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Re:Waffle House's Magic Marker System on Monday March 18, 2024 @07:44PM (#39751413)
>They're used rarely these days

If you don't order different drinks, sure.

>Which is why they don't have to indicate "sprite" or "orange" because you can see the color through the lids.

The paper (cardboard?) lids aren't translucent.

Re:Discord is down due to Cloudflare on Friday September 29, 2023 @09:10AM (#37703648)
Firefox works for me, Chrome does not.
Re:Noctua's NH-P1 – Simply Amazing on Sunday January 29, 2023 @02:49PM (#34571955)
Interestingly, the 7900 currently costs more than the 7900x

7900 comes with a (supposedly decent) fan, 7900X does not.

Re:LosslessCut: lossless video/audio editing on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @01:26PM (#33973407)
> The cuts are usually slightly off from where I'd ideally like them to be, I think because LosslessCut can only cut on i-frames[3], but it's a totally fair tradeoff for my use case.

There is an experimental "smart cut" mode where it re-encodes the video between your cut and the next keyframe. It will of course not be entirely lossless though

https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut/issues/126

Re:How to estimate an SSD’s working life on Monday December 05, 2022 @08:37AM (#33865425)
That's a very expensive HDD. Amazon got the 4 TB WD Blue for $65
Re:My website is one binary on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @07:59PM (#30938994)
i don't know why, but there is something oddly soothing about (nearly) all the text being in lowercase
Re:Steam: Half-Life 2 Hardware Survey (2004) on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @05:16AM (#30930062)
Ten times cheaper
Re:Unsettling capital letters on Monday April 19, 2021 @08:32AM (#26862002)
Oh, yes. I've always felt a bit uneasy when I see the logo [0] for "Defqon.1 Primal Energy"

https://cdn.q-dance.com/l6hfsc63q612/6q72WINFR6Elorje1a49Nt/...

Yeah, what?

I looked at the top 5 subreddits in the table, where it looks like a single person is controlling them. They have 145 distinct mods.

Controlling reddit? lol