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Yeah, too bad. It’s actually quite an innovative and cool design. Shoots pretty good for a striker (still a far cry from CZs and 2011s). The ecosystem also started to develop around it (eg 1911 angle grips, high quality holsters, etc.) Sig optics and accessories also got quite good, too.

Lots of tradeoffs. If you invent a new codec, it's unlikely to make it into hardware for a while (even AV1 encoders are not yet as widely supported) and therefore you will have to do encoding and even decoding in CPU, which takes away resources from the workload. h.264 is still probably the best general purpose codec for real-time desktop streaming - low bandwidth requirements, 444 support, build to lossless, low latency, moderate CPU usage if GPU is not available, and well supported in GPUs for a long time (e.g. even back to Kepler).

Compute overhead of H.264 encoder is non-negligible for a VM host where I want all my CPU cycles to go to user VMs. Datacenter-class Intel CPUs (Xeon) don't include H.264 encoders in hardware. QuickSync circuitry is generally limited to consumer-grade CPUs. Not to mention MPEG licensing issues.

AV1 eliminates MPEG licensing issues, but encoding in hardware is even more limited. Also, AV1 is great for encode-once use cases (e.g. YouTube) since it's heavily geared towards reducing bandwidth requirements vs. encode speed. It's workable for real-time streaming in the lowest settings, but H.264 is still better overall.

Low CPU overhead. VNC streams screen grabs with minimal (if any) compression, which results in lower CPU overhead, high bandwidth consumption and low frame rate. This is okay for the use-case of low-level VM debugging that it's used for in context of virtualization management systems, not so great for desktop remoting.

While RDP may run okay on 56k with low color mode for some use cases (e.g. simple Windows admin), it requires significantly more bandwidth and compute overhead (either CPU or GPU) for other more advanced use-cases (e.g. video editing, CAD etc.)

RDP is aimed at a different use case than VNC. Proxmox and other virtualization managers (e.g. VMWare, Nutanix) use VNC because you get a stream directly from the hypervisor (e.g. KVM, ESX) which is very useful for low-level debugging. The VNC protocol also has very low overhead (you don't really want h264 encoding CPU overhead on your VM host). VNC is not really intended for remote desktop use cases, which require higher fidelity/frame rate, etc.

So -

* VNC: Low overhead / Low fidelity

* RDP (and other remote desktop protocols, e.g. Frame Remoting Protocol, Horizon Blast, Citrix ICA/HDX): Higher overhead / High fidelity

Well if you keep rudder aligned with the engine (i.e. parallel) you are really using both, not just the engine.

Timing could’t be better. VMWare is actively firing and pissing off large swats of their customer base and basically Nutanix is the only serious alternative for onprem.

What is the total overhead (in terms of cores, memory) of the management layer with Oxide (incl. block storage, vmm, etc.)?

Really grateful for the major contribution Google made to the WebRTC over the years, driven by the Stadia effort. They relatively quickly turned it into a viable, production worthy, real-time protocol. Brought up the state of the art in browser-based streaming and reduced complexity in a big way. There were things you simply couldn't do in the browser before WebRTC (e.g. UDP streaming) and many other things were significantly more complex and browser-specific (e.g. tapping into hardware decoders). They were also very receptive to external contributions, which is really nice to see in a major corporate-driven open source project.

Food shortage has nearly nothing to do with climate change and nearly everything to do with sanctions against Russia, resulting in skyrocketing prices of potash, nitrogen and ultimately fertilizer. Combine that with the fact that Ukraine and Russia are also major wheat exporters. Aside from China, most of the countries are running very lean food reserves, resulting in added pressure.

Hoping you are being ironic here rather than moronic

This is pretty non-sensical. Banks are incentivized to price IPOs at the highest possible price, their comps are directly linked to the proceeds.

If IPO pop was something nefarious, how do you explain IPO pop of Goldman Sachs stock? They ran their own IPO and you can be sure as hell that partners didn't want to leave any money on the table.

In general, IPO pop is an interesting phenomenon and it's not fully explained in the literature.

Counter balance is the free market - if you set the price too high, investors will not buy into it and the price will be adjusted down.

Switzerland in fact has significantly lower taxes in most cantons than most (all?) states in the U.S. I am afraid higher taxes would simply yield more mediocre Amtrak.