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by pavlov 2y ago
The most common video conferencing codec on WebRTC is VP8, which is not hardware decoded either almost anywhere. Zoom’s own codec must be an efficiency improvement over VP8, which is best described as patent-free leftovers from the back of
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by pavlov 2y ago
Because they were sending so much data to another process over the Websocket. An uncompressed 1920*1080 30fps RGB stream is 178 megabytes / second. (This is 99% likely what they were capturing from the headless browser, although maybe
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by pavlov 2y ago
> “Will this be one of the historical once every 70 years administrations? I’ll know it is if the government budget is cut by over 50%.” Did the author even bother to look how the US federal budget is spent? Social Security, Medicare a
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by pavlov 2y ago
Since they aim to support every meeting platform, they don’t necessarily even have the codecs. Platforms like Zoom can and do use custom video formats within their web clients. With that constraint, letting a full browser engine decode and
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by pavlov 2y ago
No, this story is about interprocess communication on a single computer, it has practically nothing to do with WebSockets vs something else over an IP network.
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by pavlov 2y ago
If you want to support every meeting platform, you can’t really make any assumptions about the data format. To my knowledge, Zoom’s web client uses a custom codec delivered inside a WASM blob. How would you capture that video data to forwar
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by pavlov 2y ago
Reading their product page, it seems like Recall captures meetings on whatever platform their customers are using: Zoom, Teams, Google Meet, etc. Since they don't have API access to all these platforms, the best they can do to capture
908.
by pavlov 2y ago
Trumpism has proven that most American conservatives don't want that. Republicans used to have a strong faction of fiscal hawks who advocated eliminating all the expensive non-military government spending: privatizing Medicare, cutting
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by pavlov 2y ago
More precisely people who want the government to leave them alone but actively harass other people that they don't like. "Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but
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by pavlov 2y ago
Which is a bit of a weird argument because people did get punched hard in 2020. Things were mostly very bad during Trump’s last year in office. Jobs were lost, millions died; Trump himself spent days in intensive care in October 2020. Polit
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by pavlov 2y ago
There’s lots of blame and anger directed at Democrats, but ultimately it’s the Republicans who picked Trump. They could have won against the unpopular Biden/Harris with practically any other candidate. Nikki Haley polled well against a
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by pavlov 2y ago
It’s right there in the last paragraph of the comment you’re replying to.
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by pavlov 2y ago
Yes - you may have noticed that the current president didn’t seek re-election for those reasons. His successor is just as old and not significantly better equipped mentally (judging by the way he talks and conducts himself). Vance may becom
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by pavlov 2y ago
The scariest thing is the Peter Thiel connection. Thiel paid for Vance’s successful Senate campaign. Now his made man is next in line for the presidency (behind an overweight 78-year-old with memory issues). An amazing ROI for his money. Bo
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by pavlov 2y ago
Inflation was global, and the USA navigated it much better than other Western economies. But of course that’s far too much nuance for the average voter anywhere.
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by pavlov 2y ago
Recover? It’s better than ever on every actual metric. But I do look forward to February 2025, when journalists will once again travel to rural Pennsylvania to interview Trump voters in diners who will say that the economy is amazing now th
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by pavlov 2y ago
”Stella” is the more historically important album for sure, and has more of an avant-garde edge. But I really enjoy the excessive late ‘80s production on “Flag”.
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by pavlov 2y ago
Also, Yello. They're pretty much only known for "Oh Yeah" which was used in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off", but their albums are full of fabulous stereophonic productions. For example "The Race" from 1988
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by pavlov 2y ago
The album cover is from 1968. This article is from 2020. Just to clarify the ambiguous date added to the title on HN.
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by pavlov 2y ago
You can put physical Post-It notes in the empty space, so you know what Recording 1, Recording 2 etc. actually are.
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by pavlov 2y ago
That’s a different kind of growth, though. Organizational and economic growth can be unbounded like cancer. This so-called “growth mindset” is about personal growth. A person is limited by the hours in the day, they can’t grow indefinitely.
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by pavlov 2y ago
Having worked with RTP, I was honestly very confused why anyone would pick this as the one protocol to rule them all. (Especially as most applications need RTCP too, so at best it would be two protocols to rule them all…) It’s odd that some
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by pavlov 2y ago
It’s like Microsoft embracing Linux. They’ll come around to it slowly, and in five years there will be an Autodesk-branded Blender.
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by pavlov 2y ago
Artists are often taught to paint outdoor shadows a bit purple, for maximum contrast with the yellow tint of sunlight.
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by pavlov 2y ago
Sounds like it’s time for an AI that writes emails like a busy tech executive: “no big deal. get it done. steve”
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by pavlov 2y ago
The Seattle-Chicago line is operated by a single company. Europe has dozens of national operators. So any direct comparison is of course difficult to make. To travel 3000 km on a high-speed train, Japan and China certainly offer the opportu
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by pavlov 2y ago
Totalitarians are kicking in your door at 3am because you’re critical of dark matter? Exaggerate much… There is a lot of real oppression in this world. Disagreement over how to interpret astrophysical observations doesn’t enter into any of
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by pavlov 2y ago
Wait until you find out how quickly you can board and exit a train at a station that’s right in the center of the city, versus traveling to an airport, going through security, waiting to board, and then waiting some more for the plane to ho
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by pavlov 2y ago
The Seattle-Chicago train operates at an average speed of 50 mph, so 80 km/h. Passenger trains between major cities in Europe are in the 200-280 km/h range. The problem isn’t the big country, it’s the slow trains (that even get de
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by pavlov 2y ago
Yeah, people in “Friends” never took the subway which is just weird. Of course it’s because these shows are shot in LA, and they have Manhattan street sets built and ready in Hollywood studio lot, but no subway set.

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