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by assttoasstmgr 4y ago
The opening of Apocalypse Now would look like dog shit at > 24fps. For a good comparison, watch the few Twilight Zone episodes (the original from the 60s) from season 2 that were shot on videotape, as opposed to film for the rest of
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by assttoasstmgr 4y ago
Because audio for 23.976fps film is playing at the same speed as 29.97fps video . Which is really interlaced video at 59.94 fields per second. 3:2 pulldown is used to synthesize extra video frames to transfer to NTSC video so for a giv
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by assttoasstmgr 4y ago
The whole point of mail order delivery is the convenience factor; you don't have to be home to receive the package. I've seen the promotional video for this thing and it could be one of the dumbest ideas this side of the Juicero.
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by assttoasstmgr 4y ago
WOPR-ski?
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The Tilde Text Editor(os.ghalkes.nl)
25 points by assttoasstmgr 4y ago|20 comments
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by assttoasstmgr 4y ago
Does everyone here just suffer from exceptionally shitty IT departments? I've used Citrix for years and not experienced any of the chronic issues described here. Remember Citrix was developed in the 1990s... the days of Windows NT 3.5&
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by assttoasstmgr 4y ago
Basically all PHEVs work this way.
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by assttoasstmgr 4y ago
I regret to inform you that plugging your EV into a tree to charge only works in cartoons.
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by assttoasstmgr 4y ago
Tell that to all the Tesla owners that leave their cars at the airport and return to a dead battery.
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by assttoasstmgr 4y ago
EV enthusiasts' arrogance and cult-like devotion to dismissing the very real problems with EVs and lack of infrastructure will only hurt, not help their cause.
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by assttoasstmgr 4y ago
Imagine that. The pedantic buffoon at the center of the ridiculous GNU/Linux naming controversy created an entire page dedicated to his title. Amazing.
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by assttoasstmgr 4y ago
The world has also learned a great deal from Tom Silva on This Old House, does that set the precedent to be called "Dr. of Carpentry"?
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by assttoasstmgr 4y ago
Dr. Linus Torvalds has entered the chat.
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by assttoasstmgr 4y ago
> Still, it is a fact that he has a doctorate. This is false and insulting to people who earned real degrees. He has an honorary doctorate. Which is about as worthless as if someone had the local trophy shoppe mint you a plaque that
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by assttoasstmgr 4y ago
> Unlike, say, the case of Dr. Phil. Except Dr. Phil does have an actual PhD. Which he attended university and defended via dissertation. Unlike, say, RMS.
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by assttoasstmgr 4y ago
> I was stunned by the arrogance, rudeness, and completely ignorance of RMS Why were you stunned? The guy signs his emails "Dr. Richard Stallman" whilst only having an honorary doctorate. Clearly there are issues . It's
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by assttoasstmgr 4y ago
What "community norms" were violated in this instrumental song to require age verification? (Likely the most egregious example I can think of.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4Mte6z7TQI Stop making excuses for t
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by assttoasstmgr 4y ago
https://dilbert.com/strip/2012-06-03
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by assttoasstmgr 4y ago
Well for one, Linux isn't Unix. You'd know this if you ever lived through the treachery that was Proprietary Unix e.g. Solaris, HP-UX, IRIX. The maladies of the "Unix Experience" as you termed it is why people migrated
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by assttoasstmgr 4y ago
On the plus side you get to leverage the same excuse next time she asks you to pick up tampons on the way home.
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by assttoasstmgr 4y ago
I believe it's part of SouthWest's corporate culture that the crew helps clean the aircraft. Yes that means even the pilots and stewardesses put on rubber gloves after the flight.
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by assttoasstmgr 4y ago
> “--- that is foul,” one commenter wrote on Facebook. Amazingly in 2022 "journalism" constitutes copy-pasting comments from Facebook and TikTok posts. From the NYT no less. These are the people that think you should pay to rea
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by assttoasstmgr 4y ago
Why would you do such a thing when you can use something like Kermit (which has been around for over 40 years)....
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Twitter Asks for Musk to Turn over Texts from First Six Months of 2022(finance.yahoo.com)
4 points by assttoasstmgr 4y ago|0 comments
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by assttoasstmgr 4y ago
Or that much of the system ran on OS/2: https://tedium.co/2019/06/13/nyc-subway-os2-history
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by assttoasstmgr 4y ago
You're right, we should encourage the new generation to all strive to become overpaid mediocre SWEs only in it for the quick cash, because the world doesn't have enough shitty food delivery apps. Hopefully I've painted this w
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by assttoasstmgr 4y ago
> The fear with Twitter is that someone trips over the wrong cable and the entire site goes down and never comes back. They just need to send someone over to the maintenance shed and reset a few tripped breakers... what could go wrong?
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by assttoasstmgr 4y ago
Or the over-the-top cheating scene with Chevy Chase from "Spies Like Us" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaSUOFleNRU It's nearly 40 years old and it still makes me laugh every time.
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by assttoasstmgr 4y ago
Remember the olden days, when if you wanted to take a picture you'd use a camera not a telephone?
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by assttoasstmgr 4y ago
Have you considered that your average soft SV male feminist-type isn't the target audience for a couple of east coast comedians - who are by and large complete degenerates, and I use that term with all due respect - riffing on degenera

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