SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
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SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
15hr ago
He narrowly beat two of the least charismatic presidential candidates that I can remember ever seeing, Hillary and Kamala.
As I liked to say, the 2016 election was never about Trump winning but Hillary losing. The dems picked so bad candidate that even Trump managed to win over her.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
1d ago
what it's like to date a BPD woman
”Don’t stick your dick in a crazy” was invented for exactly this.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
1d ago
Was this Javascript or Python?
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
1d ago
Nah, you’ll be fine. You’d have more reason for concern if you were 67% German instead.
36% German, 13% Autistic.
I’m very slightly surprised I scored this high on the German scale. I will also interpret the autism score as indisputable proof that ADHD should not be placed anywhere near the autism spectrum.
Funnily enough, a good friend of mine once described me as the most engineery person he knows (and being an engineer himself, he knows plenty).
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
2d ago
This also works when you need to write HRese evaluations but your internal engineer would rather slit his wrists with a wooden spoon than manually write such bullshit.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
3d ago
Neither Starmer nor Merkel started a trade war with the US nor threatened to invade the country just for the lulz.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
3d ago
What’s post modern about Name of the Rose?
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
3d ago
Your comment makes me update towards the real syndrome being TDSS, where people accuse others of having TDS
I've noticed the same thing in recent months. People here have started to shout "TDS!" at almost any criticism of Trump whatsoever.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
4d ago
I have never succeeded at meditating, or at least getting anything out of it. You can blame my ADHD for that.
I've wondered if I'm the only one whose only reaction to any kind of guided meditation (live or recorded) is profound annoyance?
Like sure, I can understand taking a walk in the forest and potentially reaching some sort of meditative state there (or could if it weren't for the goddamn mosquitoes and horse flies) but having to listen to some idiot drone about my mind? Fuck no, and fuck anyone who tries to impose such on me (direct or indirectly via the "guidance").
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
4d ago
As long as you don't ask how many hard R's there are in "clanker".
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
4d ago
There's nothing (apart from money) that stops you from just buying thousands of Blu-Rays right now. Or if you're partial to parrots and eye patches, you can get that 8x4 TB NAS setup and store 2000 full length feature films there. The solutions are already available on consumer side for those rare people who want to do it.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
4d ago
The home user of course doesn't have to store any of the films, only the streaming service (eg. Netflix) needs to do that. The number of different films in the catalogue only affect the service's storage costs and those are really quite modest. Even a high end consumer level 8x4 TB drive NAS is enough for 2000 movies at 15 Mbps average bitrate (the peak bitrate for action sequences can be much higher and is limited by the maximum network speed), so any halfway decent datacenter can easily handle an order of magnitude more (particularly as the streaming servers can use local caching to service probably 90% of the end user requests).
The discussion was afterall about the rental catalogue size, not about how many films a customer could watch per month (which is affected by bandwidth and licensing but not by amount of storage).
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
4d ago
If I was talking about 480p content, I'd have 10x'd the number of films. And yes, I did do the math (hell, back in my university days I implemented from scratch all the major parts of a video codec for an image processing course and then worked for a number of years on a video compositing platform so this ain't exactly my first rodeo).
The number of films that even have a 2160p digital transfer is limited and this isn't about archival quality copies but streaming for actual viewers, not for a few nerds who compare films purely based on specs. You don't need ridiculously high bitrates for tens of thousands of films because no profitable customer segment actually expects that nor can the vast majority of customers even stream reliably at such speeds. 99% of paying customers won't care if a film is available in "only" 15-20 Mbps when encoded with a decent modern codec (*) with proper options (and not the PSNR optimized crap that was popular for so long in "professional" encoders). They particularly won't care if that's the only way to watch the film at all.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
5d ago
It's 100% the licensing agreements that cause this shortage, and not
bandwidthstorage.
Bandwidth cost is of course completely independent of the number of available movies. Video streaming is rather forgiving of storage medium speed. Almost everyone watches linearly, 95% of traffic is to a small section of the catalog and people are quite tolerant of some seek time for longer seeks and startup time for rarer films. You can store a couple of thousand films on even a small disk array, the first 5-10 minutes of tens of thousands on another and then you have a few minutes to load the remaining film to a server cache for those rarely accessed titles.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
6d ago
Yes, although it's been happening for a few years longer than that. The amount of clickbait has also steadily increased where entire 15 minute videos could be replaced by three sentences. And of course the search has now gone completely to shit with even the "before:2027" trick not working anymore.
Not even twice.
If you know you know.
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