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[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 9 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

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

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 8 points 9 hours ago

Please refer to section 8008S.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 33 points 14 hours 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 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

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

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 1 points 54 minutes ago

Writing regex is easy.

Reading it again after a couple of weeks...

[–] Zannsolo@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours 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.

[–] mmddmm@lemm.ee 8 points 13 hours 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 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours 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.

[–] neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 264 points 1 day ago (5 children)
[–] domi@lemmy.secnd.me 35 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

Never half ass two things. Full ass 1 thing

[–] lagoon8622@sh.itjust.works 16 points 20 hours ago

The default libass shaping engine,

[–] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 86 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 58 points 1 day 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 18 points 14 hours ago

HEY EVERYONE IT'S THE ASS GUY

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[–] can@sh.itjust.works 113 points 1 day ago (4 children)

ASS (Advanced Substation Alpha)

[–] dditty@lemm.ee 7 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours 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 5 points 10 hours ago

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

[–] Tb0n3@sh.itjust.works 58 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (10 children)

Fantastic sub format for anime.

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[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Why is that not ASA? Or even ASSA.

[–] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 61 points 1 day ago

Because they knew exactly what they were doing, obviously.

[–] Jerkface@lemmy.world 37 points 1 day ago

Because ASS.

[–] vodka@lemm.ee 17 points 1 day ago

Because substation alpha is SSA so they just reversed it.

Because it's funny.

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[–] mobotsar@sh.itjust.works 13 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (3 children)

Pages are fractional now?

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

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 52 minutes 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 10 hours ago

The bible is an old western book that orders itself so

[–] sxan@midwest.social 11 points 22 hours ago

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

[–] dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 33 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Force Feminisation male pregnancy

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 50 minutes ago

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

[–] al4s@feddit.org 15 points 13 hours ago (1 children)
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[–] Tungsten5@lemm.ee 8 points 20 hours ago (1 children)
[–] HakunaHafada@lemm.ee 4 points 13 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

I was hoping for this gif:

[–] HakunaHafada@lemm.ee 4 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] tkk13909@sopuli.xyz 30 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Wtf? Is datascope funny or am I missing something?

[–] db2@lemmy.world 53 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

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