Comment Re:So it's not the bike lanes. (Score 3, Interesting) 213
Except it could have been done for less than the cost of adding the bike lanes, if the city actually cared about traffic congestion.
Except it could have been done for less than the cost of adding the bike lanes, if the city actually cared about traffic congestion.
I'm not lying, that's the actual size, something like 420k. It may have been a bit shorter playtime, perhaps 20 seconds (I didn't time it), but still, it was quite small.
Nobody said videos on Facebook are Blu-Ray quality. But you seem to have weird concepts about how big videos need to be to be good enough quality for a web page. Just as a test, I took an original high quality full-motion video of a concert, reencoded it with ffmpeg, audio codec aac, vbr audio quality 0.5, video codec x264, preset veryslow, cf 33, resolution 512x288 (half original size), 20 seconds. File size? 420k. Of course the video from facebook was darker and quieter, so one would expect it to compress better. If we give my sample concert clip an allowable size of, say, 550k, then I can up audio quality to 0.7 and cf down to 30. Either way, the resultant clip was fine, the sort of thing you'd expect to see on a Facebook wall.
Anyway, the key point is, Facebook feeds aren't loading you down with 50 meg videos, they're little couple-hundred-k clips, the same size as animated gifs. And while I haven't measured it, they don't appear to start streaming until you scroll down to them, and look to stop after you scroll away.
While not always bug-free, automotive embedded software is a hell of a lot better than desktop or phone shit.
You've never read the third-party analysis of Toyota's ECU software, have you?
The exciting part about driverless cars comes when a bug is found. Suddenly you have millions of cars to upgrade, and would be liable for every death the bug causes until they're upgraded.
Yeah, that document is scary. It implies that the accelerator control task could crash, and the rest of the software wouldn't even notice. If the throttle is open at the time... oops.
You'll be awaken by the car beeping to tell you that it has stoped to avoid something in front, and by the horn of other driver, angry that you've stopped in the middle of nowhere.
Or by the car behind smashing into you, because they weren't looking where they were going, and your car is stopped on the highway.
1) I just went and pulled the first anim-gif I saw off 9-gag, a fairly simple thing of Ralph Wiggum with little motion, so it should compress quite well for an animated gif. Size: just over 400k. I then pulled the first video that showed up on my Facebook feed, a 30 second full motion clip, and downloaded the entire thing (including the audio stream, full quality). Size: just over 400k.
So....?
2) Are you actually sure that it is downloading the audio stream when it does muted autoplay? Not saying that it oes or doesn't, but do you actually have evidence either way?
3) See the reply below.
There's really no argument. If you're going to allow animated gifs, you should allow autoplay videos. So that we can finally put the nail in the coffin of the awfulness that is gif by removing the last common use of it.
And FYI, 400k is not that much. Slashdot is a pretty simplistic website compared to most, and I just measured how much data is downloaded just to read the front page: 1.4M.
Why is it any more evil than animated GIFs? Both play automatically, neither happen with sound, and compression on x264 is *way* better than with animated gifs.
I was initially opposed to autoplay on FB, but after thinking about it, I changed my mind. We already see tons of animated stuff on web pages, and the videos from people who show up on my page about are usually things I'd find interesting (if the user posting them didn't usually post interesting things, I'd have stopped following them). There's no unexpected sounds to bug me, and the quality to size ratio versus animated gifs is, what, two orders of magnitude better?
The rigtht way to do capitalism, as opposed to the way it's generally practiced in the US, with the cart in front of the horse.
That's 'cause Musk isn't an MBA.
Some days, I honestly think the MBA must have been a Soviet plot to destroy the West.
No. At some point the airlines will start charging the idiots for the cost of diverting the flight (I'd guess it's at least $100,000 by the time you include the costs of moving other passengers to other flights after they're delayed), and then the idiots will stop being idiots.
Or a live badger. That would just be awesome. Franklinator 2.0.
It both scares me and pisses me of that the government can do whatever it wants with nuclear weapons, while my ability to use them is very, very restricted.
Who do they think they are, claiming the right to use things that the general public can't? Let me use my nuclear weapons!
Until I can be sure things are as safe as they reasonably can get I'd rather not have drones delivering packages yet
But that's exactly what drone proponents are asking for - a permitting standard that gives them the right to fly in these conditions and for these purposes in exchange for meeting a set of safety standards. Passive or automatically-engaged active safety features that ensure that "death by falling drone" is effectively an impossibility, whether that things like be cowled propellors, parachutes, an inherently low terminal velocity, fully independent backup propulsion, or whatever the case may be.
And in case you didn't notice, massive objects weighing hundreds of tons loaded with massive amounts of fuel and capable of taking out whole city blocks and/or skyscapers already fly extensively over your head. But you're worried about little plastic helicopters?
Actually seem to think they can stop technology that anyone can build in their garage.
Next they'll be trying to claim that I can't use my flying car as a taxi.
Comparing *any* object, you want to use equals(), there's no "probably".
Except small Integer objects are usually cached, so == works. Except if someone manually created a new one.
This is one of the most retarded things about Java. Certain types work with == and certain instances of certain types work with ==, and others don't. I've had to fix a ton of Java bugs which happened because someone accidentally used '==' when they meant to use 'equals'. It really is at the bash-your-head-on-the-table level of stupid design.
Uh, no. The reason it's scarce is because they've been sending it to Africa.
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