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Someone asked them in their comments section:

> Have you considered switching to a Static Site Generator? Write your posts in Markdown, push the change to your Git repo, have GitHub/GitLab automatically republish your website upon push, and end up with a very cacheable website that can be served from any simple Nginx/Apache. In theory this scales a lot better than a CMS-driven website.

Admins Response:

> That would be too much of a hassle. A proper CMS allows us to focus on writing.

Nothing against Bluesky, but I think we are all a little jaded after seeing decades of the "embrace, extend, extinguish" pattern.

When someone asks me what a software engineer's day is like I give them the following description:

"Remember back to high school math class. Now imagine 8 hours of high school math class back-to-back-to-back. Now add in "pop-quizes" (e.g. production issues) sometimes multiple times a day."

I think that once someone can relate to what day-to-day software engineering is like, they can empathize with why "walls" and "doors" are nice.

In California "at least 1,317 people have been waiting in county jails for more than 3 years. For 332 of them, it’s been longer than 5 years."

Source: https://calmatters.org/justice/2021/03/waiting-for-justice/

> Where is the proof that this results in lower price of machines?

It does. Source: Confidential

> You are tr[y]ing to justify a straight forward cash grab

No; I provided context without opinion.

> Edit: Quoted portion of your post so folks who can't see the text of deleted comments have some context.

I'm confused; I didn't delete anything, were you just assuming I would delete my comment? Also, your comment has this weird vibe; like you are trying to argue with me. However, I wasn't stating an opinion on the issue, merely explaining why propriety hardware and software is used by large machine manufactures.

What gets missed in this discussion is that John Deere and other large machine manufactures offset the purchase price of these machines with the expected cost of maintenance for the lifetime of the machine. This lets business owners (in this case farmers) obtain financing for machines that might in other situations be difficult to obtain. In other words, these large machine manufactures are taking on part of the cost to "finance" these machines because in the past other financial institutions have been reluctant to do so.

Love Java. Very much looking forward to LTS Java 21. <3

What we need is a nationalism of the electricity grid and power plants. A federally owned and operated electric grid solves this issue.

From my experience, exciting projects get assigned to people willing to work 50+ hour weeks and be on call nights and weekends if something breaks because these exciting new products are market-share grabs. If you have shown resistance to working long or late hours you will be put on projects that are not as time and availability sensitive.

Someone is wrong on the internet!

That is not entirely true. Using scene-chunking to multi-thread the encode means that the video buffer can not be transferred between scenes making the start of each scene visually worse in video streaming situations where the bit-rate is capped.

For example, a 2Mbps video stream will usually have a 4Mb video cache that can be used to preload data. Having this video cache means that a 2Mbps video stream can burst up to 6Mbps for one second while still maintaining a 2Mbps cap.

Cool but I'd much rather see someone sell a little server box where all I would need to do is plug it into my router and open up a port.

IE: If we are going to decentralize with Mastodon-style software lets actually decentralize the hardware used to host the system.

ScPrime and Storj use the blockchain to reduce micro-payment fees to data centers for data storage and bandwidth. Sure this could be done via traditional banking arrangements but the transaction fees would take a major bite out of the data center's profits.

I also do not like browsing for content on Netflix because whenever I pause on a title it starts playing trailer with sound when what I really want to do is look at the average user rating and read the premise blurb.

Best way to encode video is to use a scene detect algorithm to chunk up the video into multiple parts, configure your encoder to encode those parts with a single CPU thread, and spin off one thread per scene to your CPU's max amount of threads. You then just concat the scenes together afterwards.

This seems like victim blaming. Removing the app from the play store seems like much too harsh of a punishment for a simple procedural oversight. To me it seems like a more appropriate response would have been to give Briar a 5 day window to supply credentials and leave their existing app in the play store.

If you do this the first thing you should do is drive it to a car dealership and trade it in.

I doubt this is the case. More than likely Apple changed one of their IPhone API calls without notice and so this TOS change is a legal stopgap until the AirBNB devs can refactor the code to account for this unexpected API change.

Odd. In all my math and physics classes the homework counted for less than 5% which basically made it all optional. After the assignment was done all answers were posted somewhere.

Looks perfect for dedicated nethack mobile gaming.

What happens if you don't have a smart phone? Can you just not log in?

> SlikSafe – A decentralized, end-to-end encrypted alternative to Dropbox

but

> https://firestore.googleapis.com/google.firestore.v1.Firesto...

This does not pass the sniff test.

At least in my area, it feels unsafe to drive the speed limit on the interstate because you will be run off the road by impatient truck drivers.

> My department wont mint a new one, but only hire outsiders already at the title.

Yikes, that sucks.

I always use the links terminal browser test. If the site is usable in my terminal with the `links https://usabilitypost.com/2012/11/05/stop-fixing-font-smooth...` command then it is well done. Chances are, if you are using any type of special font rendering to fix a UI issue you are also doing other things on that page that will cause it to not display properly in links. Also, shout out to the author for having their article actually render well in links!

This document is like HN in general. TLDR; the main doc and just read the comments. ;-)

Woops, loos like I was wrong: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200531/23325444617/hello...

> If you are downloading subtitles you are already committing piracy

OpenSubtitles.org[1] claims that downloading amateur transcribed subs and translation-subs is fair use.

> so you might as well download the whole movie in better quality and with less hassle.

My experience is that most movies that are not extremely popular are either not available for torrent download or if they are the audio is not 5.1 surround sound (6 audio channels whose combined bitrate is 448kbps) and the video bitrate is restricted enough to be DVD quality anyways.

Specifically for the video, a 2GB 1080p h264 compressed video will have an average video bitrate less than 2mbps. Its widely acknowledged that h264 is not greater than twice as efficient as MPEG-2 so lets double that to say that a 2GB 1080p h264 compressed video's perceived bitrate quality is no more than 4mbps. Most commercial DVDs will be 480p MPEG-2 compressed video with a bitrate greater than 5mbps.

For perceived video quality (other than diagonal edges and text) bitrate, not resolution, is what matters. Using an neural network AI upscaler such as nnedi3 (or even something less intensive such as the spline algorithm) to pre-upscale 480p video to 720p video will greatly improve the diagonal edges.

Note: If you have 1080p sources that are larger than 2GB and have 5.1 surround sound then you are absolutely correct in saying that the movie will be better quality. I just have not seen those available for download anywhere for the vast majority of movies.

[1]: https://www.opensubtitles.org/en/dmca

The going rate for bulk DVDs on Ebay is 36 American cents[1] a piece. My recommendation (and what I do) would be to set up a Plex server[2], buy 2000 DVDs, rip the DVDs to your server, and import any needed subs from online[3]. You can also upscale the DVDs to 720p quality using FFMPEG's implementation of the nnedi3 neural network AI[4] (example script[5]).

[1]: https://www.ebay.com/itm/332587500166?hash=item4d6fc28286:g:... [2]:https://forums.serverbuilds.net/t/official-hp-290-p0043w-own... [3]:https://support.plex.tv/articles/200471133-adding-local-subt... [4]:https://github.com/dubhater/vapoursynth-nnedi3 [5]:https://github.com/frypatch/plex-media-optimizer