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by niftich 10y ago
You're thinking of MPEG-2 Part 3 (also known as MPEG-2 BC) in Layer 2 , a backwards-compatible extension to MPEG-1 Part 3 that allows multichannel audio. MPEG itself has a FAQ entry on "When should I use AAC rather than MPEG-2
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by niftich 10y ago
H.264 in context of MPEG is MPEG-4 Part 10 "Advanced Video Coding" , published in 2003. It's probably what OP is referring to, since pretty much no one on the web uses the other MPEG-4 video coding (anymore), MPEG-4 Part 2
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by niftich 10y ago
Hangouts Meet: Webex, Bluejeans, GoToMeeting, Join.me, etc. Hangouts Chat: Slack, Teams, etc. What happens to the "old" Hangouts as included in GSuite? And what of Hangouts in general?
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by niftich 10y ago
Unfortunately for Mozilla, the reality is that Google, with its combination of large marketshare, aggressive timelines, and wide platform penetration (on both their own first-party and others' third-party platforms) had accomplished mo
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by niftich 10y ago
1. Take it private 2. Focus app and website around two concepts: 'Now' and 'Here' -- temporally local, and spatially local. 'Now' would surface what's happening in the world now: major entertainment events
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by niftich 10y ago
You're right, I misspoke; I meant to say several audiences out of a larger pie of distinct cohorts; instead of using wording that implied a large absolute amount of people. In the past, I've written about [1][2] my views of Mozill
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by niftich 10y ago
Oh, what a twist! In a story that began two years ago with Pocket's integration by Mozilla [1] in Firefox [2], large segments of the userbase spoke out with scathing criticism. This, at first blush, appears unrelated: Mozilla previousl
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by niftich 10y ago
I wrote about Multihash the other day [1], but in that comment I refrained from outright criticism. However, my biggest reservation about Multihash is that it deliberately pollutes the value space of a hash digest, while in good faith claim
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by niftich 10y ago
I profess I don't know much about the company, but this effort is a continuation or an application of the W3C Linked Data Platform [1] initiative that are attempts to put Tim Berners-Lee's ideas [2] about the Semantic Web into pra
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by niftich 10y ago
I didn't get a chance to make this point in that other thread, because the thread [1] of its follow-ups quickly morphed from promising [2] to meandering, but the combination of lax formats (PDF and JPEG in this instance) makes this sty
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by niftich 10y ago
Multihash is nice, but it solves exactly two out of many problems with migrating to a new hash. First, it carries the information of which hash function was used to produce the digest "in-band", so that this information does not
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by niftich 10y ago
Your comment doesn't apply for this particular case, because the submission goes into great detail that the parser in question was written with Ragel, a parser generator. The code written by them in Ragel contained a bug, which lay unc
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by niftich 10y ago
The CloudFlare blog entry [1] authored by him, also submitted by him to HN [2], and also posted by him in this thread [3]. [1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/incident-report-on-memory-leak-c... [2] https://news.ycom
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by niftich 10y ago
Most of these 'Sign in with [Social Identity Provider]' implementations, including Google [1] use OIDC ("OpenID Connect"), which in turn itself is built on top of OAuth 2.0. From the OAuth 2.0 side, the site into which y
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by niftich 10y ago
"It's like some extremely popular remailer company accidentally put badly or barely shredded copies of handled letters into other people's envelopes. Strangers' sensitive info is potentially sitting inside unsuspecting m
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by niftich 10y ago
I think it's heavily implied (" its real contribution is a set of interfaces, protocols, and components from which an information management system can be built ") that given enough buy-in, existing content stores could hook
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by niftich 10y ago
After a quick read, to me the difference vs. something like IPFS+IPNS seems to be the quasi-"federation" angle, such that Upspin acts like a protocol you can retrofit into an existing content store instead of self-hosted software
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by niftich 10y ago
This is a possibility. But downloads have been served out of "the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/" for years. Yes, it's owned by someone else and exploding turtles all the way down [1], but now that "the.earth.l
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by niftich 10y ago
But the downloads themselves aren't -- those are served out of https://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/0.68/ For later reference, here's some sha512sum excerpts for version 0.68: ea03a52d344699c10e66e4
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by niftich 10y ago
They have a large domestic population of people willing (~needing) to perform work despite scant worker protections, forming continuous domestic rural-to-urban migration; they have plentiful extractable raw materials and aren't particu
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by niftich 10y ago
This is pretty slick with useful information presented in easy-to-compare form. The hardest part is going to be keeping the info up to date. As others have mentioned, some pretty big-name offerings are missing despite being surprisingly cap
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by niftich 10y ago
This is an old idea that is finally coming to fruition. See a Microsoft paper from 2011 that prominently features cookie isolation [1]. Or a 2012 proposal in Mozilla's bug tracker [2] which resulted in some proof-of-concept code early
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by niftich 10y ago
The headline is indeed hyperbolic; the article admits that this is an evolution of millennials talking on AIM after school or gen X on the phone, with the only difference being the technology and capabilities have evolved. This isn't s
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by niftich 10y ago
In casual parlance of terminology, Vert.x isn't really a library in the sense a dependency you pull in because it implements some specific functionality with a handful of method calls. Vert.x "feels" more like a framework in
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by niftich 10y ago
"Swapping out an alternate implementation" sometimes means you shipped a bunch of components and the customer (who is not you, and doesn't necessarily have a direct line to you) can configure their software to enable or disab
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by niftich 10y ago
The linked post is framed as a criticism of Guice but it's actually a criticism of Dependency Injection. DI is one of those architectural tradeoffs that makes one thing easier (swapping out an alternate implementation) while making ano
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by niftich 10y ago
If your datetime is persisted ISO 8601 form, RFC 3339 form, some other unambiguously parseable string form, in epoch form, or as some database-native reliable datetime type, you'll be fine. But if by any chance it's Java-serialize
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by niftich 10y ago
I have no problem with this. At least this style of analytics makes it clear to both the reader of the URL and a casual observer that their visit is going to be catalogued as such, and for a careful clicker, easy to bypass. I find this much
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by niftich 10y ago
SLF4J is quality software, but it's quite ironic that it needs to exist at all, considering how much of both the Java mentality and the commercially significant Java EE platform is about coding against a well-defined interface that def
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by niftich 10y ago
The slides which inspired this listing include Guava -- omitted from this list -- an invaluable utility toolbelt that I think is a spiritual re-imagining of Apache Commons (... don't read too much into my phrasing, a lot of Apache Comm

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