VP9 Encoder & Other Media Functionality Of Tesla's FSD Chip To Be Upstreamed In Linux

[arQon]

If and when FSD is statistically safer than a human driver, it will reduce deaths and injuries from automobile accidents.

And if and when we have flying ponies and teleportation, that will also reduce deaths and injuries from automobile accidents. What's your point?

In fact, "Flying Pony Mode" would be just as accurate a term for their current *utterly clown-tier* system, and infinitely less dishonest.

[tildearrow]

I think even Nigerian people have computers with displays, what do you mean?

It's not a matter of purchasing power.
It's about immediate feasibility.

Sometimes when debugging a graphics driver you can't use the display (at all).

[skierpage]

> full-self driving technology

I didn't realise they were still making that false claim. The most recent report (covered on https://register.co.uk) shows it's still just absolutely hilarious. (if not for the fact that it's out there killing people already).

"FSD" is a misleading product name, not a claim. Before you can engage it you acknowledge prompts that you must remain in control, e.g. "These features are designed to become more capable over time; however the currently enabled features do not make the vehicle autonomous. The currently enabled features require a fully attentive driver, who has their hands on the wheel and is prepared to take over at any moment."

If and when FSD is statistically safer than a human driver, it will reduce deaths and injuries from automobile accidents.

[Paradigm Shifter]

I think almost anyone moved on from emacs around the Paleolithic period, but some walking talking fossils still remain.

It was a jokey comment about the vi(m)/emacs wars.

[cl333r]

I suspect the point was: you don't need a GUI to do kernel development.

Now, vi(m) or emacs?

I think almost anyone moved on from emacs around the Paleolithic period, but some walking talking fossils still remain.

[Serafean]

Impressive but obsolete...

Sometimes it's time to let go.

- choice of client: every user/contributor can chose his/her favourite program to use, and set up the workflow as desired. (no GUI available etc falls here too)
- email is the notification mechanism of choice anyway, why not also send all information within it?
- you can search emails much more easily than any of the mentioned tools(again, because of the possibility of "build your own", as the files can all be downloaded locally)
- offline review writing and sending in batches (at work we use github, the number of times it just lost all my comments because I did them on a train with no connection...)
- history - no smarts, only files means that preserving review history is easy. I have never seen review history preserved across any tool migration (gitlab -> github). Doesn't mean it can't be done, and one can argue that never having migrated from email, this hasn't been tested either.
- No need for a user to sign up, meaning theoretically that one off pseudonymous/anonymous patches are easily possible (security of this is a different topic)
- Everything is still possible offline, including search.

Where this falls flat on its face is any kind of automation such as required builds etc...
And the work required from each contributor to set up his environment isn't negligible either.

Using the git protocol to exchange commits and branches is much more powerful than sending emails.

Yes, and it is being used for that purpose. Look for "for you to pull up to commit XXX "emails on the ML.
The email flow is used for code review. A completely different use case, for which no VCS has ever been built, because it doesn't belong there.

Email, github or gitlab, doesn't matter, all is a layer (or multiple) above git.

[Weasel]

Linux mailing list.. Feels just like the 90s.

Begone filthy casual.

[arQon]

youtube is a big usage case. I think it didn't take off because there were (desktop) consumer GPUs with HEVC support for much earlier than VP9.

jep, Gold star for you. That "fight" was over before it even began, and once done you're not going to transcode that sort of libarary *again* unless you're actually getting something meaningful out of it.
VP9 is worse almost across the board, only winning on licensing costs - which for G are likely zero, but at a nominal 20% show that there was just no way at all to make it work, even with VP9 being another standard that G would own.

[arQon]

> full-self driving technology

I didn't realise they were still making that false claim. The most recent report (covered on https://register.co.uk) shows it's still just absolutely hilarious. (if not for the fact that it's out there killing people already).

[Paradigm Shifter]

I think even Nigerian people have computers with displays, what do you mean?

I suspect the point was: you don't need a GUI to do kernel development.

Now, vi(m) or emacs?