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From various interviews with designers who were at iD during that period, it seems there was a fair amount of conflict between them. One in particular seems to be severely disliked…

As in don't put your pronouns on your CV. Rightly or wrongly this is associated with having a tendency to mix politics with work.

Can you point to any other patent lawsuit over AV1? AFAIK the Dolby case is the first.

The brief mention that the fallout wasn't as disastrous as myth would have it greatly understates just how exaggerated the popular account of tulip mania is. https://www.smithsonia…

At this point it's extremely unlikely the needed funds will be secured for the foreseeable future. Even if the federal government were willing to contribute, spending $100+ billion…

*Claimed to still be valid. If you're just hosting videos on your website you are probably using High Profile which was standardized in March of 2005, i.e. more than 20 years ago. …

MPEG plays a clever game with their standards. A standard like MPEG-2 or MPEG-4 Part 10 (aka H.264) doesn't just refer to one standard but rather a whole series of standards publis…

So far only the Nasdaq-100 has gone along with SpaceX's special weighting chicanery. The biggest fund which tracks the Nasdaq-100 is QQQ. Suffice to say, if you have money in QQQ y…

The EV1 was a regulatory anomaly. The tech wasn't there yet for mass market adoption.

The increased activity came from Igalia who started working on Servo in 2023 with support from the Linux Foundation. Prior to that the project was effectively dead in the water wit…

Unless you're paying for a concierge doctor, MDs frequently will not spend the time to give you useful advice. Especially for relatively minor issues.

Roads are rivalrous because too many people using them causes a traffic jam. Seriously go read the Wikipedia article on the subject.

"Public good" is a term of art in economics which means a good is both non-excludable (it is impractical to control who benefits from it) and non-rivalrous (one person benefiting d…

I was thinking less about the DB data itself and more about temporary allocations that have to be made per-request. The same is true for most server software. Even if arenas are us…

This depends heavily on what problem domain you're talking about. For example, a DBMS is necessarily going to shuffle a lot of data into and out of memory.

Cryptographic software is probably close to a best case scenario since there is very little memory management involved and runtime is dominated by computation in tight loops. As lo…

That's less a matter of price sensitively and more that other countries usually have price controls on healthcare. That's why doctors make so much less and drugs are so much cheape…

The problem is for many years now the smallest phone available has been getting larger and larger. This has lead small phone enthusiasts to cling to their old phones as long as the…

If your ISP issues you a routable IPv4 address then not much. Otherwise IPv6 lets you avoid CGNAT and all of the issues that come with that.

These days ACH settlement runs multiple times a day. The biggest source of delay for ACH transfers is your bank delaying release of the funds for risk management. ACH transfers can…

> Medical insurance companies often already go out of their way to pay early to save in the long run Literally LOLed when I read this. Health insurance companies might pay lip serv…

> Because at the time those vulnerabilities could be exploited by executing malicious javascript in a browser to steal passwords "could be" is doing a lot of work here. AFAIK there…

Yep. I have IBD and have to track calories to keep my intake _up_. It's shocking how much food you have to eat to get much more than 2k a day.