Given you would need to pay actors and a production team to do this conventionally, $250/m is massively undercutting the cost of a human created equivalent.
Even if this produces shit half the time, there’s enough greedy marketing agency owners out there that will be thinking they can save tens of thousands a month in salary by gutting their video production teams
Ah I believe those are powered by chips originally intended to be used in industrial control use cases.
Loads of old manufacturing machines & software out there that are built around a 386/486, and given intel hasn’t exactly been making those models in a good while, some companies stepped up to provide compatible replacements for those situations.
Someone on AliExpress had the idea of using them in a more pc-like product for retro gaming, and voila we have all these modern 386/486 clones
Just as the MiSTer has started putting (sorta) 486s back in people’s hands, although if the newly required instructions aren’t too complicated, I suppose someone could conceivably add them to the core.
I guess one unknown for me is how the capability detection of the kernel works and if it works on instruction detection or if it determines it via CPUID.
A big also is that I’ve not yet tried to run Linux on mine yet so I’m not even sure it’s possible with a modern kernel anyway. I think I remember seeing someone got an old version of redhat or Debian working
You know what, I’m surprised it took this long
I think there’s an alpine build too if your system has low oxygen levels
(Sorry, you made me think of this article)
For a good while, Plex was the only game in town that did the job well, and they put the transcoding feature behind the paywall.
Given it wasn’t that expensive for a lifetime pass a number of years ago (I remember it was cheaper than a game anyway) and they still seemed relatively user-centric at the time, many people like me felt like they were supporting developers building something that was useful to us.
I still run my Plex server since it’s not really costing me not to, but I’ve been running Jellyfin too for a little while and it more or less can do the same job these days
Most Java engineers I’ve ever met have Stockholm syndrome with the framework du jour.
Flashbacks to one of my early freelance PHP gigs I did about 2 decades ago where I opened up the existing backend source code to find a load of unsanitised user input directly from the query string getting interpolated into the various SQL queries the application made. Part of me also feels like the “bobby tables” xkcd already existed by this point, so I’ve got no idea how that website managed to not get nuked before I refactored it.
To top it all off, of course the application authenticated with the database using the root user…
Thankfully I think that was the worst I ever discovered in the wild
“gotta see shit to know shit” someone once said to me
It pops into my head semi-regularly
I wonder if the website did the thing where it lists their big customers like a trophy cabinet on the main landing page.
It would probably make a good list of places to sell snake oil
Also love that this is all evidence to back up the premise that building the happy path of an application is generally easy, one of the main skills in software engineering is ensuring the unhappy paths are covered sufficiently. I can say I’ve started a bank and keep people’s money in my wardrobe, I’ll be providing the service of holding their money—I’ll also probably get robbed sharpish because I’m not skilled in the kind of security needed to avoid that.
Yes, silly engineers that don’t like being held to unrealistic estimates and deadlines; typically the ones that arise at the start of a project where there are still who-knows-how-many unknowns to find.
Waterfall is the most effective tool for software engineering in a world where the whole world stops once you’ve planned and only starts again once the project has finished—i.e. a fictional world that doesn’t exist. Literally every waterfall project I worked on back in the old days was derailed because something happened that wasn’t planned for—because planning for everything up front is impossible and planning for anything more than a handful of eventualities is impractical.
Agile and subsequent methodology comes from realising that requirements will change and that you are better off accepting that fact at the time than having to face it once you’re at the end of the current road.
Agile does not mean engineers talking continuously to the users, engineers are hired to do what they’re good at: engineering. Understanding user requirements and turning that into a plan has always been product’s job regardless of methodology, in agile and similar it’s just spread out over the duration of the project, not front loaded. Agile isn’t “make the engineers do every proficiency”.
A software engineer was not involved in this if waterfall is painted positively.
I think the last time I heard an engineer unironically advocating for a waterfall IRL was about a decade ago and they were the one of the crab-in-a-bucket, I-refuse-to-learn-anything-new types—with that being the very obvious motivation for their push-back.
You get used to it, I don’t even see the code—I just see: group… pattern… read-ahead…
JavaScript can do that, but it would be JavaScript running on the server. Any language capable of working with images and http will be able to do this.
If you’re running JavaScript in the browser, any kind of operation on the image would require the image to be downloaded from the server first. You can’t resize an image without the image after all. Which I think is where you’re getting your wires crossed, a Kotlin app already has the file, a browser does not.
One of the main things you need to care about optimising for a web application is sending as little as possible over the network, so you do anything like image resizing either at dev/build-time or on-the-fly server side. There’s little point doing it client-side because the comparatively time consuming part of getting it transferred is already done
And a decade or so ago it was LOLCODE that had me mildly concerned for the wellbeing of my peers.
Welp here’s hoping something pops up to replace gravity sync soon, can’t really upgrade until it does.
I just found https://github.com/mattwebbio/orbital-sync but it’s not apparent if it’s compatible with v6 yet
Seemingly every interaction this man has with a normal person is him finding newer and more interesting ways of declaring himself an absolute moron.
How the fuck is he the de facto president of the USA?
The problem you have is you care which disk gets wiped, russian roulette is the best design pattern!
sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=$(ls /dev/sd* | shuf | head -n1)…I shouldn’t need to say, but don’t run that unless you want to make your day a bit worse