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Comment · 4 years ago
The article makes no mention of changes to insurance claims.
Comment · 4 years ago
My searches are mostly for esoteric error messages that I tweak a dozen times to get Google to stop returning unrelated results. Then I usually give up, get lunch, and the answer comes to me when I sit back down.
Comment · 4 years ago
True, bandwidth is a concern. It might be possible to copy memory directly from disk to the GPU, which may be more efficient.
Comment · 4 years ago
Ultimately, the developers on Asahi are trying to play catch-up with massive GPU driver teams comprised of dozens of talented engineers. It’s not feasible to catch up, but I’d be happy to be proven wrong.
Comment · 4 years ago
Bitmaps take memory, but are quite efficient from a runtime perspective because they aren’t encoded.
Comment · 4 years ago
You still haven’t given an example of how coordinating the two agencies can lead to a bad outcome. If all that can be done is enforce the law, then there is no issue. You keep implying something extra-legal can be done through the coordination, but aren’t providing any specifics.
Comment · 4 years ago
Having 10 officers beat an individual with clubs doesn’t exactly seem good either…
Comment · 4 years ago
Normally people say that power is being wielded dangerously when the power is used to do something disagreeable. Simply enforcing the law correctly doesn’t seem dangerous to me.
Comment · 4 years ago
This is just a small microcosm of what’s going on in the cable TV world. Many channels are raising their fees, but the cable providers are very reluctant to raise the price charged to end users. Instead, cable providers are opting to drop channels. This is leading to an increasingly fragmented cable TV market where it’s impossible to get all the channels you may want to watch. For instance, Comcast just dropped MSG, which is a channel for NY-based sports. The only alternative many people have is to use FuboTV, but Fubo has dropped Adult Swim for the same reason. So now it’s impossible to get both MSG and Adult Swim.
Comment · 4 years ago
This would be more convincing if you had specific reasons, unrelated to the enforcement, that JPM shouldn’t be punished for this.
Comment · 4 years ago
That’s not really an answer to the question. It would be nice if all situations could be de-escalated, but that’s obviously not the case. De-escalation also has its own risks for the officer. Again, not saying I support what happened, but it seems so hard to manage a situation with a belligerent person when I imagine trying to do it myself. Even doing something relatively benign, like removing a loitering person, is not something I’d want to attempt.
Comment · 4 years ago
How else would you subdue someone? You can’t expect all cops to be able to go 1-1 or even 2-1 with someone to subdue them physically. Cops also have guns strapped to their sides that can be reached for. I’m not justifying their behavior, but when I try to imagine subduing someone, I’m not really sure how I would do it. There is definitely room for tools that make it easier.
Comment · 4 years ago
Almost none of the reasons have anything to do with releasing the source. You can release the source but still maintain central control. They shouldn’t even have posted this. Obviously they want to make money from their products, and that’s fine.
Comment · 4 years ago
Why are they evil? Or at least more evil than humans? Humans have eradicated wolves almost everywhere due to the danger they pose humans, particularly children. How is this situation different? The monkeys are even targeting the very same species that humans have long targeted.
Comment · 4 years ago
I think you’re generalizing way too much. Java is old. The libraries are old. There is a lot of bad old code out there, and very little glory in fixing it.

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