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it's probably time to call those old retired programmers to ask them how to reduce software memory footprint

or to teach that again

weren't they already using repos for training?

I once asked on #ffmpeg@libera if the GPU could be used to encode h264, and apparently yes, but it's not really worth it compared to CPU.

I don't know much about video compression, does that mean that a codec like h264 is not parallelizable?

I got a thin raincoat, a thing I can roll and pack in my bag, I have been carrying it around for the last 10 years or so.

I think it was advertised as very water proof, like water would pearl on it.

It's probably full of PFAS, no idea if it has been leeching PFAS, but I know it's not very waterproof anymore, so that might be a worrying clue.

the obvious goal of that is to help kill those iranian drones

Bourdieu was ahead of his time.

People now identify themselves as belonging to a social class by subtle cues, it's like an unconscious messaging system to signal that you belong to some sort of club.

That's what "being raised right" means now.

It's now backwards to check if someone comes from a good or rich, noble family.

Instead, we check other subtle things.

Spend 5 min with anybody, and you can somehow know if that person can belong to your group of friends.

It's like animal checking each other' scents to accept them in a group.

Foucault was popular in the US, and had theories that were different but similar in concepts

Funny how much money is invested yet no proof those investments will yield profits

It's all make believe

I've heard a scientist say tinnitus also happens after waking up from a nap, not from a night's sleep

Can confirm

English is not my main language but this title confuses me

People constantly tell me "oh you're a dev it's easy to find work"

I'm a c++ dev, with excellent senior tests, but low experience, and no degree in France. 3 years without a job.

I yearn for a new pandemic.

Fortunately, I learned how to live without a job, found other things to do and how to live a life. Welfare is generous, and I have good savings.

Honestly I don't really want to work in software anymore. If there is a job offer and recruiters are calling me, I answer and I accept.

But I'm not applying to all positions I can see and I won't run after them.

Somebody finally picked up the login autofill bug, not sure it's production ready

Nothing will change until developed rich countries are starting to hurt.

And I don't think it's going to hurt enough in 10 or 20 years.

The pain will come slowly, people won't see it.

It's like going back to the middle age so slowly, that the population don't realize or feel it.

And honestly, wars and trump are making climate concerns so difficult to think about.

What if this was the plan, so those importers can make money?

More reason to build railways

Hardware is cheaper than programmers

Maybe one day that will change

I'm interested in storing cold, not heat

Storing cold during the night is probably more efficient

I thought about making ice blocks with a freezer on my balcony, probably not a good idea

Feels like acquiring GitHub was another way to hurt open source projects

I am curious to know if that 8.6x speedup is consistent.

I don't see many "fair" benchmarks about this, but I guess it is probably difficult to properly benchmarks module compilation as it can depend on cases.

If modules can reach that sort of speedup consistently, it's obviously great news.

with win11, it's an opportunity to take the desktop market

it's obvious that tiktok is doing this intentionally, pretending it's a technical issue, so that people can blame the US government for forcing the sale of tiktok

it's just retaliation

and obviously, trump will play into this

I am curious to see how much the editor have been increasing in executable size after each version

The source of the problem is the respect of the rule of law and due process

Data collection is not the source of the problem because people give their data willingly

Do you think data collection is a problem in China, or do you think the government and rule of law is the problem?

Companies collecting data is not the true problem. Even when data collection is illegal, a corrupt government that doesn't respect the rule of law doesn't need data collection.

It's harder to do social/human science because it's just easier to make mistakes that leads to bias. It's harder to do in maths, physics, biology, medecine, astronomy, etc.

I often say that "hard sciences" have often progressed much more than social/human sciences.

Unemployment or dislike for authority also forced me to go into this

It's more like an occupation

I don't understand, after all this time, why ipv4 still dominates

you laugh, but bringing people back to reality might require using screens to do it

Make a social network that is centered around people who live in a 1 kilometer radius

Make them interact and do things, generally they will be less toxic because it will reduce their online disinhibition effect.

Make them have meals, meet, walk at the park, whatever.

the parser does

I stopped reading when he started using the visitor pattern