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tias,

Looks like you were already banned for some previous violation before you tried to post the comment.

tias,

So hire other bus drivers, or just have kids take the regular bus. Where I live there’s no such thing as a school bus.

tias, (edited )

If they don’t have a regular bus system that works then that’s what they need to start working on first. I’m convinced that it can be made to work if they are solution oriented instead of only looking for reasons why it won’t work and stopping there.

Where I live, buses have dynamic routes. You go on an app to book a journey, then you get a time and place to be where the bus will pick you up (plus a drop-off point). It works for school kids as well as anyone else.

tias,

Oh really, Vernon? Why pretend, we both know perfectly well what this is about. You want me to have an abortion.

tias,

Isn’t that Daniel Jackson’s girlfriend

tias, (edited )

That was my initial thought too. But if Vader can stay at a distance and force-choke Wolverine until he’s passed out, then Vader could move in after it’s safe and basically burn up every ounce of Wolverine’s body except for the adamantium using the light saber.

tias,

They had rewinding fees on DVDs??

tias, (edited )

Yeah as a programmer it seems that everyone around me underestimate by several magnitudes the amount of money and effort that goes into something like the Netflix infrastructure. It’s extremely frustrating because people always look at you with distrust when you say how much work it will take to develop a website. As a rule of thumb, the site’s apparent simplicity (for the end user) is correlated with the effort you put in.

That said, Netflix already had its infrastructure in place back when they had reasonable pricing. The recent greediness doesn’t reflect their costs suddenly going up, it’s just exponentially growing demand for profit and investors who want to cash in.

tias,

Amazingly few discotheques provide jukeboxes

tias,

If my true love flips me bird, she might not be my true love after all.

Are movie and show file sizes more efficient than they were years ago?

This may be a stupid question, but I just got back into pirating some shows and movies and realize that many of the QxR files are much smaller than what I downloaded in the past. Is it likely that I am sacrificing a noticeable amount of quality if I replace my files with the smaller QxR ones?...

tias,

That makes no sense. The bitrate is how many actual bits per second the data uses after compression, so at the same bitrate all codecs would be the same size.

tias, (edited )

I’m not saying it is the size of the file, I’m saying the bitrate multiplied by the number of seconds determines the size in bits of the file. So for a given video duration and a given bitrate, the total size (modulo headers, container format overhead etc) is the same regardless of compression method. Some codecs can achieve better perceived quality for the same number of bits per second. See. e.g. veed.netlify.app/learn/bitrate#TOC1 or toolstud.io/video/bitrate.php

If it’s compressed to 6,000 kilobits per second then ten seconds of video will be 60,000 kilobits or 7 megabytes, regardless if it’s compressed with h.264, h.265 or AV1.

tias, (edited )

Yes, we are. And my point stands. The bitrate is the number of bits per second of video, as measured on the fully compressed video.

tias, (edited )

As I’ve said elsewhere, raw bitrate means exactly the same between them, because the bitrate is the number of bits per second of video after compression. What you mean is that you set a target bitrate and the different codecs have varying success in meeting that target. You can use two-pass encoding to improve the codec’s accuracy.

But what matters is the average bitrate required by each codec to achieve the desired level of video quality, as perceived by you. The lower bitrate you need for the quality you want, the better the codec is.

tias,

If the teachers see it then why do they get away with it?

tias,

She is also a friend of Tali’s dad in Mass Effect. Tali calls her Auntie Raan.

tias,

I laughed out loud when Spock went “OH F…” and then they cut to the title in STNW.

tias, (edited )

What’s the deal with those two fingers anyway? Hollywood seems to have a thing for it but I’m curious what idea they want to convey to the audience.

tias,

An argument can be made that Grievous is a farce.

tias,

Makes you wonder if Worf was in on it.

tias,

I meant in on her fucking other people than him.

tias, (edited )

I see a potential here for the long-winded reaction scenes from Indian soap operas. At least then the viewer clearly understands that it’s not meant to be real time.

tias,

Nah, soon there will be synthetic meat and eating it will be better than ever.

tias,

Yeah it would be reserved for the fucked-up decadent 1%.

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