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by cm2187 1mo ago
But the point of ffmpeg is that it can consume pretty much any format. If you let end users upload videos, that is exactly what you need, it’s not desirable to have a very restrictive list of formats you will accept.
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by cm2187 1mo ago
Targeted to what? ffmpeg? Ffmpeg is the OpenSSL of video transcoding, it is used absolutely everywhere. If there is a vulnerability in ffmpeg, any website that processes user supplied videos is vulnerable
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by cm2187 1mo ago
Though there is one part I didn’t understand in that interview. They were complaining of being overwhelmed by AI submitted bug reports (fair), including for obscure codecs that must have been used by a couple of users at most. And therefore
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by cm2187 1mo ago
Yeah but unless you plan to take the machine away, isn’t man+machine what matters? If you had to develop everything in assembly (or worse), you probably had a much deeper understanding of computers than a modern developer. But the modern de
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by cm2187 1mo ago
It’s tempting to use what engineers were 70 years ago vs now as an analogy. From a technical point of view, I was told we would be struggling to solve the maths and physics exercises our grand fathers took as students in college, and they h
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by cm2187 2mo ago
It is basically the same skillset than asking a good stackoverflow question. Provide enough context and state your problem clearly
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by cm2187 2mo ago
But that defeats the purpose of having a boring glass building, or birds or modern bridges. The underpinning ideology is that europe should have no history, no culture and no identity, because suggesting anything else 1) will offend the hyp
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by cm2187 2mo ago
That's about to change, they are about to introduce a change that will require bios of all relatives, all social media accounts, email addresses, etc. Haven't looked at a US visa recently but it seems as invasive.
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by cm2187 2mo ago
I fail to understand the distinction between an ESTA and a visa to be honest. You need to do the paperwork in advance, pay, provide all sort of personal information, and it can be denied, and if approved only for a limited amount of time. G
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by cm2187 2mo ago
I am not even sure about social class. In any case these old cemeteries are preserved probably more as historical artefacts, like an old Roman wall would be in London, rather than out of respect for the dead.
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by cm2187 2mo ago
Most cemeteries in Europe have been destroyed to make space for urbanisation. The underground of Paris is full of bones from those cemetaries (catacombs of Paris). It's fairly common as outside of a few aristocratic families, people ke
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by cm2187 2mo ago
Can't help thinking of this old Ikea commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nix6tC3vvjs
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by cm2187 2mo ago
A curiosity is one thing. But where is the wow factor you get when you enter Rome’s pantheon?
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by cm2187 2mo ago
The Eiffel Tower dates from the XIX century. Pre the shift to originality. Which XX century building in Paris is objectively beautiful? The tour Montparnasse? The Centre Pompidou? Or Jussieu’s campus? Even the Opera Bastille is pretty lame,
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by cm2187 2mo ago
They could do large arches too, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilica_of_Maxentius
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by cm2187 2mo ago
I am glad the pantheon still stands. But the real question is are there really any modern structure that will be worth preserving for 2000 years. Architects have long abandoned aiming for beauty to aim for originality. Originality doesn’t l
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by cm2187 2mo ago
This is more expensive than a streamdeck. The streamdeck has LCD keys you can customize dynamically.
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by cm2187 2mo ago
Am I right to understand that it will do nothing to big cities, where you share the radio frequency with lots of users just like a wifi? What it the minimum radius where two satellites will not interfere with each others (chatgpt says 40-13
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by cm2187 2mo ago
You mean as opposed to Gemini's "subtle" woke push with diverse nazi soldiers?
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by cm2187 2mo ago
Snapshots don’t protect you from malware. I bet 99% of home users use the same credentials on all their machines, once a malware compromised one, the others are compromised within seconds. [edit] also snapshots aren’t really workable for la
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by cm2187 2mo ago
Fire, malware, accidental deletions, capricious RAID controller (pre-ZFS). And that’s only the stuff that happened to me. Add power surge, theft, correlation in SSD failures (eg power on counter overflow firmware bug), damaging the array wh
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by cm2187 2mo ago
For home usage, if you have backups raidz1 is fine (just do an incremental backup at the first sign of trouble). If you don’t have backups, then you probably shouldn’t be running a NAS in the first place.
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by cm2187 2mo ago
Terrible title. Nothing to do with automating excel. From what I can tell it seems to be about ingesting spreadsheets into panda (and incredibly narrow use of Excel) and working outside of Excel.
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by cm2187 3mo ago
Well if you mandate DNA patching, how do you enforce it?
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by cm2187 3mo ago
I agree, though one could make the argument that our modern nanny states have been pretty brutal at enforcing health policies during covid, and if they convince themselves that they can eradicate certain diseases by mandating DNA patching o
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by cm2187 3mo ago
The problem is "eugenics" has two meanings which is unhelpful for this discussion. 1) criminal practices of forced sterilisations, ethnic cleansing and mass assassinations to phase out undesired genes 2) the more generic practice
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by cm2187 3mo ago
Same with job interviews. Right now Hr insists on us doing them over zoom so we get this absurd result that we eliminate candidates that perform too well to be true, at the risk of eliminating a genuine excellent candidate. You have to look
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by cm2187 3mo ago
PC enthusiasts aren't exactly sentimental when in front of a spec sheet and a price list. Plus where else are you going to go. All manufacturers are hiking up their margin if you believe their stock prices.
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by cm2187 3mo ago
Why? Part of the problem is that chip manufacturers (from tsmc to to memory makers) are reluctant to ramp up production as the AI bubble may pop and they would find themselves with huge over capacity, a scenario they have gone through many
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by cm2187 3mo ago
The article says a large part is paid upfront.

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