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by wolfgke 7y ago
I explained that an important reason why the switching time is like that lies in the fact how modern video codecs work. Taniwha gave an important addition: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21836542
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> probably not much because you don't need to decompress them, just keep in volatile memory How do you plan to obtain I-frames without decompressing them?
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> Exactly. It does placate users with some indication of activity. [...] One thing it does do is confirm the change is in progress. A black screen is also a sign that a change is in progress. But this is exactly what my parent fortran77
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by wolfgke 7y ago
joncrane was complaining about the time to change channels. This approach does nothing to decrease this time.
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> all they need is to create to a low rate channel with slowly updating snapshots of all the programs being transmitted. > i don't know anyone who does that, but it is damn trivial. Getting this standardized in an international s
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by wolfgke 7y ago
The central reason is that modern video codecs use I-frames and P-frames (sometimes also B-frames; even though as far as I am aware, these are not used for TV broadcasts); see https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=
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by wolfgke 7y ago
Does Logitech meanwhile again excellent cables mice? I would love to get one of these superb Logitech mice in a cabled version.
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> Up to fair use. There's a good argument that streaming a game is fair use. This is a very US-centric perspective. For example, in Germany's Urheberrecht, there exists no concept of fair use.
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> The PDE that most analyses start with does not need to be proven. This has been rigorously derived since forever. Are you sure? https://www.quantamagazine.org/famous-fluid-equations-are-in... https://www.qua
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by wolfgke 7y ago
Don't forget https://www.ft.com/content/5be1f2ee-d60b-11e9-a0bd-ab8ec6435... (discussed under https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21007476 ).
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> I have trouble understanding why this deserves a paper. This is what I learned in middle school back in Vietnam (although I did take advanced Math). > [...] > It's known to middle school students in Asia that multiplying the
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Work notebooks: Against Hackerism, pt. 1(write.as)
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> iPadOS on the other hand is inching towards a desktop-like OS, ofcourse based on Apple's in-house ARM chips. A desktop-like OS better includes lots of capabilities for development and debugging, e.g. attaching a debugger to a proc
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by wolfgke 7y ago
This is exactly abainbridge's point.
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> And unlike hdmi 2.0, 1.4 wont have scrambling in, so any termination issues will sing quite well. Not an electrical engineer: which measures are usually adapted to handle termination issues?
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by wolfgke 7y ago
Indeed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12371463
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by wolfgke 7y ago
Then let us fill up the internet with their legal names and addresses.
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> Are non-base 10 orders of magnitude actually used anywhere? I haven't encountered neither in either physics, CS or any other field (and I'm reading whatever I can get my hands on). In computer science, using a base of 2 (or a
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> If he truly did not care about talking about himself... would he have said so? He said that he does not like talking about himself - perhaps that is even why thfuran's comment was short and concise. He did not say that he
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by wolfgke 7y ago
I agree - but there exist only few numbers between 2 and 4 (!= 3) that the general public knows of.
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> What is hard is coming up with better solutions that could actually be implemented in whatever YouTube could potentially be replaced with. Anonymous, encrypted, censorship-resistant peer-to-peer networks.
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> 1. False Positive -- Video is brought down despite it being technically legal. Creator is mad, but YouTube suffers no more liability. Solution: Create a law that makes it possible for the creator to sue YouTube for a false positive for
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by wolfgke 7y ago
If the media groups apply violence (by using the law enforcement agencies as goon squads) even though you did nothing wrong, give the media groups back violence - that's self-defense.
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by wolfgke 7y ago
Do you mean e or pi?
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by wolfgke 7y ago
Here you can find examples: https://infothek.rotkel.de/rechtschreibung/genus.html A well-known example is "die/das Tram" (rather a Helvetism; this words means the same as in English; the more usual Germa
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> 1. Being in extremely left-wing Bay area with historic ties to the free speech movement. Why the activism against hate speech then?
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> An interesting question is why Intel believed otherwise when they created IA64. For numerics code, VLIW can indeed offer huge advantages. Unluckily, computer programs from different areas have quite a different structure and thus do no
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> z80 and 8086 were both garbage, next to the 68000. At that time, Z80 and 8088/8086 targeted very different market segments than the 68000. So, this is a quite unfair comparison.
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by wolfgke 7y ago
Intel produced SoCs for mobile devices, concretely Speatrum SC9853i and Spreadtrum SC9861G-IA. If you want to scale even further down, consider Intel Quark ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Quark ). For an analysis w
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> I really wish Itanium had taken off. IMO it is a superior architecture that was simply ahead of it's time. Itanium was an architecture that was designed for "big iron", i.e. fast, powerful computers. It is thus, in my op

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