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A software engineer needs two jobs. Which means most people need at least 4. Or 3 if they live under a bridge.

Congratulations, you started with the action parody. Now go catch up on the classics.

Because the more a news source depends on ads revenue the shittier it is.

It’s already on Safari and Firefox Nightly too.

It looks like a nice mix of some of the worst design choices of C++ with some of the most dubious choices of Rust.

That is not dead which can eternal lie.

Though HP’s disturbed mind couldn’t ever come up with something as upsetting as the average PHP application’s codebase.

It was Nicolae Ștefănuță from the Greens–European Free Alliance which was always going to be one of the political groups more likely to support this initiative.

We need to convince MEPs in the PES and EPP to really get a directive approved.

The reactions to the Satanic Temple using pro-religion laws, and social media posts about public displays of established religions like Muslim prayers, show that most Americans do not approve displays of any religion except their own. With that in mind, the reasonable compromise is that there shouldn’t be religious displays inside of state institutions.

How would most people react if that was a group of Muslims? Or if the Satanic Church tried to do a small prayer there?

That’s the thing, Software Engineers have choices.

Yes, all big companies will do some dubious things.

But then you have big tech that does all those dubious things and is also breaking democratic institutions everywhere with a sledgehammer.

And then you have Palentir, which are literally Hollywood movie villains.

At this point they are light years of their livelihood depending on it. There’s no way they don’t notice where the bombs are falling, they had plenty of time to look around and have decided they don’t care.

They have two types of people:

• Software Engineers and Computer Scientists that don’t care who gets hurt as long as they get to work on their interesting problem. I call them the Wernher von Braun club.
• The ones that are also prospective customers

The Venn Diagram might be close to a circle.

Congratulations, your noob user is now using JPEG-XL. It’s not working on old devices, or any mainstream browser besides Safari. The less mature library also has a bug that allows for RCE and now everyone is running a cryptominer.

Now you say, but webp is supported everywhere, so let’s go with that. Now the noob is using wepb for a bunch of rasterised vector graphics with 4 or 5 flat colors, and he’s wasting more disk space than before.

So I repeat, if you need one size fits all, PNG is better, it works everywhere, and it’s even more efficient in cases where lossless graphics matter the most.

The title is hyperbole. PNG is lagging behind modern lossless formats in terms of new features.
This doesn’t mean it’s a bad format or that it shouldn’t be used. In fact, it should still be the default unless you need something it doesn’t support or really need to reduce file size.

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You don’t even need to go at a low level. Lots of programmers forget that their applications are not running in a piece of paper in general.

My team at work once had an app running Kubernetes and it had a memory leak, so its pod would get terminated every few hours. Since there were multiple pods, this had effectively no effect on the clients.

The app in question was otherwise “done”, there were no new features needed, and we hadn’t seen another bug in years.

When we transferred the ownership of the app to another team, they insisted on finding and fixing the memory leak. They spent almost one month to find the leak and refactor the app. The practical effect was none - in fact due to the normal pod scheduling they didn’t even buy that much lifetime to each individual pod.

The main limitation is the VRAM, but I doubt any model is going to be particularly fast.

I think phi3:mini on ollama might be an okish fit for python, since it’s a small model, but was trained on python codebases.