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.
I've been following the situation around Peter for a few years now.
Here's a documentary that touches on the panel with James Damoore that he mentions.
He was also a member of the Grievance Studies Affair[1].
They got a chapter from Mein Kampf published, rewritten in a feminist manner.
I think that shows how rigorous the gender studies field is in practice.
He was indeed reprimanded for social experiments on people.
Then again, how come a university isn't reacting when its personnel is spit upon and finds feces in front of their office door.
You might remember the moral outrage on a noose that was found in the garage of a black racing driver[2]. It's the asymmetry that is the problem.
For some context, here's the lock in streetview: https://www.google.com/maps/@52.0974077,5.1152216,3a,75y,277...