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As luck would have it, FFmpeg has support for almost all video encodings under the sun. For my usecase I wanted to send one frame per time to FFmpeg to decode.

Luckily I found PyAV[3]. It's a Cython project which binds to FFmpeg.

Which brings me to the article. It reads more like a C bad, rust good. Cythons tag line is: 'Cython gives you the combined power of Python and C`

Just wanting speed and less memory bugs, then rust will fare better. If you want to have the combined power of Python and C then Cython is pretty cool.

[1] https://github.com/rvanlaar/QTVR [2] https://github.com/rvanlaar/QTVR/tree/master/qtvr/decoders [3] https://github.com/PyAV-Org/PyAV

Comment · 3 years ago

Here's Arjen Lubach, the Dutch Jon Stewart, about phones in classrooms.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cclEuSxFd_M

Note: The autogenerated (english) subtitles are a pretty decent.

Comment · 3 years ago

Recently had 28GB json of IOT data with no guarantees on the data structure inside.

Used simdjson [1] together with python bindings [2]. Achieved massive speedups for analyzing the data. Before it was in the order of minutes, then it became fast enough to not leave my desk. Reading from disk became the bottleneck, not cpu power and memory.

[1] https://github.com/simdjson/simdjson [2] https://pysimdjson.tkte.ch/

Comment · 3 years ago

While I agree with the sentiment, in practice I haven't seen it go over well. I find the tooling around SQL to be severely lacking.

Comment · 4 years ago

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Roland van Laar is an independent IT consultant who helps businesses use IT. Be it unstucking a project or building software and bringing ideas into reality. He started 16 years ago in IT and has since gotten experience in various roles such as, sysadmin, devops, teaching, coder, project lead, architect and advisor. Now he's working on helping companies by focusing on process.

Comment · 4 years ago

Thanks for sharing. That was a fun game.

Comment · 4 years ago

Thanks for the responses, much appreciated.

Comment · 4 years ago

A top developer leaving also functions as a signal to others in the company.

I once left a company quickly after a senior leader had left. That proved to be a good move since the company was going under and sold a few months after.

Comment · 4 years ago

What an interesting story. It made me look up how medal of honor started.

Could you clarify a few things? I don't think the story adds up.

Wikipedia has the followin information. Medal of Honor was made by DreamWorks interactive. [..] Filmmaker Steven Spielberg Spielberg founded DreamWorks Interactive in 1995. [1] And: Danger Close Games (formerly DreamWorks Interactive LLC and EA Los Angeles) was an American video game developer based in Los Angeles. [2]

This doesn't sound like 'a small game studio in Oklahoma'.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medal_of_Honor_(1999_video_gam...

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danger_Close_Games

Edit: It seems you were talking about the acclaimed: Medal of Honor: Allied Assault.

Made by: 2015, inc[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Games

Edit 2: Spelling

Comment · 4 years ago

Secret History of silicon valley, more a presentation. It gave insight into the collaboration of astrophysics and the military.

Shoah: An documentary about the holocaust 11 hours long, but without any archive footage. The maker interviews all kinds of people. Farmers living next to train emplacements used, train drivers, perpetrators and more.