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3d ago

Good News, Everyone!

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Probably the only good April Fool's joke I saw anywhere this year. Stuff is bleak.

I unironically would rather FFmpeg be in charge of, well, anything instead of Musk.
- FFmpreg would be even better.
- FFmpeg crashes: unfortunate
  SpaceX crashes: dangerous

- April first, innit
  
  Man April first escaped me completely. Nobody tried a single joke on me this year.
  Not American. People seem to be just getting more and more tired regardless of country.
  
  Oh yeah. Not being on whatever that spezhole is anymore, I forgot all the fun, . . . really fun hijinks that go on.
  Given this ain’t a joke it’s really not far to get to the OP
  But, yep, fair enough. Ha ha.
  
  Oooh. That was yesterday.

Lossy social security encoding.
- Eh, nobody will care about some bits being lost there, I'm sure

Wrong choice, I'd advice the use of COBOL-on-Wheelchair

Finally, something I can get behind.
Checks calendar
Well, shit.

They should rewrite it in Rust.
- Until goobleblobble comes out, then we have to rewrite in that. And so on, until the end of time.
  
  I vote for gobblebobble!
  
  It's not memory safe.
  What was the language again?

Excellente!! Soon my 64kbps mp3 file from FrostWire can be converted to 320 kbps with 96kbps quality!

I'm sure there's no way this could go catastrophically wrong and that my SSDI income will be fine.

Jk! Unless...

If it's 8086 or Z80 I can help!

Male Pregnancy?
- Final Fantasy Mpreg

Not sure if I get the joke, is FFmpeg considered slow? That's the only angle I can think of for the joke to work... am I missing something?
- DOGE said they're going to rewrite the existing SSA code, which is done in COBOL, to modernize it, and everyone is pointing out how fraught with peril that is. This is saying they're going to do it in assembly, which is what we do when we need highly efficient code, like for a resource-constrained real-time control system, but is also much more challenging to program. The chance of rewriting a giant COBOL application in Assembly, and not making a whole mess of errors, is really small. And it would be very hard to maintain.
  
  Just get the guy that made rollercoaster Tycoon in Assembly, he'll knock it over in a week.
  
  Also assembly is even older than COBOL.
- I believe you’re overthinking it. The only relation to the project is likely that they have assembly language developers on the team to help implement accelerated format conversions.
- I should add that the FFmpeg team is quite proud of the fact that they write in C and Assembly for peak performance. They mention it a lot, and so they did here.
- It's a genuine xeet(?).
  
  Man let's just stick to tweet. This whole x thing is too silly even for April fools.
  
  *xit.

Government helplines about to get 1000% more hostile and standoffish.

64k scene but with suits.

Disgusting.

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