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This post treats being an expert as an unambiguously good thing. Richard Hamming's essay Experts has a bit more of a nuanced take on the topic. He talks how paradigm shifts in fiel…

FFmpeg has had multithreading for codecs for years. What's been added is multithreading in the transcode pipeline of the command line application. See https://ffmpeg.org//index.htm…

Yeah it’s certainly possible, it’s just personally I found it tedious.

KiCad is by far the best. It is not as powerful as commercial tools: a lot of its high frequency design tools are simple calculators, and so a lot of manual work is required where …

It also says “one writer even has Pythagoras himself "to his eternal shame" sentencing Hippasus to death by drowning, for showing "that 2√2 is an irrational number”.”

There are some promising codecs based on neural networks, however they are all very much research projects and have major limitations. Additionally, the compression ratios are only…