cbarrick
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- Comment on X Payments delayed after Musk’s X weirdly withdrew application for NY license 5 months ago:
What could Twitter possibly offer to make me switch banks?
What could Twitter possibly offer to make me switch brokers?
What could Twitter possibly offer to make me switch from Venmo and PayPal?
Which Americans are not in a similar position?
X Payments is doomed to fail. He missed the boat. The market is already saturated, and they’ve lost all brand loyalty.
- Comment on HBO should use a different bumper for streaming. 5 months ago:
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.
- Comment on HBO should use a different bumper for streaming. 5 months ago:
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.
- Comment on Men Harassed A Woman In A Driverless Waymo, Trapping Her In Traffic 5 months ago:
What are you going on about? Have you ever ridden in one of these?
They do have these buttons…