One does not get the title of "Staff Engineer" for age.

One also does not get fired for age. One gets fired for sitting on their ass doing virtually nothing. The "Staff Engineers" and above tend to sit on their ass, doing virtually nothing. Any sane company would do well by firing them.

When Google was a young company the idea of someone in engineering with a fat title sitting on his ass doing nothing was not tolerated. That's when Google was doing amazing things, was innovative and actually gave a s!it because every single person in that company wanted to get s!it done. Right now Google is a standard issue sh!t company because its upper echelons are full of people who are just warming their fancy chairs, talk about their amazing work life balance and count the days to their next options package vests so they can take yet another multi-months vacation.

You can look through the threads in this comment section and in other comment sections of threads that touched on Staff Engineers and Senior staff engineers. People perfectly illustrate why the companies would do well firing them - people describe that as their dream "retirement" job.

Yes, I suggest firing every single one of them. They are non-performing group eating enormous compensation packages.

Staff engineer and above = 45 year old soccer player bench warmer getting the pay 22 year old striker.

Does anyone know of a decent ffmpeg front-end for pulling thumbnails from a video, preferably something with a picker? I googled around and was ultimately unsuccessful.

I have previously used mpv's screenshot command (S) combined with seeking and per frame movements, but it does not correctly handle the video portrait orientation not to mention the interface itself is fairly clumsy.

Ideally I would want to see something that creates a strip a-la Pixel's photo frame extractor where one can select a section of the video and make it extract all the frame or every N'th frame from that section.

I could probably spend a weekend and hack some basic monstrosity in a from of a NodeJS wrapper but that would probably be me trying to invent the wheel, making it square in the process.

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Nope. The value of being a reddit mod is clout. Clout does not matter to me hence I would not want to skip $$$$ for a clout of one. It matters to them hence they do it for $0.00. As they do not want to do the work, they get no clout. I applaud reddit for nuking them.

The last Android fix for Android 13 for Pixel 6 is March 5, 2023. That's before the fix.

... In 2010 some slightly nutty young engineers who heard about that story from the grey beards they worked with at a future very well known company on a very large mysql instance used a monster ramdisk as a single master to achieve a crazy boost in performance. The hard data persistence was achieved via replication to the regular spinning rust slaves. While it worked really well for their application no one ever battle tested bad crashes in production...

... that led to a product around 2013(?)-2014(?) from Violin Memory which combined the ramdisk with if I recall correctly spinning disks to dump the data in case of a power loss. The devices were absolutely amazing but did not create a foot hold in the market. I think they sold a few hundred units total. The product was abandoned in favor of flash arrays

Making sure that if there's X in cash or cash equivalent at noon on March 9th, 2023 PST there's still X in cash or cash equivalents at noon on March 10th, 2023