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by jasode 3y ago
>Scrubbing in mpv is instantaneous for me for local files Yes, I agree that scrubbing in mpv or vlc is "instantaneous" but Youtube's web ui is even more hyperfast "instaneous" than mpv. >There is also a sol
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>, then Microsoft essentially killed their own $13B investment in OpenAI earlier this year. For investment deals of that magnitude, Microsoft probably did not literally wire all $13 billion to OpenAI's bank account the day the de
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>I really don't understand why any technically proficient user would willingly use any of the official YouTube frontends. I'm a technically proficient user that's written custom bash scripts for youtube-dl combined with
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by jasode 3y ago
>My reading is that they force you to publicize source code if you're hosting modified versions of the services. Your phrase "modified versions of the services" is glossing over some major details. If we use MongoDB as
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>, they're arguing against a fixed, non-negotiable 6% fee. The 6% exists in a marketplace of various fees (some charging less) based on other arrangements (discount brokers, For-Sale-Buy-Owner). E.g. Redfin charges 1%: https:&#
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>I said "good riddance" to the agents and did an MLS self-list for like $400. [...] So back to my original point -- where is that seller value coming from? It's a puzzle to you because you had the personality & mo
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by jasode 3y ago
>Ticketmaster merged with LiveMaster, a promoter and venue owner/operator. Yes, but when other promoters (not Live Nation) book artists at non-LN venues and use Tickemaster as the ticketing agent, all the extra convenience fees a
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by jasode 3y ago
> I get your point but how is Ticketmaster not a parasitic price-gouger? Ticketmaster isn't the true price-gouger. It's actually the artist + promotor + venue that collectively set the high prices. Ticketmaster is just the
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by jasode 3y ago
>Can we please stop posting twitter links? Friendly fyi... the moderator allows Twitter links and previously explained the reasoning: >We're not going to ban Twitter because, like it or not, it's the source of some of the
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>As a commercial product, it failed. We shouldn't say that being commercial is a model for success, [...] But to say Blender owes its success to being commercial feels backwards. You're misunderstanding what my attempted ex
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>yterdy: Blender went 7+ years without substantial improvements to its modeling and rendering tools and interface. It was a zombie, with a lot of resources wasted on the now-defunct game engine. The pivot away from what it had been is
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by jasode 3y ago
>This is an innocent misrepresentation of Blender's development history. While nothing you've said is false, Blender has been open source for more than 2 decades. It began that portion of its life as something of a mess, with
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by jasode 3y ago
> I'm amazed at how professional and finished Blender is for being an open source project. It feels like I'm using an Adobe product or similar. The "open source" label applied to Blender today inadvertently minimiz
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by jasode 3y ago
>I believe _this_ is what everyone has been suggesting someone do about fake DMCA for a while so, The problem is the "_this_" in this thread's example is a full-blown lawsuit by Google. Yes, this is a change from just
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by jasode 3y ago
For those unaware of history, Google's "ad revenue share" deal with Apple is similar to the early "distribution deal" that ~2002 Google struck with America Online. The basic financial enticement is the same: use o
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by jasode 3y ago
>That’s not legally a contractor then. [...] If you are setting their hours, bossing them around and/or providing equipment they are not a contractor they are an employee. There are 2 different uses of "contractor" : (1
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by jasode 3y ago
>who, while waiting to get into or out of garage, sitting in the car or soon to be sitting in the car clicks on ads to buy something? Wouldn't conversion rates be ridiculous? This reddit thread says it uses a UI dark pattern of
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by jasode 3y ago
>Yes, but I’d bet your ISP is required by law to store what IP was given to which customer at any given time for a certain period. In that sense, it’s just as bad privacy wise, If the gp you're replying to is talking about CG-NAT
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>It's primarily to do with users not being cognisant that Bing is a search engine. For example, I set my friend [...] she types: "google supermarket opening times" and so on. I'm not debating you because I don&#x27
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>How many of the general public wouldn't just choose Google if shown a list to choose a search engine? Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella admits the most common search query on Bing is "google" : https://www.google.
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by jasode 3y ago
>IMHO it was Github which made git popular. [...] The important feature was free hosting. Bitbucket also had free Mercurial hosting in 2009. I think it was 1 private repo in the free plan and it was later expanded to unlimited free re
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by jasode 3y ago
>But why do China and Korea get to change English naming conventions? Americans are exposed to Chinese names in both orderings of "Familyname Firstname" and "Firstname Familyname": - "Familyname Firstname"
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>Why authors are still messing this up almost 5 years later is bewildering I don't have an opinion on it but Westerners unfamiliar with Asian naming conventions can get conflicting signals. Some famous Japanese names that are well
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>I am somewhat surprised that there aren't more cheap-living communes in the US. A few thousand dollars could probably pay the living expenses of a few dozen people – assuming they are all on-board with such a materially minimalist
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by jasode 3y ago
>This is what I'm replying to from OP: >>"Hey, did anyone notice that we finally have a universal runtime (Javascript) on server+desktop+browser+mobile?!? Let's make _it_ fast by creating an IL runtime!!!" O
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>I don't understand this. WASM is not JavaScript: [...] So I think your analogy fails. WASM is not a JS IL, it's a separate IL Yes, that's what it looks like now . To explain the Javascript-to-WASM evolution, we use t
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by jasode 3y ago
>That idea of a universal/generic VM supporting many languages has been tried many times, with limited success, for example with the JVM, CLR, or Parrot. What makes this different? What's different this time is that WASM flip
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>Which is why all the LeetCode interviews always struck me as odd. They focus on algorithms, not data structures, The typical leetcode questions also focus on "data structures" because the candidate needs to have the mental
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>Let me introduce you to WordStar 4.0, a popular word processor from the early 80s. [...] I love how he puts it: It does everything I want a word processing program to do and it doesn't do anything else. [...] , remember that som
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by jasode 3y ago
>Bing makes over $11 billion a year now though, That ~$11 billion is revenue not profit. We'd have to compare Bing's lower profit numbers to the various reports ($4-$7 billion? $18 billion?) of Apple payments from Google

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