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[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 49 points 1 day ago (3 children)

ffmpeg command lines are straight up black magic.

Anyone who understands them is not to be trusted.

It's even worse than tar.

[–] el_bhm@lemm.ee 8 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

If they know Regex, assume you are in Sarumans tower and held captive until a hawk comes in.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 12 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Writing regex is easy.

Reading it again after a couple of weeks...

[–] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 11 points 17 hours ago

It's a write only language

[–] mmddmm@lemm.ee 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

GNU tar is easy and straight-forward.

It's also completely incompatible with any other Unix, but then, what difference does it make is nobody can use them?

[–] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

A more complex but more commonly used program is rsync

rsync -rav /home/user/Documents /mnt/usbdrive is treated differently than rsync -rav /home/user/Documents/ /mnt/usbdrive which is different than rsync -rav /home/user/Documents /mnt/usbdrive/ which is different than rsync -rav /home/user/Documents/ /mnt/usbdrive/

It's a great tool for making copies onto drives, even servers. But man you have to double check how each folder path is laid out, otherwise it'll write the files of one folder to the main drive, unorganized.

[–] Zannsolo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

The biggest pain in the ass I've dealt with was using a directshow lib to implement flash on a new camera we were supporting for a desktop application. Working with a device graph and pins is beyond frustrating. We're porting functionality to the Web and my dev working on the camera just needed to call capture image to trigger the flash.

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Are you a tits or FFMPEG filter documentation on section 11.5 man?

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

Please refer to section 8008S.

[–] neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 283 points 2 days ago (5 children)
[–] domi@lemmy.secnd.me 39 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I always chuckle when Jellyfin shows subtitles as "Full ASS".

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 5 points 23 hours ago

Never half ass two things. Full ass 1 thing

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 121 points 2 days ago (4 children)

ASS (Advanced Substation Alpha)

[–] Tb0n3@sh.itjust.works 62 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (11 children)

Fantastic sub format for anime.

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[–] dditty@lemm.ee 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

When I took a geometry test in eighth grade, I got a point deducted because I wrote ASS instead of SSA (side-side-angle) when calculating angles and side lengths of a triangle. Still got the right answer though

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oh, wonderful, teachers who punish kids for being kids and/or making mistakes.

[–] Deathray5@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

In a "show your workings" questions it makes sense.

[–] firelizzard@programming.dev 1 points 15 hours ago

There’s no difference between SSA and ASS in that context so it’s pointless to punish a student for that

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 23 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Why is that not ASA? Or even ASSA.

[–] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 62 points 2 days ago

Because they knew exactly what they were doing, obviously.

[–] Jerkface@lemmy.world 38 points 2 days ago

Because ASS.

[–] vodka@lemm.ee 18 points 2 days ago

Because substation alpha is SSA so they just reversed it.

Because it's funny.

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[–] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 92 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 63 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I’m so old and tired, this isn’t even funny anymore. I’ll have to explain to some junior engineer about ASS. Then management will learn about this term “ass”, and use it incorrectly at every possible opportunity. Then when no one can explain ASS, I end up being “the ass guy.”

[–] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago

HEY EVERYONE IT'S THE ASS GUY

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[–] lagoon8622@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 day ago

The default libass shaping engine,

[–] dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 34 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Force Feminisation male pregnancy

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 points 22 hours ago

My omega is gonna be cute, one way or another.

[–] al4s@feddit.org 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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[–] Tungsten5@lemm.ee 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] HakunaHafada@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I was hoping for this gif:

[–] HakunaHafada@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

lol that's a good one too. And thanks to your comment, now I know how to properly do GIFs.

[–] mobotsar@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Pages are fractional now?

Man, I really gotta get with the times...

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 points 22 hours ago

I've had text books that have page numbers in the corner as chapter-number. It's not unheard of. When I was in JROTC in highschool the cadet field manual had pages like this. I'm sure others did too but I specifically remember that one more because I was there for four years. (Had to be there for riflery team.)

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

The bible is an old western book that orders itself so

[–] sxan@midwest.social 12 points 1 day ago

"Section". They just used the wrong word ¯\(ツ)

[–] tkk13909@sopuli.xyz 31 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Wtf? Is datascope funny or am I missing something?

[–] db2@lemmy.world 54 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This guy doesn't get the joke, everyone point and laugh!

[–] OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world 25 points 2 days ago

Ha ha ha, whoosh! Right guise?

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