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From what I understand the need for a "proof-of-concept" comes from the fact these codecs/drivers often using memory unsafe "tricks" to increase performance and therefore need to be properly tested on a myriad of hardware to make sure the conversion to memory safe code isn't a significant performance impact.


> I was right: it was a risk, and it did slow us down. However, by being forced to use Rust, we ended up with a better design that was safer and easier to debug, and it was just as fast as the C++ equivalent. In the long run, it was a massive win. We’re all in love with Rust now, and 5 years later we’ve replaced nearly all of our non-Rust code (mostly Go) with faster, safer, and better-architected Rust equivalents.

Seems like a win?



Wow I really like that little mini-map on the right...


+1. Does someone know how to do that?



The minimap contains a copy of the content, but with `transform: scale`. The rest is handling `window.onscroll` and mouse events on the overlay.


Found a canvas-based library for this: https://larsjung.de/pagemap/. Definitely not what OP uses, where the minimap is a shrunk copy of the content markup, with all the drawbacks, such as page search finding the same item twice.


The author should really add at least aria-hidden="true" to the minimap element.


Reminds me of the ever-hilarious Microsoft Teams performance showcase: https://youtu.be/CT7nnXej2K4


Can't even view a thread without logging in now, got to hand it to Musk for reducing my Twitter usage from passive to non-existent.


I honestly didn't even know that I could still view individual tweets. I used to go read new tweets from my favorite posters from time to time, but I haven't been back since they forced that behind a login.


As soon as I deleted the app from my phone and established a "can only view Twitter on my laptop" rule, I basically stopped using it.


Same. I don't intend to either.

https://archive.li/b4Ylw


you can still view it through https://nitter.net, which I guess makes the open source Javascript-less front-end to Twitter more accessible for SEO? maybe Google should start indexing that lol


Not according to their own advertising: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CT7nnXej2K4


sure, but only because HN is mostly men working in tech. these types of features are far more popular among women. (not all women of course)


Citation needed


I can't provide a direct citation but I worked on image detection shopping for Kakao[1] and can say from personal observation that at least in Korea these features are far more popular (and ridiculously profitable) among women. According to Forbes women drive 70-80% of all consumer purchasing decisions in the US[2] so I can't imagine it's that rare there either, but I could be wrong and this could be an entirely eastern thing but given Huawei is a Chinese company I would bet it's a very popular feature for the phone.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kakao

2. https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbescontentmarketing/2019/05/...


But South Korea is a much more gender-divided country where women go shopping and men go shooting.


Hence the inclusion of the statistics for the United States also.


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Please don't post this sort of thing here. Nationalistic and gender generalizations turn into flamewars and we're trying to avoid that on this site.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.


Regardless is it true or false, so what? GP indicated that the feature is useful at least in some markets.


I think you just described a lot of other countries such as America and Canada.


It's intentionally confusing but "not-for-profit" and "non-profit" are two very different things and it seems the article gets them confused.



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