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by nvarsj 5y ago
Except you can't really get good quality. Netflix 4k bitrates are atrociously bad. Compression artifacts are super noticeable especially in dark scenes. I think they use around 10mbps for 4k, which is just a joke. Blu-ray is around 50m
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by nvarsj 5y ago
Whoever can pull this off will be the next iTunes/Spotify. But I don't think it will happen until piracy starts becoming a major problem and streaming services are pressured to consolidate to compete. Plex shows there is a larger
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by nvarsj 5y ago
Is that true? I remember most people, including myself, would get the full DirectTV/Cable subscription, hook up TiVo, and just record/watch on demand whatever you want. Those days seem impossible now. It certainly feels like thing
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by nvarsj 5y ago
Youtube will get there soon enough.
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by nvarsj 5y ago
> For example a "random number generator" that just has a large hardcoded list of random-looking values and loops over the list may pass a test if the list is long enough that the loop can't be detected, even though the va
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by nvarsj 5y ago
It's a misunderstanding of the paper I think. The blog post author and SO post both make the mistake of altering the Paxos Made Simple algorithm to allow sending phase 2 messages to any majority set of acceptors. But that doesn't
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by nvarsj 5y ago
Python is basically unusable without venvs in my experience. Not sure what your alternative suggestion is. I hope you don't think global pip install is the right way.
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by nvarsj 5y ago
The lack of backwards compatibility with extensions is probably my number one issue with Gnome. Every release breaks every extension. I wish they would commit to stable APIs.
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by nvarsj 5y ago
Such statistics are misleading and it's a pet peeve when they are pulled out in discussions. You can't predict a child's outcome so simply. Both Obama and Clinton were raised by single parents. Such statistics are only on ave
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Your view seems so incredibly judgemental to me. I suppose that's your right, but in my own experience, plenty of people have personal struggles while being very successful at business. I think it is also a view that is uncomfortably s
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I'll just say this is a good reason to use a full DE like Gnome or KDE. At least with Gnome/X11 I never had any issues with external monitors. And it seems to always remember the display config of any monitors I had used in the pa
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by nvarsj 5y ago
I guess you never ran into https://spin.atomicobject.com/2018/08/24/macbook-pro-externa... . The chroma is broken on a large number of external displays when using OS X. Just search the apple forums for how co
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by nvarsj 5y ago
It definitely makes generic exploits harder. Without RELRO it's easy to leak libc once you find an overflow. You can also easily take control via overwriting the GOT pointers. Unsure what you mean by any in the binary - with PIE you ca
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by nvarsj 5y ago
I decided to get a fully spec'd out Thinkpad X13 AMD 2nd gen instead - 32gb ram, 1TB ssd, 8/16 cores, 16:10 2k screen. All for the whopping price of 1k GBP, a third the price of a similarly spec'd MBP.
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I think you convinced me to not get a new MBP. These are the exact kind of issues I had with prior MBPs. Also Emacs was always inexplicably 5x slower than on Linux. It's a shame we can't use alternative OSs on the hardware.
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by nvarsj 5y ago
It's the philosophy of Arch to stick to vanilla as much as possible and keep things simple. It's a rolling distro too with no fixed release cycles. When you upgrade fedora, ubuntu, etc. they perform various scripts to migrate exis
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by nvarsj 5y ago
Yeah I'm familiar with what is in OS X, I have had to use it a few times for work. The fullscreen approach is very clunky. And the window animations are incredibly slow. I'm used to dynamically moving windows around and tiling thi
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by nvarsj 5y ago
Don't you think it's deserved? I haven't seriously used a macbook in nearly a decade now but the M1 is making me consider buying one. Desktop class performance in a laptop with very long battery life is just amazing. The only
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by nvarsj 5y ago
I think it’s because of the government moves that have effectively shut down a huge swath of prior contracting gigs (where SWEs got paid decently, albeit as freelancers). These experienced engineers are not going to work for 70k/year l
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by nvarsj 5y ago
That report is very misleading. Customer count is a useless metric for a CDN. If you looked at total traffic and spend, Cloudflare would be dwarfed.
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by nvarsj 5y ago
Doing CTFs is also a way to get intimately familiar with x86 assembly, and they are pretty fun too.
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I have a lot of respect for Carmack but I wish he wouldn't tweet things like this. It just feeds into confirmation bias. You could say the same thing about the work ethic of immigrants... well yes, it's self selecting. Just like t
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by nvarsj 5y ago
I've been a long time golang user and while I like to give the golang maintainers the benefit of the doubt, I have also struggled heavily with go modules. I think my main issue with it is that it does things implicitly without you tell
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That's incorrect. The go blog recommends copying your entire project into a v2 folder. They do suggest you can use tags/branches instead, but it will cause problems with GOPATH projects.
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Meeting recordings have terrible signal to noise ratio. Instead of putting effort into creating a concise document to describe the meeting output and actions to take, the burden is placed on others to shift through an hour video. I also see
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by nvarsj 5y ago
You can't get lead poisoning from using lead solder. The melting point is not high enough to turn the lead into a gas. In fact, lead free solders are generally more harmful - due to higher melting points they tend to produce a lot more
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by nvarsj 5y ago
I'm mostly watching seasonal stuff so it makes it a bit more challenging. You'd need to know what comes out every season and scrape the discussion threads for that. https://anichart.net/ is an example of listing a
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by nvarsj 5y ago
Ah, this is great. For anyone who has ever tried to hunt down episode discussions on reddit, you know it is usually a multiple step process of searching and clicking through pages to find it depending on the show. And if you're on mobi
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by nvarsj 5y ago
If you can manage a consistent 7% return then you should be running a hedge fund.
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by nvarsj 5y ago
Any engineering methodology that requires 500+ pages to explain should be hard avoided. The size of those DDD books always made me run away. Good engineering should always come back to KISS. Abstract only when it helps reduce complexity.

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