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Re:Google Stopping Coding Competitions on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @02:36PM (#34901400)
I can't imagine this costs much to keep running.
Re:Google Stopping Coding Competitions on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @02:36PM (#34901396)
I can't imagine this cost very much to keep running.
Full ranking here:

https://www.maritimes.gr/images/PORTS/Container-Port-Perform...

Dominated by East Asia (mostly China) at the top.

Re:DIY “Breathing” PC on Saturday July 03, 2021 @08:21PM (#27726181)
This is beautiful. I'd pay for this.
I live in Palo Alto. I have a Pacifica (PHEV). I see many many Pacificas on the road and in driveways. The MSRP of a fully loaded hybrid is 54k. The MSRP of a fully loaded gasser is pretty close.

The reputation hasn't stopped FCA from selling to this market. Wranglers and Grand Cherokees are pretty common too, as well as the rare Hellcat.

Re:Why are modern 50mm lenses so damned complicated? on Monday May 10, 2021 @12:46PM (#27107998)
You don't have the exact kernel, if you're even slightly wrong you can end off being worse off. You'll have very significant variation in lower quality optics.

And there's a variety of sharpening tools that claim to do this! DxO is a company that sells a raw processor for precisely this purpose. People still buy better lenses.

Re:Why are modern 50mm lenses so damned complicated? on Monday May 10, 2021 @12:34PM (#27107882)
This is an excellent interactive primer on basic lens design for anyone interested: https://ciechanow.ski/cameras-and-lenses/
Re:Why are modern 50mm lenses so damned complicated? on Monday May 10, 2021 @11:58AM (#27107469)
I'm saying with the same sensor, the competition will have better data compared to you, since the rays are striking where they should be.

Information is lost when a ray strikes somewhere it shouldn't. Things get blurred and cannot be recovered. You can't fix this with software.

Re:Why are modern 50mm lenses so damned complicated? on Monday May 10, 2021 @11:56AM (#27107448)
Optimally yes. But in practice multiple rays from multiple angles strike the same sensor.

Lens design is about minimizing this.

Re:Why are modern 50mm lenses so damned complicated? on Monday May 10, 2021 @11:01AM (#27106666)
You can fix the colors in post production.
Re:Why are modern 50mm lenses so damned complicated? on Monday May 10, 2021 @11:00AM (#27106653)
You're not capturing the rays, you only get where they strike. You can't fix it all computationally.

Secondly, we already do correct distortion and chromatic aberration in software, but this doesn't really make up for loss of resolution that you can't fix. Information is being lost.

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2017) on Friday December 01, 2017 @04:31PM (#15827712)
Twitch | San Francisco | Seattle | Onsite | Full Time Engineering

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Just kidding - you probably know who we are.

Apply here! https://jobs.lever.co/twitch?lever-via=8IeapoT6ZH

So are new grads though, this is typically learnt on the job.
As for the last problem, when you load the webpage, you connect to 6 other peers - so if one peer is incredibly slow, we'll simply get the data from another peer.

We're adding functionality to rate peers by latency and bandwith, so consistently slow peers are removed from the network eventually.

We'll add IP profiling for geolocation and bandwith capability later on.

It's not April 7th.