I'm working on a project to revive old QTVR movies[1].
After writing a couple of python decoders [2] for movie encodings from the 90's it got old quickly.
As luck would have it, FFmpeg has support for almost all video encodings under the sun. For my usecase I wanted to send one frame per time to FFmpeg to decode.
Luckily I found PyAV[3]. It's a Cython project which binds to FFmpeg.
Which brings me to the article. It reads more like a C bad, rust good.
Cythons tag line is: 'Cython gives you the combined power of Python and C`
Just wanting speed and less memory bugs, then rust will fare better. If you want to have the combined power of Python and C then Cython is
pretty cool.
Recently had 28GB json of IOT data with no guarantees on the data structure inside.
Used simdjson [1] together with python bindings [2].
Achieved massive speedups for analyzing the data. Before it was in the order of minutes, then it became fast enough to not leave my desk.
Reading from disk became the bottleneck, not cpu power and memory.
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Roland van Laar is an independent IT consultant who helps businesses use IT.
Be it unstucking a project or building software and bringing ideas into reality.
He started 16 years ago in IT and has since gotten experience in various roles
such as, sysadmin, devops, teaching, coder, project lead, architect and advisor.
Now he's working on helping companies by focusing on process.
A top developer leaving also functions as a signal to others in the company.
I once left a company quickly after a senior leader had left. That proved to be a good move since the company was going under and sold a few months after.
What an interesting story. It made me look up how medal of honor started.
Could you clarify a few things? I don't think the story adds up.
Wikipedia has the followin information.
Medal of Honor was made by DreamWorks interactive. [..] Filmmaker Steven Spielberg Spielberg founded DreamWorks Interactive in 1995. [1]
And:
Danger Close Games (formerly DreamWorks Interactive LLC and EA Los Angeles) was an American video game developer based in Los Angeles. [2]
This doesn't sound like 'a small game studio in Oklahoma'.
Secret History of silicon valley, more a presentation. It gave insight into the collaboration of astrophysics and the military.
Shoah: An documentary about the holocaust 11 hours long, but without any archive footage. The maker interviews all kinds of people. Farmers living next to train emplacements used, train drivers, perpetrators and more.
I've read the paper. What got my senses tingling, is that:
- there has been no investigation on which strains were in the lab
- if the data is to be trusted, given it's in China.
Till those questions have been answered I remain skeptical about the origin.
Re: Altered Carbon. How come the first season was awesome and got me to read the books. The second season was so bad I stopped watching it after a few episodes.
And yes, I just checked and I had the Premium plan. Just downgraded to standard.
X1 owner checking in. I use it and I'm happy with it. It hit the sweet spot when I bought it a couple of years ago.
I don't recommend it for the given price point. I included all extra options such as insurance and the extra disk space.
I found it isn't fast enough in general usage. Had problems running a serverless javascript project. External monitors with scaling will bring the iGPU to its knees. The display itself is too small to effectively program on it, and the CPU is not powerful enough to run a multitude of unittests or compile more complicated programs on.
I use my X1 with an eGPU and two 4K monitors. Webdevelopment happens in VSCode with heavy usage of the VSCode remote docker plugin. This enables me to run unittests and development tasks on a beefy PC.
Taken all together this raises the price quite a bit.
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