ultrech is really nice. we (my family and i) are thinking about moving to either there or hague in a few years (we are currently in ams, but we are not staying since property values are way too high).
My family tried to move to Utrecht, but ended up in Hilversum. And Hilversum is the nicest place I've ever lived for day to day life! But every time I visit Utrecht I think "if only....".
We also looked at Houten because letting my kids bike safely is a huge deal (and one Hilversum is only mediocre for) but Houten does seem quite boring...
I'm working on a project to revive old QTVR movies[1].
After writing a couple of python decoders [2] for movie encodings from the 90's it got old quickly.
As luck would have it, FFmpeg has support for almost all video encodings under the sun. For my usecase I wanted to send one frame per time to FFmpeg to decode.
Luckily I found PyAV[3]. It's a Cython project which binds to FFmpeg.
Which brings me to the article. It reads more like a C bad, rust good.
Cythons tag line is: 'Cython gives you the combined power of Python and C`
Just wanting speed and less memory bugs, then rust will fare better. If you want to have the combined power of Python and C then Cython is
pretty cool.
> Just wanting speed and less memory bugs, then rust will fare better. If you want to have the combined power of Python and C then Cython is pretty cool.
Agreed. Sometimes it is fun (and useful) to use tools that can blow your feet off if misused.
Recently had 28GB json of IOT data with no guarantees on the data structure inside.
Used simdjson [1] together with python bindings [2].
Achieved massive speedups for analyzing the data. Before it was in the order of minutes, then it became fast enough to not leave my desk.
Reading from disk became the bottleneck, not cpu power and memory.
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He started 16 years ago in IT and has since gotten experience in various roles
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