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ffmpeg does more than hardware decoding. For example scaling, cropping, changing colors, effects. All this stuff can benefit from vectorized operations (on CPU or GPU).

I once used it to get a 4x speedup of sqrt computations, by using SIMD. It was quite fun, and also quite self contained and manageable. The library sqrt handles all kinds of edge-c…

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There is a law against gross negligence. Holding client money comes with other obligations too.

FXCM forex trading broker covered a similar sized loss of client money (not hack) when EUR/CHF was unpegged in 2015. Since it was a profitable broker business, another bigger broke…