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by jmb99 2y ago
They still suck compared to software encoders. This is true for both H.264 and H.265 on AMD, Nvidia, and Intel GPUs. They’re “good enough” for live streaming, or for things like Plex transcoding, or where you care only about encoding speed
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by jmb99 2y ago
> then you can replace the -1 with the nearest even integer (I wonder why it can't do that by itself, but apparently, it can't). Likely because the aspect ratio will no longer be the same. There will either be lost information
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by jmb99 2y ago
For me, it wasn’t so much learning ffmpeg, as it was understanding containers/codecs/encoders/streams/etc. Learning all of the intricacies there made ffmpeg make a lot more sense.
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by jmb99 2y ago
Literally 0 games I own on steam have any startup items. Custom launchers yes, but not startup items. A few games have kernel anticheat, but they all start with the game. The exception is FaceIt for counter strike, but that’s not distribute
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by jmb99 2y ago
> You fix that by making root access inconvenient enough that companies can't rely on the average random user having it enabled. AI TikTok voice “Hey guys, if you just bought a new iPhone, make sure you remove Apple’s restriction
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by jmb99 2y ago
Not that I would agree with such a policy (I currently do online bank using Linux), but why is it not within the bank’s rights to make that restriction? If they determine (with whatever degree of accuracy) that online banking from Linux&#x2
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by jmb99 2y ago
I agree. The gist of the main arguments I see in this thread are that average people should be trusted to choose whether or not they will unlock their device. Yet, a group of (presumably) some of the most technically savvy people on the int
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by jmb99 2y ago
More than likely, they’ll instead just start actually renting you the products. See Apple’s 2-year rental program for a (relatively) non-predatory implementation, or NZXT’s for a very predatory implementation.
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by jmb99 2y ago
> so I don't know where the pressure for secure enclaves really comes from. In my experience, security engineers who see them as finally solving the “root of trust” problem. Generally (ime) it’s security engineers/teams that ha
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by jmb99 2y ago
Would you prefer for your technologically illiterate relatives (think grandparents/etc getting their first computing device): - A computer that is compromised by malware - A computer that doesn’t permit the user to install malware, and
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by jmb99 2y ago
Because it’s their software? It is well within your bank’s rights to deny you access to their online banking system for pretty much any (technical) reason they choose; why are you entitled to run their app on what they deem to be an insecur
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by jmb99 2y ago
While obviously not perfect, what we have today is > limit[ing] access to general-purpose computing without doing so across the board for everyone I imagine the vast majority of people on this site run (or at least have used) Linux, *BSD
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by jmb99 2y ago
Collision insurance != liability insurance.
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by jmb99 2y ago
There exist (very cheap) SSDs without TRIM support at all currently for sale. I own one. It won’t die, but writes will suck if you’re writing more than the overprovisioned space all at once. For this use case, that’ll probably never happen
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by jmb99 2y ago
> The "what if you don't have the tool" situation never happens in case of Rust. So it’s built into GitLab and GitHub? BitBucket? How easy is it to use on windows (i.e. is it is easy as opening a .h in notepad and reading
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by jmb99 2y ago
I think there’s a fairly reasonable argument to be made that the (super)majority people today are better off than they would have been 2-500 years ago, at least in most of the world.
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by jmb99 2y ago
We don’t have to assume, because we know. We can calculate and measure the efficiency of gasoline and diesel engines, and electric motors. We know that electric motors are highly efficient, and ICE engines are not.
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by jmb99 2y ago
Maybe I should have expanded a bit more. He lives in downtown Toronto in the financial district, and went to university in Waterloo, both heavily Asian (Chinese, and to a lesser extent Japanese and Korean) immigrant populations. The Indian
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by jmb99 2y ago
Quote from a Chinese friend of mine form over the holidays (currently in Canada on a work visa, applying for a PR shortly, started as an exchange student in highschool): “I really like coming back to [jmb99’s hometown], it’s all white peopl
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by jmb99 2y ago
Sure, but what if the motherboard (or some other proprietary and expensive component) has a major failure? Then you're stuck with a locked CPU. Generally, the used market values standard form factor stuff more, so you'll frequentl
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by jmb99 2y ago
They could have also dropped those rails by just dropping them, and leaving the connector the same. It’s pretty unlikely they needed the extra current on the 5V rail.
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by jmb99 2y ago
That doesn’t work well if the motherboard has a proprietary form factor/power requirements/riser cards/etc. Plus, shipping a motherboard is much more difficult and expensive than a CPU.
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by jmb99 2y ago
If you have the capability to actually skillfully analyze this type of crypto, disassembling the binaries from your device (or at the very least, an ipsw for your device) should be trivial. After all, you wouldn’t actually be trusting the s
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by jmb99 2y ago
> For obvious reasons AMD boards don’t tend to ship with Intel wifi Funnily enough, the threadripper (at least WRX90, and at least asrock) come with an Intel dual 10Gb LAN card. Probably because none of the alternatives are good enough f
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by jmb99 2y ago
Or the manufacture of new vehicles to replace perfectly serviceable old ones.
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by jmb99 2y ago
I would argue that, if the sole differentiating requirement is “must be proficient at linear algebra” (at an undergraduate level), the pay requirements shouldn’t be that different from most other similar jobs. Almost every engineering job w
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by jmb99 2y ago
It can be inferred that they’re making satellites, or at least satellite components. It’s pretty likely that vector math will be involved in some of the software being written in that context. In particular, if anything they write involves
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by jmb99 2y ago
Air filters remove particulates down to some size, varying based on the filter. They do not scrub CO2 or CO, nor do they (generally) remove other things like VOCs - unless they’re really, really expensive filters. Opening a window exchanges
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by jmb99 2y ago
My house currently is sitting at 35% humidity while being very poorly ventilated (~900ppm CO2). In the summer, it’s around 50% with the same level of ventilation. This generally has been the case everywhere I’ve lived; in the summer, you’re
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by jmb99 2y ago
Developer time is more expensive to the company than the user’s ram is, of course.

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