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[–] [email protected] 284 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)
[–] [email protected] 123 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

ASS (Advanced Substation Alpha)

[–] [email protected] 64 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

Fantastic sub format for anime.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)
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[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Why is that not ASA? Or even ASSA.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 2 weeks ago

Because they knew exactly what they were doing, obviously.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 weeks ago

Because ASS.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago

Because substation alpha is SSA so they just reversed it.

Because it's funny.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago (2 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] [email protected] 92 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 63 points 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago

HEY EVERYONE IT'S THE ASS GUY

[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

For some reason, ASS files cause stuttering on my Jellyfin Server living on a NAS

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Never half ass two things. Full ass 1 thing

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago

The default libass shaping engine,

[–] [email protected] 53 points 2 weeks 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] 13 points 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Writing regex is easy.

Reading it again after a couple of weeks...

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

It's a write only language

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Force Feminisation male pregnancy

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I was hoping for this gif:

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Wtf? Is datascope funny or am I missing something?

[–] [email protected] 54 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 weeks ago

Ha ha ha, whoosh! Right guise?

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago

(⁠ ͡⁠°⁠ ͜⁠ʖ⁠ ͡⁠°⁠)

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

Pages are fractional now?

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] ILikeBoobies 3 points 2 weeks ago

The bible is an old western book that orders itself so

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

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago

Please refer to section 8008S.

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