ffmpeg command lines are straight up black magic.
Anyone who understands them is not to be trusted.
It's even worse than tar.
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If they know Regex, assume you are in Sarumans tower and held captive until a hawk comes in.
Writing regex is easy.
Reading it again after a couple of weeks...
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.
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?
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.
Are you a tits or FFMPEG filter documentation on section 11.5 man?
Please refer to section 8008S.
I always chuckle when Jellyfin shows subtitles as "Full ASS".
Never half ass two things. Full ass 1 thing
Same.
The default libass shaping engine,
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.”
HEY EVERYONE IT'S THE ASS GUY
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ASS (Advanced Substation Alpha)
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
Oh, wonderful, teachers who punish kids for being kids and/or making mistakes.
Why is that not ASA? Or even ASSA.
Because they knew exactly what they were doing, obviously.
Because ASS.
Because substation alpha is SSA so they just reversed it.
Because it's funny.
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Pages are fractional now?
Man, I really gotta get with the times...
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.)
The bible is an old western book that orders itself so
"Section". They just used the wrong word ¯\(ツ)/¯
Force Feminisation male pregnancy
My omega is gonna be cute, one way or another.
ffmpreg?
🫃
Im listening
I was hoping for this gif:
lol that's a good one too. And thanks to your comment, now I know how to properly do GIFs.
Wtf? Is datascope funny or am I missing something?
This guy doesn't get the joke, everyone point and laugh!
Ha ha ha, whoosh! Right guise?
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