Lex Fridman: evaluation

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…Great account. There’s certain Twitter accounts that are just legit. And I think FFMPEG, they have all these sort of parameters that you can add on the command line, that it’s like one of those cryptic languages that only very few wizards understand. But once you begin to slowly understand, and I’m only at the very sort of beginning stage of that journey to mastery, the powers you gain at every step, it grows exponentially, it feels like. I mean, FFMPEG is just this incredible, what would you call a library system? There’s just the people behind them must be just brilliant masterminds because they have to work with all these codecs, with all these containers, with all the mysteries of the media codec universe they’re masters of. And they understand compression, which is another super fascinating technical set of problems that, I don’t know, just FFMPEG just fills me with joy that it exists. But you need kind of Bash type comfort, command line comfort, to work with it to really unlock its power. Yeah. I think FFMPEG is probably one of the most consequential libraries of our day, and the Twitter account is so unhinged. It is the most amazing thing to see because I think FFMPEG does not get the love it deserves. Every single application, OBS, probably FFMPEG underneath the hood. Everything, FFMPEG underneath the hood, and yet they do not get the love they deserve. I just love it. I just think they’re the best.…

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