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VanTheBrand commented on Mozilla appoints new CEO Anthony Enzor-Demeo   blog.mozilla.org/en/mozil... · Posted by u/recvonline
Affric · 9 hours ago
Apple mail steadfastly refusing to permit me to see an email address so I can verify the source of an email.

Truly the most cursed.

VanTheBrand · 9 hours ago
It’s so stupid but what I do is click forward which reveals the email in the compose window.
VanTheBrand commented on Paramount launches hostile bid for Warner Bros   cnbc.com/2025/12/08/param... · Posted by u/gniting
WorldMaker · 9 days ago
Right. Also the weird part of the Skydance Lasseter drama is not just that is happened once, there, but that it happened at nearly the same time but worse at Annapurna. Annapurna games division that had done so well last decade got purged by rehiring someone to oversee it who had been fired the first time for the "overly affectionate" types of problems just before Annapurna's "Golden Age" and was hired as much to better align the games division with making movie knockoffs rather than producing indie darlings (which was a "distraction" for a company trying so hard to be a movie company). (You can almost excuse "hired someone Disney fired for this reason", but how do you excuse "we already fired once for this reason"?)

The Ellison family's willingness to be tied to serial harassers, and in the case of Annapurna in direct expense of being a beloved media producer, makes you wonder what worse skeletons that family has in its closet if this is already just the open awful stuff they want us to know about their close associates.

VanTheBrand · 9 days ago
David Ellison was an intern at Pixar in college and has a personal relationship with Lasseter. Annapurna games was under his sister and has no management connection to Skydance.

I guess if there is any common denominator it’s a familial default to loyalty vs fear of public perception? Not the worst trait in the world despite leading to this outcome.

Also to be fair Lasseter’s “serial harassment” (while real and I’m not trying to discount) consisted of his insistence that everyone hug him when greeting him. So while you can make the argument his firing had merit, his ”issue” is pretty easy to prevent at a new firm: No hugs policy

VanTheBrand commented on Paramount launches hostile bid for Warner Bros   cnbc.com/2025/12/08/param... · Posted by u/gniting
raw_anon_1111 · 9 days ago
This has nothing to do with the Netflix bid.

Warner bros is being divided into the cable TV stations + discover channel stations and the movie studio and the backlog is separate.

Netflix wants the movie studio + tv back catalog

VanTheBrand · 9 days ago
That’s not correct. Paramount wants everything (including the parts Netflix wants). Netflix wants just tv and movie studio. So the paramount hostile bid would be for the part Netflix wants and the part they don’t.
VanTheBrand commented on Paramount launches hostile bid for Warner Bros   cnbc.com/2025/12/08/param... · Posted by u/gniting
embedding-shape · 9 days ago
Isn't this submission about Warner Bros Discover, which is a different entity? Seems to be about TV, not movies. But maybe I misunderstand, I did spend a whole of 20 seconds to skim the article...
VanTheBrand · 9 days ago
It’s all one entity with subsidiaries for tv and movies, etc.
VanTheBrand commented on California DMV approves map increase in Waymo driverless operations   dmv.ca.gov/portal/vehicle... · Posted by u/NullHypothesist
VanTheBrand · 25 days ago
I was skeptical about Waymo but then I had the opportunity to ride a Waymo and an Uber the same day. The Waymo trip was uneventful but the uber driver drifted into oncoming traffic then jerked the wheel back and said “whoah,” when I alerted him.

It made me realize that even though Waymo is not at level 5 yet, neither are a lot of Uber drivers…

VanTheBrand commented on Blender 5.0   blender.org/download/rele... · Posted by u/FrostKiwi
forgotoldacc · a month ago
Saying Evangelion isn't big is like saying Minions are some irrelevant little flick. Evangelion is quite possibly the biggest series in Japan for 3 decades running. You won't find a person who has not seen it to some extent. Evangelion goods are sold everywhere at all times. You really cannot escape it. For the biggest series in Japan to use Blender is a huge sign to the rest of the industry in one of the most risk-averse countries that yes, it's good enough.
VanTheBrand · a month ago
Minions do use Maya though to be fair.
VanTheBrand commented on Power over Ethernet (PoE) basics and beyond   edn.com/poe-basics-and-be... · Posted by u/voxadam
zamadatix · 2 months ago
I think every major vendor has had 10G PoE switches: Arista, Aruba/HPE/Juniper, Cisco, Extreme, and Fortinet for sure. The problem is there is little use case for 10G + PoE in the enterprise and even less for consumers. Ubiquity likes to tout it for the 10G APs... but, realistically, most are worried about airtime with APs, not 10G wired throughput from a single one when they have a thousand.

As a result, it tends to be relegated to the "high end switch which has every feature those one-off customers demand but costs an arm and a leg as a result" model/family. E.g. the only ones I ever sold were to a hospital that wanted to have select switches have 10G for radiology workstations but also wanted to still be able to plug 1G APs in without having to think about the port types. Radiology was covering the cost, so they didn't care it was a waste of money.

VanTheBrand · 2 months ago
I find it useful in Broadcast Video Production (that’s where I end up using it most) and yeah with Wifi7 supporting > gigabit speeds I’ve seen some Wireless Access Points supporting it (though 2.5GbE Poe++ is more common there and practically speaking enough)
VanTheBrand commented on Power over Ethernet (PoE) basics and beyond   edn.com/poe-basics-and-be... · Posted by u/voxadam
rmunn · 2 months ago
Practical question for HN: How do you all label your PoE cables so that you don't accidentally plug the powered cable into a socket that wasn't expecting 48 volts on those pins and fry something? (I know the power injector is supposed to only deliver power when it's safe, but if all your devices work exactly as they should all the time, then I'd like to buy that bridge in Manhattan you're selling).

Do you buy Ethernet cables of different colors and say "Yellow is reserved for PoE, all yellow cables should be assumed to have power on them"? Or do you slap a "48V" label on both ends of the cables you're going to use for PoE and the label is what warns you that this cable should only go into the PoE receiver, and not into an unpowered device? Or do you just not label your PoE cables any differently, and trust that the injector will never malfunction at the same time that you plug the PoE cable into the wrong device?

VanTheBrand · 2 months ago
I completely avoid passive PoE. Not worth the risk. On the standardized active stuff I’ve never had any issues even when I’ve plugged it broken cables to unpowered devices.
VanTheBrand commented on Power over Ethernet (PoE) basics and beyond   edn.com/poe-basics-and-be... · Posted by u/voxadam
cyberax · 2 months ago
What about PoE for 10G Ethernet? I see that there are some vendors (e.g. Ubiquity) that are offering devices with it, but I don't see it in the standards?
VanTheBrand · 2 months ago
As of 802.3bt (PoE++) the standard includes support for “all standardized copper link speeds of up to 10GBASE-T.” The previous standard 802.3at (PoE+) added gigabit support.

So any 10GbE (and 2.5GbE) PoE/PoE+ devices out there are technically not to spec (lots of these on Ali Express) but I believe the the Ubiquiti 10GbE stuff is all at least PoE++. [1]

(They do have their own non spec labeled PoE+++ products though, which are really just “802.3bt Type 4” but they added another plus because that probably sounded better.) [2]

[1] https://store.ui.com/us/en/products/us-xg-6poe, https://store.ui.com/us/en/category/accessories-poe-power/co...

[2] https://store.ui.com/us/en/category/accessories-poe-power/co... , https://help.ui.com/hc/en-us/articles/115000263008-PoE-Avail...

VanTheBrand commented on The math of shuffling cards almost brought down an online poker empire   scientificamerican.com/ar... · Posted by u/indigodaddy
pfg_ · 3 months ago
But it's not just good enough, it's optimal. It is equivalent to picking a random deck from the set of all possible decks assuming your random source is good. More random than a real shuffle.
VanTheBrand · 3 months ago
Right and that’s what satisfactory means, the condition was satisfied.

u/VanTheBrand

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