nah, that’s code that does something slightly different every time you run it. that’s a different beast.

ah sweet, code that does something slightly different every time i compile it

oh there are plenty such. kget, aria2, uget, and motrix off the top of my head. but people use jdownloader for the same reason they use windows – it’s what they know.

He has Tesla’s “Full Self Driving” system, which works

well there you’ve already told your first lie

Huh. Neat feature.

The second one isn’t valid syntax in any programming language I’m familiar with. What does it do?

why would you call it anything other than the ternary operator

Zoophiles are disgusting, sure, but I think we were all happier not being reminded that they exist

According to this article this was part of a performance art project by an anti-fascist activist, who asked the teachers to do that activity just to see if they’d be willing to do it.

…either an empty string, a single character, or the same sequence of characters repeated more than once?

You know what? I’m gonna Sonarr and Jellyfin even harder

i especially love how that video is shrunk to part of the width of a portrait screen so that text can be put above it, and then stretched back out into a landscape video. really adds to the experience.

FFmpeg has FFV1 which is lossless

I should’ve blocked you when I read your username.

Ah, so if they’re sufficiently oppressed they get a free pass to do whatever they want.

If the existence of good cops does not disprove that all cops are bastards, since policing as a concept is a corrupt institution and if they were really good cops, they would quit, how can we not say the same about social workers who align themselves with a terrorist organization?

Irrelevant. Either they’re a political party or an armed militia.

Oh right! I keep forgetting that Israel is “the west” and Palestine is not despite being geographically on top of each other. Someday I’m gonna have to figure out where exactly this “west” is so I know not to go there.

Nah, LLMs usually have better grammar than that. My money’s on either intern or truly delusional ordinary Lemming

If that’s all you need, a Raspberry Pi 5 will fit the bill nicely. It’s got two 4K HDMI outputs and it’s roughly on par compute-wise with a higher end Chromebook. You won’t be gaming on this thing – it can just about play a YouTube video at 4K60 – but it’ll gladly handle your desktop stuff. As a bonus it’s about an eighth the price of a Steam Deck.