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Comment Re:DRM (Score 1) 34

You are not the only one.
Though in my case it was more about their mandatory account creation and online checking with the mother ship at the game launch. There where bugs in it or problems with the server availability or whatever. It did not work well. I uninstalled the one game I had and decided not to buy anything Ubisoft related any more.

Comment It is not such a big deal (Score 3, Interesting) 31

The orbits below 400 km will clean themselves over time (at most few tens of years). Companies can make satellites a bit more aerodynamic, load them with enough fuel to maintain the orbit for the expected lifetime and continue launching without issues.
Other options are not feasible anyway. The clean space is a common good and there is little incentive for individual players not to pollute. Barring some international enforcement, space will get full of junk. The current political situation is not cooperative at the international level. The clean space enforcement is very unlikely.

Comment Not that much better than VP9 (Score 2) 46

My small test indicated that it is only about 20% smaller (though TFA claims 30%) and requires about 45% more CPU to decode when compared to VP9. Encoding is also many times slower than VP9. Both encoding and decoding were done on CPU (no HW support; ffmpeg; linux). AV1 may be more interesting later when it is better supported.

Comment Re:Sounds like they have two years to ask. (Score 3, Informative) 6

Don't be scared. You are not affected by CRA if you do not earn money on your open source software.

The CRA regulates commercial activity:
(10) This Regulation applies to economic operators only in relation to products with digital elements made available on the market, hence supplied for distribution or use on the Union market in the course of a commercial activity.
(10c) .. the provision of free and open-source software products that are not monetized by their manufacturers is not considered a commercial activity.
(10c) This Regulation does not apply to natural or legal persons who contribute source code to free and open-source products that are not under their responsibility.

Also non-profit organizations hosting open source are not under CRA. On the other side, commercial entities which profit from open source are responsible! These commercial entities are also responsible to publish vulnerabilities they find in open source and also the patches developed. In general, CRA seems to be more good than bad for open source.

More info. for non-layers is here: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fberthub.eu%2Farticles%2Fpo...

Comment Re:We've seen this movie: VB & RoR (Score 1) 159

Cross compiling does not require anything that has anything to do with AI/LLMs anyway.

It does when the target language (like Rust) has ownership and borrowing which strongly favors your program to have a design suitable for linear (affine) type systems. The system must be redesigned to work idiomatically in Rust.

Comment Re:Cassiniâ"Huygens (Score 2) 54

It had only one wide angle camera. You would need about 3400 images to cover the sky when it was already there. You cannot do it in one time. The moons will move by the time you take all the images so you can miss some. Also you need to take a photo of each moon more times to be sure it is in orbit of Saturn. It does not make sense to do it when the probe is already there.
It might have found some while still far away when one picture can capture more space around Saturn.

Comment Re:Are you serious? (Score 1) 96

You can get rid of some limitations of Fourier transform by moving to Laplace transform.

You need a lot of neurons to approximate some more complicated functions. E.g. try to approximate sine function over its full domain with a 3 layer neural network. As running out of available neurons, you will very quickly see that Fourier transform is better in this case. NNs are universal appropriators but only over a limited subset of R^n.

The nice thing of Fourier transform is that the computed parameters have a very well defined meaning. Computing them will give you clear insights into the behavior of the transformed functions. The point is that GP claim that some other function approximators are "arguably" better than NNs is correct. It depends on your scoring system.

Comment Re:Is it 0Gbps or 0bps (Score 1) 94

You are oddly fixated on PD.

Because itsme1234 discussed power delivery over usb-c and that it is negotiated over D+/D- lines. I only pointed out that it is negotiated over CC line. But maybe itsme1234 meant maximum current request over usb device descriptor. Or some other options I mentioned which use D+/D- lines. But yes, I was completely focused only on USB PD specification. I did not even mention standard data communication anywhere in this thread. Good you pointed out that D+/D- are required by standard.

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