That’s going a bit far. I’m in the games industry and have used opus regularly, it’s a great codec for games, often the hardware decoding is so restricted that we’re using software regardless so we might as well use…
MRIs are fundamentally expensive. Yes we can bring the price down a bit, and we can set more money aside for them, but they’ll always be limited by their price. Even if this technique is much worse (I can certainly…
You’re both imagining different scenarios. Scenario 1: 20% of staff tested failed. Individual targeting is pointless because the issue is systemic. This has happened in aviation, it’s common for accident investigators…
Disagree, though you’re right it’s a little bit similar to the eu flag, but only a little, plenty of countries manage with more similar flags. Flags don’t exist for the period where they’re gaining recognition.…
This is true, but since you always need a bit of hope in all the bad news, worth noting that if you focus solely on electricity generation, the fossil fuels from generation decreased last year. That’s the first time…
They already tried pushing back against c-sections, turns out giving overly opinionated options to women that discourages things that are medically beneficial in a large portion of cases is not helpful and caused a lot…
That’s pretty flawed argument on the face of it, very few things win a cost benefit analysis if you disregard the benefit and thus require exactly zero cost. The real question is whether detransitioning or other…
Yes, and I think that’s actually intentional, they’re rewarding renewables way over the odds without needing to give politically controversial benefits. The rewards are just an inherent result of the existing system.…
The implied part is “within common conditions” it’s a law limited to a specific regime, much like Newtonian physics. We know it’s not universally true but we can see it’s often true in common scenarios. In the extreme…
I know the thread is about tvs, but since gaming has come up, worth noting that at computer viewing distances the differences between 1080p/1440p and 4k really are very visible (though in my case I have a 4k monitor for…
The obvious use-case for unsafe is to implement alternative memory regimes that don’t exist in rust already, so you can write safe abstractions over them. Rust doesn’t have the kind of high performance garbage…
You make a strong case for voice, but that doesn’t necessarily invalidate their argument, they never said voice should be replaced. Here’s some ideas: 1. A data side channel 2. Use it to send originator for each…
The article explains the weaknesses of the password-centric approach: > whether by phishing or exploiting the fact the passwords are weak or have been reused 1. Phishing is harder when you only ever enter your password…
Not disputing the obvious advantages, but since you asked: Being forced to maintain compatibility for all previously written apis (and quite a large array of private details or undocumented features that applications…
There’s a classic yes minister skit on how dubious polls can be: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ahgjEjJkZks&t=45s
Easy: provide high quality output when being tested for a new task, The moment you are done outperforming the competition in the tests and have hit production you slowly ramp down quality, perhaps with exceptions when…
I assume they’re referring to ag-gag laws, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ag-gag Gives a reasonable background by the looks.
And yet their statement makes perfect sense to me. Caching and lower level calls are generic solutions that work everywhere, but are also generally the last and worst way to optimise (thus why they need such careful…
Given the web’s much wider remit than pdf, it has support for accessibility tools and much better non-visual handling than pdf, so the comparison isn’t entirely fair I think. If a website doesn’t handle lynx well,…
“Newfound”? People have been fighting this debate for decades. I remember having this exact debate at school 20 years ago, except the price arguments back then were bullshit, but people didn’t care enough about the…
Only everyone who goes bankrupt, and their creditors. Rather the opposite for their customers. I’m sure there’s a few cases where this would excessively hurt a company’s prospects (perhaps where a company has an…
I’ve met humans who do that too
That argument works pretty well for any bad api design (assuming sufficient documentation somewhere). Yet I assume we can agree that regardless of how you can work around bad apis, good api design that prevents misuse…
I agree with most of this, but I’m not sure about tracking the size metadata becoming a required task for the caller. The cost of storing the size of every allocation is relatively high, at least some of the time, where…
One potential value of CC today is as a final and most flexible solution. Even with the limited and experimental technology of today, which is obviously economically insane, we have a way (with enough money) to make…
That’s going a bit far. I’m in the games industry and have used opus regularly, it’s a great codec for games, often the hardware decoding is so restricted that we’re using software regardless so we might as well use…
MRIs are fundamentally expensive. Yes we can bring the price down a bit, and we can set more money aside for them, but they’ll always be limited by their price. Even if this technique is much worse (I can certainly…
You’re both imagining different scenarios. Scenario 1: 20% of staff tested failed. Individual targeting is pointless because the issue is systemic. This has happened in aviation, it’s common for accident investigators…
Disagree, though you’re right it’s a little bit similar to the eu flag, but only a little, plenty of countries manage with more similar flags. Flags don’t exist for the period where they’re gaining recognition.…
This is true, but since you always need a bit of hope in all the bad news, worth noting that if you focus solely on electricity generation, the fossil fuels from generation decreased last year. That’s the first time…
They already tried pushing back against c-sections, turns out giving overly opinionated options to women that discourages things that are medically beneficial in a large portion of cases is not helpful and caused a lot…
That’s pretty flawed argument on the face of it, very few things win a cost benefit analysis if you disregard the benefit and thus require exactly zero cost. The real question is whether detransitioning or other…
Yes, and I think that’s actually intentional, they’re rewarding renewables way over the odds without needing to give politically controversial benefits. The rewards are just an inherent result of the existing system.…
The implied part is “within common conditions” it’s a law limited to a specific regime, much like Newtonian physics. We know it’s not universally true but we can see it’s often true in common scenarios. In the extreme…
I know the thread is about tvs, but since gaming has come up, worth noting that at computer viewing distances the differences between 1080p/1440p and 4k really are very visible (though in my case I have a 4k monitor for…
The obvious use-case for unsafe is to implement alternative memory regimes that don’t exist in rust already, so you can write safe abstractions over them. Rust doesn’t have the kind of high performance garbage…
You make a strong case for voice, but that doesn’t necessarily invalidate their argument, they never said voice should be replaced. Here’s some ideas: 1. A data side channel 2. Use it to send originator for each…
The article explains the weaknesses of the password-centric approach: > whether by phishing or exploiting the fact the passwords are weak or have been reused 1. Phishing is harder when you only ever enter your password…
Not disputing the obvious advantages, but since you asked: Being forced to maintain compatibility for all previously written apis (and quite a large array of private details or undocumented features that applications…
There’s a classic yes minister skit on how dubious polls can be: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ahgjEjJkZks&t=45s
Easy: provide high quality output when being tested for a new task, The moment you are done outperforming the competition in the tests and have hit production you slowly ramp down quality, perhaps with exceptions when…
I assume they’re referring to ag-gag laws, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ag-gag Gives a reasonable background by the looks.
And yet their statement makes perfect sense to me. Caching and lower level calls are generic solutions that work everywhere, but are also generally the last and worst way to optimise (thus why they need such careful…
Given the web’s much wider remit than pdf, it has support for accessibility tools and much better non-visual handling than pdf, so the comparison isn’t entirely fair I think. If a website doesn’t handle lynx well,…
“Newfound”? People have been fighting this debate for decades. I remember having this exact debate at school 20 years ago, except the price arguments back then were bullshit, but people didn’t care enough about the…
Only everyone who goes bankrupt, and their creditors. Rather the opposite for their customers. I’m sure there’s a few cases where this would excessively hurt a company’s prospects (perhaps where a company has an…
I’ve met humans who do that too
That argument works pretty well for any bad api design (assuming sufficient documentation somewhere). Yet I assume we can agree that regardless of how you can work around bad apis, good api design that prevents misuse…
I agree with most of this, but I’m not sure about tracking the size metadata becoming a required task for the caller. The cost of storing the size of every allocation is relatively high, at least some of the time, where…
One potential value of CC today is as a final and most flexible solution. Even with the limited and experimental technology of today, which is obviously economically insane, we have a way (with enough money) to make…