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Hah..... we recently had to buy a couple hundred 16GB DDR5 RDIMM for a few new servers and i wish it was only 280 pounds.... Double it and you are close....

Is this in reference to something that should be linked for those not alive or in the know at the time?

I'm not sure if it was entirely true, but there are stories that after Microsoft bought Hotmail in the mid-90's, they quickly attempted to move them from FreeBSD (?) to Windows NT. But it failed miserably, and they went back to the original stack for another ~decade.

the FreeBSD migration didn’t take that long - iirc this was the frontend migration to an IIS ISAPI.

the Solaris bits (storage and routing tables) took far longer - and again iirc the frontend had been rewritten in C# before all the Sun hardware had been decommissioned.


Ah sounds like you actually might have been there. I'm sure you must have some interesting stories from that time

not in the Hotmail dev team but about as close as you could get otherwise. I even reported to their general manager for a minute or two.

fun times for sure.


Yes. This happened.


How does how they bill for their product, matter in terms of if their lawsuit holds merit?


Return of the 8MB Shrek encodes?


https://web.archive.org/web/20210416200451/https://cdn.disco...

Shrek 1 at 8.34MB including audio.. insane


There's a 64MB game boy advance cartridge with shrek on it [1]. Looks pretty horrible [2]. But the GBA only has 16KB fast / 256KB slow RAM, and a 16MHz CPU.

[1] https://archive.org/details/Shrek-Video-GBA [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyOfPZQl4MI


Video resolution: 128x72, hahah. Late 90s RealPlayer postage stamp video is back! To its credit, that whole movie is probably smaller than RealPlayer itself was.


I love this, hope to see a AV2 version at 8MB


I once watched an entire movie (around 90 mins) on a Nokia 6303. This reminds me of that


6MB should be enough for everyone!


Almost half of the file is audio, so you're not saving as much.


Hopefully audio codecs will progress as well.

I noticed that too. When I tried extreme screen recording compression with AV1 audio became a noticeable part of the bottleneck.


Is opus being used for the audio or it's not the solution for extreme lossy compression?


OPUS is the default now, but there's more room. Especially with neural codecs.


They filed a suit, henceforth making a claim of an issue...... They haven't "proved" anything other then they have lawyers on staff that can file some paperwork until the suit is settled in court...


How much did this type of project cost you to make?


What kind of costs are you thinking?


money


My car judges it if I have put in any manual inputs over the past 10 or so seconds then it starts complaining. Which is seemingly reasonable however there's plenty of nearly perfect straight aways where there's nothing to do for it or me.

It would be nice if it had a system where if it isn't doing anything, it doesn't think I'm not doing anything either.


Except those straight, boring roads that require no input are also exactly where and when I most want to use autopilot. This means I have to manually adjust to keep the car happy, instead of letting the well-aligned car just carry on. Autopilot ends up being more work, and more annoying, than just driving myself


Hello chatgpt, what should I make for dinner with bananas and chicken breast as the only ingredients?


According to their latest financial earnings on page 11 of https://www.hd.square-enix.com/eng/ir/library/pdf/25q4slides... they made 55.5 billion yen or about $357 million. So quite a bit more revenue than $65 million


141m operating revenue for the mmo sector


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That's correct! You've correctly interpreted the document -- they had 324.5 B yen total sales. FF14 is on page 11, made 55.5B yen sales. and grew 8B yen yoy.


What are the best ways of finding such devices? Almost all the time when I look into some product it ends up being connected to some random cloud service with its own login.


HomeAssistant supports a bunch of home automation systems, including local-only ones like ZWave and Zigbee*. A search for "zwave thermostat" comes up with a lot of results, though I couldn't say how difficult it might be to configure them (I'm only using simpler devices like switches and sensors).

* There are internet-connected controllers and local controllers so you'd also want a local controller. I've used an Aeotec Z-Stick for ZWave devices for around a decade, it plugs into USB, HomeAssistant accesses it directly, and the ZWave network itself is connections between the Z-Stick and the devices without the internet.


The Honeywell Z-Wave thermostats are trivial to connect and work with via Home Assistant.

Source: I own one. :)


I own two and they are bulletproof with Home Assistant. When away from home I just wireguard in and adjust/monitor as needed.


One way is to look for devices that have unofficial firmware available, so you can just overwrite the included software for something more under your control. For example, check out Tasmota, "an open source firmware for Espressif ESP8266, ESP32, ESP32-S or ESP32-C3 chipset based devices": https://tasmota.github.io/docs/


It isn't easy, but you just have to do your due diligence and really explore the featuresets available for a given category of product.

A shortcut however is checking out the homelab subreddit. People will post about the gear they are using in their stack.


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