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The original untrimmed video of this talk by GrUSP (Italian PHP events organizer) can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGOAQli7tGc

> You don’t need a TV Licence if you only ever use these services to watch on demand or catch up programmes [...]

I would think that Netflix and Amazon are considered on demand services.

Krypton (from Ancient Greek: κρυπτός, romanized: kryptos "the hidden one") is a chemical element with the symbol Kr and atomic number 36. It is a member of group 18 (noble gases) elements. A colorless, odorless, tasteless noble gas, krypton occurs in trace amounts in the atmosphere and is often used with other rare gases in fluorescent lamps. With rare exceptions, krypton is chemically inert.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krypton

Wanted to read the article, but instead got this: "You're in private mode. Log in or create a free New York Times account to continue reading in private mode." So headed for page source and stumbled onto this wtf:

  <!--
  ---------- Forwarded message ---------
  From: Kingsbury, Katie <katie.kingsbury@nytimes.com>
  Date: Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 2:30 PM
  Subject: Rollout
  To: Bennet, James <james.bennet@nytimes.com>
  
  
  James,
  
  Here’s a line up for the launch tomorrow, all of these will be online before Sunday:
  
    • A.G.’s publisher’s note about The Times
    • Manjoo on household items that track us
    • Wu on the history of privacy
    • Jeong on A.I. and insurance
    • Metzel on genetically engineered babies
    • Warzel on tech CEOs in their own words
    • Fr. Martin on privacy and faith
    • Emily Chang on privacy as a feminist issue
    • Douthat on our post-privacy order
    • Swisher on privacy regulation
    • Irby on what’s funny about all this.

  Plus, of course, your piece if you can actually get it done in time.

  Next week, we’ll drop the piece about how we turned a public camera in Manhattan into a facial recognition equipped surveillance machine and who we caught with it.

  The vanity URL is locked in as nytimes.com/privacy-project and the social team has spun up the @PrivacyProject account.

  Katie
  -->

On Samsung's US website it's $350 (free s/h):

https://www.samsung.com/us/computing/memory-storage/solid-st...

It's not the same product: 970 PRO vs 970 EVO.

On that same "blocked" page there's also this:

Would you like some tips about avoiding DNS blocking? Take a look at our practical guide about VPN and DNS blocking here!

Which links to this (in swedish): https://www.bahnhof.se/press/press-releases/2018/11/01/bara-...

Google DNS and its IP addresses are mentioned, so they are probably enforcing just DNS blocking.

$0.0135 per message is for messages to US numbers only. E.g. price to Belgium is a whooping $0.1010 per message.

If anyone curious to see those blocking messages for themselves, LA Times and Chicago Tribune redirect EU users to these respective URLs: http://www.tronc.com/gdpr/latimes.com/ and http://www.tronc.com/gdpr/chicagotribune.com/

Relation definitions define types. Types have names. Tuple in a relation is an instantiation of the corresponding type. And we use singulars for class/types names in most programming systems (e.g. class Person vs class Persons).

Lasers are dead. DOA, at least according to WD. Microwave Assisted Magnetic Recording (MAMR) is the next thing for rust. WD plans to start shipping MAMR drives in 2019.

see: http://www.anandtech.com/show/11925/western-digital-stuns-st...

He wasn't being offered 15 millions in 1999.

User's feedback mentions some payment service PayPay in Europe. It's mispelled PayPal, or some European specific service of which I've never heard of?

Just spare a couple minutes of your time to watch this excelent video by Computerphile: Why Electronic Voting is a BAD Idea [1]

[1] https://youtube.com/watch?v=w3_0x6oaDmI

And these Disney's digital copy's redemption "terms of service" is the subject of judge's ruling. Because those terms force consumers to acknowledge, that they own the physical copy, which means that these terms put restrictions on the resale of physical copy (i.e. basically forbids reselling), and it's not ok for the judge.

I was under impression that those direct deals with distributors are better deals for RedBox than buying discs in retail. Because if they don't get a good deal, they can always buy discs in retail for $20-ish something, and have no restrictions on renting or resaling them, and with no royalties or fees, because of "first sale doctrine".

Yes. Essentially they get digital download code for free, so they can sell it for whatever amount they feel.

I think it's because you are probably visiting the site not from US, because I'm not from US too, and was never able to visit redbox.com since the first time I read about this dispute with Disney.

This is from MIT OCW course Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs [1]

[1] https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-compu...

Alternative definition for NTSC -- Not The Smartest Choice. In contrast to PAL, which was specifically designed to overcome NTSC's shortcomings.

Large OLED panels everywhere: TVs, monitors, laptops, etc.

There was a lot of excitement, once blue color longevity issues were solved, how it is easier and thus cheaper to manufacture, how soon it'll outcompete LCD. 20 years later still waiting.

Microsoft has somewhat similar technology called PhotoDNA.

How does PhotoDNA work?

PhotoDNA technology converts images into a common black-and-white format and uniform size, then divides the image into squares and assigns a numerical value that represents the unique shading found within each square. Together, those numerical values represent the "PhotoDNA signature" or "hash" of an image, which can then be compared against signatures of other images. While the technology cannot be used to identify a person or object in an image, nor can it be used to recreate an image, it can be used to find copies of a given image with incredible accuracy and at scale across the 1.8 billion images shared online every day, even when the images themselves have been altered.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/PhotoDNA/FAQ?3158ae95-fce7-4...

The purpose of this device is to be a DNS resolver, not a router.

Previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15264053

Hashids are reversible mappings to/from integers. Nano IDs are random strings.

it seems metallic "invisibility cloak" is quite effective: https://media.ccc.de/v/33c3-8238-retail_surveillance_retail_...

Since reading the excerpt about Goodenough[0] from the mentioned book, I was waiting when he will finally announce his new battery tech. Good read.

[0] https://qz.com/338767/the-man-who-brought-us-the-lithium-ion...

You can install and run OpenBSD on DO. Here's the guide by Derek Sivers: http://50pop.com/d.html

No, you don't have to alter audio in any way, you just leave it untouched.

Let's say you have 100 seconds of film material with corresponding audio duration. That would be exactly 2400 frames, because film is 24 fps. When you do 2:3 pulldown (that's one of the methods used to do telecine, i.e. film conversion to television format) you'll get back exactly 3000 video frames. But in NTSC format, (if you'll leave audio untouched, i.e. it's duration didn't change, it's still is 100 seconds) for 100 seconds of video duration you must display 2997 video frames, not 3000. So you just throw away 1 frame from every 1000 frames to get the exact 29.97 fps.

Doing this, at worst case you'll get audio/video desynchronization of 33 ms, which I don't think is noticeable (I tend to visually notice desynchronization when it's at about 100 ms or more). But if you'll drop that 1 excessive frame in the middle (not at the end) of the sequence of 1000 frames, you'll get audio/video desynchronization which only varies from -16 ms to +16 ms. Which is not worth the trouble of fixing this by going the other way around it: leaving video untouched and slowing down the audio by 0.1%.

> For NTSC, the film release is sped down by a much smaller amount (0.1%) during the 3:2 pulldown to adjust from 30 to the exact 29.97 fps that NTSC needs.

No. For NTSC they just drop (throw away) 1 frame from every 1000 frames, so there's no speed-up or speed-down in audio track.