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and this is why, when people say, "Follow the science..." it's far more important to follow the money.
Decades ago, I "helped" a grad student that was doing some ground breaking research in gallium arsenide photovoltaic semiconductors. He published his results 1 week after some other person published theirs. Didn't matter the data, first person gets to be declared the expert.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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So I just watched about ten minutes of a video from a big influencer who is complaining of false advertising when some streaming service says you can pay more for 4K video, but doesn't tell you that you need 4K capable hardware.
The guy is throwing out curse words and saying this is a legitimate reason to pirate the content. 
Some people will think they are entitled to just about everything.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Quote: ...a big influencer who is complaining of false advertising when some streaming service says you can pay more for 4K video, but doesn't tell you that you need 4K capable hardware.
Pretty much sums up the 'influencer' intellect. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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"stop making stupid people famous"
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Richard Andrew x64 wrote: So I just watched about ten minutes of a video from a big influencer
Why did you do that? It's 10 minutes of your life wasted, and you will never get it back.Richard Andrew x64 wrote: who is complaining of false advertising when some streaming service says you can pay more for 4K video, but doesn't tell you that you need 4K capable hardware.
I see two sides to this. 4K video does have its purposes, but do you really need to have it? If you're just streaming a movie, it doesn't make a difference to what you see on the screen w/ 4K. 4K is something like 4 times the resolution as 1080p. Our sense of sight as humans cannot differentiate 4K video vs. standard full HD video. When you think about the highest quality resolution for printing graphics onto paper, the standard is 300 dpi. When you design for the web, your graphics are almost always at 72 dpi. If you raise the dpi in either medium, you can't see any difference (provided your viewport is displaying @ 100%). 4K resolution is great for displaying things like QR codes. The average camera takes photos with a resolution that can make use of 4K. If you see a QR code on a 4K TV, you can scan it with your phone from farther away. With standard HD, you'll need to get closer to the TV to scan the code. That's just one good purpose for 4K, but I'm sure there are others.
Does the claim of false advertising hold up? 
Consider the purchase of a DVD movie. It's just a physical disc inside a box. Would any reasonable person purchase a DVD movie without acquiring a DVD player? Is the DVD publisher responsible for informing you that a DVD player is required to watch the DVD? In addition, liability for false advertising is usually covered in the fine print when you purchase a product or service.
Recently, I bought a copy of Microsoft Flight Simulator. I can't run it, because my fairly new laptop doesn't have the minimum required hardware to do so. Before buying the game, I assumed that my laptop could run it. I did review the hardware requirements for the game before buying it, but didn't think too much of it because my laptop is new enough to handle running such a game (or so I thoguht). Who's at fault for this mistake? I am. If I had taken the time to make sure I have the needed hardware for the game, I wouldn't have bought it.Richard Andrew x64 wrote: The guy is throwing out curse words and saying this is a legitimate reason to pirate the content.
It sounds as though this influencer's limited vocabulary is on par with his limited intellect. For him to assert that his unfounded claim of false advertising provides him the legal and moral right to steal intellectual property is borderline delusional. I can see the FBI hearing of this, and I imagine an FBI agent busting out in laughter with tears running down his face.Richard Andrew x64 wrote: Some people will think they are entitled to just about everything.
Just about. The only entitlement this influencer has is to be stupid. You can't fix stupid. If this guy is an 'influencer', then who are the people that he influences? He can have his entitlement to be stupid, but having an entitlement to spread stupidity to others is egregious.
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Steve Raw wrote: Would any reasonable person purchase a DVD movie without acquiring a DVD player?
Long ago I had a real go getter boss in a software retail store that would come in to show how things should be done.
He talked the woman into buying a spreadsheet program in just a few moments. He was done for the day and on to the next store.
The woman came back several days later to return the software. She did not own a computer. She wanted a calculator (hand held variety.) The store did not sell those.
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Steve Raw wrote: Our sense of sight as humans cannot differentiate 4K video vs. standard full HD video
If you're looking at a 17" laptop doing 4K, I'm with you. I don't know why these even exist.
Personally I'm now used to my 1080p projector, showing a ~120-inch image. A friend of mine has a 4K projector, and his image size is roughly the same as mine. My eyesight is no longer being what it used to be, but even with that taken into consideration, I can absolutely say without hesitation if someone couldn't tell the difference between the two, it's time they booked an appointment with their eye doctor.
4K and 8K? I can't make the same argument, but that's mainly because I haven't seen any 8K video playing at native resolution. But I do suspect that's beyond the point of diminishing returns.
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Part of the reason I wrote my graphics library is because existing ones (aside from LVGL) produce content that looks like it's from the early 1990s. No antialiasing. Blocky raster fonts, no alpha blending, etc.
The reason for that is probably because a lot of these libs started out on mediocre hardware like Arduino Atmel based 8 bit boards.
I'm not really interested in targeting 8 and 16 bit machines now that 32 bit is so cheap. And RAM and flash space will only grow even as size and power consumption decrease.
I've been coding with eye toward supporting hardware of today and of tomorrow, rather than legacy hardware. That's why my graphics library supports SVG and Truetype.
It does so even though the Tensilica LX6's floating point processor used in the ESP32 is so anemic - an ARM Cortex M4's FP is pretty good, and eventually Tensilica will probably catch up or go under. I'm not sure about RISC-V floating point performance, or if that's even a thing but ESP32 seems to be moving that direction.
That's what I care about. My library wasn't written 10 years ago. I'm making 2.0 *now* it should be forward thinking, given I have to pick and choose what I want to include.
I probably scared @Rick-York with my truetype support (Wait until he hears about my SVG/xml support) but I added it in part because of this philosophy of future proofing my code.
I don't know. Maybe it's a really bad idea and I haven't run into why yet, but I'd much rather write code that hardware of today almost struggles with if it means it can fly in the future. 
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Setting Rick York aside, I think you scare a lot of people here. You're the type I want to keep locked in the lab.
You are a small company and have the benefit, luxury, dream of being able to focus so clearly. I wrapped up 20 years with a company that made stuff for factories. Once the software was "done", everyone moved on to the next product. No real thought to s/w maintenance, but they were getting better.
It's all about your business model and your product.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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Well my graphics library straddles two worlds.
I built it for facilitating my professional work. I wanted something I could tailor rapidly as client demands required it, and existing embedded libraries were either too primitive, or kind of locked you into a particular look and feel, or maybe didn't work well with e-ink, etc.
That said, I didn't bill anyone for it. Instead I open sourced it. That's where a lot of my ecosystem is.
It makes me very fast at coding, and allows me a lot of control over what I create without having justify it to anyone, and I can maintain primary creative control.
It's a lot of unpaid effort but I enjoy it, and it allows me to produce content for this site as well.
So while I do use this for my company, and it fills an important role, it wasn't strictly a business driven decision, and wasn't something I was billing for, if that makes sense.
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It makes sense, but I started my career before opensource. Using opensource is a bit weird. If you are small, it makes you very agile, etc. If you are corporate, there are so many hoops to jump through it gets silly. Don't get me wrong, stick a "free" sign in front of a development manager and they start to hyperventilate. But from a corporate world, there's nobody to sue if things go sideways. Don't even get me started on security - not relevant to your library.
I guess my point is that for the last 20 years, the products (software was a necessary evil) was a fire and forget development effort. There was no point in worrying about maintenance, portability, etc. They could have saved so much effort, but the coding kitties (reference to herding cats) never were forced to stop cloning code, it just moved to the next project and ship it.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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I like having "my babies" like my graphics library that even has its own website, and lasts from project to project. I find it satisfying to work on them, so I am glad I have the opportunity to do so.
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Reminds me of Elon Musk suing advertisers for refusing to patronize his platform.
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He told them to eff off because they were trying to manipulate/control him with money. This isn't a secret. It's called having a backbone and standing up for his values. Apparently backbones are in so short supply these days nobody recognizes them.
This should be obvious to anyone who isn't a mind slave to the media David. And need I remind you, nobody hated Elon until the media told the sheeple it's time to hate him now.
Personally, I'd rather someone who's genuine and flawed but honest over someone who's lying, creepy, and sneaky. But, having a backbone over something wrong isn't a flaw.
Jeremy Falcon
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: He told them to eff off because they were trying to manipulate/control him with money.
... because they did not want their advertisements to appear next to Nazi propaganda, and he wouldn't take any action to ensure that wouldn't happen.
Jeremy Falcon wrote: It's called having a backbone and standing up for his values.
So his values seem to be Naziism and hate speech.
Jeremy Falcon wrote: nobody hated Elon until
Actually, a bunch of people started waking up to the fact that Elon is a raging narcissist when he began trashing the cave diver rescuing the kids in Thailand.
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David O'Neil wrote: ... because they did not want their advertisements to appear next to Nazi propaganda, and he wouldn't take any action to ensure that wouldn't happen.
That's politics for you... everyone that doesn't agree with you is a racist, Nazi, etc. That's it, nothing more. I can't really expand on this without getting way out of a Lounge bounds, but let's just say there's a party that always uses hyperbole and minimization when it suits them.
Like, what? You can't disagree with anyone who's Jewish now? Doing so makes you Hitler? Come on man. But we can burn down cities and that's peaceful...
David O'Neil wrote: So his values seem to be Naziism and hate speech.
There you go again... it's all hate speech. I don't like the cologne your wearing... I'm triggered... omg hate speech. I'm convinced most of the people spouting this were serious losers growing up with no friends. Like zero. And now they're making up for it as adults pretending to be wise.
David O'Neil wrote: Actually, a bunch of people started waking up to the fact that Elon is a raging narcissist when he began trashing the cave diver rescuing the kids in Thailand.
I don't know about a cave story, so I can't say much on that. But, I got news for you... everyone at a top is a narcissist. You think Bill Gates isn't?
Again, nobody hated Musk until the media told them to. There are far worse people out there, but I don't see any wanna be heroes going after them... no, they'll just wait for TV to tell them who to hate next... then go after them.
Jeremy Falcon
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: That's politics for you...
No, that wasn't politics. It was advertising. Their ads were literally appearing next to Nazi propaganda and hate speech. It becomes politics if politicians force them to buy ads under such circumstances.
Yes, almost everyone at the top is a narcissist. That's a large part of our current problems. We've allowed them to run rampant by not having enough backbone to vote them out.
Jeremy Falcon wrote: You can't disagree with anyone who's Jewish now? Doing so makes you Hitler?
Sounds like a quote from the conservative radio stations my father listens to. He seems to think that all the 'evil socialist/communist scum' think that way when none of the ones I've met think anything remotely like that.
Have a great day!
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David O'Neil wrote: No, that wasn't politics. It was advertising. Their ads were literally appearing next to Nazi propaganda and hate speech. It becomes politics if politicians force them to buy ads under such circumstances.
It is politics. Only the Left says that man. Like, self-awareness and whatnot. You're going to have to show me examples over the Nazi propaganda because everything I've seen is a load of nonsense.
Musk already said more than once he's defending free speech as long as it's legal. Nothing wrong with that, even if someone wants to creating something out of thin air. All he's doing is rolling back the clock before the thought police took over.
The fact is, companies like Disney tried to manipulate him. All they had to do was silently not advertise. But, back to the original point... no they used their dollars in an attempt to control him. That's why he said what he said. I'll never understand why some people can't get this simple fact. Hate for the next target by the news isn't rational that's for sure.
David O'Neil wrote: Sounds like a quote from the conservative radio stations my father listens to.
So, thinking just because someone is Jewish doesn't mean they're automatically right about everything makes me sound conservative? Ok, sure.
David O'Neil wrote: Have a great day!
Ditto 
Jeremy Falcon
modified 17-Aug-24 15:45pm.
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: You're going to have to show me examples over the Nazi propaganda because everything I've seen is a load of nonsense.
Disney, Microsoft ads on Twitter show up next to neo-Nazi propaganda: report[^]. From your tone, you've already determined it is nonsense, so this is pointless.
Jeremy Falcon wrote: So, thinking just because someone is Jewish doesn't mean they're automatically right about everything makes me sound conservative?
Jeremy Falcon wrote: You can't disagree with anyone who's Jewish now? Doing so makes you Hitler?
Don't know how you reached the first of these quotations in your last post. I was just saying that the quote in my first post sounded like you were just parroting conservative radio. In my experience, conservative radio has fabricated a whole alternate reality that doesn't reflect our current one. One of those discrepancies is the 'liberals' I'm aware of think you can criticize Israel while still supporting the idea of Israel. Conservative radio says we are all Israel-hating communist/socialist scum.
Fundamentally, it seems our 'oligarchs' want to blindly support Israel because there is money in it for them. So they cast 'conservatives' and 'liberals' against each other through culture wars, and continue down their path of greed and corruption, and we buy it all up, like good consumers. Even hating each other because we have been told to do so.
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