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 No.15646[Reply]

There are no search results after page 40.
Try every category, every word the millions are a lie.

05:30
https://www.bitchute.com/video/4XukZxTIIQ74/

Every search engine is the same.
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 No.18074

>>18064
It's also because Google search works differently than it used to. Now it operates on the same algorithmic content delivery social media uses based on data harvesting taken from both the aggregate of all users and specific users. Search results will be slightly different based on your prior search history and whatever data Google gets from cookies, browsing history, watch history on youtube, and whatever other data they get from you.

 No.18076

>>18074
That makes it less useful as a technical resource when you are searching a model name and just wanting anything that matches that is on the Internet. For example I remember a year or so ago coming across on the Internet hex edits instructions for IBM PC Dos 7 files to fix bugs but I can't find it with Google searches even though it should be easy and I don't know if it is Google being Google or the page is no longer up.

 No.18077

It never used to be like that. I remember in the earlier 2000s you would not get repeating results.

>unironically using Bitchute a rightoid run site
Why? There is other options you know.

 No.18083

>>15646
No shit, ever since the war in the ukraine started and DuckDuckGo announced they would counter disinformation along with everyone else and added the Bing telemetry to their site, every search engine just gives me stuff one grade above the Epoch Times. Really makes you think.

 No.19419

Ӏ've been very happy throughout the experience.
Іt'ѕ a great company too work witһ.


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 No.18021[Reply]

https://www.reddit.com/r/blender/comments/zmomxw/stable_diffusion_can_texture_your_entire_scene/

Stable Diffusion can now texture your entire scene automatically in blender. This will greatly increase the output of small devs IMO as it will multiply the amount of content they can create.
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 No.18038

>>18026
probably due to lighting in blender

 No.18040

>>18021
>>18035
This is terrible if you want any kind of control over the art direction of your game.

 No.18043

>>18040
In time you'll be able to create something like a more advanced color-scheme that makes the AI generate in a style you defined with some kind of script language that's optimized for describing aesthetic patterns.

 No.18045

>>18043
So how the holodeck worked in Star Trek?
If it progresses to that point why would artists be afraid of this? At that point it's just a faster tool than the tools that already exist to streamline the digital artistic process that no one feared will destroy jobs or end the human creative experience.

 No.18048

>>18040
>This is terrible if you want any kind of control over the art direction of your game.
… you can modify the uv map still and touch it up anon. its not set in stone. Just like you can edit images from stable diffusion in Gimp/photoshop


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 No.8164[Reply]

How bad is Spotify?

It's a bourgeoise vice, but I really like it. I hate having to search all over the web to pirate albums, organize those albums in my desktop, and transfer transfer both to my phone and laptop from my desktop. Spotify just makes the process so much easier. I can listen from any device I want. I want to add some songs to my playlist? I search it up and add it in a matter of seconds. I want to share music? I copy a link and send it over in seconds. Spotify has 99% of the music I listen to and I don't even listen to mainstream stuff.

Should I really make the effort to switch back to pirating? Should I stop prioritizing comfort over data security? What does /tech/ think?international_brigadeInternational Brigade
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 No.18025

>Should I
>Should I
>But should I
>why should I
What is it with people who need to be told what to do? And what makes them think that anyone gives a fuck about what they do?

 No.18028

>>18025
Lots of people use streaming platforms and have doubts over them
It’s a conversation starter

 No.18029

>>18025
Shut the fuck up Stirner
'Should' has the implied question that they're deciding whether an action will or will not be beneficial to their goals. That's a valid course of action.

>>8164
>paying a middleman host
>ever
>especially when they take a HUEG FUGGIN CUT
Unironically, pirate and donate directly to artists to incentivize them under capitalism.
It's usually really easy once you have a few sites.

 No.18036

>>13430
you can use an invidous exclusively for sourcing music

 No.18037

You could host your own streaming service. That way you'd have access to all of your pirated (and legally acquired) files, potentially from anywhere, without having to manually copy them to your destination device everytime.

There are different ways of doing this depending on your situation and your needs. I currently have a basic setup, which consists of a physical server PC at my bro's place, a Wireguard tunnel between my house and his, DDNS to keep track of our IP addresses, and media stored on a TrueNAS volume, which I access via NFS/SMB shares. There are ways to expand on this, such as by installing a media player like Jellyfin, and by making it accessible from anywhere on the Internet (not just through Wireguard).

It's a nice personal project if you're into this kind of stuff. There is an initial cost, especially if you're looking to host from home, but you can repurpose an older PC for this, and if you decide to buy a server, then at least then you get to keep all the hardware (eventually upgrade it, repurpose it or sell it), not to mention you have full control over the content and how long it stays there, and you don't have to keep paying subscription fees and lose everything if you stop paying. You could also just rent a VPS if you can't or don't want to mess with hardware yourself, or if you want to just simplify the whole process to just installing Jellyfin/Plex and dropping some files on there.


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 No.18030[Reply]

Reminder that Vicky is canonically a computer hacker.

 No.18031

source?

 No.18032

who

 No.18033

>>18031
Episode Scout's Honor (pilot season, ep 8)
>"And if you all play your cards right, I just might teach'a how to hack into the school's computer system, just like I did."

>>18032
Vicky.


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 No.18016[Reply]

Anyone else confused about them? I thought "senior" would mean someone with like a decade of work experience in the field, but I keep seeing people get promoted to it after only 2-3 years of working. Is there any meaning behind the titles or is it seen as just some extra benefit of "prestige" companies throw around to attract/retain people?

 No.18017

Also it seem the best way to "climb the corporate ladder" is to switch jobs every other year. I've been working at the same place for four years now, does that mean that I will be stuck there until civilisation collapses?

 No.18018

>>18017
Quite possibly yes, the other alternative is to play hardball with the managers and try to get promoted.

 No.18019

>>18017
well yeah and it's not too surprising
if there's a job you need done you can find more people in the labor pool with a wider variety of skillsets than you can find looking inside your company, compared to the extra work involved in promoting an existing employee. there's really no incentive to reward loyalty to the company so why would they.

 No.18020

>>18016
job titles are meaningless /thread

 No.18042

lol my senior engineer was late 22s, ex-contractor in [asian country].
ageism is dumb.


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 No.16121[Reply]

The STEM student -> defense contractor pipeline is a serious issue in this country. In many places and some fields, a greater majority of available jobs are like defense contractors. That shit is bleak and horrifying man. They'll be like "assist in creating autonomous ai for delivering payloads towards targets" and knowing exactly what they mean lol. I took a robotics software class where we discussed "efficiently tracking multiple moving targets with distinct trajectories" as like an academic problem and briefly wondered if I hadn't chosen the wrong field of study.
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 No.16136

>>16122
People would probably not care about some random queer failsons fifteen years doing IT work for the weapons manufacturer if they didn’t position themselves as some poor put upon marginalized personality who jockeys for social power on Twitter. Pretty important context!
A fairly common issue within queer “spaces” (and if we are being honest plenty more ‘marginalized’ leftism-as-aesthetics social groups) is that people aggravate the most for social power & woe-is-me clout consistently end up, uh, being full of bullshit affectations.

 No.16137

>>16136
most surreal shit is that the asshole who tried to cancel and dogpile the attack helicopter book author works on actual attack helicopters

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 No.17962

>>16124
just do a new 9/11

 No.17963

>>16122
These people should be socially exiled from online spaces.


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 No.17878[Reply]

Why does /tech/ never talk about MIDDLEWARE and integration, despite it being such a huge part of enterprise stuff?

I mean JMS/Kafka/Camel/Artemis/ActiveMQ/RabbitMQ, ESBs, etc.

Ques, distributed streaming, event sourcing brokers (kafka), etc. not to mention cloud pubsub systems.
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 No.17926

>>17925
Middleware is an overloaded term but in the sense that OP is using it, you do not program middleware. You use them. TBH most programming is basically configuration and connecting shit. The hardest part is modelling data and organizing your files so you don't make a mess. Maybe testing can be hard too. There are also clients for connecting to middleware that are well tested, so it's not particularly hard to use it.

 No.17928

>>17926
>you do not program middleware. You use them.
yeah but knowing how and more importantly why to use them is also something that requires knowledge since you have to (or should) learn about integration patterns which a lot of people don't know.

 No.17933

There's so much shit to learn I don't know what to do

 No.17952

>>17933
depends where you are. These things are important for senior software devs. You can get away with not knowing absolutely anything about this as a junior and mid level.

 No.17955

>>17952
junior yes, mid level no. Even after 3-5 YOE they will start asking about at least some of this stuff. Luckily we can learn all this shit for free online now (or 98% of it).


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 No.17865[Reply]

THIS IS A STUDY GROUP FOR Oracle Certified Professional: Java SE 17 Developer 1Z0-829

My motivation in studying this is that my employer is soft requiring me to have a Java cert to be promoted, and this is the latest one. I bought a hardcopy of the book+practice exams and will be posting quotations from it here.

Anyone who wants to either learn modern Java (17+) or study for that exam feel free to follow along.
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 No.17877

Which of the following expressions compile without error? (Choose all that apply.)

A) int monday = 3 + 2.0;
B) double tuesday = 5_6L;
C) boolean wednesday = 1 > 2 ? !true;
D) short thursday = (short)Integer.MAX_VALUE;
E) long friday = 8.0L;
F) var saturday = 2_.0;
G) None of the above

Answer:
B, D. Option A does not compile, as the expression 3 + 2.0 is evaluated as a double, and a double requires an explicit cast to be assigned to an int. Option B compiles without issue, as a long value can be implicitly cast to a double. Option C does not compile because the ternary operator (? :) is missing a colon (:), followed by a second expression. Option D is correct. Even though the int value is larger than a short, it is explicitly cast to a short, which means the value will wrap around to fit in a short. Option E is incorrect, as you cannot use a decimal (.) with the long (L) postfix. Finally, option F is incorrect, as an underscore cannot be used next to a decimal point.

What is the result of executing the following application?

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 No.17929

update: been slogging thru this book and boy is it boring. A ton of the questions seem like they are halfway obfuscated java code that you have to determine by looking at them, if they compile and what they output.


It's like turning yourself into a human java compiler

 No.17930

>>17929
Those are the best, it really is the most fundamental skill.

 No.17931

>>17929
shouldn’t you familiarize with a compiler if you’re learning a system programming language

 No.17932

>>17931
I don't think Java is usually considered a system programming language.


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 No.17808[Reply]

> Amazon makes custom CPU (AWS Graviton)
> Google makes cusom CPU (Google Tensor)
> Microsoft makes custom CPU (SQ3)
> Apple makes custom CPU (M1)
> many other big tech companies announce that they are planning custom chips too
Am I the only one worried about this trend?
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 No.17919

>>17917
No, I mean Amazon, Google, Microsoft, etc. all making their fully controlled stacks.

 No.17921

>>17919
I think most of us ARM wise are running Raspberry Pi or jail broken Mac/Android. The fact Microsoft and Intel are pushing hard with "trusted keys" in UEFI is far more scary as it might mean Linux users in the future might have to jailbreak x86 machines for them to run anything but Windows.

 No.17922

>>17918
>China can't make their own chips to the standard of the west or taiwan due to sanctions/trade embargos
No the sanctions didn't work, China is catching up in chip-manufacturing technology. They used to be 3 or 4 nodes behind and now they're just one node behind. The west in on the 5nm node and China is on 7nm. It won't be long until they reach parity. If anything the sanctions had the result of speeding up development in China's high-tech sector.

 No.17923

>>17922
we'll see. remember semiconductor manufacturing is very specialized, even the west or taiwan would be crippled if they couldnt get UV machines from that one dutch firm.

i'm skeptical China can catch up that quickly, maybe in 20 years or more though.

 No.17927

Why would they do this? I agree with the business concerns. Here are some business needs.

> Amazon makes custom CPU (AWS Graviton)
Challenge: Managing like 20% of world computing power is hard?

> Google makes cusom CPU (Google Tensor)
We want to do AI. This is hard and slow. We need no GPU encoding junk.

> Microsoft makes custom CPU (SQ3)
We want to sell a laptop to people that like long battery life. To get long battery life you need ARM. What if we customized it?

> Apple makes custom CPU (M1)
Customers want lots of random accelerators. Are the accelerators on the CPU or GPU die?


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 No.17449[Reply]

Is this gonna be the replacement for both VP9 and H.265/HEVC?
Royalty free
Better quality and more efficient compression than both, however apparently slow as hell to encode
It can be multiplexed into .mkv, .webm and .mp4
It's currently being gradually, tentatively rolled out on pretty much every major streaming platform you can think of to replace VP9

4K sample: https://www.elecard.com/storage/video/Stream1_AV1_4K_8.5mbps.webm

Implementations:
https://aomedia.googlesource.com/aom/ Reference implementation written in C, supported by FFmpeg
https://gitlab.com/AOMediaCodec/SVT-AV1 BSD-licensed implementation started by Intel and Netflix and targeted to be flexible for different applications, supported by FFmpeg
https://github.com/xiph/rav1e BSD-licensed lightweight encoder written in Rust and designed for speed, supported by FFmpeg
https://code.videolan.org/videolan/dav1d BSD-licensed lightweight decoder written in C, supported by Handbrake
https://chromium.googlesource.com/codecs/libgav1/ Apache-licensed decoder developed by Google
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 No.17542

https://singhkays.com/blog/its-time-replace-gifs-with-av1-video

 No.17658

I tried encoding a 10-second clip with this on my potato laptop, it lagged like hell while making the CPU fan go crazy

 No.17697

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I like the implementation of grain synthesis in av1 as a method of preserving film grain at low bitrates which avoids the pitfalls of other methods such as oversharpening (psy RD in x264) and the inaccuracy of post-processing filters/noise generators. See picrel for an example screenshot taken from a file encoded at only 3 mpbs.

 No.17698

>>17658
Encoding is definitely slow with AV1, I think it will work great once hardware encoders are common. I believe the h265 encoder is also slow (idk how it compares to av1), and h264 will still be a lot faster than both of them.

 No.17883

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>>17698
Google's Tensor SoC which they use in the Pixel 6 has special hardware acceleration specifically for their own special AV1 decoder
Not sure if it really matters when you can't reliably encode high quality and fast yet


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