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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • I strongly have the impression that with things like the puzzles you bring up is that an overwhelmingly large percentage of internet users has been conditioned to receive “compressed” information as quickly and massively as possible. This causes an enormous struggle to keep a prolonged attention span going on single subject items and people rather hop from one topic to the other purely out of conditioning.

    It also feels like the above causes people in general to lose interest in complicated matters because there is no instant gratification nor a grand “prize” at the conclusion if they would participate.



  • I am far from an expert, but basically HD10 is a base layer, it ecodes and thus sends HDR data “once” per whole video.
    Formats like HD10+ and DV are dynamic, they send HDR (brightness) information per scene/frame over an extra transport layer.
    And those layers can be sent at the same time for the tv to use which one it prioritizes.

    From the info above it seems the patent is about the way both “streams” of the HDR formatted metadata are combined and transferred over the internet to the display device.

    If this is the case, Disney might do some brainstorming on what is cheaper in the long run: Offer both HD10+ and Dolby Vision which is not a cheap license in itself, on top of which comes the license fee from the patent they infringe on … if they can’t find a workaround.
    Or, go with a single HDR standard, in which case I can see them drop DV support altogether to save on (expensive DV) license fees.

    Regardless of this, I do not think the case is a positive development.


  • The Netherlands being called a “narco state” by some elements, while in essence has a core of truth in it, comes more from the lack of punishment on hard crime, not the tolerance of soft-drugs (harddrugs are still considered highly illegal and criminal to traffic afaik).

    The Netherlands has closed many a prison in recent years, not because there was no crime but no properly paid staff to fill them. And a lot of the criminals that do end up in prison get, in the public’s view, extremely lenient sentences or just house arrest with an ankle bracelet.

    Even high profile criminals who shot political candidates (for prime minister?) or very public figures, were given a short prison stay and then house arrest with privileges as long as they played nice.

    Also, from what I heard, a lot of the narco-criminals that do get caught are often not of Dutch origin and for some reason that is considered to give a lot more trouble on giving them a hard sentence. The bigger boys will get extradited to their country of origin with no real continuous followup if they’re still fulfilling a prison sentence.

    And for example drug-runner teenagers, who break into shipping containers in the large ports grab the goods and try to get it to their bosses, are often barely punished.

    It just seems The Netherlands punishes crime from the view of the person, (ie. you’ll be locked up for 5 years of your coming ~55 years of life) not on what society deems appropriate for the crime committed.