Now imagine if each one of those people was in their own vehicle trying to leave the stadium at the same time.

That train with 100 people crammed into it is easily saving people hours worth of waiting in the parking lot for their turn to leave.

A massive failure in US city planning is that stadiums don’t have bus and rail access.

Every major stadium should have a light rail station which exits right into the ticket booth. There’s literally no reason why these things can’t have huge public transport during major events. Anyone that’s tried to leave one of these events knows just what a PITA it is.

Hey, can we stop calling everything with a computer “AI”? Order management systems have been a thing long before LLMs were invented (I’ve worked on one). This was perhaps one of the first applications of computing. Humans hand writing an order form in a major grocery store hasn’t been a thing since like the 80s.

Also, I’m like 80% sure this article was barfed out by an LLM. The em-dashes be everywhere.

IKR? That was a surprising fact to me.

It’s the worst of all the fossil fuels. They all suck, but coal sucks the most. Expensive and dangerous to mine. Requires a buttload. Releases all sort of nasty pollutants. Doesn’t fully burn to CO2. And is slow to ramp so it’s only really good for a baseload.

If coal wasn’t used for iron smelting, it would have never been used to for power generation.

It’s possible, you copy the post id and put a number in front of it, like the following:

#43294288@startrek.website

However, it doesn’t autoformat to a link (unfortunately). To do that you need to do regular links. IE: [link](#43294288@startrek.website) which produces this link

Edit: Damn it, messed this up, just a sec let me read some more.

Looks like it’s simply not possible. There’s open github cases around this and this particular feature was just dropped. Shame, I’d have liked the #postId@site format.

It’s very clear that at this point, insofar as there is any logic at all to the decision making of people investing in Tesla (and there’s very little evidence of that), they’re evaluating it as a software company, not a car company.

Nah, the logic to the decision is that other people are buying a lot of tesla stock and the price keeps going up. It’s very nearly a ponzi scheme. It has value completely detached to what the company is doing. It’s tulips, crypto, beanie babies. Most institutional investors realizes this, they also are trying to get in and get out without holding the bag.

Regardless, I’d bet anything that you are not able to reencode blurays to 15mbps without substantial quality loss.

It’s crazy how confident you are about something you’ve never done.

Yes, I’ve gotten transparent encodes with 15mbps. Lots of people have.

If you don’t believe me, go to the AV1 subreddit and ask “can you get a transparent encode with only 15mbps”. Or just go read up on svt-av1 and av1an and do it yourself.

Look, this is just an incorrect oversimplification of the problem. It’s popular on the internet but it’s just factually incorrect.

Here’s a thread discussing the exact problem I’m describing

https://www.reddit.com/r/AV1/comments/1co9sgx/av1_in_dark_scenes/

The issue at play for streaming services is they have a general pipeline for encoding. I mean, it could be described as cheaping out because they don’t have enough QA spot checking and special purposing encodes to make sure the quality isn’t trash. But it’s really not strictly a “not enough bits” problem.

I promise streaming services and CDNs employ world-class experts in encoding

They don’t really care about the quality

It’s funny that you are trying to make both these points at the same time.

You don’t hire world class experts if you don’t care about quality.

I have a hobby of doing re-encoding blurays to lower bitrates. And one thing that’s pretty obvious is the world class experts who wrote the encoders in the first place have them overly tuned to omit data from dark areas of a scene to avoid wasting bits in that location. This is true of H265, VP9, and AV1. You have to specifically tune those encoders to push the encoder to spend more of it’s bits on the dark area or you have to up the bitrate to absurd levels.

Where these encoders spend the bitrate in dark scenes is on any areas of light within the scene. That works great if you are looking at something like a tree with a lot of dark patches, but it really messes with a single light person with darkness everywhere. It just so happens that it’s really easy to dump 2mbps on a torch in a hall and leave just 0.1mbps on the rest of the scene.

That will unarguably provide a drastically worse experience on a high-enough quality tv than a 40mbps+ bluray. Like, day and night in most scenes and even more in others.

I can tell you that this is simply false. And it’s the same psuedo-scientific logic that someone trying to sell gold plated cables and FLAC encodings pushes.

Look, beyond just the darkness tuning problem that streaming services have, the other problem they have is a QOS. The way content is encoded for streaming just isn’t ideal. When you say “they have to hit 14mpbs” the fact is that they are forcing themselves to do 14mbps throughout the entire video. The reason they do this is because they want to limit buffering as much as possible. It’s a lot better experience to lower your resolution because you are constantly buffering. But that action makes it really hard to do good video optimizations on the encoder. Ever second of the video they are burning 14mb whether they need those 14mb or not. The way that’d deliver less data would be if they only averaged 14mbps rather than forcing it throughout. Allowing for 40mbps bursts when needed but then pushing everything else out at 1mbps saves on bandwidth. However, the end user doesn’t know that the reason they just started buffering is because a high motion action scene is coming up (and netflix doesn’t want to buffer for more than a few minutes).

The other point I’d make is that streaming companies simply have a pipeline that they shove all video through. And, because it’s so generalized, these sorts of tradeoffs which make stuff look like a blocky mess happen. Sometimes that blocky mess is present in the source material (The streaming services aren’t ripping the blurays themselves, they get it from the content providers who aren’t necessarily sending in raws).

I say all this because you can absolutely get 4k and 1080p looking good at sub-bluray rates. I have a library filled with these re-encodes that look great because of my experience here. A decent amount of HD media can be encoded at 1 or 2mbps and look great. But you have to make tradeoffs that streaming companies won’t make.

For the record, the way I do my encoding is a scene by scene encode using VMAF to adjust the quality rate with some custom software I built to do just that. I target a 95% VMAF which ends up looking just fantastic across media.

Blocky artifacts typically appear in low light situations. There will be situations where it might just be blocky due to not having enough bits (high motion scenes) but there are plenty of cases where low light tuning is where you’d end up noticing the blockyness.

People don’t like hearing this, but streaming services tune their codecs to properly calibrated TVs. Very few people have properly calibrated TVs. In particular, people really like to up the brightness and contrast.

A lot of scenes that look like mud are that way because you really aren’t supposed to be able distinguish between those levels of blackness.

That said, streaming services should have seen the 1000 comments like the ones here and adjusted already. You don’t need bluray level of bits to make things look better in those dark scenes, you need to tune your encoder to allow it to throw more bits into the void.

ICE is assaulting citizens. They shouldn’t even have tear gas and pepper spray. It’s not their job to do crowd control. That’s the job of the local pd or national guard.

Yup, the band is already littered with 6g devices. It’d be a stupid purchase.

But also, 6GHz is somewhat of a useless band for carriers. It’s high enough frequency that it’ll get absorbed by most things yet low enough frequency that it’ll struggle to really carry a whole lot of data.

Slow? Not necessarily.

The main issue with that much memory is the data routing and the physical locality of the memory. Assuming you (somehow) could shrink down the distance from the cache to the registers and could have a wide enough data line/request lines you can have data from such a cache in ~4 cycles (assuming L1 and a hit).

What slows down memory for L2 is the wider address space and slower residence checks. L3 gets a bit slower because of even wider address spaces but also it has to deal with concurrency issues since it’s shared among cores. It also ends up being slower because it physically has to be further away from the cores due to it’s size.

If you ever look at a CPU die, you’ll see that L1 caches are generally tiny and embedded right into the center of the processor. L2 tends to be bolted onto the sides of the physical cores. And L3 tends to be the largest amount of silicon real estate on a CPU package. This is all what contributes to the increasing fetch performance for each layer along with the fact that you have to check the closest layers first (An L3 hit, for example, means that the CPU checked L1 and L2 and failed at both which takes time. So L3 access will always be at least the L1 + L2 times).

Every CEO thinks like this. CEOs are so incredibly bullish on AI BECAUSE they want to replace people and not tasks.

Former staffer that resigned because of the Gaza policy and was not involved in the 2024 election.

From the article, since you didn’t bother to read.

Harris has not been the candidate many of us wanted. Her candidacy is historic, but she and the Democratic Party have failed to champion a truly progressive agenda — one needed not only to motivate her base, but to take on the right wing’s increasingly fascist policies and rhetoric. It has been devastating to see Harris refuse to break with Biden on Israel, adopt xenophobic talking points about immigration policy, and campaign alongside hawkish, pro-war Republicans.

And yeah, I 100% agree with the author. Her position is and remains mine. If you’d bother to read the article, you’d see she even supported the uncommitted movement, which guess who the protest voters were?

You are struggling to square away that I have empathy and understand why people couldn’t stomach Harris. Stop calling people “morons” because they can’t as easily justify genocide as you can.

Also do note that rather than addressing my challenge, you proved my point. Harris had identical Gaza policies to Biden and the only reason to vote for her was the fact that there were some pro Palestinian Democrats. You vote for her not because she’s better in Gaza, but out of the hope that members of her caucus could moderate her position.

My position has been rock solid through the entire election. Feel free to look through my past comments.

The only ones coping are you guys that are just becoming aware of genocide because Trump is also supporting it.

Keep getting mad and ignoring anyone who doesn’t 100% carry water for Democrats. I’m sure that will continue to be electorially successful.

Produce any media where she even hinted at having a different Gaza policy.

Israel started the genocide early after Oct 7, it’s not escalated. They’re already leveled over 80% of Gaza and destroyed every hospital and piece of infrastructure under Biden.

Tell me, how is that at all different from Trump’s current policy?

Edit: for the down voters, I don’t care. My point is made by you not being able to do anything other than down vote. You know I’m right and that makes you mad. No media exists which will absolve Kamala on Israel.

Not to me.

Biden’s and by extension Kamala’s Israel policy was functionally identical to Trump’s. The atrocities happening under Trump were happening under Biden. The only thing that’s changed is now that Trump is in charge it’s become acceptable for left leaning media to criticize that policy. Under Biden, outlets like MSNBC literally fired everyone with even an incling of pro Palestinian rhetoric. They framed genocide protestors as antisemites.

And it wasn’t just Biden. Practically the entire DNC was 100% behind Israel.

The people protesting had friends and family killed by US muntins that the Biden admin never even hinted at threatening to reduce, even after Israel doing things like murdering aid workers. Even after blowing past every single “red line”.

Go watch Antony Blinken talk about Israel. It’s disgusting, but there really was no difference in rhetoric between him and the current Trump admin.

You don’t understand the protest vote because, like Biden, you didn’t look into or care about the protesters until it became something you could use to bitch about Trump or voters that didn’t do what you wanted.

And yes, I voted for Kamala and told everyone to vote for her. Her campaign shat the bed by chasing right-wing voters and by ignoring the genocide their admin continued to aid. “At least I’m not the other guy” does not work or inspire votes.

Israel was founded on genocide.

Palestine wasn’t unoccupied when the colonialists moved in and took over. The 1948 Palestine war was literally European colonialists committing genocide to establish a new government.

The fact that they are Jews and Germany has also recently committed genocide against them doesn’t make their actions justified.