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This is the equivalent of a guy building a "car" in his backyard with old used parts, then saying it was only 1% of the cost of a new Mercedes, and everybody thinks now that Mercedes is 100x overpriced.

Also the "calculation" is totally wrong. A guy with lots of enthusiam and masses of free time rebuild existing tech stacks in plain PHP (!) and JS (!), two of the slowest languages on the planet. That alone should debunk the whole story. Comparing ANY logic in PHP vs C (nginx) is just nuts and ChatGPT should know it.

Interesting hobby project, and maybe even a profitable one if you find niche clients, but obviously far far away from the definition of a 0.01% engineer.

No, please WATCH IT! It's important to learn how reality really is. This is the process of using 100% of available information. You have been trained to block, censor and avoid everything that doesnt do good on you, but it's extremely important to open your eyes as wide as possible, and let your brain process this, then build conclusions on this data.

You feel sick because you cannot process reality.

I agree to your logic, but scanning social media gives a totally different view: People feel like they need to take action now. The murder of the ukranian girl set a social fire, and the killing of charlie kirk put gasoline over it. You can feel the rage. I've never seen so many upvotes and likes for quite radical opinions like in the last hours on TikTok and X.

Looks like a storm is coming.

Sidefact: Bigger corps work around this by building holding structures etc, which is a legal soft-tax-evasion way to do this. But all the smaller businesses get hit hard, so as usual the party is paid by the lower end of the income bracket.

Why is git even in development? It's exactly the same like 15 years ago, right? ... right?

sounds like a weird AI comment to me

one good high-paying client is much easier than 1000 little clients. in every single aspect ;)

This page was last updated in 2015, 9 years ago, and ALOT has happened in image compression and on the web in these 9 years. And the samples are just so totally weird, they are not representative for anything.

Yes, Kyiv, Ukraine (lived there for family reasons). Air strikes are very common, mostly during night. I live and work in 11th floor (self employed, mostly full remote), which is not a good choice, as it's the drone flight level height. Life and business is somehow "normal". There are not really shelters, and even in my quite central district it's 25min by foot to the nearest metro station. Kyiv is very very large. Most "shelters" are just rooms here and there, which is quite useless most of the time as we have the "2-walls minimum" rule to protect against harm but it's physically nonsense too. It's dangerous to use the elevator during attacks (power outage + potential fire / system breakdown), and the staircases are OUTSIDE of the house, so it's always a spicy task to go down to the building's basement to sleep on the (stone) floor, usually on a yoga mat, with some food and my macbook ;)

High rise office buildings, high rise apartment buildings, 5million people waiting for the bus, buying at McDonalds, sitting in coworking spaces, it's exactly like in Paris or London, just with rockets and drone swarms crushing into this densely populated city. The supermarkets have most stuff, the subway works, water, electricty and heating works surprisingsly well, but that's because Kyiv is well defended against airstrikes now, a privilege most eastern cities dont have.

Landline internet and mobile signal has outages (due to russian attacks) but works in general much better than in my origin country Germany. Contactless payment and wifi is very common and works very well in urban areas, even during attacks. All ukrainian ISPs have an agreement now that they try to keep the system up and open for everybody, regardless of your provider.

Lots of native ukrainians are so "done" with it that they jsut sleep through the night / attacks, not giving a f* anymore. Also masses of children everywhere. Working from cafes is wild too, as lots of school children usually stay there during the raids. Lots of laptop workers 60+ too, surprisingly (it's more a younger people thing in my german culture).

Tricks: Don't hope, don't pray, just be well prepared, and hardcore realistic. Have a stack of everything, fill everything you have with clean water, have energy for days and keep your devices loaded. Have a stash of warm clothes, multiple shoes, wet toilet paper, food that doesnt need a fridge or fire and all that "survival" stuff. Assume the worst case, and prepare for this. Dont take risks, it's a warzone, even simple things like losing your keys can be a desaster. Have a backout plan (car) in case things go very bad. Connect with everybody, we are all in this together. Dont tell customers / clients you are in Ukraine, it will just complicate things. Have a laptop of course, to be able to work from everywhere, as you might leave you apartment often due to air raids. Have a one-click hotspot on your phone to work with the laptop.

How close is the war? You can hear explosions all the time, it's a wild mix of air defense working, air defense hitting incoming stuff, or missiles / drones hitting. In 2 occasions, apartment blocks in the 500m radius were hit heavily, one time i was even filming it (sent clip to BBC, they never published afaik). Didnt see any dead people, but lots of smoke. At night i saw a wild thing, a swarm of drones flying into electric wires or so. Sirens all the time. One time a hypersonic missile was shot down or hit something over/in my disctrict, was the loudest thing i ever heard, so fast there was not even air alarm before.

Disclaimer: I am currently not in Ukraine anymore

i remember using it in early 2002 (due to this sticky name). wow, never expected to see this little masterpiece again

brilliant comment! also, the average population doesnt know better, as they dont have a reason/possibility to compare, so they think THIS is the best possible solution.

German here. The example with the Kebap owner is -probably- not like it seems, because there are usually two ways how it works:

1. these kind of stores are technically owned and legally run by somebody who just made the paperwork and gave the finances. The people working there dont do any paperwork, and of course they cannot as they often (like in the vietnamese produce stores) dont speak german on a level that would allow to fill out paperwork.

2. Lots of smaller business actually didnt fill out anything, and surpprisingly it somehow works for them, sometimes for years, even in busy areas, i mean they serve hundreds of customers per day but never filed any invoices, only accept cash, nobody speaks german and they dont have any documents. It's fascinating. There are a lot of rules in Germany (of course) when you serve food or alcohol or operate at night or have tables and chairs, and i can tell you it's not even legal to NOT have toilet or to not have prices on the menu, but well, they still run the business, probably without even knowing all the rules.

We can learn from them I think, just SHIP IT!

please add the tech stack, not just "software engineer", as there are literally hundreds of different job types in that exact field

Can confirm, have some ideas: Apple uses different file formats "internally" and also different resolutions, maybe saving them all in parallel as "one" video, which might cause this issue. So the total space per image is actually the sum of original .mov, optimized .mp4 and thumbnail image.

Also, (automated) version history might have caused this! Maybe (automatic) image optimiztion saved old and new versions of everything.