Comments by "Gilad Barlev" (@GSBarlev) on "Programmers are also human" channel.

  1. With how unrealistic these job postings have gotten, the real best way to get a job in the industry is to already have one and get the attention of a recruiter or a head-hunter. I'm a data scientist. I became a data scientist after reading an article about how it was the "hot new career" and going to my very first boss and asking him if I could change my title. Me: "Do you care if I start calling myself a data scientist?" Him: "Do I have to pay you anything mkre?" Me: "Nope!" Him: "Go for it." Ten years and a job change (that I was recruited for) later and I'm a senior data scientist with ten years of experience. 🤷‍♂️
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  2. This is the most aggressively French person I have ever seen. I have almost no idea what he's selling, but I wish him the best of luck.
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  3. I appreciate the effort you put into that Forbes Virtual Billionaires NFT joke! Can you imagine something so absurd? Wait, that's a real thing?!
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  4.  @thzzzt  Well my company is pretty relaxed about work from home, so I can wear whatever I want. But no, as someone who mines and cleans data for a living, I'm usually wearing a hard hat with a flashlight and thick gloves.
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  5. Halting problem is trivially solved—eventually all programs halt due to the heat death of the universe.
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  6. I went and watched the full video of The Agile Paradoxon after this—equal parts brilliant and depressing. Luckily, as someone who skipped Web3, I could watch this with pure schadenfreude 🤣 Edit: removed the joke about skipping Web4 to Web5, because it turned out that's actually a (stupid) thing
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  7. 2:40 Did y'all know that according to most formal (and legal) definitions, a flippin' Linear Regression is considered AI? Not a joke—AI literally pre-dating computers, and if you limit your definition to what most people agree is AI, then you've merely limited the range to when "computers" had names like "Mary," "Katherine" and "Augusta."
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  8. This is absolutely how corporate tech works. On the one hand, this is great since it means that the "one guy who actually writes the code" doesn't end up taking down the whole internet due to a mis-configured bucket policy. On the other, this is how FAANG (or, rather, MAMAA) is able to lay off 10% of its workforce without batting an eye. Also 3:09 hits really hard right now.
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  9. A new update for my favorite game dropped on Wednesday--I've been so excited to play it. So what have I been doing since Wednesday? Updating all of my mods and configurations to work with the new version. And when I was done with my own stuff I started opening PRs to update other people's mods. Still haven't actually played the new game. It's pathological.
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  10. I've made a lot of mistakes in my life. But at least I can say I've never left an x1.32xlarge running over a long weekend.
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  11. Let's be clear here: HR reps have a pretty thankless job. Believe me, those in-office mandates didn't come from them, they were just the ones delivering the announcements.
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  12. 3:45 Yeah, I already assumed that based on the ThinkPad. Very much appreciate the pairing of the IBM OEM keyboard, btw (neighbors must love that). This guy is living the dream. ♥ Rats notwithstanding 🐁
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  13. The scary thing is I don't think a single one of these esolangs were invented for this video. See: Gen Alpha Brainrot whose Hello World begins with, as described: sigma (x8) grimaceshake skibidi sigma (x8) rizz gyatt fanumtax skibidi sigma (x8) ohio skibidi...
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  14. As a kdenlive user I felt very attacked. I'm stitching together a rebuttal clip now but the format isn't quite right. I think I have to process one of the clips in ffmpeg first.
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  15. Pretty sure every company that practices SAFe ends up doing this. I worked for a company that spent millions on agile trainings, millions more on switching us all to SAFe... and then fired every single agile delivery lead.
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  16.  @phantomofnyx  Couldn't be. They didn't explicitly say they used arch (btw).
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  17. Hi there. I'm going to say something I don't say often or or idly: Delete your account
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  18. Jen, is that you? If so, great job breaking the internet...
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  19. I'm knee-deep wading through the esolangs wiki rn. There's a whole dang wiki of these works of art.
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  20. Where do you work, and are they hiring?
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  21. I'm pretty sure that Big Mac hack no longer works...
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  22. (taking notes) "new AND BETTER." Always forget that second part.
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  23. ... combined with the "Don't touch my Pepsi!" moment too. I feel like this must be a metaphor for some proprietary blob that's included with all but the hardest-line FOSS distributions, but I'm not sure what.
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  24. My company has an internal "academy" of self-guided training courses written by actual, practicing, in-house data scientists. Small Data Problems is a "prerequisite" of Big Data Problems.
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  25.  @Eagle3302PL  This company's culture very much is business analysts and consultants all the way up to the top. McKinsey, Deloitte, Booz-Allen... very much revolving doors when it comes to leadership's prior stints.
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  26. We'll have faster than light travel and alien-human hybrids before we have non-jamming printers.
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  27. Fwiw, he definitely knows now as he's hopping around the comments section
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  28. A lot of these were near-direct quotes from a recent Adobe leak.
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  29. Fr. I was playing with an LLM, and it turns out if you're toxic to it, it becomes extremely toxic right back.
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  30.  @thzzzt  I joined my company just in time for the Teradata collapse of 2016, and I still have nightmares about the Redshift catastrophe of 2018--there just weren't enough buckets to bail out everyone. At this point I'm just hoping to settle into a nice Snowflake-covered lakehouse.
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  31. To your point, shout-out to the random hero who forked ryzen_smu to get the 6800U to play nicely with ryzenadj.
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  32. Unless your work is related to Wayland or WINE, in which case I think you're rolling in some much-deserved Steam store gift cards these days.
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  33. Oh man I got completely reamed a few months ago for submitting a PR where I just ran the code through black and fixed the mypy errors... I guess I was the 🍑-hole.
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  34. Here's a question though: does your company *really* use SAFe or did they just pay for a bunch of people to get certifications so they could SAY they were using SAFe? Because SAFe itself actually has a lot of advantages over Scrum, namely in forcing the physical separation of product management and product ownership and in coordination of related workstreams. But if your company is just using SAFe as an opportunity for the SVP to schedule a bunch more multi-day all-hands, then the issue isn't the practice, it's the practitioner. And as I finish typing that out I'm realizing that my argument is essentially the same as "True communism has never been attempted," so just gonna sit with that for a sec.
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  35. Cries in elementaryOS
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  36. Possibly the best final line in any of your videos, and that's a really high bar
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  37. Trust me—you understood about all there was to understand.
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  38. Same. I also don't get how it can be a cult when the whole point is customization. It's not like we have arcane rituals or holy texts that demand strict adher Oh I forgot about the Arch Wiki and explicitly the Installation Guide.
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  39. 0:44 Was not prepared for the Audacity of your slander today.
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  40. Sauciest I've ever heard the interviewer. But then there's nothing that can get an otherwise level-headed person into a rage than attacking their preferred text editor.
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  41.  @southpole76  The terms are too often used interchangeably but there's a very large difference between data science and machine learning engineering. A good employer will employ both.
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  42.  @floflo1645  Can't share links in comments. The headliner was an Adobe high-up comparing their early termination fees to "heroin."
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  43. A modern update to the SMBC comic about the "most elegant programming language ever created" having been written by twelve year olds: C8==D++
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  44.  @rotteegher39  Haha yeah. When I saw that I thought, "Welp, that's why I sprung for the 5900X. 24 threads here we"-- Kdenlive: "Warning: parallel processing may cause render artifacts."
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  45. Look—I don't know the first thing about this guy or his company, and I personally think "AI" is incredibly overhyped. But this is exactly what transformer models do best—denoise, transcribe and summarize.
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  46. Nah, nano won when it became the default editor on Fedora (following in the footsteps of Ubuntu). Vi--let alone vim--doesn't even ship by default on a lot of systems, notably some of the most common EC2 and docker images.
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  47. I downloaded a great python wrapper for ffmpeg. It uses a beautiful functional framework that lets you chain operations, and any transformation that are not implemented by the wrapper you can just pass in as additional flags into the final "run" command. So at the end of a day of reading the docs, I was able to refractor my one-page-of-solid-text ffmpeg command into: >>> import ffmpeg >>> ffmpeg.input("my_input_file.mkv") >>> ffmpeg.run("my_output_file.mkv, flags="""\ SOLID WALL OF TEXT""") Oh shoot. Got an error. Looks like the version of ffmpeg in my virtual environment wasn't compiled with the right codecs.
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  48. Microsol, more than any other company except maybe Google, gives the public perception of being less of a single company and more of a collection of autonomous units, fighting each other for resources. Think about how they can tease a new Xbox one week, then the next announce that Game Pass would treat consoles as second-class users. Or how Windows 11 tries desperately to increase adoption... while at the same time unnecessarily upping system requirements and shoving more ads into the taskbar.
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  49. Still to this day: did a backup with Timeshift that failed halfway through and corrupted my whole backups. Pretty sure it was a "skill issue" but definitely pushed me into making backups of my backups.
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  50.  @cylemons8099  Oh, the guide itself is fine. The issue is that any time you have a problem with an Arch install the first question anyone will ask you is "Did you follow the install guide?" and if you say you followed, say, a YouTube tutorial, the way they'll treat you you'll wish that they'd burn you at the stake instead.
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  51.  @kunns123  I don't know that there's a central registry, but I've definitely seen projects post "bounties" for contributions.
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  52.  @phantomofnyx  As a Steam Deck user who has been getting a masochist thrill out of setting up compiler toolchains exclusively in userspace, I can't tell how much of your reply is humorous. 🤣
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  53. University of Texas Instruments. Coming out swinging I see.
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  54. I love how many comments are here defending kdenlive. I agree, btw. Way more stable and feature-rich than when I first tried it ca 2010. OTOH, my eight year old is now editing clips in Premiere Pro (educational licenses, man), and I asked how they learned how to do a cool effect and they said, "It was just obvious." Which is not something I have ever said about kdenlive or Cinelerra. Avidemux yes, but that's not what full NLE.
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  55. What do you consider a basement apartment?
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  56.  @marshallsweatherhiking1820  You just need a proper cron job to back up this file periodically to an external storage medium. It's a simple terminal command. Here, let me grab it for you from StackOverflow.
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  57. Ah, the vi user has entered the chat. I made a choice a few years ago about whether to use vim or emacs. The decider was that whereas being productive in emacs relied on lugging around your configuration file, with vim you could be at home on any computer you ever logged into, right out of the box. So here I am years later starting every new setup process by FTPing my .vimrc and then struggling when I realize that vim-plug isn't installed or vim wasn't compiled with python-3.6 support (for :Black).
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  58.  @4.0.4  As it should--the whole concept is ridiculous
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  59. I think he's too old to pull off a convincing ten-year-old Roblox developer. Maybe he has nieces or nephews? 🔥 Just teasing--I know there are plenty of other people who use Lua. That being said, doing video on Lua in 2023 without mentioning Roblox would be as criminal as, well, a lot of the things I've seen on Roblox.
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  60.  @angrysnek4445  It's Capital One (more of a credit card company with a bank attached, but yeah). Still the best place I ever worked.
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  61. The only thing worst than JIRA is having no kanban board at all. ZenHub is still OP.
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  62.  @moritzmolle6609  I was going to counter that it's not part of arch-base, but it looks like that's just because they use vim-minimal instead.
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  63. A sexually transmitted illness. I hear it's terminal.
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  64. Eight Megabytes and Constantly Swapping
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  65.  @darukutsu  Wait, I thought it was ButterFS that was the magic sauce.
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  66.  @swolebro  Docker would definitely be the way to go if I wanted to host this on a server--turns out my full script can be fully stateless, so it's the perfect use case for docker + kubernetes + autoscaling--but I don't want to manage an infrastructure or deal with hosting services or even AWS lambda fees, so unless you can package a docker container into a stand-alone dependency and runtime-free executable, I'm looking at just grabbing ffmpeg binaries for as many platforms as I can.
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  67. All the games he mentions not working are Gold or Platinum on protondb, I think...
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  68.  @monad_tcp  Yep. Firing 70% of your workforce is a genius business move. Just ask anyone left at Twitter.
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  69. Cinelerra? Because that's what I used twelve years ago. Apparently it forked itself to death. Honestly, I've been pretty satisfied with kdenlive.
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  70. ​ @pernydev6844 Oh wow, yeah. If you pull up the all-time view, that's Paypal's stock ticker (and the number on the screen is their price as of whenever this was filmed).
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  71. 1:59 Love that you couldn't get that out without spitting up a little bit
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