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2026 programmers also look down on 2024 programmers, these guys didn't understand you can get an intern to vibe code the hole thing in a week and run it in kernel mode on half of t…

The video quotes sales of $2.5 trillion a year to payoff those investments. What workforce you divide it by is a bit up in the air, but let's use 500 millions, which is basically 1…

I work for a large company and for any LLM I use professionally, whether programmatically or via a UI, I get to pick from a dropdown from Gemini, Claude, OpenAI and the open weight…

The real question is not whether there will be a market for AI, it is obvious that there will be one (as it was obvious the Internet was a gigantic thing in the dotcom boom). It is…

Is this an AI generated video? The guy didn't blink an eye or moved the head more than one inch in 30 minutes!

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 restrict…

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 suppl…

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 mus…

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 understan…

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 exercis…

It is basically the same skillset than asking a good stackoverflow question. Provide enough context and state your problem clearly

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 ident…

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 r…

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 …

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 …

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 comm…

Can't help thinking of this old Ikea commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nix6tC3vvjs

A curiosity is one thing. But where is the wow factor you get when you enter Rome’s pantheon?

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? …

They could do large arches too, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilica_of_Maxentius

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 aim…

This is more expensive than a streamdeck. The streamdeck has LCD keys you can customize dynamically.

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 satell…

You mean as opposed to Gemini's "subtle" woke push with diverse nazi soldiers?

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 …