2024 / Week 35

In creative professions and startups, you could have all the world as your TAM. But if you do not have the people, passion, and ambition, it’s all quite pointless

https://the-ken.com/newsletter/first-principles/be-anti-tam/

Be anti-TAM

Is the golden era of the (software) engineer over?

The end of the ZIRP era and the rise of Gen AI is upending old assumptions. Being an engineer is no longer a guarantee of a stable career

Is the golden era of the (software) engineer over?

https://the-ken.com/newsletters/two-by-two/is-the-golden-era-of-the-software-engineer-over/

Is the golden era of the (software) engineer over?

How Costco Hacked the American Shopping Psyche

More than 100 million people visit the retailer for their groceries — and gas and TVs and gold bars and pet coffins — but saving money may not be the only motive.

How Costco Hacked the American Shopping Psyche

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/20/dining/costco.html

How Costco Hacked the American Shopping Psyche

Check out this Amazon review of Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Incerto)

An Important Book

Check out this Amazon review of Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Incerto)

https://www.amazon.com/review/R1GJ1RXSS8ZXME/

Introducing: Titles in Sequence

We just shipped a feature we've been looking forward to for a long time — ✨ Titles ✨ Let's go meet up with the developer of this feature, Adam Browne, to learn more about how to use titles in Sequence, what it took to make them, and what it lets you make in the web-based video workspace of the future. Reserve your ticket at www.sequence.film

Introducing: Titles in Sequence

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzHj-Ifuhv0

Introducing: Titles in Sequence

FFmpeg decode video to lossless frames hardware acceleration CUDA

I have 1 second H.265-encoded videos at 30 fps coming into a server for processing. The server needs to decode the videos into individual frames (lossless). These videos are coming in very quickly,...

FFmpeg decode video to lossless frames hardware acceleration CUDA

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65487433/ffmpeg-decode-video-to-lossless-frames-hardware-acceleration-cuda

FFmpeg decode video to lossless frames hardware acceleration CUDA

files.khirnov.net

https://files.khirnov.net/vdd_2023_slides.pdf

news.ycombinator.com

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38613219