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Show HN: Entropic — information-driven variable-rate media playback

github.com
4 points·by pxx·в прошлом месяце·1 comments

Happy Yeltsin Supermarket Day!

cato.org
4 points·by pxx·10 месяцев назад·0 comments

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pxx
·в прошлом месяце·discuss
Do you have evidence for your claims?
pxx
·2 месяца назад·discuss
I agree with some of the sentiment here, but why is it presented in an AI slop format? It's really a self-defeating message.
pxx
·2 месяца назад·discuss
maybe. but somebody has to manually ban you if you do that. whereas banning everybody who charges back can easily be done in batch on the billing side
pxx
·3 месяца назад·discuss
There are grounded duckheads for this purpose, e.g. https://amzn.to/4cnzuef (note out of stock. I guess your best bet is to use a UK duckhead, but half of those have a dummy ground...)

if you take the plug part from the brick you'll note that there's only two pins but the button-like thing is a ground

as noted in a sibling, the power adapter extension cable does plumb the ground through (https://www.apple.com/shop/product/mw2n3ll/a/power-adapter-e...)
pxx
·4 месяца назад·discuss
I've never gotten motion sickness playing a video game before Return of the Obra Dinn. it's sad because I hear it's a good game but it's absolutely unplayable for me
pxx
·4 месяца назад·discuss
ugh the most annoying thing about the conversation clash latency is that the person causing the issue just thinks others are being weirdly rude.

wireless headphones externalize the cost of latency to other conference participants. if you think your airbuds are "perfectly fine" it's because you're not the one paying the cost.
pxx
·5 месяцев назад·discuss
what? this article is making a different point if you read past the title.

> Conventional leadership advice suggests looking at decisions as reversible or non-reversible. Many important, non-reversible, decisions are recoverable, though.
pxx
·5 месяцев назад·discuss
reliable message delivery, lol. slack drops messages silently. it is not fit for purpose.
pxx
·6 месяцев назад·discuss
is this still really the case? I feel like Facebook Marketplace has been significantly more dead than even last year. and it definitely seems completely dead for things like rental listings.
pxx
·6 месяцев назад·discuss
latency is absolute killer. then there's also the fact that splitting the output is difficult, pairing (especially multi-pairing) is finicky

but the real response is "what's wrong with a usb-c to 3.5mm adapter"
pxx
·7 месяцев назад·discuss
tbh maybe this service doesn't want you as a customer if you can't figure this out. it seems like you'd be an above-average support burden
pxx
·7 месяцев назад·discuss
you don't need to register the key. just have some sort of key.
pxx
·7 месяцев назад·discuss
c++20 offers `consteval` to make this clear, but you can do some simple macro wizardry in c++11 to do this:

    #define foo(x) ( \
        (void)std::integral_constant<char, (x)[0]>::value, \
        foo_impl(x) \
    )
(the re-evaluation of x doesn't matter if it compiles). You can also use a user-defined literal which has a different ergonomic problem.
pxx
·7 месяцев назад·discuss
no the point is that there should be _more_ shovelware like your app. the fact you were able to publish shovelware doesn't mean that there's a "revolution"; the number of apps published per time doesn't seem to be going up.
pxx
·7 месяцев назад·discuss
It's still there. Check the pg_dump command.
pxx
·7 месяцев назад·discuss
You can give your postal carrier a gift card but they're not allowed to accept cash or a prepaid card. https://about.usps.com/postal-bulletin/2012/pb22349/html/cov...
pxx
·7 месяцев назад·discuss
Yeah, this concept is interesting but the fact that the simplest test case gives what's fundamentally a surprising result is very annoying.

It also doesn't help that in the example, the expected outcome of 53.3333/46.6667 isn't even considered.
pxx
·7 месяцев назад·discuss
phantom drive B is explicitly mentioned in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drive_letter_assignment#Order_...

the linked source checks out. diskcopy will also do this for you if you give it source = dest.
pxx
·7 месяцев назад·discuss
I don't know how much they "stand out" because their frequency makes it so that the optimal global leaderboard strat is often to just try something dumb and see if you win input roulette.

if we just look at the last three puzzles: day 23 last year, for example, admitted the greedy solution but only for some inputs. greedy clearly shouldn't work (shuffling the vertices in a file that admits it causes it to fail).
pxx
·7 месяцев назад·discuss
It's only a small selection of inputs.

I have a solve group that calls it "Advent of Input Roulette" because (back when there was a global leaderboard) you can definitely get a better expected score by just assuming your input is weak in structural ways.