Did the US always grow at the expense of the rest of the world because the US was the "acceptable" option?

Promise! We would never do something like that. It's all just testing the waters for suggestions, that's all.

There will be no more ads, just helpful suggestions.

Sometimes you can prove it was a bit flip [caused by cosmic ray, local radioactivity or a glitch in the Matrix], you just need to find the exact bit. A friend of that managed to do exactly that after an error in his monthly accounting software. He proved you could only get the resulting sum if you flipped bit Nth of a certain value during the summation. It took him a while and he had written the software himself.

Ha, brings back identical memories of that time period. At one point the teacher was out of his field and I kept pointing out errors. He held the chalk to me and said un-sarcastically: "come here and finish the course for us"...

I think it's the same in the US. You can't publish someone's photo (unless they are just part of the background) without getting a signed release.

>Even if it isn't technically legal harassement I would say that it is harassing behavior, immoral and should be defended against.

We do that by changing laws.

>Break the fucking cameras.

The problem with that is, it's legal to film i public in the US. I don't know about other countries, but you can use these smart glasses to film people in public in the US legally.

What you are advocating is just assault. Congratulations. You have not evolved past "violent criminal".

IÂm shocked Meta is still investing in that metaverse crappy nonsense. They fell for the own hoax or what?

Most likely, we will all be killed. And not because of a real AI (not those pathetic things they insist on calling AI) having something against humanity, but because of the super-rich who spent trillions developing it, sending it to build hunter-killers to wipe us out and then build a "utopia" for themselves. Well, until the moment their greed makes them destroy each other and only the AI remains.

How much did you get paid to post this nonsense? "AI is already now a core technology"? Don't make me laugh.

If it's not an original part, then don't use the reference code, it's as simple as that. Otherwise that's counterfeit.
To give more details, I hate it when nowadays you order a part online and you get a 3D-printed piece of shit instead. I've had several bad experiences, one being a wheel for a suitcase, when I put the empty suitcase up, the wheel broke off. Others are 3D-printed plastic to replace a metal bike part; really ?!? Even things like wood knife handle replaced by 3D-printed garbage !
The very structure of 3D-prints make it so there is a weakness in the layering; it'll break at the 1st opportunity.

> Meanwhile, H.264 has dedicated hardware decoders in world+dog devices, including ancient ones.

Ancient ones, yes, but most devices sold in the past five years have AV1 *decode* support.

Hardware with AV1 *encode* is still pretty rare but a fair number of up-market chips from the past few years have it.

What we mostly care about here is the $20 amtel or mediatek devices sold today, and those are fine.

Netflix can support the older devices with H.264 as long as it makes more sense to pay the patent license fees than to drop support for old devices.

It won't be long before there are no devices that the manufacturer still supports that can't decode AV1 in hardware. Not that most end-users even know their device went EOL and now a potential liability.

Given that Netflix has native apps on most of these systems it should be straightforward to serve the non-patented stream to any device that can play it well.

> They don't do backups at those outfits?

We really need Federal government backups to be centralized at the National Archives.

Both so one expert team can make sure it's done right, instead of hundreds of teams with questionable experience and track records attempting to do it right.

And /also/ so when one agency goes, "whoopise, I guess we deleted the evidence of our crimes!" there is recourse.

Right now, the prosecutor just goes, "shucks, I guess we don't have a case then. Better fire some leaf-node IT contractor."