Veratyr

I don't think you read my comment.

I said that they're likely motivated by greed but there _exists_ a legitimate reason too. I didn't say that _is_ their reason, just that it exists.

While I agree it's likely motivated by greed, there is a legitimate reason too: GeForce cards simply aren't made to be run 24/7 in high density server environments. Put 200 of them in a rack and have them running inference or training 24/7 and I suspect you'll see them drop like flies. Tesla cards are explicitly designed for endurance.

How are they measuring top?

I feel like there are really too many to judge. I for one am a fan of the ODROID C2 and HC1.

It looks like the movie industry is finally gaining a little sanity with Movies Anywhere (https://moviesanywhere.com/welcome), I really want something similar for TV and the other streaming services.

Does anyone know how the stakeholders managed to come up with Movies Anywhere? _Someone_ managed to get everyone talking. Could such an approach work for TV and VOD as well?

Considering that MPD, which is doing the actual music playing, is only 13MB (https://www.musicpd.org/download/win32/0.20.13/), yeah, it seems crazy that this bundle is 160MB.

Electron doesn't even have any inclination to fix it: https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/2003

They could even probably use Chromium Embedded Framework, which is usually ~40MB and get a decent improvement. The binary would only be 4x the necessary size rather than 10x then.

To confirm the finding, though, researchers will have to show that it's possible to cause memory problems in a young brain by disrupting these rhythms, Seibt says.

To be fair, the article does say this, albeit without discussing it very much.

Is there maybe a better aftermarket adapter?

Westone makes a decent Bluetooth cable with MMCX connectors so you can plug it directly into buds themselves, without a separate 3.5mm cable.

Those implementations both require phone numbers and registration through a mobile app (hence lack anonymity) and are useless for many use cases.

I think Matrix (Riot) would be a better choice. It's e2e encrypted like Signal but doesn't have any nonsense reliance on phones or phone numbers. It also has extra features like true multiple device support, a federated protocol and an open server implementation.

American government seems very concerned with terrorism.

I'm not sure, from what I hear they have a lot of support from the people, especially the conservatives.

Do you really have less worries in Australia? I’d argue since it’s your homeland, you are simply used to the things that non-Australians would find worrisome. I don’t worry about medical bills (I have health insurance,) not concerned about ever being homeless, don’t consider tipping to be something worthy of worrying, etc.

I absolutely do have less worries in Australia. I think you need to turn that point about it being my homeland around. Just as there are things I might be used to as an Australian that worry foreigners (perhaps like the venomous native wildlife), the things you're used to are worriesome to me.

It's in the works: https://www.popsci.com/poland-develops-bulletproof-liquid-ar...

It's not so much paranoia as a very human inability to recognise how much risk a threat truly poses.

Americans seem very very concerned with terrorism. Terrorism hasn't actually killed many Americans. The chance that you'll die from a terrorist attack are incredibly low, far lower than say heart disease or a traffic accident. Yet still you have these crazy privacy invasions, stupid security theatre at airports, wars in the middle east etcetera, etcetera.

As an Australian, after moving to America I had a similar feeling about guns, especially at first. I'd moved from a world where the risk of being shot was lower than being struck by lighting, into a world where shootings actually happened. It was a brand new threat that I didn't understand and basically all of my knowledge came from movies. Do the homeless people on the streets of SF have guns? Were those loud pops on the 4th of July fireworks or people celebrating by firing bullets in the air? Is the news I see about police shooting people online hype or a real risk?

Similarly, it feels wonderful to go to a place where I have less worries. When I'm in Australia, I don't have to worry about getting shot, being bankrupted by medical bills, ending up homeless ever, tipping or a variety of other problems. There's just nothing like feeling a bunch of burdens evaporate, even if, when I think about them, they're very minor.

Also an Australian. I have a feeling this may not make much sense to Americans.

Bulletproof clothing only protects you against bullets (well it protects against knives too but you can buy less expensive slash/stab resistant clothing). In Australia there is virtually no gun violence. The only people who can shoot you are cops. They will only shoot you if you're doing something that justifies being shot at. Therefore, the only reason you'd need bulletproof armor is if you intend to do something that would justify the police shooting at you.

Encryption on the other hand has legitimate purposes. It's quite possible for someone to say steal all your money by intercepting your bank account login and it requires no special, heavily restricted equipment to do so.

I'm not sure if the title has been editorialized or changed. The current title is "The Other Tech Bubble".

Burnable discs use an organic dye which oxidizes over time.

This is only true of DVDs and a rare variant of Blu-Ray called LTH. Even cheap shitty Blu-Rays from Chinese manufacturers use inorganic dyes these days.

Also, the French Archives did a test of a variety of DVDs for longevity in adverse conditions and found that M-DISC didn't last significantly longer than competitors, even those with inorganic dyes: https://documents.lne.fr/publications/guides-documents-techn...

The US DoD also did a similar test under different conditions and found it performed much better than the competition though: http://www.esystor.com/images/China_Lake_Full_Report.pdf

I suspect the difference between the French and US tests might be the French using a longer test duration and the Americans using light. The French went up to 1000h while the Americans only went to 24 as far as I can tell.

And unlike DVDs, I haven't seen any studies of longevity for M-DISC Blu-Rays.

Because they haven't done enough to piss off the RIAA/MPAA and get a billion dollar lawsuit yet. They're only abusing smaller creators who can't afford to do anything serious about it.

It's also rich, considering video creators have been pissed at Facebook for doing nothing about people stealing their videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7tA3NNKF0Q

FCC commission appointments have nothing to do with representative democracy, they're the domain of the president.

And the idea that anyone in government represents the people is naive. The US isn't a democracy, it's demonstrably an oligarchy: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-poli...

When you make an HTTP request, you're accessing a piece of private property. The owner of that property has every right to decide not to let you do so.

It can do exactly that. It can respond with an error code or start dropping packets entirely. As far as I'm aware, LinkedIn didn't do that.

Any access to LinkedIn's data requires that LinkedIn send it in a response. If LinkedIn is sending it in a response, LinkedIn can't claim that it's not authorized.

I get where you're coming from but if they're spending their breaks on their phones, they're only interacting with their friends through text rather than face to face. They're still kids and we don't know yet whether that face-to-face interaction they're missing out on will be important to them later in life.

It's not about restricting their freedom, it's about health. It's not a "civil rights issue" if you restrict your kids from eating nothing but greasy burgers every day.

You probably have a country, a home, a stable safety net where you can always go back to. I don't.

You say elsewhere:

BTW, I grew up in Geneva and my parents are British

Don't you have British citizenship by blood? Can't you go to the UK and get NHS and unemployment benefits?

It depends a lot on what specific aspect of media you're in but this isn't necessarily true. In video there's a lot of Avid, Davinci Resolve and RED, in photography (particularly fashion and very high end) there's Capture One Pro, in music there's ProTools and the like.

Adobe competes everywhere and overall it's very successful but there are a lot of niches where it doesn't dominate.

Just about everything is available on PC as well though so your point still stands. The main exception is Final Cut Pro, which is very popular with video folks.

Neither. Both require tying your identity to a phone number.

You're better off with Matrix/Riot or XMPP. Neither requires a phone number, both offer the ability to communicate securely, even with a compromised server. Both also support multiple devices, group chats and federation.

What you're missing is that these prices will converge as the Futures market develops and more professional arbitragers get on board. When that happens the gap will shrink significantly and be far less profitable.

No, I grew up around rural Victoria and my family is from NSW.

Why are things so bad for them in NT? I was under the impression they had much better access to welfare and education than the rest of us. Am I wrong? Are they not partaking of it? Are they discriminated against and unable to find housing/schooling?

The bid is the highest price of all open buy orders. If you're selling, this is the maximum price you can make a sell order for and have your order instantly filled.

The ask is the lowest price of all open sell orders. If you're buying, this is the minimum price you can make a buy order for and have your order instantly filled.

It's not the latest order, it's the highest (bid)/lowest (ask) _open_ order.

Can you elaborate? I certainly didn't see tent encampments or beggars like I've seen in every major US city I've visited so far but it's possible I missed something.

I'm Australian but I've been living in the SF Bay Area for 3 years.

I don't see much outright hostile "blacks suck" racism, at least in the Bay Area, it's more people holding the wrong expectations/biases. For example seeing a person of Spanish descent at a counter and assuming they don't speak English or seeing them walking around and assuming they're a repairman or cleaner.

I think the real problem is that it's hard to break out of poverty in general and all Spanish speaking/African Americans started that way, while the same isn't true of people of European descent. Whites are also more likely to have relatively affluent friends/family to fall back on or help them out while others aren't.

Also I'm somewhat ashamed to admit it but at least working in tech as a foreigner, it's easy to develop racist biases here. When _every_ time you notice an African American is because they're shouting/yelling in the streets or asking for handouts, you unconsciously come to assume they're all like that, despite the fact that when you look around at any given time, the vast majority are acting just like anyone else.

Have you been to western/northern europe or Australia? I've visited Paris, Berlin and Zürich and haven't seen US levels of poverty in any of them. I've also visited a kinda out of the way part of Russia and while average wealth seemed lower than in the US, the floor was higher.

Unfortunately I've run into bugs where services provided by the kernel (encryption key management) work on distributions without systemd but break on distributions with systemd.

There definitely is bad too.