That’s a good idea. They could probably do something similar for the audio.
They’d have to code around the rest of the animation and audio effects, but the size of that code would certainly be smaller than the rendered audio and video.
Video codecs mostly work by tracking movement, predicting which pixels will change, and striving to only encode the pixels that actually change or change dramatically. In other words, compression looks for patterns.
All of that goes out the window when you try to compress static. There are no patterns. It simply can’t be compressed. This isn’t a matter of the algorithms not being good enough. It’s a fundamental limit of information theory.
Anything fancier amounts to embedding the intro into the compressor as a well-known pattern. And at that point, you’re better off just caching a 4K version of the intro as a standalone video file directly in the app.
+1
From an order of magnitude perspective, the max is terabytes. No “normal” users are dealing with petabytes. And if you are dealing with petabytes, you’re not using some random poster’s program from reddit.
For a concrete cap, I’d say 256 tebibytes…
You don’t need to provide root access just because you used GPL code, you just have to follow the GPL.
Well, to follow version 3 of the GPL, you do actually need to provide effective root access.
Specifically, version 3 of the GPL adds language to prevent Tivoization.
It’s not enough to just provide the user with the code. The user is entitled to the freedom to modify that code and to use their modifications.
In other words, in addition to providing access to the source code, you must actually provide a mechanism to allow the user to change the code on the device.
The name “Tivoization” comes from the practice of the company TiVo, which sold set-top boxes based on GPL code, but employed DRM to prevent the user from applying custom patches. V3 of the GPL remedies this bug.
For Zulip, I’ve only used it on the web. Apparently they have iOS, Android, Desktop, and Terminal clients.
For Matrix, there are many clients on all platforms, but none have ever stood out to me. Element is the official client, and it’s… fine I guess.
I love this, especially the criticism of the FSF.
For coms, Zulip seems OK. I would really like Matrix to take off, but I honestly don’t really like any of the clients.
Maybe.
Linux won because it worked. Hurd was stuck in research and development hell. They never were able to catch up.
However, Linus’s kernel was more elaborate than GNU Hurd, so it was incorporated.
Quite the opposite.
GNU Hurd was a microkernel, using lots of cutting edge research, and necessitating a lot of additional complexity in userspace. This complexity also made it very difficult to get good performance.
Linux, on the other hand, was just a bog standard Unix monolithic kernel. Once they got a libc working on it, most existing Unix userspace, including the GNU userspace, was easy to port.
Linux won because it was simple, not elaborate.
Zsh
No plugin manager. Zsh has a builtin plugin system (autoload) and ships with most things you want (like Git integration).
My config: http://github.com/cbarrick/dotfiles
Queen Latifah (Dana Elaine Owens) got her start as a rapper in the 1980s and began acting in the 1990s.
She is probably most known for her roles in Chicago, Hairspray, Bessie, and the Ice Age series.
These days, she stars on the CBS drama The Equalizer.
If caching is properly configured, the cache (Cloudflare) will see thousands of requests, but the VPS should only see one request.
Just put the site behind a cache, like Cloudflare, and set your cache control headers properly?
They mention that they are already using Cloudflare. I’m confused about what is actually causing the load. They don’t mention any technical details, but it does kinda sound like their cache control headers are not set properly. I’m too lazy to check for myself though…
Damn. I never knew that these were mammals…
Fair. That was overgeneralizing German bureaucracy to the entire EU.
But I think the point that tech companies in Europe rarely survive still stands.
The EU is terrible at maintaining good tech companies.
Like, they have some really important and innovative consumer protection regulations, but they are really shooting themselves in the foot with this one…
Yeah, but I want both GPU compute and Wayland for my desktop.
Long term, I expect Vulkan to be the replacement to CUDA. ROCm isn’t going anywhere…
We just need fundamental Vulkan libraries to be developed that can replace the CUDA equivalents.
cuFFT -> vkFFT (this definitely exists)cuBLAS -> vkBLAS (is anyone working on this?)cuDNN -> vkDNN (this definitely doesn’t exist)At that point, adding Vulkan support to XLA (Jax and TensorFlow) or ATen (PyTorch) wouldn’t be that difficult.
Unfortunately, those of us doing scientific compute don’t have a real alternative.
ROCm just isn’t as widely supported as CUDA, and neither is Vulkan for GPGPU use cases.
AMD dropped the ball on GPGPU, and Nvidia is eating their lunch. Linux desktop users be damned.
How does Kodi compare to Jellyfin?
I use Android TV and Chrome on macOS as my primary clients, and Arch on my server with an Nvidia 1080Ti for transcoding.
So you’re telling me that there was a Mac super computer in '05?