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hn at jonasbengtson.se
https://jonasbengtson.se
People will keep making fun of Google for this as long as Google keep throwing products at the wall that they don’t intend to keep supporting.
Also the EC2 outbound bandwidth cost... this is not a good idea compared to using other solutions.
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We only import your Steam friends with your explicit permission. The launcher makes an encrypted local copy of your localconfig.vdf Steam file. However information from this file is only sent to Epic if you choose to import your Steam friends, and then only hashed ids of your friends are sent and no other information from the file.
Epic is controlled by Tim Sweeney. We have lots of external shareholders, none of whom have access to customer data.
Daniel Vogel VP of Engineering Epic Games Inc.
Really sweet!
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?
I would rather bet on Unreal or similar engines with equal features.
Can't recommend it enough. The developer is also super responsive on email which is great when figuring it out. Only thing to nitpick about is documentation could be a bit more clear. You can see the result here https://blog.jonasbengtson.se/
Fast forward 10 years and basically every single laptop has hardware accelerated H.264 encoding through Intel's QuickSync FFHW and desktops have it through Nvidia. On top of that the software encoder (x264) is so fast that it's possible to do it in realtime on a CPU.
There is a fair chance that VP9 will see the exact same pattern here. Today CPU encoding is unfeasible, as you've noticed. However Intel is releasing VP9 encoding on their QuickSync encoder with newer CPU's and Nvidia will from my guess have it either 1 or 2 GPU generations from now. Same goes for AV1 here.
It's also interesting too think that the age of these aggressive improvements in CPU speed we've had over the past 14 years (from 2005) might come to an end, where efficiency instead comes from specialised hardware, such as fixed function hardware doing encoding on the chips, as NVENC/QuickSync does today. I don't know if realtime AV1 encoding will be feasible on a consumer grade CPU within the next 10 years, but i sure know it's hardware counterpart will be.
Gold standard for H.264 quality/encode time/bitrate is still x264 medium / slow.
For H.265, the situation is much different. x265 is far from as mature as x264 and frankly the licensing is such a mess that it looks like H.265 might actually lose the war of next generation codec. Instead VP9 -> AV1 seems to be the industry’s codec of choice with adaption from Google, Twitch and Facebook. Also note Apple is back on the AV1 page.
This is basically adding a known brand onto cheap tech knockoff products.
You devise a hypothesis, you confirm it as good as you can in an experiment and document the procedure. Someone else then peer reviews your study and finds any potential mistakes, if the research looks promising enough an independent research team will devise a larger study with more funding to verify the claims, repeat this X times until some sort of conclusion can be made.
Again, I’m partial against this study but at least it’s a study.
I've cut my business travel a significant amount over the last years as a result of the time it takes to clear the border control in the US. In the past i used to fly the route between Europe and the US maybe 10-11 times a year, now at most 2. I will say i've always been met with respect when finally reaching the end of the line but the line has grown on average where a couple of years ago i had to stand maybe 45 minutes to being consistently over 2 hours. Came in to SFO a month back and had to wait in the line for 4 hours and 30 minutes. That's adding another 4 hours and 30 minutes to an already long trip.
The end result of this is that i absolutely try to avoid flying if i can, doing as much i can online.
Although i think this is solved by using a dual monitor setup, keep your notes on the secondary monitor and just capture the first monitor. That way you get all the windows helpers.
The standard is called HDCP
Correct me if i'm wrong but while this blog seems creditable and by a good author it isn't "huge" in any sense which makes it even more confusing that someone shows up that fast to comment on topics relating to Manafort and Gates.
Comment is deleted now sadly but it basically stated that "the US needs to investigate HILLARIOUS CLINTON" etc etc, completely unrelated to the content of the article.
Trying to convince engineers with these fluff pieces how they are important will not make a difference. Pay up.
If you are interested there's some details here https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-legitimation that lists the differences.
I am aware of the security flaws of SMS and i realise i was unclear about the process of this in the parent comment.
With this said i will excuse myself for going out of topic here but i am getting very tired of the recent trend of putting reaction GIF's in pieces like this. Reading it on desktop is just hard for me when getting into a nice reading flow, only to be broken up by a reaction GIF 1/3 the size of my monitor height. Authors adding a GIF to the end does not disturb me, but for me this article breaks the reading flow by adding so many.
Here is how large one of these reaction GIF's render for me: https://imgur.com/a/dYihu
Got one of this for my lawn about 8 years ago and it was probably the best investment i've made for the lawn. Not only does it remove the maintenance but it also keeps the grass cut to a certain length, drying out the weeds and fertilising the grass with the smaller cut off parts. On top of that it's electric.
I agree, trees would be better but in your situation i can only recommend it.
EDIT: Forgot to mention, mine been running for 8 years with only 1 battery replacement and the occasional razor blade replacement. The climate where i live is really rainy and it has survived so far.