As most have said, doubling up compression won’t usually get you much.

However, video compression is usually designed to facilitate performance of sequential reads because videos are typically played beginning to end, so theoretically there may be ways to compress them more if you’re willing to make sacrifices there.

I doubt RAR is the way to do it, though. It just hasn’t been designed for this kind of data.

Maybe there’s a video compression format out there designed specifically for archival storage, but I’m not aware of it.

ISO won’t get you any further compression, that’s for sure.

You could certainly test this out yourself and let us know if you get any space savings.

Feels like you’re stuck in an exoskeletoooon.

I thought the same, until I spent a few years on a codebase where self-documenting code was enforced with detailed code reviews. That does a very good job of clearing up the ambiguity.

If you can’t get that kind of review, then by all means use comments.

I’m still waiting for the day I see UML in a professional context. My undergrad teachers were all about it.

Similarly, I don’t design software using design patterns, and I’ve had to discourage juniors from forcing them into projects where they don’t add any value. But that’s not to say design patterns aren’t useful. They do exactly what you say, allowing your brain to recognise a pattern so you can remember or communicate it without having to go into details. Most of the time it won’t be an exact fit for the ideal pattern implementation, but it’s still easier to remember the variation.

I wish they were taught more as communication and cognitive tools than silver bullets for good software design.

In the real world there aren’t even that many patterns. On a very large project you’re likely to see the same patterns repeated throughout the system, because a good architecture doesn’t add variation and complexity unless there’s a lot of value to gain. You learn the default way, and then the diffs.

Living in rural Tasmania, trying to work on (often) 5 mbps down, with frequent drops, looking at the garden that produces fruit and vegetables faster than we can eat them… that agrarian lifestyle is looking mighty tempting right now.

I can see what they’re going for. We have a good history of exemptions, and getting another one would be a big win domestically with an election looming. You might think there’s no way it will happen, but we do hold some cards, so to speak. I wouldn’t be surprised if in more private negotiations they’re threatening to close Pine Gap or cancel other cooperative military arrangements.

Retaliatory tariffs just aren’t our best option.

Stopping timers has always been like that for me.

Through trial and error I found the most successful command is “ok google shut the fuck up”.

Just like Android loses features on every major version, and Maps is a skeleton of its former self.

In a company where nobody is incentivised to maintain anything, cutting features is the easier option.

She’s there to take the blame when it all goes to shit.

Is this Jon Stewart’s account?

I haven’t had pav in such a long time. I reckon it’s time I learned to make it.

Does chicken salt count as Aussie cuisine? Because who would ever go with regular salt if you’re given the choice?

Edit: I just thought of another one, more a Tasmanian specialty since moving here: scallop pie. It tastes luxurious and basic at the same time, subtle and flavoursome, a bit of everything in one convenient package.

If you’re on a steep hill, yes sometimes you need to use the handbrake to get moving. This had to be demonstrated when I got my licence, but to be fair some manual vehicles now have automatic hill start. Still a good technique to learn because it doesn’t always activate.

That will be much more convenient when they need an incarcerated workforce to pick the crops.

AuDHD here, and I think you’re spot on, but I wouldn’t discount that union issue mentioned also being a factor. If they’re doing anything wrong then they definitely won’t give an honest answer and being put in that position will frustrate them even more (even though it’s possibly their own fault).

I’ve lost count of how many times I thought I was doing the right thing by seeking clarification so I can properly adjust for some bending of the rules (not necessarily opposing anything) but got blowback because I acknowledged the thing everyone else was conveniently ignoring.

Honestly, I’ve been around long enough that I associate suits with dishonesty. Car sales, real estate agents, lawyers, finance, politicians,… is there a pattern here, or no?

I started my professional career suited up, but transitioned away as I realised all our technical people who knew their shit, rolled up their sleeves and got it done didn’t wear them. The suits were managers making unrealistic schedules, and sales teams promising the world just to secure the next bonus.

Someone like Trump has never experienced real work. So let the con man wear his costume. It suits him.

Trump was so backed into a corner he reflexively rambled about Hunter Biden’s laptop and Hillary Clinton. What a joke. Then doubling down on Vance’s inane rambling about not showing gratitude, channelling peak abusive parent energy.

All because Zelensky made very reasonable points about requiring guarantees.

Absolute amateurs.

I’m sure it’s intended. The man was a comedian, and he’s been criticised for not wearing a suit before. He’s had this line in the chamber for a while, now he’s showing the world how a professional deals with hecklers.

When progressivism moves toward conservatism, conservatism moves toward regressivism.

See “space invasion” on the roadmap

I wish. It was doing the rounds when he started wearing the kid-helmet and I can’t forget it.