text interface, right? Pretty much, which is why UIs should not be exclusively auditory, that is, del
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by jallmann 11y ago
> 'immersive media' I am referring to the 360-degree omnidirectional dispersion pattern Then that is splitting hairs over a definition of immersion, and quite unrelated to how the word was used in my original comment. Had I in
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by jallmann 11y ago
> To the blind this would be a godsend For sure. Different interfaces disadvantage different classes of people. There is no silver bullet; I'm trying to point out that an exclusively audio/voice-driven UI would not be desirable
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by jallmann 11y ago
> the 'immersive' media in films is the audio, not the visual components That's a non-falsifiable opinion, really (even if it does apply to the majority of the population). I'm living proof you can enjoy movies witho
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by jallmann 11y ago
> The transition from primarily visual UX towards an auditorial UX is really powerful. It's also less accessible. I'm sure auditory UI is useful in many cases, but it also seems to be more cumbersome in others. In any case, I h
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by jallmann 11y ago
I know it's optional. An extraneous social overlay simply isn't on my list of desirable properties for an auth system (aside from WoT type mechanisms, which is clearly not the sell here). I'm thinking SSL client certs, you&#x
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by jallmann 11y ago
> If you liked what you just read, tell me No, that sounds terrible, sorry. Persona did one thing: authentication. I don't want to drag in a social graph along with identity auth, but YMMV.
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by jallmann 11y ago
I know, but then claiming Chromium as the most popular browser would invite pedantry the other way around, "Hardly anybody uses Chromium, they use Chrome!" And the analogy holds with AOSP versus the Android that is distributed wit
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by jallmann 11y ago
That's a really lazy rebuttal. Having another option that would be superior along multiple dimensions leads to analysis paralysis? We're not talking about Javascript frameworks here.
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by jallmann 11y ago
There is a lot to be said for having choice. Just because the dominant browser today is OSS (Chrome) doesn't mean Mozilla should declare victory and pack its bags with Firefox. Likewise, Android is hardly the ideal torch bearer for a F
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by jallmann 11y ago
> No mobile OS, no identity built in the browser, no distractions—it's just about the browser and how to make it better That's a rather narrow view of what the open Internet should be. Declaring failure with FirefoxOS and Perso
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by jallmann 11y ago
It sounds the real benefit for you is in OTP rather than anything intrinsic to Erlang's multicore implementation. > not see that multicore and multi-node are related There is a huge distinction in implementation, which Erlang/O
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Significantly slower, or is a single println simply under the noise floor?
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> Aristotle, Plato and a whole host of great thinkers, western and otherwise, would disagree. Oh man, you invoked the philosophers! This could have been such an interesting discussion, instead we're left with a rather oblivious appe
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by jallmann 11y ago
The ocean. Pollution, cleanup, how we are affecting the oceans, how changes in the ocean affect us, and ultimately harnessing the oceans for greater good, preferably without destroying them in the process. Space gets a lot of attention, but
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by jallmann 11y ago
> You might be talking about some kind of Spectravision-style video scrambling I think that's exactly what he means. You're right, it's not intended to be cryptographically strong encryption in the modern sense. Scrambling

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