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retcon commented on Building a fast all-SSD NAS on a budget jeffgeerling.com/blog/202... · Posted by u/walterbell

retcon · 3 years ago

Video is nicely sequential and eminently suitable for spinning disk service.

What's really confusing me is the 10G lan configuration because it's leaving little headroom above uncompressed 4K 4:4:4 10bit (12bit is broadcast and where source permits archive standard). What about multiple streams for a/b'ing a grade or first/ second camera edit roll?

Ed. added "really" replaced "for" with "above"

retcon commented on CNIL makes Google Analytics almost illegal in France cnil.fr/en/qa-cnils-forma... · Posted by u/nephanth

jeppester · 3 years ago

It's a very common misunderstanding (which is happily spread by US cloud providers) that it matters where the data is stored.

What matters is that the data is stored by - and accessible to - a company which submits to the US laws.

retcon · 3 years ago

Equally it's a sorry indictment of our economic times that the meaning of unlawful has been hammered into a understanding that non prohibition is permission. This aggressive and putative new use is refuted by every founding principle of the common law in Anglo Saxon countries and most of the western world. See the argument of letter vs. spirit for a effect.

Ed. cleared up phrasing around new use, replaced meaning with use for .. meaning.

retcon commented on How Wikipedia influences judicial behavior csail.mit.edu/news/how-wi... · Posted by u/czl_my

stevenjgarner · 3 years ago

It seems the greatest value of Wikipedia is consistently as a repository of citations. The reliance of moderation or review of those citations is the question.

EDIT: I hear complaints from students all the time that they are not allowed to cite Wikipedia. I tell them no you should instead cite the Wikipedia citations. They invariably tell me how much better they do academically because of that.

retcon · 3 years ago

Sadly I think that the value of Wikipedia in this lamentable example of judicial laziness and professional under funding is the web just happens to be more easily searched than LEXIS. Easily != competently.

Ed. competently replaced usefully

retcon commented on How Wikipedia influences judicial behavior csail.mit.edu/news/how-wi... · Posted by u/czl_my

retcon · 3 years ago

Hang on, doesn't deliberate manipulation of the consumption of counterfactual legal precedent by a sitting judiciary (withholding with measurable effect the countering case references is the study method) only result in a spate of mistrials?

Ed. legal precedent replaced sources for clarity of this significance

retcon commented on Helium has revenues of $6.5k/month after $365M investment from A16Z twitter.com/liron/status/... · Posted by u/Archio

gingerlime · 3 years ago

That’s my understanding as well after listening to Crypto Critics and Griftonomics podcasts. Highly recommend both although so much stuff is way over my head. I wish there was a beginner’s version :)

retcon · 3 years ago

I'd like to recommend a shelf of great to read erudite and intelligible financial history and financial social history and technicality, from which you'd recognize the simulacra, but it wouldn't help very much because this crypto game strips out everything fundamental economic and human from their imaginary systems and leaves solely a caricature of a carcass.

I'm despondent about the overall crypto situation, please forgive me for my cynicism, because I'm genuinely concerned about how many times people can exclaim the king is naked the cupboard is bare the promises aren't merely empty but never had meaning, and yet the socialized penny just won't drop.

This FT article [0] goes some way to describing how vulnerable young and low income people are to false investment scheming. What's needed (very rapidly) is to reveal the full extent of behavioural and technical engineering used in exploitation, instead of blaming the phenomenon on concocted reductio ad infortunium.

[0] Financial Times article "Generation Moonshot": https://archive.ph/3d4DW

Edit,: added for clarity, "...from which...the simulacra.."; corrected "onto" as "on" and thereafter revised with clearer unchanged meaning the rest of final sentence. (and Ed2 sp ip.); E3 people instead of folk ,(mobile sorry) E4 added, "scheming" after "false investment" for clarity.

retcon commented on Helium has revenues of $6.5k/month after $365M investment from A16Z twitter.com/liron/status/... · Posted by u/Archio

spaceman_2020 · 3 years ago

The discounts are getting smaller and smaller as the valuations go up. A new chain, Aptos, is raising at 2B valuation. Optimism, an ETH Layer2 raised at 1B valuation. Until like last week, it had a circulating marketcap of 100m.

Lots of smaller projects are priced below VC prices. For example, CowSwap is at like 12c when private rounds were at 15c.

retcon · 3 years ago

I'm guessing that the VC premium pays for privileges like lock up and preferred terms.

VC buying - aka VC selling to greater fool LPs, with purported guarantees trails a wake of retail that fuels their vig.

I know nothing concrete about crypto n.b. but I think I can recognize the structured avarice. If my precis is all that's happening I'd convict this kind of VC instantly.

retcon commented on The Dangers of Microsoft Pluton gabrielsieben.tech/2022/0... · Posted by u/gjsman-1000

BiteCode_dev · 3 years ago

The capacity for abuse is huge, way beyong the potential benefits.

From the USA, we get news of banned book in some states. When I read that, my head goes back to my european history, and I reach the Godwin point very quickly.

Those kind of people will abuse such system to prevent things to be shared.

It will be used for putting DRM on everything and create a more and more closed web.

It will be used by corporations and govs to prevent wisthleblowers and journalists to do their job. Or to prevent employees to get evidences of mistreatments in case they need to sue.

Because if you look at it, it's basically just a system for information control. And bad actors love that.

And of course it will be "for security reasons".

Trusting people with a terrible track record to not abuse a massive power in the future, espacially one that can be scaled up with the push of a button once the infrastructure is in place, is not a good bet.

retcon · 3 years ago

In the UK movie screening used to be and probably still is decided at the smallest municipal level of town councils, see The Life of Brian.

retcon commented on Stop Drinking Now marginalrevolution.com/ma... · Posted by u/h2odragon

darthrupert · 3 years ago

Recommendations like this should always include suggestions on what to replace it with. Cannabis works for the relaxation part very well, but not exactly for the sociability aspect.

retcon · 3 years ago

Don't smoke heroin, try Oxycontin!

Sorry for the snark but I'm nursing a hangover created in the company of a important friend who's promising to quit drinking after moving state next month, so this is a rather timely paper. However if my friend were to merely substitute another intoxicant I'd lose my mind and probably my wonderful friend. So I personally wouldn't suggest alternative habits at least.

Edit: punctuation

retcon commented on Two containers with same number detected in Chittagong port container-news.com/two-co... · Posted by u/wolfgang42

sporkland · 3 years ago

I felt bad for the seller for a while. Then I realized they probably just sold the cotton to someone else, and that fungibility and liquid markets make a lot of this stuff less risky on both sides.

retcon · 3 years ago

I think that all the analysis I've found with a quick search isn't very helpful.

The seller had to sue to either obtain payment or void the contract or else spend energies and time pursuing payment by persuasion whilst the entire time granting the ostensible buyers a free call option on FOB Liverpool cotton. My cynical guess is that regardless of evidence of foreknowledge about the duplicate ship names, Lloyds Register [0] most certainly did exist and importantly was considerably more accessible from Liverpool than India. Seller's imperative wasn't recompense but prior to marketing the cargo and taking profit, obtaining title and clean hands. Why go to so much effort? Letters of credit access and costs issues that could have been affected by a impossible distance impedance to necessary restorative PR.

[0] https://hec.lrfoundation.org.uk/archive-library/lloyds-regis...

Edit:.. evidence of foreknowledge..

retcon commented on How to advertise to developers: deep dive into paid developer marketing developermarkepear.com/bl... · Posted by u/mooreds

mike_hock · 3 years ago

There's no form of marketing that I "like" or actively reward, at most there's marketing that I fell for.

Anything that comes from the primary source is an automatic nope, I'll only take positive accounts from third-party sources. Unfortunately, not even that is enough, so I've become wary of HN comments praising any particular product.

What's even more unfortunate is that you have to apply the same skepticism to open source "products" these days as it has become common even for open source projects to exaggerate the project's capabilities and be dishonest about its limitations.

retcon · 3 years ago

>There's no form of marketing that I "like" or actively reward, at most there's marketing that I fell for.

For very high value software licensing agreements there's huge financial rewards for performing the marketing dance with the vendor. Paying list for enterprise software doesn't happen. Customers who even know what Oracle RAS is , or SQL SERVER Parallel, are numbered in the hundreds. The expenditure on manpower to design and commission a new major database installation is two to three orders of magnitude greater than the license costs. That's per database not enterprise wide. You embark upon a courtship from the outset.

This isn't what the article nor what most everyone's discussing, but I thought it worthwhile to offer a real illustration of a very viable means of sales and marketing that can be made to work if you have a high value application or service and can identify a small finite number of customers.

Edit: I probably should have said the number of customers who know what they're doing with the most sophisticated databases is very likely in the hundreds. Arguably the market is rather larger but if the behaviour F500 generally is any indication, there's a lot of nameplate and marquee buying driven by C suite egos. If you're selling a unique and expensive application this is where your margins are. And where tales of sales excess and bad reputation / hubris attaching to your product originate.