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vodkareply

Because substation alpha is SSA so they just reversed it.

Because it's funny.

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ddittyreply
lemm.ee

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

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Lemminaryreply
lemmy.world

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

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

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jaybonereply
lemmy.zip

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.”

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Domireply
lemmy.secnd.me

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

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feddit.uk

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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mmddmmreply
lemm.ee

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?

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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.

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el_bhmreply
lemm.ee

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

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Blackmistreply
feddit.uk

Writing regex is easy.

Reading it again after a couple of weeks...

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Tbh the frequent pain from needing to read it again often happens because it was so hard to write correctly that it misbehaves on some data and you need to adjust it.

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gamerreply

ffmpeg commands are one of the best use cases for ChatGPT

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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.

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lemm.ee

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

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db2reply
lemmy.world

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

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lemmy.world

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

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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.)

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