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Comment #46159537
Smart TVs, TV sticks, and a lot of mobile devices will not be capable of decoding AV1 in software in realtime, given their low-spec CPUs. I imagine that Netflix is only serving AV1…
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Comment #46002315
Live translation is a well solved problem by this point — the translation will update as it goes, so while you may have a mistranslation visible during the sentence, it will correc…
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Comment #45978025
I have the G1 glasses and unfortunately the microphones are terrible, so the live translation feature barely works. Even if you sit in a quiet room and try to make conditions perfe…
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Comment #45730691
This seems like the solution getting ahead of the problem. A series of API requests over HTTP can easily use a persistent connection and will practically default to that with moder…
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Comment #44499948
Yeah. My bad. I got annoyed by the "is broken" terminology of TFA and wasn't thinking clearly :/
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Comment #44498834
While you can sometimes elide the return type (and what you describe only happens in closures — `|| { 0u32 }` is the same as `|| -> u32 { 0u32 }` — methods and free functions must …
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Comment #44498755
Because it doesn't know if you're relying on T being Clone in method bodies. The internal behavior of methods is not encoded in the type system.
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Comment #44498701
Types don't carry behavioral information about what the method does internally. Everything about a method is known from its signature. The compiler doesn't introspect the code insi…
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Comment #44498385
> Elegant software is measured in the number of lines of code you didn't need to write. Strong disagree. Elegant software is easy to understand when read, without extraneous design…
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Comment #44498376
> we cannot just require all generic parameters to be Clone, as we cannot assume they are used in such a way that requires them to be cloned. No, this is backwards. We have to requ…
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Comment #44156413
> could just make it collect CC details with every transaction Only if the card is swiped (magnetic stripe) rather than tapped or inserted. EMV doesn't expose the full card details…
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Comment #43931899
"she" is absolutely proper English for a ship or boat, with a long history of use continuing into the present day, and many dictionaries also list a definition of "thing, especiall…
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Comment #43836514
Population density is pretty high in many European inner cities. Most of the cell sites around here are on top of apartment buildings and I doubt they have a genset. Here in centra…
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Comment #42360027
> Now, cable and DSL networks are standardized enough that there's a good chance you can get a third-party one to work. It will be the same with PON in time. It’s mostly the same w…
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Comment #42278686
Geographically, England is part of Europe, but regardless of the EU membership thing, UK domestic laws have always been very different from those in continental Europe due to very …
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Comment #42277461
Regardless I would have carefully taken these down and put them in a box on the day I moved in. And then called them (or better, written to them) and given them a reasonable amount…
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Comment #42254315
> Airpods pro: Keeps disconnecting. ANC keeps turning on and off, living its own life. Sometimes only one side has sound. But it doesn't sound bad, when it works. It doesn't happen…
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Comment #42254219
You have to read all the words. Great effect on the gut biome .
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Comment #42234588
And another Superjet, arriving at Antalya from Sochi, yesterday.
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Comment #42222478
“Closed off” means “restricted access to”. It doesn’t mean “closed”. I have no idea what restrictions the parent was referring to, but they weren’t saying that the stock market shu…
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Comment #42222450
Hmm, I think you may have just not been paying attention? There was the Superjet that crashed and burned at Lukhovitsy just a few months ago, the A320 that ran out of fuel and land…
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Comment #42222413
The comment you replied to says that they can’t meet demand due to insufficient supply (due to grounded aircraft). Very high occupancy is consistent with that. If Delta suddenly ha…
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Comment #42211441
Because it’s not true
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Comment #42162896
That’s not evidence for the assertion you made.
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Comment #42155091
The assumption that it was related to insufficient investment isn’t supported by any evidence. Flawed technical decisions can be made by the most expensive engineers too.