Guessed wrong, they definitely found it to be an issue: "After a grueling 304-lap test, Acerbis found they needed to use sponges to combat the sloshing inside the tank at the expense of losing some volume. The final tank weighed 15.2 kg (33.5 lbs) and could hold 108 liters."

The Cherno's C++ guides were absolutely crucial in helping me get up to speed with C++ quickly. And a good reference for things I came across which I did not understand well.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlrATfBNZ98dudnM48yfG...

There's two components to a Zoom call:

- Encoding: your own camera input.

- Decoding: decoding multiple streams of video.

Your CPU needs to do work on each on these, and depending on what codecs are used (and whether your CPU supports it) hardware acceleration may or may not be supported.

For sure, appreciate the break out.

I am just shocked that as big as Zoom is, they don’t have an optimized client for MacBooks. I suppose the market is still far smaller than PC based systems… but come on, Zoom at el have the resources.

We Linux users get crushed by zoom, meet, teams, etc. as well. They’re all based on WebRTC and electron/chromium. We don’t get hardware decoding or encoding because Google doesn’t even want to attempt to support it. There are PRs for chromium going back 10 years.

I’m surprised WebRTC wouldn’t be hardware accelerated on macOS, especially considering the great lengths Apple has gone to to hide the hardware differences of the various machines behind CoreVideo, VideoToolbox, and AVFoundation.

Edit - For macOS, it may come down to the fact that WebRTC, being a Google project, prefers to use the VP9 codec. It doesn’t look like Apple enables the use of hardware accelerated VP9.

Thanks for sharing the specifics of the codecs in play. Definitely odd that something so prevalent isn’t accelerated.

Don't forget about the rootkit :-)

> Many elderly people die of loneliness.

How does this work exactly? Medically speaking.

Depression -> not eating -> weakness -> accident or opportunistic infectious disease.

It's also underappreciated how often depression in the elderly can lead to confusion or even psychosis. Which can also lead to a fatal accident.

What's to say this isn't an automated email?

> Earth lifetime is nothing on the grand scale of things.

Nit: Isn't the estimated age of the universe 14 billion and earth 4.5 billion? I wouldn't call that nothing.

> The universe could possibly avoid eternal heat death through random quantum tunnelling and quantum fluctuations, given the non-zero probability of producing a new Big Bang in roughly 10^10^10^56 years

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_of_an_expanding_univers...

I used to explain to myself what was before the universe - that it simply didn't exist, just like myself didn't exist, but in fact my body is a continuation of life since its inception - like my parents knew their parents (or at very least they had a brief contact with their mothers), their parents knew their parents and so on back to something that sparked life, but that something also must have come from something. So still can't get my head around what was before the universe. I know these visualisations that show for example that something that has beginning and end can be divided infinitely, but when I picture it, this exists in some sort of space.

Sounds great. Only thing really holding me back is no Safari for Windows. I use Windows for about 20% of my screentime, and I'd like for my browser to be synced across every single device I use.

> I am super disappointed by some of the comments here that show a total lack of empathy for people who aren't like you.

I've noticed as of late HN has been riddled with comments such as: here is my extremely strong thoughts on X with my personal anecdotal experience Y, and therefore this is how the world should work.

> I believe it will be especially bad for those early in their careers

Agreed. I think it can be equally has bad for someone midway into their career who is thinking about taking on more leadership opportunities.

"as of late"

And then how do US companies then compete with overseas companies that don’t have this setback?

Other than the US regulating the shit out of overseas companies like China does, they can't.

This is just very reflective of hip start-ups. A large amount of tech companies (i.e., more established ones) have standard 15-21 day PTO accrual policies.

I've gotten paid out twice for my PTO and one of them actually happened to be a "hip start-up" who didn't believe in "unlimited PTO".

I choose to see your personal anecdote with my own, if you’ll appreciate it as far as pleasant exchange will allow; the “unlimited vacation” model (or “Flexible PTO” whatever we want to call it) seems to be becoming less of a ‘hip start-up’ thing, as experienced in my last two jobs-and widely becoming a recruiting hook in even established enterprises: one was a boring as hell telecom provider introduced it a year before I departed, the other was an equally boring as hell real estate software vendor introduced it years before my arrival.

$currentEmployer is announcing with rolling it out next year, they themselves are a rather boring healthcare systems provider.

Maybe the difference lies in how the two of us define ‘hip start-up’, though.