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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • Oh, this is on android yt app.
    Pixel 8pro, so Google & Google.
    There isn’t any variable that they don’t have control of.
    Video playback after ads skips 500ms, plays 500ms, skips 500ms etc. Changing quality doesn’t fixing it. Play/pause doesn’t fix it, skipping doesn’t fix it. I have to fully quit YT app and restart it to get playback again, and chances are it starts the ads again.
    Never had an issue on FF, w10 or Linux.

    I get that streaming video is expensive for bandwidth. And creators need an incentive to create.
    I don’t expect it for free. I don’t YT enough to warrant a premium subscription.
    The ads literally break the platform for me.
    Makes sense to me to get into one of the alternative clients… But I don’t want to not pay my dues… It’s just not worth the £13 a month: there is no way I’m consuming that much content.




  • In France, no one spoke English even though I spoke loudly and slowly

    Haha, reminds me of a holiday ages ago in France.
    Someone left their handbag behind or something, and my friend said “I’ll sort it out, I know French”. To be fair, he did. But when I went back to tell him where we ended up, he was speaking slowly and loudly to the poor french person.

    Which reminds me of another time in France, having breakfast. I ordered “orange juice” and the waiter looked confused. So I said it again slower, and his face lit up and said “ah, jus d’orange”.


  • I feel like for a long time, CUDA was a laser looking for a problem.
    It’s just that the current (AI) problem might solve expensive employment issues.
    It’s just that C-Suite/managers are pointing that laser at the creatives instead of the jobs whose task it is to accumulate easily digestible facts and produce a set of instructions. You know, like C-Suites and middle/upper managers do.
    And NVidia have pushed CUDA so hard.

    AMD have ROCM, an open source cuda equivalent for amd.
    But it’s kinda like Linux Vs windows. NVidia CUDA is just so damn prevalent.
    I guess it was first. Cuda has wider compatibility with Nvidia cards than rocm with AMD cards.
    The only way AMD can win is to show a performance boost for a power reduction and cheaper hardware. So many people are entrenched in NVidia, the cost to switching to rocm/amd is a huge gamble



  • I felt like adding something about the specific case of 180° between edges and a vertice.
    Makes sense.
    And I guess too many vertices means an open set of edges (ie not close, this not a shape).
    I was kinda hoping for a strange edge case, like a mobius strip or Klein bottle.

    I guess a mobius strip is a 2d representation of a 1d paradigm. And a klein bottle is a 3d representation of a 2d paradigm.
    It would be too much to ask of a 1d representation of a ??d paradigm.


  • I feel my comment adds to the discussion and wants more details.
    But it was too simply phrased.
    I guess the details of such a question should be obvious. And if you need the details, the question doesn’t actually add the the discussion… It just seems idiotic!

    I felt like there might be a really cool scenario where a vertice isn’t considered a vertice.
    Like, there actually might be some case on a 2d plane “where actually” applies.
    I’m fine being wrong








  • Sure, but the fines have gone unpaid.
    The private owner of the private company X has enough money to cover the fines.
    Brazil is now seizing assets to try and recover the amount due.

    X isn’t declaring bankruptcy. X is flaunting legal rulings and dodging fines.
    If that scares away “investors” that are going to skirt or flaunt laws, rulings and legality then it seems like a decent result for Brazil.