Germany does actually have station fees. And DB isn't the only operator. The RRX trains, one of which OP talked about, are operated by DB and National Express, ordered by the RRX group comprised of VRR, go.Rheinland, NWL, SPNV-Nord and NVV, running on tracks and stations by DB InfraGO.
> Small neural networks I believe are the current state of the art (e.g. train to reverse a 16x16 color filter pattern for the given camera). What is currently in use by modern digital cameras is all trade secret stuff.
Considering you usually shoot RAW, and debayer and process in post, the camera hasn't done any of that.
It's only smartphones that might be doing internal AI Debayering, but they're already hallucinating most of the image anyway.
Sure - if you don't want to do demosaicing on the camera, that's fine. It doesn't mean there is not an algorithm there as an option.
If you care about trying to get an image that is as accurate as possible to the scene, then it is well within your interest to use a Convolutional Neural Network based algorithm, since these are amongst the highest performing in terms of measured PSNR (which is what nearly all demosaicing algorithms in academia are measured on). You are maybe thinking of generative AI?
Yes, people usually shoot RAW (anyone spending this much on a camera knows better) - but these cameras default to JPEG and often have dual-capture (RAW+JPEG) modes.
Even my doctor's office and local government agencies support PGP encrypted emails, and refuse to send personal data via unencrypted email, but tech nerds still claim no one can use it?
No? With let's encrypt the certificate is rotated, but the private key remains the same, and importantly, let's encrypt never gets to see it, and anything is logged.
I said “typically” because Let’s Encrypt doesn’t control key rotation: the issuance managing client (like Certbot) does.
But AFAICT, Certbot has rotated private keys automatically on reissuance since at least 2016[1]. There’s no reason not to in a fully automated scheme. I would expect all of the other major issuing clients to do the same.
That's because you're using planned economy principles for your cities.
Remove all zoning but for industrial zoning, and remove prop 13, like it is in most of Europe, and the invisible hand of the market will transform most of cities into medium-density mixed-use like in Europe, though in your case likely accomplished with 5-over-1s instead.
And with increased density, maybe you'd even have space for some public parks again.
Part of being CEO/running a business is considering all options, but it doesn't mean it will ever move beyond the ROI/risk phase. Ever read one of the risk assessments in a companies public filings? It's the same thing.
All options that are in line with the organization’s mission.
The CEO of an organization like Mozilla even considering blocking adblockers for profit is like the president of Amnesty International considering to sell lists of dissidents to the secret police.
> The CEO of an organization like Mozilla even considering blocking adblockers for profit is like the president of Amnesty International considering to sell lists of dissidents to the secret police.
No, for Amnesty International it would be more like not considering somebody a political prisoner because the country that took the prisoner is a 1st world country and they don't want to expose themselves on a matter that would risk the donations from a certain population.
Yes, that happened in the aftermath of the Catalan attempt at peaceful independence in October 2017 by Amnesty International Spain.
Yes, the problem is that it is considered an option at all. Are they running ROIs on harvesting passwords, blackmailing users and infecting all clients with malware?
It's not hard to imagine the last default search contract negotiation had Google go "we'll give you $x if you kill manifest v2, $x-$150 million if you don't."
for it to be considered, somebody must have offered to pay that 150M. Or he considered going to somebody (we all know that somebody is Google) and asking them for that money in return for killing ad blockers.
> You wouldn't calculate the expected RoI of killing adblockers if killing adblockers was never considered.
I agree, although if someone isn't the kind of person who would calculate that, they're probably not the person who will become the CEO of a company that size in the first place. I don't think organizations have the right incentives in place to push people with those values to the top.
You wouldn't calculate a figure and publish it as the first step in any reasonable price negotiation. Any pricing you mention publicly would be double or triple the number you are willing to accept. By the time you are talking publicly about realistic numbers you are well into the private negotiations.
I agree with all the people saying it would drive a lot of the remaining users away, and I hope they don't do it. But I'm not remotely surprised that they considered following what their biggest competitor (Chrome) already did.
Because Chrome was built by the world's biggest advertising company. If the World Wildlife Fund started selling ivory to pay the bills, would that not be surprising?
That analogy doesn't really work, though: Mozilla's goal is not specifically to fight against online advertising. Ad-blocking is connected to their goals, definitely, but they clearly have to make compromises, and I'm not that surprised that they'd think about that one.
Why? They have ample free cashflow. They haven't had money problems in 10 years. If they're worried about Google withdrawing support they should save money in an endowment, not do things to help Google.
Thanks for this comment - that's a beautiful perspective I hadn't considered before. A clean and simple definition of technology as everything that increases human productivity.
Now I can finally explain why some "tech" jobs feel like they're just not moving the needle.
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