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by kwindla 6y ago
I disagree with these numbers, in general. Though of course "noticeable" is subjective and varies by use case as well as by person. For many people, end-to-end audio latency in a 1:1 conversation becomes noticeable/annoying a
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by kwindla 6y ago
This is a fantastic question. I agree with you that we're slowing boiling the frog (and the frog is ourselves) in accepting more and more latency in our real-time communications. I think the answer for Lyra is that latency is a concern
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by kwindla 6y ago
The closing lines are a tour de force of caustic criticism, which only work (and work magnificently) because the entire piece builds towards them sentence by sentence, paragraph by paragraph.
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The Vying Animal(bookforum.com)
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‘Special and Beautiful’ Whistled Language Echoes Around This Island(nytimes.com)
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Why Conspiracy Theories Are So Alluring(nybooks.com)
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by kwindla 6y ago
> On the one hand, yes, it's a hard problem, on the other hand, if you think about how much a modern video game does 60 times per second, it's not that hard anymore. Agreed! Modern GPUs are amazing, as is the software stack on
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by kwindla 6y ago
I'm always interested in data points, so thank you! If you don't mind, I'd love to hear what hardware/OS you're using. We have a lot of test devices, and it sounds like your particular setup is one that Google (and
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by kwindla 6y ago
> It’s crazy that I’m 2021 we don’t have video calling that isn’t a ginormous performance hog It sure is. On the other hand, the big tech companies did not view video calls as a critical use case until ~9 months ago. You can see this in
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by kwindla 6y ago
As a user, I think Google Meet probably has the most cpu-friendly default settings for screensharing. They limit the framerate to 5fps, and they're careful to use either the native size of the screen or half the native size (which avoi
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by kwindla 6y ago
Pricing for real-time video is hard. There are pretty large variable costs to run a service like this. WebRTC is peer-to-peer, architecturally. But if you run the service you pay for bandwidth for users behind firewalls (because you need to
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by kwindla 6y ago
I think the comparison to WebGL is apt. It's also worth adding that scaling WebRTC -- both to calls with more than a few participants, and to large numbers of users on a service -- is still a bit of a specialized undertaking. Partly be
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Rediscovering Bette Howland(mag.uchicago.edu)
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Daily (YC W16) Is Hiring a Head of Startup Experience(notion.so)
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by kwindla 6y ago
Ben Thompson provides a more nuanced analysis, including useful background for engaging with a lot of the questions posed in the threads here: https://stratechery.com/2021/internet-3-0-and-the-beginning-...
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by kwindla 6y ago
cpu usage on each client is also an issue. Architecturally, WebRTC connections are always peer-to-peer, in the sense that each transport carrying media is negotiated individually and does its own bandwidth shaping. This has some really nice
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by kwindla 6y ago
Sean and Pion are awesome! Definitely talk to Sean. I'm happy to talk to you, too. I do a lot of "let's just talk about real-world things you'll encountering building video features" calls. You don't need to be
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by kwindla 6y ago
We're a YC company that tries to do exactly that: WebRTC-based features that "just work", with APIs for everything you might want to do with real-time media: https://www.daily.co/ As you noted below, the
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by kwindla 6y ago
There are a lot of use cases for WebRTC. Video calls are the biggest one right now. But anything you can imagine that needs low-latency (<200ms) video or audio is something you can potentially do with WebRTC in a browser, these days. The
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Daily (YC W16) Is Hiring an Engineer Who Writes(notion.so)
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Zoom Executive Accused of Disrupting Calls at China’s Behest(nytimes.com)
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What Made Leonardo Such a Great Artist? Science, Says a New Book(nytimes.com)
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Evolution of my role as a founder CTO(miguelcarranza.es)
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It’s Not Science Fiction(nybooks.com)
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Dudes Without Heirs(nybooks.com)
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Daily (YC W16) Is Hiring WebRTC, Rust, GStreamer, and Android Engineers(daily.co)
1 points by kwindla 6y ago
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by kwindla 6y ago
Daily | Full Time | All Remote (anywhere in the world) | https://daily.co We make APIs for video calls and live video. We have open roles for experienced Android, WebRTC, gstreamer (or similar), and customer-facing engineers. We
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by kwindla 6y ago
Related, C++ template metaprogramming. Very useful, quite complicated to wrap your head around initially (at least it was for me), and a somewhat accidental language feature: https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/que
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In Dark Times, I Sought Out the Turmoil of Caravaggio’s Paintings(nytimes.com)
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Finding a Path Through the Odyssey(nybooks.com)
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