Notices by Howard Chu @ Symas (hyc@mastodon.social)

@arstechnica sure, go ahead, allow data caps. But make advertisers pay users for all of the bandwidth consumed in delivering their ads. If you're gonna turn my network access into a scarce commodity you better pay me every time you use my quota.

@arstechnica you would think, after over a hundred years, that car door handles were a solved problem by now.

But I have to say, recent model rental cars I've driven have had some atrociously awkward designs, even when working correctly.

@arstechnica Funny that this is "Intel's response" when they spent so many years leading and defining the market.

@arstechnica just bring back flip phones already https://m.gsmarena.com/motorola_krzr_k3-review-151.php

@nixCraft kinda. I'm always looking for existing code to do what I want, because usually it's only a tiny piece of what I want to do overall, and I want to get to the full solution ASAP. But I'll also read the source and profile it, and rewrite it if it's obviously sub-opimal in places.

@arstechnica 25/3 sounds about like what I got in LA. Meanwhile, out here in the wilds of rural northwest Ireland, I've got 1000/100 FTTH.

@arstechnica cool, so your $100/yr subscription puts you in their subscriber database, right?

@arstechnica forget it, just assume all porn videos are fake and they become irrelevant. https://mastodon.social/@hyc/111064161737603346

@arstechnica Is that going to impact automated voice response menu systems too?

@nixCraft what's the problem with algorithms? They're fundamental to software development.

@arstechnica any time a company reaches monopoly status it should be automatically and immediately nationalized.

@mntmn Nice, hadn't heard of panthor. I've been trying (unsuccessfully) to get panfork to behave. Mainly, I wanted accelerated H.264/H.265 decoding to work. Looks like Rockchip expects someone to wrap their mpp libraries in a VAAPI backend but they won't do it themselves, and they deleted their repo of their older vaapi driver from github. Damned annoying.

@arstechnica
> Snyder has said his influences include the films of Akira Kurosawa, especially The Seven Samurai and The Dirty Dozen.

something something Oxford commas ...

@arstechnica if at first you don't succeed

@arstechnica Looking like not a great company to work *with* or *for*. Once is bad luck, twice is a mistake, after that...

@arstechnica MRAM needs to hurry up and reach DDR5 densities / capacities

@arstechnica typical nearsighted American thinking: restricting access to IP only erodes the value of that IP because it forces people to workaound its absence. And it's arrogant ignorance to think workarounds can't succeed.

IP is intrinsically worthless. The only thing truly valuable is the Intellect that creates it. IP, and ideas in general, can only have value when they're shared. If you keep ideas to yourself they can never influence the world. They go nowhere, as if they never existed.

@arstechnica seems like nothing special, it's just physics and math. Easier for computers to get it all correct than humans.

@arstechnica sounds like they should've pitted the Argentine ants against fire ants instead, if they wanted to be sure a fight ensued.

@arstechnica there are already companies (like Microfocus) selling Cobol compilers that emit java. Thing is, even when it works well, java still sucks for deterministic execution. Targeting java just isn't a smart solution.