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by pfranz 7y ago
When going frame-by-frame you tend to go back and forth. You can preload and cache, but that leans a lot more on your player and hardware. Yes, you do get every frame but some frames may be very "muddy" because of compression.
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by pfranz 7y ago
I'm not surprised and I don't think it's the fault of browsers or the implementation. Delivery codecs have a lot of optimizations around playing forward. There are a whole other class of video codecs designed around the nee
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by pfranz 7y ago
What sucks is that server-side performance is their problem, and client-side performance is your problem. It becomes their problem if growth slows or if users leave, but it's often too late.
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by pfranz 7y ago
It depends what they're using. Often, the cross platform libraries are abstractions that just call the native functions for that platform. Even in that case it's difficult because differences to that platform can cause minor lay
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by pfranz 7y ago
I remember in college being thrown into Visual Studio. I got things to work basically from a checklist. For the longest time includes and building/linking were mysteries done in the background. I feel like a lot of people were &quot
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by pfranz 7y ago
When I was first learning and there was a system Python I would install packages, then 6mo to a year later I would find something old. Because the OS came with Python and some number of libraries and because I modified that somehow, I coul
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by pfranz 7y ago
It drives me nuts when you find a forum post and they never reported back. Or it's a terse "I figured it out." I try really hard not to do that for internal or public forums. The odds are better than you think that you&#x27
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by pfranz 7y ago
I've heard people observe how many support lines have transformed into these impeccably polite, but completely unempowered people--which is more frustrating than being on hold or getting stuck in an automated menu loop because their pr
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by pfranz 7y ago
What I understood the parent to mean would be to buy and register a Tile yourself, then hide that on your victim. Using the same type of "mesh network" Apple mentioned, other users you can track that Tile for you: https:/&#x
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by pfranz 7y ago
I had "benevolent" in scare-quotes when typing up the reply. Since the whole point was that this is not an example of a healthy, competitive market I didn't want to be too over the top about it.
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by pfranz 7y ago
Most people in these threads have been complaining about wanting a mini-tower from Apple at a rock-bottom price. Personally, I'd love one, too, and the Mac Pro has never been a consideration to me because of the price. Unfortunately,
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by pfranz 7y ago
I guess you can be upset at the price, but people have been asking Apple for a mini-tower for decades and they're obviously not interested in offering one. I'm not sure why anyone would think the Mac Pro redesign would be it.
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by pfranz 7y ago
Thank you for bringing up "information symmetry." I feel like this is always missing in discussions of free markets and capitalism. To me, information asymmetry is what most regulations are trying to address (package labeling, t
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by pfranz 7y ago
I wish we knew the truth behind this. In my opinion Apple is losing more than Nvidia and Nvidia seems to be trying harder to make this work than Apple. From my understanding, Apple has been writing/maintaining GPU drivers. They'
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by pfranz 7y ago
> but I don’t think you can argue that the system isn’t “functioning” as intended right now. The only reason this can work is Apple having a dominant position and being benevolent--that's not competition generating better, fairer op
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by pfranz 7y ago
What are your circles? Is it arch vis, tv cartoons, commercials, or something? I'm trying to figure out from their reel why I haven't seen much of Octane in production. Octane does appear to be CUDA only. Adobe Media Encoder do
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by pfranz 7y ago
I'm curious what professional GPU use cases you have in mind? I'm not as familiar, but ML has a pretty good lead with Nvidia/CUDA. I work in VFX. Nvidia Quadro cards have been fairly standard for more than a decade and did
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by pfranz 7y ago
I find this feud odd (unless Nvidia is being unreasonable--which hasn't been shown). I really feel like Apple would benefit more than Nvidia by the partnership. Because of things like CUDA, there are whole domains people can only use
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by pfranz 7y ago
Yep and there is a vast middle ground of use-cases. The parent asked about consumer grade hardware versus something like Boxx. I gave 3 separate reasons. A lot of people in this thread are wondering why Hackintoshes aren't an option s
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by pfranz 7y ago
They've been purposefully avoiding the mini-tower market for decades. For whatever reason (prestige, cannibalizing other product lines, etc) they're not interested.
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by pfranz 7y ago
> - Apple finally made the RAM on the new Mac Mini upgradeable, but it is not user-serviceable; you have to get the RAM installed by an Apple-authorized repair center in order for the warranty to stay valid on the Mac Mini. The same hold
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by pfranz 7y ago
To be clear, I'm not talking about this Mac Pro in particular, but things like the Boxx or Mac Pro. You would get something like this instead of consumer hardware because man hours cost real money. At a previous job they wanted a VR P
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by pfranz 7y ago
I guess I'm still trying to figure out why Spotify and Apple Music cross some new line. The iOS app store has been around since 2008 and the macOS app store since 2011. The entire time Apple has sold their own apps side-by-side with
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by pfranz 7y ago
That's a different argument and more about Apple Maps, Mail, etc being the "default app" (which is an option on macOS). That's something I'd like to have, but like I said I don't have a strong legal/moral
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by pfranz 7y ago
I don't have a strong opinion on this topic, but I'm confused by this line of argument. If Apple is running razor thin, zero, or negative margin for Apple Music--what are they getting out of it? Mail, Maps, Stocks, Notes, Reminde
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by pfranz 7y ago
That's what has always driven me nuts. No matter what the security process is, you know exactly how many people are going to show up within a couple hour window. So you should be able to make at a fairly constant amount of time. The
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by pfranz 7y ago
I'm always curious the mental-model people use with tmux+vim. The combination gets brought up so often, but don't often talk about when they use Tmux panes vs vim windows. A few reasons to prefer vim windows are diffs and sharing
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by pfranz 7y ago
What about wikipedia? From listening to other people, it sounds like I'm not the only one who gets lost in cross-references and ends up in a completely different topic than I started many hours earlier. When "researching" I
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by pfranz 7y ago
If that was the case I imagine you could ding Apple on false claims. They pretty prominently claim "Differential Privacy" both in their keynotes and on their website. Their claims are also that data is anonymized before they pro
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by pfranz 7y ago
Yes. Only 3% of people use it when 70% of people qualify. I hope that changes after all the news this year about them attempting to hide it from Google. So the US got a half-hearted program where 3% of Americans could file for free in exc

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