In other news today...
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Who's a good boy? Well, this one's been a bit naughty:
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“In the last few weeks QOI implementations for lot of different languages and libraries popped up,” Szablewski wrote on his blog, with Zig, Rust,Go, TypeScript, Haskell, Ć, Python, C#, Elixir, Swift, Java, and Pascal among the options.
Ć? Uh, ? *google* -> https://github.com/pfusik/cito
public class HelloCi { public static string GetMessage() { return "Hello, world!"; } }
Yeah ... so ... :lolnope:
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
losslessy compresses images to a similar size of PNG, while offering 20x-50x faster encoding and 3x-4x faster decoding
Question is how that would compare to a modernized version of PNG. Swapping out the zlib compression in PNG to e.g. zstandard makes them both smaller and faster (at least for encoding, which was my main concern when testing this).
Also, PNG is complex because it supports a bunch of different meta data and random chunks. QOI(F) doesn't, and that makes it a bunch less complex. But for general use, you probably want that.
For gamedev? Eh. I guess people are more happy to roll their own, so this might be useful. Lots of the test cases seem to be on textures and sprite-like images. Faster decode is certainly helpful (but it's still completely serial). Then again, depending on where you are, you might want to opt for BCn or some other format that you can keep compressed on GPU.
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
format that you can keep compressed on GPU.
Shader that can decode it on the fly in...
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@Tsaukpaetra Their format isn't very suitable (not even if you want to decode upfront and cache the decoded version in VRAM). Besides with BCn and similar, you get the decoding in the HW.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
When did that ever stop anyone ever? 😇
Well, I invite people to try. They might even get it running, but I suspect that a look at the loading times / frame rates will put an end to that. (Cue various "what ifs?". But ultimately there's a reason why BCn/ASTC/... all are constant bitrate. Source: Worked with a GPU decoder for non-constant bitrate compression of something image-like. Doing stuff like binary searches to get at your data only really works if you don't need to do that very often. Like really not very often.)
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@cvi thing is I wonder how much better WebP for optimised use case vs PNG where encoding time is less critical. Swapping the compression might make a difference but then you're stuck in the sandpit of getting PNG potentially readopted (unless zstandard can be unpacked with zlib thus not breaking existing readers)
QOIF wasn't trying to be a PNG replacement - it was an experiment in 'for the images I have, what compression do I get by doing this' and it so happened that it was a reasonable implementation with low complexity for modest improvements.
For gamedev, the folks using Unity/Unreal/etc will already have access to a pipeline that can import PNG and texturise it (incl sprite sheeting if that's a useful thing to do) but I know the QOIF author does a bunch of stuff on various platforms for shits and giggles (e.g. he put together a mini version of Webkit with the core JS toolchain to be able to publish JS-based games on iOS without punishing the dev with a WebView), so it's entirely possible this is something he's come up with to make his own life easier.
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@Arantor said in In other news today...:
Swapping the compression might make a difference but then you're stuck in the sandpit of getting PNG potentially readopted (unless zstandard can be unpacked with zlib thus not breaking existing readers)
No, not compatible. I was essentially experimenting for fun (and being annoyed at texture loading performance). But, yeah, getting that adopted isn't going to be easy.
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How about burning it to the ground?
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@DogsB don’t forget to salt afterwards. :thumbs_up_blue_skin_tone:
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@topspin Shouldn't be necessary if the fire is hot enough.
Filed under: thermonuclear
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@topspin Shouldn't be necessary if the fire is hot enough.
Filed under: thermonuclear
Um. Wait. That option is going to take out my home too! (They're only around 10 or 15 mi away)
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@dcon we're sorry for collateral damage.
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@dcon said in In other news today...:
@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@topspin Shouldn't be necessary if the fire is hot enough.
Filed under: thermonuclear
Um. Wait. That option is going to take out my home too! (They're only around 10 or 15 mi away)
Move quickly while we what color the housing of the red button should be
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
They could easily work for a company and get paid six times as much and get promoted
that's how it's sold to potential software development students. The reality of what software engineers get paid is very different. Apart from a couple bubbles software development pays well but not that well. You're not going to come across a cushier gig though. Maybe mattress salesman.
I see these figures quoted:
"They're willing to halve their salary to work with me if it's an interesting project. They're not willing to decimate it down to £30k or £40k," he said. That's $40k or $53k.
Eh...I guess you could theoretically get six times that in NYC or Silly Valley. For sure you could get multiples of that elsewhere, but it's more likely to be 2x than 3x. But, yeah, the work better be damn fulfilling for that sort of rate.
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@boomzilla but also the living costs are different.
I live in Brighton, which is known for having various digital industries here - Unity (the game engine) has an office here, as does Hi-Rez Studios, and we have no shortage of website devs here.
A lot of places here offer £25k-£35k for a mid-tier PHP developer, £35k-£45k for a senior... I'm over the £50k mark but I'm also officially 'tech lead' in my place, and you don't generally go above that until you hit basically management (either head of dept. or head of IT or equivalent), at least in PHP.
Mileage is better in other languages and locations - it's certainly possible to go above that even in PHP, even in my town, if I were willing to work in the gambling industry, or in the £350/day contracting rate but I don't care for either of these things. (And £350/day doesn't break the 6-figure barrier if you work 5 day weeks for all 52 weeks of the year)
If I were willing to work in London I could push that to £80k without difficulty even in PHP, £100k+ if I were to come with 5 years of Java or similar.
The thing about the article is that it's dressing it up to serve their own purposes; while it is certainly theoretically possible to earn six figures in the UK as a developer (sorry, 'software engineer'), the reality is that most will just not. The only way you're getting anything close to that kind of money is in very specialist industries, with very specialised use cases and you're going to be actively trying to fuck your employer over.
The sort of thing I mean, you're going to be working in C (probably not C++), or Fortran or Algol, you're going to be doing exotic hardware, low level stuff and you're probably going to write obfuscated code so that when they need to update it later on, they'll either have to retain you or bring you back at obscene contractor rates.
Yes, these people can bring in the six figures but they are absolutely outliers in every respect, far more than the article is suggesting.
Academia does absolutely pay shit by comparison, will agree, but £42k for a software engineer depending on experience, language(s) involved in the Oxford region (going off the article) is probably not the super-low figure being implied. Though will agree with the closing note that if you're working on the LHC or the SKA, you are going to be using specialised tools and software and there will be some desire for danger money in it.
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Should this go in WTF bites? (Using the /. link because that oneboxes)
I know that hardware people make the worst of the worst software. From firmware, to drivers, to desktop control apps going along with it, and absolutely anything that Samsung shits out. But seriously, how hard can it be to not put invalid data in some hardware description tables?
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@topspin if our industry can half-ass it or fuck it up completely, someone absolutely will.
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@Arantor said in In other news today...:
Yes, these people can bring in the six figures but they are absolutely outliers in every respect, far more than the article is suggesting.
You see a lot more of that in more enterprisey jobs here in the States.
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@boomzilla sure, but since this is a UK university talking about UK jobs and convincing the government to fund more of them in the UK, I figured that was a relevant context.
See, I know geographic mobility is a thing in the US where people seem to up and move states without too much drama but it's not really so much a thing here... hell, half my school year still lives in the same town they were born in, I'm weird for moving 10 miles down the road!
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
Ć
On what kind of keyboard is that available?
Szablewski
OK, po-polsku. Who could have thought of that?
Hence, a big and loud Ha-Ć ("hatschi" is German for aahchooo) for that great idea.
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@JBert Australia Man thread is ... well, we probably ought to have one.
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@boomzilla In the metaverse, nobody knows you're
a dogunderagean FBI agent.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
The "OMG THAT IS FUCKING TERRIFYING" thread is oh nevermind.
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@Karla Meanwhile, the Australians are like, "That's not so bad; you should've seen the spider in my garage last week."
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@HardwareGeek Also, it might not be venomous, and it would never try to hide in your shoe or clothes. Big win.
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
@HardwareGeek Also, it might not be venomous, and it would never try to hide in your shoe or clothes. Big win.
There are a lot questions I want answered before I decide which is the least concerning.
What's it's reach? Can it reach you the moment you open the door and see it?
Does it only come out at night? How close do you have to be to see it?
What is it's speed? Can you out run it?
Does this fucking thing have any predators to control the population?
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How the hell is microsoft.com more popular than amazon.com, youtube.com, or twitter.com? Are they counting default homepages?
(Office365 and Teams numbers are included there)
Still...
I didn't read through the whole CloudFare post , but it gets points deducted for unsarcastically using the word "metaverse".
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@Zecc all that phoning home is adding up?
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@Zecc I call shenanigans. Not a single pr0n site in the Top Ten either this year or last.
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@da-Doctah TicTac part-time qualifies, though.
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@boomzilla You'd think it's easy to prove the claim. There's a recording of everything the betatesters do. On the other hand, if those logs ever make it to court, the whole project will go down in flames instantly. Because nobody likes to be under that level of scrutiny unless specifically paid for it.
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
the whole project will go down in flames instantly.
And nothing of value was lost.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
Uh...
the original creature is estimated to have measured around 2.7 metres long and weighed around 50 kilograms.
Is that some kind of weird metric car? Don't get me wrong, that's a big bug but it's nothing like the size of a car.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
it's nothing like the size of a car.
Well, 2.7 m is about the length of a Smart EQ fortwo (2.695 m x 1.663 m x 1.555 m) and bigger than a Citroen Ami (2.41 m x 1.39 m x 1.52 m), which are the two smallest "urban vehicles" on the market. Whether they count as cars or not, I will leave to your judgement. However, millipedes are long and skinny, so the other two dimensions are probably not even close. And mass, nope; that's not even close, either.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
Whether they count as cars or not
Of course not! Those are shopping carts (and I suggest returning them to their designated spot). The F150 is the smallest car!
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That said, Peel P50 weights 56 kilos.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
That said, Peel P50 weights 56 kilos.
How to make someone feel really fat. I weigh almost 2x as much as that car.
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So did she succeed at the challenge or what?
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@DogsB Reading out loud random google search results. Whatever could go wrong?
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@boomzilla quoted:
around 2.7 metres long and weighed around 50 kilograms.
Now I’m even more confident it’s literally just Arthropleura.
(oh, fine, reading TFA…)
Wow, that was tough. Sensationalist headline go brrrrrr.
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Holy shit:
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For those who hate color:
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@dcon said in In other news today...:
@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
That said, Peel P50 weights 56 kilos.
How to make someone feel really fat. I weigh almost 2x as much as that car.
Covid was really bad for me.