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by slashink 5y ago
Also a good question. The issue here is the architectural difference between the hardware decoder and the GPU. What happens under the hood with MSE ( https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Media
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by slashink 5y ago
I didn't interpret the comment as an acquisition to my original comment. It's good to ask the hard questions and even though I'm not able to answer it in detail I still think that 'tmpz22' brought up a good point in
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by slashink 5y ago
Good question! So the problem here is a bit different. It's not that devices will say "I can play Format X" and then not play it. It's that devices say "I can play Format X at Resolution A, B, C". When you give
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by slashink 5y ago
I don't work at Twitch anymore so I can't answer your question without guessing and I rather not. There is always a likelihood that data gets used for reasons beyond the original purpose. In the best of world the hardware that run
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by slashink 5y ago
That's a fair take. In a sense it's is a "fingerprinting" method although I personally think fingerprinting embodies using this data to track devices between contexts. If you're interested why this data was exposed
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by slashink 5y ago
Some of these are probably fingerprinting but the Twitch one isn't (I worked on the video system at Twitch for a number of years). "player-core-variant-....js" is the Javascript video player and it uses WebGL as a way to gues
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by slashink 6y ago
Compared to losing the RV it seems like a negligible cost for what the commenter describes as “older RV”.
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by slashink 6y ago
I have zero tolerance for trying to evaluate candidates on things other than performance against what the interview is benchmarking against. Hearing something like that would have had me instantly report it to HR. It makes me angry now even
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by slashink 6y ago
I hadn’t considered this before but you’re absolutely right. Driving is a continuous operation so it’s almost impossible to pick up without the prior context.
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by slashink 6y ago
You just let the javascript send a heartbeat ping. If you don't receive the ping but served the page you can determine that the user agent did not execute the javascript.
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by slashink 6y ago
Yeah also you are technically right. The specific reason we ended up at 44100 is a VHS constraint but the 44* ballpark was what I wanted to clarify. Nevertheless always fun to see this pop up on HN, there is so much forgotten reasoning abou
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by slashink 6y ago
Not the only reason. A combination of CD targeting a useable spectrum just above 20KHz (human hearing) which meant having more than double due to Shannon-Nyqvist ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyquist–Shannon_samplin
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by slashink 6y ago
Most 4K demos on Pouet the last years has been Windows only. Demoscene parties usually specifies exactly what computer they will run the demos on in advance so groups can optimize for that setup. The code sometimes only run on that particul
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by slashink 6y ago
It's a term for "light bloom" commonly used in rendering and games. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom_(shader_effect) You're right that it's not that related to a bloom filter data structure.
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by slashink 6y ago
The tip that someone gave me a couple of years back that has changed my writing is to once the document is finished, print it (or transfer to another shaped device/change the font) and read it out loud for yourself. Transferring the wr
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by slashink 6y ago
Always a balance with a tradeoff, I'm not sure if to uninstall here or come to terms with the business model.
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by slashink 6y ago
Hello! I work on the video platform @ twitch. We’ve been working a lot on that issue. Viewer count numbers should be significantly faster today and will get even more responsive soon!
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by slashink 6y ago
I'm open to help write bindings or cool demos if you're interested.
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by slashink 6y ago
I would love to use your algorithm for a personal hobby project. So far I’ve ported other similar algorithms such as Colorchord but this seems like an interesting take on getting data out. Being able write a lib to plug into TouchDesigner o
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by slashink 7y ago
Wasn’t the timeline concept a core part of Google Wave? If I recall correctly you were able to scrub through the entire history of a document in a similar way.
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by slashink 7y ago
I can’t comment on your opinion here because I don’t know enough, but I wanted to highlight how interesting the use of the word “cosplay” is. I understand exactly what you mean when you use the word cosplay, however, it also strikes me that
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by slashink 7y ago
Yeah I take issue with this also. I've tried to get my dad to stop smoking for the past 15 years and I've come to terms that it just won't happen. So for me it's more about helping him risk manage, getting him on vaping
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by slashink 7y ago
You’re right. Aviation comes down to being a numbers game. If one aircraft exhibits variances, the problem needs to be understood and if bad fixed before it has a chance to cause a real issue.
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by slashink 7y ago
Sony ARW is 14 bits on the A7 line. Canon 5D Mark IV RAW is 14 bit and so is the Nikon counterpart. Even the cheap Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera shoots 12 bit RAW. Why is this important? Most of these cameras images end up on the web. VP9
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by slashink 7y ago
I’d agree that it would have gotten old if this was an isolated past of Google but fact is that Google shuts downs products left and right even today, recently Google Inbox. People will keep making fun of Google for this as long as Google k
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by slashink 8y ago
A CDN is really about reach and edge bandwidth. Hosting a bunch of containers on AWS in a couple of regions only gives you the partial benefits off a good CDN. There’s a reason Amazon offers CloudFront which has a wider network than there a
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by slashink 8y ago
I’ll post Epic Games response in the thread here also. ——————————— We use a tracking pixel (tracking.js) for our Support-A-Creator program so we can pay creators. We also track page statistics. The launcher sends a hardware survey (CPU, GPU
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by slashink 8y ago
Actually just yesterday i thought to myself: "How I wish someone built an alternative to FB Events" and here it is. Really sweet!
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by slashink 8y ago
But Debian ships default with X still right? So what distros are wayland native with Sway in the repos?
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by slashink 8y ago
Really exciting to see this released! Is there a good distro to run this on? I run Ubuntu at home but from my understanding, adding Sway to Ubuntu seems non-trivial. Is there a good distro I can switch to that supports Sway?

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