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Looks good to me 👍

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I like to shoot for the middle ground: skim for key functions and check those, run code locally to see if it does roughly what I think it should do and if it does merge it into dev and see what breaks.

Small PRs get nitpicked to death since they're almost certainly around more important code

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Video codecs: Adding AV1 stateless video decoder support to Linux

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It's not stateless end-to-end, it just means the client needs to keep track and pass the state rather than drivers or hardware

I'm not 100% on the motivation but from an architectural standpoint it does make sense - your software can now do many new and weird things without a hardware change

One example I saw was allowing an arbitrary number of streams to be processed simultaneously, just passing the different context state for each stream

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You gained pounds

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It was actually pretty great when I worked for a company making things here in england:
"That needs to move 50cm" meant it had to move exactly 500mm
"That needs to move a foot" meant just kick it over about a foot

It was just an unspoken thing that metric meant precise and imperial was just caveman measuring

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Here's Proof that Earth is flat

Assuming a ground clearance of 10cm, and a wheelbase of 2.4m (source: my ass) then you can construct an arc under the wheels

This arc says you could drive such a car on an earth with radius as small as 7.25m. Actually, it could be slightly smaller because of where the wheels would contact, but I've lost interest

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First print with PETG

I think most of the horror stories are from people printing way too fast and too low
Many people print with too small z-offset because "that's when it sticks". you can get away with it in pla but petg will just become a mess

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TIL The first recorded human death by robot was in 1979 when 25-year-old Ford Motor assembly line worker Robert William was struck by an arm of a malfunctioning one-ton robot

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For me it's the acceleration and speed they don't comprehend.even "safe" collaborative robots can accelerate to huge speeds in the blink of an eye, and being electric they'll do it at maximum force

I've driven one into my head before and its remarkable how soft it was thanks to the tech involved but movies miss the fact that if it wanted, even a small arm could have gone through me

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Road casualties have become normal in Britain. But there is another way

I've been trying to get my local council to enforce the law on the road near me and have just been fobbed off repeatedly.

It's a 30 road, with a school and loads of pedestrians and cyclists using it yet we see people running the red lights, speeding well over 50 and doing crazy overtakes DAILY

I've driven and cycled in 3 other countries and England is by far the scariest, feels like every other driver is trying to kill you

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How did you get into coding/programming?

Got into making redstone logic in Minecraft, including joining a community of people building all kinds of crazy things like CPUs. This was early days too - I think the repeater was brand new

Eventually wanted to make mods so started learning Java. Was bad at it. Then wanted to make games in unity. Was bad at it. Learned C++ at Uni. Dropped out and was bad at it.

Kind of repeated this cycle for various languages and tools for years, never with enough motivation to learn properly. Eventually I hit a critical mass of skill and was able to actually make things in HTML/JS and over a couple years this snowballs until surprisingly quickly I find myself a senior developer teaching others!