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Why I Am Not a Feminist

I am not a feminist. A movement once anti-establishment, has turned into an establishment, a caricature of its former self.
It's chracterissd through its —
- Blatant misandry justified as rebellion.
- False allegations of con-artists taking down renowned people for political gain or vengeance.
- Female votebanks
- Mindless consumerism of influencers.
- Ethnic Erasure through wearing revealing clothes.
  - Ethnic erasure is the process of depletion of social, cultural and national identity.
Heavily employed by the West to push their globalist agenda, its roots are found in the colonial tradition of fostering a inferiority complex in the natives.

On The Mahatma

Achieving something through non-violent movement is as precarious a belief as “love conquers all.” That Gandhi claimed “a Satyagrahi can't fail” is not only delusional, but the epitome of narcissism. To quote Godse, “Mahatma became the judge and jury in his own cause.”

Satyagraha: The Magic Bullet

“These childish insanities and obstinacies, coupled with a most severe austerity of life, ceaseless work and lofty character made Gandhi formidable and irresistible” — Nathuram Godse

To put it simply, if someone went against Gandhi, he or she implicitly committed sedition. His supposed austerity to life, that he presented to the public, had been a part of his elaborate scheme to safeguard himself from any form of criticism, and become a figure of voluntary servitude in the minds of Indians.

Rust is centred around its grandiose claims of safety, always boasting its guarantees of fearless concurrency, memory safety, zero-cost abstractions and other mumbo-jumbo.

First of all, there's nothing such as zero-cost abstractions. Any abstraction, no matter how close to what its meant to abstract, brings a performance penalty; it applies not only to Rust, but also to its rival languages like C++.

Secondly, concurrency (correct term: parallelism) is never a child's play. It maybe easy to spawn a couple of threads to do a task, but it also has to be considered whether that's actually beneficial or even detrimental to performance. The topic of parallelism is complex and hard to get right, and it demands hypothesis, experiments and observations. The algorithm that is designed to do the task in a non-parallel scenario, may often be suboptimal in a parallel scenario, and must be modified accordingly, given that it's even possible.

And, I've seen many—if not all—Rust users act with hostility

AV1 (AOMedia Video 1) is a next-generation video codec to facilitate VOD (video on demand), storage and live-streaming, as you might already know. It is usually stored in the WebM container, accompanied by Opus as the audio codec. Both are royalty-free codecs; i.e. you need not pay to use them unlike H.264 or H.265; latter of which was the reason AV1 was made, for it was encumbered in a complex web of patents. There are several AV1 encoders to choose from, such as—aomenc, rav1e, SVT-AV1. Although all provide a more-or-less same level of functionality, SVT-AV1 is notable for its speed and scalability.

This is largely a primer meant to familiarise you with some rudimentary aspects of AV1 encoding, which avoids some of the more advanced topics such as—film grain synthesis, variance boost, hierarchical levels, temporal filtering, etc. There's a dedicated community around the codec that document best practises for high-quality encodes.

Presets

Presets are a set of preconfigured encoder options deciding

Warning

What has been written here earlier maybe somewhat misleading, and it is encouraged to read this primer instead.

Tenets of AV1 Encoding

AV1 is a next-generation video codec developed by Alliance of Open Media to facilitate VOD, storage and live-streaming. Usually paired with the Opus audio codec and stored in WebM or Matroska container, or even MP4 (ISOBMFF) (and streamed using HLS). As of now, besides libaom and rav1e, SVT-AV1 is currently the best production quality encoder available (the matter of discusssion here). This introductory guide is based on the SVT-AV1 documentation.

Presets

Presets (can be selected with --preset option) are a collection of predefined options that influence the speed vs. qualit

Notes on Meson

Meson is primarily a C/C++ build-system, arguably better than CMake or GNU Autotools in terms of UX.

Preliminary Points

These points are essential to both the programmer and the end user who builds the project.

A file meson.build must exist at the top-level directory of the project.
Meson doesn't allow “in-source builds”, meaning it requires a separate build directory. As customary, separate directories are to made for separate configurations—debug or release.

	# /// script
	# requires-python = ">=3.14"
	# dependencies = [
	# "aiofiles>=25.1.0",
	# "httpx[http2]>=0.28.1",
	# ]
	# ///

	import asyncio
	import sys

	import httpx
	import json
	import asyncio

	from pathlib import Path
	from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

	class TaskQueue(asyncio.TaskGroup):
	def __init__(self, /, maxsize):
	self._semaphore = asyncio.Semaphore(maxsize)

	use std::{
	collections::VecDeque,
	error::Error,
	fs::File,
	path::PathBuf,
	sync::{
	atomic::{AtomicBool, Ordering},
	Arc, Mutex,
	},
	};

	#include <stdio.h>
	#include <stdlib.h>
	#include <stddef.h>
	#include <stdbool.h>
	#include <string.h>

	typedef int(arg_type)(void, int, const char*);

	#define arg_type_flag NULL