zbobet2012

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by zbobet2012 5y ago
Once you learn the shortcuts it's hard to unlearn them. And they work in every text field on Linux if you set the option.
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They used the tests. The specification being very approximate is fine, because they had a prebuilt way to "check" if their result was good.
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by zbobet2012 5y ago
Can you give a bit more detail on the byte code compiler and autocompletes you're looking at? I've not redone my .emacs since 2011...
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by zbobet2012 5y ago
I'll echo this. Everyone says "learn stats not calculus", but... statistics is based in calculus. Even discrete probability relies on a lot of infinite series. I mean we should definitely teach basic probability and combinato
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by zbobet2012 5y ago
Large investors represent 1 to 2 percent of purchases. The number of home purchases from all investors has been FALLING since 2013: https://www.vox.com/22524829/wall-street-housing-market-blac... Housing prices (in ce
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by zbobet2012 5y ago
Yes, this is accurate. Housing prices are at historic highs in many non-core cities as demand from covid related changes move high income earners and historically low interest rates allow low monthly payments. A million dollars in financed
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by zbobet2012 5y ago
This represents a small amount of the property in the US. Investors own 16% of US housing. And keep in mind that includes investors with 1 or 2 additional properties that they rent secondary to their own home. https://www.nationa
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by zbobet2012 5y ago
The test results are great. But you don't need a highend server CPU to best the m1 inraw performance. Most mid-level (around 300$) desktop cpus will do that just fine. The exposition here is simply... wrong. The remarkable thing about
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by zbobet2012 5y ago
Yeah, but you don't need to "reach for not just high end desktop chips, but for server-class workstation hardware to really beat the M1 Max". Low-market CPU's for desktop will like the Ryzen 5 3600 (newegg for 240$) surp
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by zbobet2012 5y ago
>this is really interesting Sadly this is not really interesting, it's disingenuous. He benchmarked against a ten year old (03/06/2012) server CPU. My two year old intel laptop cpu (i7-9750H) also outperforms the xeon&#x27
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by zbobet2012 5y ago
Live oak (Quercus Virgina) is also used throughout the ship because of it's hardness and strength. Live oak is comparable in hardness to ebony, with incredible rot resistance (more so than even white oak). Even more fascinating because
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by zbobet2012 5y ago
I think the other piece the comment and the rejoinder miss is is: A PhD generally means you've done four years of work post bachelors, and some of that work was novel. A PhD alone does not make someone an expert in most modern senses i
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by zbobet2012 5y ago
No. A precise oscillator ticks as close to the second mark as it can, but may be biased in one direction or another consistently. A precise clock can be thought of as a ruler with graduations down to millimetres, where every millimetre is 1
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by zbobet2012 5y ago
That's not the route in which this will be exploited, and used at scale. A corrupt government has to know they want you "to just get you". Instead they will embed a collision in anti-government meme. That collision will flag
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by zbobet2012 5y ago
Or you know, anyone who wants to plant material on a device and has physical access. Say a disgruntled employee before leaving, or ex, or criminal or... Or anyone who can just text you since imessage backs up to icloud automatically...
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by zbobet2012 6y ago
Wayland with Nvidia works in fedora 33, you just have to un-blacklist the driver.
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by zbobet2012 6y ago
I disagree. The best medium is a whiteboard or a blackboard :p. (Really though, something about paper makes me afraid to "commit" things which make the pieces of paper no longer usable. Something made to be erased seems to be the
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by zbobet2012 6y ago
Anyone may, and many people do, have open source forks of Elastic on github. 18.9k of them on github alone. There was no need for "another" other than PR. I feel compelled to note that your summary of SSPL is wholly inaccurate. S
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by zbobet2012 6y ago
I'm not sure I understand Amazon's game theory on this one. Anything they contribute to their Apache License branch can be used by Elastic, but not vice versa. This means Elastic can continue to differentiate from Amazon without w
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by zbobet2012 6y ago
> Sure, that's true. (Though I don't know why it matters that keyframes aren't aligned.) But at the end of the day the point is that Netflix has a better rate control algorithm, and this could be built into x264, even if i
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by zbobet2012 6y ago
> Reread my original post carefully - my point is that if you're stuck with 1080p as the maximum resolution, than the quality you can get with the revised ladder is strictly worse, because Netflix will want to jump up to UHD resolut
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by zbobet2012 6y ago
> Given that x264 already has a 2 pass mode, I don't see why that is necessarily the case. Even CRF mode uses mbtree by default, which is a pretty complicated rate control algorithm. x264 also has pretty intelligent keyframe determi
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by zbobet2012 6y ago
> They may even have made it worse: from the "ladder" comparisons, it looks like they jump to higher resolutions at lower average bitrates now, so if you're stuck at 1080p you're going to be getting worse quality aft
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by zbobet2012 6y ago
We have no idea whether that's true since such capabilities are incredibly classified.
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I love Krita. This (the qt breaking things piece) is obnoxious.
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BAMTech (now Disney Stream Services) does not build their own video encoder IIRC. That's because encoding costs are a drop in the bucket compared to their distribution costs.
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> I think what you're observing is that monopolists tend to be more able to use loss-leaders, since their monopoly power gives them the ability to charge a premium on their monopolized good(s), which would increase the scope of prof
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by zbobet2012 6y ago
List price... somewhat. But they don't do cross sell ops on video for anyone who is paying anything near list price.
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by zbobet2012 6y ago
Your home built video compression software does _not_ achieve the compression ratios of commercial software. Differences can be between 20-50% pretty easily. It also does _not_ have the reliability. x264 is good but not the benchmark. x265
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by zbobet2012 6y ago
Amazon paid 7 billion in content costs this year, I would estimate it cost another 1.5billion to do the distribution. That doesn't include internal development costs, advertising costs, etc. Prime all together only made 14 billion. Con

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