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Re:Comparing H.265 (HEVC) and H265 video file size on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @11:09PM (#26576130)
Compression depends on a variety of factors - content, type of frames being used (I-P, I-3/7B-P, etc.). Bit rate vs Distortion curve also has to be considered. PSNR of encoded content is a metric. Click bait without much info.
Re:SoftBank set to sell UK’s Arm Holdings to Nvidia for $40B on Saturday September 12, 2020 @08:02PM (#24457002)
Along with cpu's ARM also makes mobile gpu ip (Mali), nvidia as well in their tegra. I would be surprised if this deal went through.
2050 headline: How Social Media companies Misled the Public into Believing They were only connecting the society
Re:Things I Learned to Become a Senior Software Engineer on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @01:03PM (#24410350)
Titles don't actually translate across companies well, that is more true across industries. Also grads will see their peers get a new title at some other company 2 years after college. A new title with a good raise at another company is definitely a reason enough to leave the current one. With avg. stay of 2-3 years at a company it makes sense for a company to try to retain sw talent with a title change whether or not it changes the meaning of work.
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I believe this move should be followed by governments worldwide, you are accessing worlwide data by providing services to citizens of different countries. You are also generating $ by ad services generated by this data(i.e. access to news portals), and it goes to profit only one country. Are the ads from only local companies?(I don't think so). How fair is that? In a world where trade deals are done to benefit both nations in case of commodities, why not do the same for bits and bytes of information?
Re:ZipGrow: Vertical farming/urban agriculture system on Monday March 30, 2020 @02:38AM (#22725753)
The economical value of growing veggies after paying city rents/wages/ and infra investment doesn't paint a good picture profit wise. The food business is mostly based on low wages paid to immigrant employees. It works because usually these people live in rural areas. Look at the milk price. I haven't seen it increase in 5 years..
Re:The death toll for Covid-19 in Nembro, Italy on Sunday March 29, 2020 @08:32PM (#22724108)
I believe in asian countries where sickness(which can spread) is stigmatized(i definitely believe it is in India..), people will be hesitant to get tested/treatment. There has been several news reports of medic professionals being asked to vacate rental homes, miscreants calling out names in front of patient's home. Not sure why they do them. This will just cause people with symptoms to not get tested.
Re:Magic Leap trying to sell for $10B on Thursday March 12, 2020 @02:52AM (#22554431)
This is just going to a We Work in headset category. Along with the end of bull market today, many startups burning cash will go kaput. Their tech is not worth more than a few hundred million $. It would have been it worth a lot had it succeeded, unfortunately didn't. Maybe hololens/quest have a shot.
Re:The 'Race to 5G' Is Lobbyist Nonsense on Monday January 27, 2020 @05:13PM (#22164395)
I think the article does a fair work in answering this question - Optic fiber will not get the $ into the pockets of oem's or carriers. And it's already there in several metros(even in India)
Embedded software development has improved over the past years reasons being more silicon/asics in vehicles and other places, autonomous driving needs, robotics in supply chain, IOT, smart home. There are lot of opportunities for embedded sw these days.
Mostly semiconductor companies. Compiler engineers do work for CPU/GPU/FPGA/AI chipsets.
Re:The World’s Cheapest Hospital Has to Get Even Cheaper on Thursday March 28, 2019 @06:48PM (#19517424)
Not only that - not all hospitals follow this assembly line, if this chain of hospitals goes under what about the opportunities for someone doing the routinely 1 part of the surgery.
It takes time for people to realize they could spend the time in better things in life Once they do/ get bored of the old stuff they move on... hopefully to something productive than passive consumption or winning imaginary trophies..xD
Re:Talent Is Everywhere, Opportunity Is Not on Saturday January 05, 2019 @08:08PM (#18835604)
This is an universal truth. It is an individual's choice to do what he/she wants. This is one instance of where a person was guided and he took the advice. There will 100's of youth who won't accept advice, they will just be happy with what they are doing. If at all a person will listen more to his peer's words than a teacher's. I grew up in a small town in India, I had asked my friends to move to bigger city for college - many of them didn't want to move..I did. And i would say my career has so far been better than theirs. There will also other factors which affect a person's decision on career location - family pressure/bonding- most often to pursue a career of your choice you will have to travel long distance/relocate, many people wouldn't want to do that..People who go that extra length do succeed.
Re:Trying to ‘Save’ the Rural Economy on Friday December 14, 2018 @02:06PM (#18683563)
Whenever people question the concentration of tech jobs in cities like SF it always makes me think: 1) Why do most jobs related to show business(movies) are concentrated in LA? 2) Why are most jobs in banking concentrated in NYC?