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[–] [email protected] 286 points 1 week ago (5 children)
[–] [email protected] 123 points 1 week ago (4 children)

ASS (Advanced Substation Alpha)

[–] [email protected] 64 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Fantastic sub format for anime.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I wonder why “great” and “sword” need to be Katakana

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (4 children)
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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Why is that not ASA? Or even ASSA.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 week ago

Because they knew exactly what they were doing, obviously.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 week ago

Because ASS.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago

Because substation alpha is SSA so they just reversed it.

Because it's funny.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Right in the nostalgia! Happiness is a warm genlock...

[–] [email protected] 92 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 week 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.”

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago

HEY EVERYONE IT'S THE ASS GUY

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Never half ass two things. Full ass 1 thing

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago
[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago

The default libass shaping engine,

[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 week ago (4 children)

ffmpeg command lines are straight up black magic.

Anyone who understands them is not to be trusted.

It's even worse than tar.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week 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?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Writing regex is easy.

Reading it again after a couple of weeks...

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

It's a write only language

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Force Feminisation male pregnancy

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I was hoping for this gif:

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

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

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Wtf? Is datascope funny or am I missing something?

[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago

Ha ha ha, whoosh! Right guise?

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago

(⁠ ͡⁠°⁠ ͜⁠ʖ⁠ ͡⁠°⁠)

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Pages are fractional now?

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

The bible is an old western book that orders itself so

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

Please refer to section 8008S.

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