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Slow thinker, like molasses.
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sitkack··on Leonardo Chiariglione – Co-founder of MPEG
You continue to make the same unsubstantiated claims about codecs being hard and expensive. These same tropes were said about every other field, and even if true, we have tens of thousands of folks that would like to participate, but are locked out due to broken IP law.

The firewall of patents exist precisely because digital video is a way to shakedown the route media would have to travel to get to the end user.

Codecs are not, "harder than" compilers, yet the field of compilers was blown completely open by GCC. Capital didn't see the market opportunity because there wasn't the same possibility of being a gatekeeper for so much attention and money.

The patents aren't because it is difficult, the patents are there because they can extract money from the revenue streams.

sitkack··on States and cities decimated SROs, Americans' lowest-cost housing option
> For the homeless, tent living is something like middle class.

WTF are you even talking about.

sitkack··on We shouldn't have needed lockfiles
In ublock origin

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sitkack··on US Coast Guard Report on Titan Submersible
What you are describing is "bureaucratic collapse". Those extra rules are not meant to support outcomes for the ostensible goal, but a better outcome for the bureaucracy itself. Bureaucracy is not in and of itself bad, it is a very powerful tool, but when it is administered by non-aligned agents and not subject to the proper feedback loops it will always shift goals into protecting itself over its original mission.

Stockton Rush had the perfect storm of a personality that saw everything he hated in "rules" meant to constrain submersible engineering towards safe designs.

sitkack··on US Coast Guard Report on Titan Submersible
> there's a lot of rules that are written by exactly those people

I don't know if that is true. I do think we get rigid safety protocols or specifications that can make novel designs impossible. This happens in all bureaucracies.

sitkack··on Genie 3: A new frontier for world models
Look for discussion with British journalist Andrew Marr during a BBC interview in 1996.

The lead in to the quote starts at https://youtu.be/GjENnyQupow?t=662

"I don't say you're self-censoring - I'm sure you believe everything you're saying; but what I'm saying is, if you believed something different, you wouldn't be sitting where you're sitting." -- Noam Chomksy to Andrew Marr

sitkack··on Genie 3: A new frontier for world models
> We don't inherit any software

How do you claim to know this?

sitkack··on Ollama Turbo
I believe that is what https://github.com/containers/ramalama set out to do.
sitkack··on 6 weeks of Claude Code
Most people underestimate how strongly capital wants to displace labor, even if the outcomes are demonstrably worse. Esp in a captured scenario like hotel reception, you have already booked, you aren't going anywhere else.
sitkack··on Show HN: Kimu – Open-Source Video Editor
You should prepopulate the timeline with an in progress edit so people can jump in start playing with it.
sitkack··on Ex-Barclays VP who completed a PhD in prison: "All my former colleagues ignore"
You also have to payback your room and board.
sitkack··on 6 weeks of Claude Code
Six months from now, that singular worker if they are still employed, will manage a high number of receptionist avatars. And then they themselves will be replaced. It will still lead to a massive collapse in the labor market and with all of that excess labor, existing jobs while being overworked will still see flat to decreasing wages.
sitkack··on Persona vectors: Monitoring and controlling character traits in language models
The system prompts are directed to "not know" anything about the user even if they do or they have inferred it. It reduces the spooky factor.
sitkack··on 6 weeks of Claude Code
> wrote almost 100 lines of code to compare version numbers

Oh boy, it was almost sentient. That is a deep mathematical proof!

sitkack··on 6 weeks of Claude Code
The unemployment in India is going to be catastrophic. Geopolitical.
sitkack··on Helsinki records zero traffic deaths for full year
Cars are obviously the problem. All cars, small cars, large cars, gas cars, electric cars, all cars are the problem.
sitkack··on Lina Khan points to Figma IPO as vindication of M&A scrutiny
Lina Khan is a genius.
sitkack··on HTML-in-Canvas
If you support the DOM and hitscan, then it doesn't matter. You can red pill Ouroboros yourself all day and not care. Every element a canvas, every raindrop an ocean.
sitkack··on The $21.7B Blunder: Analyzing the Waste Generated by Doge [pdf]
Working As Intended
sitkack··on Gemini 2.5 Deep Think
It doesn't need to be creative, it needs to brute force boilerplate.
sitkack··on Gemini 2.5 Deep Think
Capital is also willing to have vastly lower quality and burden the remaining labor with more toil in exchange for even lower costs. Velocity will rise, quality will fall, toil will increase leading to more burnout but there will be more expendable bodies to cycle through the slop cleanup farm.
sitkack··on How was the Universal Pictures 1936 opening logo created?
For other amazing examples of practical effects, check out the Visual Music artist Jordan Belson.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dx6ag2n5sjc

sitkack··on How was the Universal Pictures 1936 opening logo created?
> Composed by Ron Grainer, realized by Delia Derbyshire of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.
sitkack··on Launch HN: Societies.io (YC W25) – AI simulations of your target audience
I am not going to enumerate all the ways this can be abused, but what controls do you have in place?
sitkack··on A Photonic SRAM with Embedded XOR Logic for Ultra-Fast In-Memory Computing
Lol, I explained the breakthroughs and ... you go directly to area. Is this some sort of "don't think of the elephant" issue?

The ability here is that it can do storage and computation directly in the optical domain, this immensely reduces latency of crossing from photons to electrons and back to light again. Exactly what you want in a network switch.

I made no comment about it being used in a cpu.

sitkack··on I designed my own fast game streaming video codec – PyroWave
Both of you are falling into the trap of comparing at the lowest possible level.

Here is an example of QOI being used in a video codec, https://wide-video.github.io/qov/static/demo.html https://github.com/wide-video/qov

sitkack··on NSF has suspended Terry Tao's grant
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/christian-zionism-israel-anti...
sitkack··on NSF has suspended Terry Tao's grant
Zionism and Jewish colonizing of Palestine started before WW1.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zionism

sitkack··on NSF has suspended Terry Tao's grant
MAGA is heavily antisemitic, you absolutely right that this is pretext. They would have picked something else, this is just the best one at the time.
sitkack··on Pony: An actor-model, capabilities-secure, high-performance programming language
It is funny you say this, because nearly every posting of the Pony language includes this comment. And it is always apologized as you need to go to https://tutorial.ponylang.io/ which still doesn't have source on it.

https://github.com/KittyMac/PonyCAT/blob/master/pony-cheat-s...

The project looks hostile to any sort of adoption.

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