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1. 931.▲
   by oefrha 3y ago

   Gurman seems to get some controlled leaks from headquarters from time to time but interprets them wrong all the time. Kuo gets some supply chain leaks and everything else he says can be ignored. But of course there’s an entire industry pump
2. 932.▲
   by oefrha 3y ago

   > I’ve recently heard of TikTok stars with millions of followers struggling to get even 5,000 views on their videos — a conversion of just 0.5% to people who explicitly opted in to following you! That’s not a bad thing. Many social media
3. 933.▲
   by oefrha 3y ago

   Tons of people have already been defrauded on the phone with cloned voices of their family members in recent years. There are a million convincing Trump speeches on YouTube, complete with video, that he never delivered. It’s not something t
4. 934.▲
   by oefrha 3y ago

   Simply spending $20B is like at least two orders of magnitude easier than any of your proposed alternatives in this country.
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   by oefrha 3y ago

   I think it was around 2018 when Google Translate translated Chinese 万 (ten thousand) to “million” for me, making the stats I was looking at completely nonsensical. I was shocked it managed be so wrong about something so basic. I wouldn’t ca
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   by oefrha 3y ago

   No, githubusercontent.com is used for image uploads, but file attachments have always been on github.com under the repo path. I recall using this as a makeshift distribution mechanism years ago, I was surprised and already thought about the
7. 937.▲
   by oefrha 3y ago

   You mean the "single vendor" fork from Turso, the VC funded startup [1]? Thanks but no thanks, I'll stick with D. Richard Hipp. [1] https://turso.tech/investors
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   by oefrha 3y ago

   Gotta love seeing WordPress websites taken out by a couple rps in 2024. https://web.archive.org/web/20240419052907/https://theprogre...
9. 939.▲
   by oefrha 3y ago

   While some regulations might be beneficial, it’s sad that the opinion of an 80-year-old on nascent technology carries so much weight…
10. 940.▲
    by oefrha 3y ago

    > In other words, explicitly forbid people from using ChatGPT, Bard, GitHub Copilot, and so on, to create ebuilds, code, documentation, messages, bug reports and so on for use in Gentoo. On the one hand, I’m on the fence about this heavy
11. 941.▲
    by oefrha 3y ago

    There are plenty of options to render SVG serverside, no idea why you think “we’ve almost completely lost the art”. For instance, with Apache Echarts: https://apache.github.io/echarts-handbook/en/how-to/cross-
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    by oefrha 3y ago

    > There's a bar with "Siri Suggestions" right up top showing apps you should install (exactly the same as this Windows screenshot). What are you talking about? I’ve never seen an app that’s not on my phone already in Siri
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    by oefrha 3y ago

    > Consider for a moment the impression that you make when you say that some people you know, when they're not publishing on NeurIPS, are on social media dogpiling on someone who criticises their work. That's not researchers any
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    by oefrha 3y ago

    According to https://money.cnn.com/2016/10/20/news/saudi-government-worke... , 70% of employed Saudis work for the government, and according to their civil service minister, "many" of them don&
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    by oefrha 3y ago

    I won’t comment on culture but it is a fact that the majority of working Saudis work in bullshit government jobs where they basically collect paychecks for free, and actual labor is overwhelmingly performed by cheap migrant workers, no? Or
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    by oefrha 3y ago

    I would say a deputy director (making 200-300k a year, so not “priced out”) embezzling funds to furnish his personal accommodations is part of the problematic culture that leads to the kind of crap you described. People simply embezzle fund
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    by oefrha 3y ago

    The Thai ship is made by a rival, and the article also mentions an earlier instance of a Russian ship.
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    by oefrha 3y ago

    I raise you U.S. senator and house rep using photos of foreign rivals’ ships to wish U.S. Navy a happy birthday: https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2021-10-13/us-navy-birth...
19. 949.▲
    by oefrha 3y ago

    They didn’t construct shit. > For a mere $42,000, Navarro allegedly installed a kitchenette, shower, plumbing and security cameras [to an existing office]. Doesn’t sound cheap or impressive when you are doing it yourself instead of hirin
20. 950.▲
    by oefrha 3y ago

    I’m talking about the underlying libav*. There are plenty of frontends in all sorts of languages, although ffmpeg(1) itself is obviously the most versatile. Also, CLI UX is highly subjective (hence all the different frontends by people with
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    by oefrha 3y ago

    > 8 liner with 25 arguments That’s tame for FFmpeg, likely just specifying a bunch of encoder parameters the simpler command left out for defaults, maybe with some input/output streams explicitly spelled out. If you want to look at
22. 952.▲
    by oefrha 3y ago

    Basically no one rewrites FFmpeg in recent years, in any language, at least not in the open source scene (and judging from the known usage of FFmpeg in world’s premier providers of multimedia content, probably not in the commercial scene ei
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    by oefrha 3y ago

    I have emailed many time over the years. Got a response from dang every single time. Several accounts lost vouching privileges thanks to my emails, among other things — they were vouching clearly guidelines-breaking crap, I drew dang’s atte
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    by oefrha 3y ago

    “This is a high priority ticket” — in the context of an FFmpeg ticket it seems quite clear what “this” is: the FFmpeg ticket. When you communicate as employee of company X, you represent company X, especially when you specifically namedrop
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    by oefrha 3y ago

    QEMU and tcc were created by Fabrice Bellard, they were written by a god! Us mortals use autoconf ;)
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    by oefrha 3y ago

    This is an example of why Twitter links are terrible for figuring out what’s going on. At first glance, Microsoft is donating a few thousand dollars, cool, better than nothing, why not? You have to scroll up (and you have to be logged in to
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    by oefrha 3y ago

    I’ve worked with a few very talented pseudonymous developers on the Internet over the years. I can’t think of any way to vet their identities while maintaining their anonymity (well, it’s basically impossible by definition), plus if you’re
28. 958.▲
    by oefrha 3y ago

    I’ve given semi-popular projects that I no longer had the bandwidth to maintain to random people who bothered to email, no pressuring needed. While those projects are probably four to five magnitudes less important than xz, still thousands
29. 959.▲
    by oefrha 3y ago

    I’m just saying if you treat the cell phone like a landline it can work just as well (or badly). Hell, physically attach it to the base with a cord or something. My rural grandmother happens to have a landline and it doesn’t work like 20% o
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    by oefrha 3y ago

    A cell phone that’s always placed in its charging stand except when in use is indistinguishable from landline. There’s no “forgets to charge it” or “loses the charger”.