I read about the viscosity difference in hot/cold water a while back. Every time I think about it while drinking water, I put my water down. I don't know why it bothers me so much but it does. I feel like I peered into the eyes of God and can never return to normal life.
Read through the comments and was surprised no one mentioned libvips - https://github.com/libvips/libvips. At my current small company we were trying to allow image uploads and started with imagemagick but certain images took too long to process and we were looking for faster alternatives. It's a great tool with minimum overhead. For video thumbnails, we use ffmpeg which is really heavy. We off-load video thumbnail generation to a queue. We've had great luck with these tools.
+1 to vips! It's amazingly fast and stable. I even wrote (some minimal) Swift bindings for it to be used with a Swift backend: https://github.com/gh123man/SwiftVips
Didn't know if you were asking but Meson is used to build libvips from source. It took a couple days for me to get up to speed on it but wasn't difficult to understand.
https://mesonbuild.com/https://www.libvips.org/install.html
As for imagemagick, I just couldn't get the speed I wanted out of it. This is partly due to the fact that the system I was building allows many different image types. I want to say gifs were almost always an issue but I'm reaching here. Been a bit for me as well.
Yep, I keep wondering why I'm not just using make and a text editor on a lot of projects, but make feels old and creaky for some unexamined reason so I'm looking around.
One of the major lessons I pulled out of that time is that most library authors will happily fix bugs or add features if you give them money. You can also just ask them to sell you a different license if FOSS ruins your plan.
I think the point the person you're replying to was trying to make is that the line drawn between things the government should have a hand in vs. things they should leave alone is fairly arbitrary, and is a matter of opinion. So saying the government should be kept away from the internet is just one place to draw the line, and it's perhaps interesting to know of other places where someone might draw that line, in order to get a baseline, and determine if it's even worth trying to have a productive discussion with them about government regulation.
The way you positioned the argument is helpful and conducive to a conversation. Just throwing out scenarios and expecting me to derive meaning isn't productive.
I was so excited when I got my ViRGE. Then I tried playing games with it. Mechwarrior II came with it but you had to run at 512x384 and even then it didn't run great. My next video card was a 3dfx Voodoo and I was in heaven.
My second GPU was a Rendition 2200. I was pretty upset, to be honest. I had asked for a 3dfx Voodoo for Christmas, and was given the Rendition instead.
It was mostly worthless. At the time, games were almost all using the Glide API.
It's fair to talk about thinking in a handwavey "you know what I mean" way. This is not a philosophy paper. It's a fine point if that's what you want to discuss, but doesn't change anything about the issue at hand and is needlessly pedantic. It's the "what you're referring to is actually GNU/Linux" of discussions about the tech side of AI.
It pretends to be a philosophy paper. If they wanted to talk about computation, they would use terms that communicate that clearly. But they're using words that confuse the two fields. I didn't do that, the author did.
I think people just get mad when they're reminded of this obvious fact. They want computers to prove that our minds are an illusion, the product of a "meat computer".
They produce wealth for their executives. The Colorado Coalition For The Homeless received 122M in 2023. In 2021, the CEO made $313K. The top 6 people make over $200K a year. All of this from a non-profit.
I don't know that high executive salaries are evidence of anything other than theres an executive class which exists, even in the non-profit world. You'll need to come up with better arguments that there's a homeless-industrial complex, which there very much is, but complaining that the leader of a 700-person organized doesn't deserve more than a low end FAANG shows a very naive understanding of how the world works. $313k is cheap for that kind of work. A CEO for a 700-person strong tech company makes well into a million dollars a year, counting equity. Complaining that executives make a lot of money at a non-profit is like complaining that things cost money in the first place. there is a need for someone to do job X. people who do job X cost $xxx/hr. it doesn't matter the context of that job, whether it's running a business, managing armed forces, saving the homeless, or writing a web browser, that's what that job pays.
A better argument for there being a homeless-industrial complex would to say there are incentives for organizations to expand operations rather than fix problems, and then give examples where organizations didn't fix problems because it would result in their lowered funding.
>The Colorado Coalition For The Homeless received 122M in 2023. In 2021, the CEO made $313K. The top 6 people make over $200K a year. All of this from a non-profit.
What's the typical salary for a CEO of a for-profit company that has 122M in revenues? While I can understand why people are outraged at the prospect of people getting money from a non-profit, it's unrealistic to expect everyone to be volunteers. Besides the question of how they'd financially support themselves, you have the problem of "pay peanuts, get monkeys".
You're losing the point. It's not outrage at the amount they are paid. It's outrage at the Shirky Principle-- they are incentivized to keep the homelessness problem going and growing.
I think that if the manufacturer is going to continue using the appliance for their own business purposes, they shouldn't be permitted to describe the transaction that causes you to possess it as a "sale", because you don't own it free and clear.
I don't get why it matters so much to people. It's all just incentives aligning and how the deals work. Having a subscription can actually be beneficial in terms of incentive to keep up supporting the product in my view.
If it's a huge problem psychologically for you, maybe you can just take the following 5 years or whatever time you estimate you will be using the product and calculate that into the base price to make your decision.
>I don't get why it matters so much to people. It's all just incentives aligning
Adding advertising into the mix almost always makes the incentives align more poorly with the customer's interest. For example, the refrigerator manufacturer now has an incentive to increase food spoilage to increase ad conversions.
>Having a subscription can actually be beneficial in terms of incentive to keep up supporting the product in my view
So you want to pay them to show you ads in the hopes that that means they don't stop supporting your refrigerator? What does that even mean? They're not going to extend your warranty.
> I don't get why it matters so much to people. It's all just incentives aligning and how the deals work.
Think of it like working conditions getting increasingly poor and abusive year over year, while your salary stays fixed.
It matters not because the deals are increasingly shit and abusive, but also because them being much better is within most of our's living memories, and there's no actual reason for things to go this shit, except a supplier-driven market fucking customers over because they can, and race-to-the-bottom mechanics preventing any single vendor from reversing course.
I didn't say increasing prices. I said decreasing quality. Price can stay fixed or even go down.
And yes, there's plenty of wrong with the free market, starting with that it's a hypothetical construct that doesn't exist, and even if it did, it's gameable and would have been gamed by the vendors the same way the real market is.
In the sense of existence, sure. But it's pretty clear that one side has gone far, far further down the conspiracy hole. Can you think of anything in the dem side as widespread as, say, the ivermectin+antivax crap was?
This stuff isn't new, either, but the scale of it is. A major wing of the Republican party is effectively the John Birch Society, who were nuts mostly kept at arms length in a previous generation. And that's seemingly the way that many Republican voters want their party to behave.
'Can you think of anything in the dem side as widespread as, say, the ivermectin+antivax crap was?' Russian conspiracies. To be clear, I think the left and the right are bad.
"Information can be copied and they should accept it" <- I was referring to this line. This basically means that OP thinks that any intellectual property should be free for everyone. This means that probably half of humanity (who are currently creating anything with IP) will have to be libertarians, and that can't happen unless all humanity are libertarians. And libertarian society is a dystopia. :)
> This basically means that OP thinks that any intellectual property should be free for everyone.
Incorrect. Many intellectual property has a certain merit that can be demonstrated before it is consumed. E.g. "This piece of software allows you to create 3d models". On the other hand, an article with headline "Will new batteries allow 10x more energy storage?" does not tell me anything.
