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Is this a parody? I genuinely can't tell if this is an actual product (which, if this is indeed a parody, makes it a great one in my opinion)

Partitioning also prunes the number of files to be looked at. Only the directory structure of the files (or prefixes of the objects in S3) need to be checked.

With large datasets, wouldn't partitioning the data on low cardinality columns give the same benefit without the space overhead?

Alternatively, a Boolean variable 'bankruptcy' can be declared in the class to indicate the use of dunder-miffling.

In a nutshell, the government does not differentiate between bribery and blackmail. "Harassment bribes" is blackmail, plain and simple.

I did mention in my original comment that the free version of Resolve refused to import my 10-bit video clips. I was fine with exporting 8-bit.

I completely missed looking up Kdenlive because I (rather stupidly, in hindsight) assumed KDE implied for Linux only. I'll keep it in mind for the next time.

And yes, Blender would have been overkill, but I might've gone that route if Openshot didn't work out.

I saw this post hours after I finished a task where this would have come in handy. I had a bunch of HQ video clips from a professional Sony video camera that I needed to string together, with short simple fade transitions. The last time I did this(few years ago), I was using a Mac, and iMovie did the job well. This time, I was on a Windows NUC, and figured Windows MovieMaker should do the trick. Nope.

- Opening Movie Maker redirects to the Photos app, with a note that Microsoft Clipchamp has this functionality now and Movie Maker is deprecated.

- Install Clipchamp and see that its hilariously bad at batch-adding clips to the timeline. Adding 300 clips, one at a time, is a dealbreaker.

- Look up reviews for free 3rd party apps to do this on Windows. Find everyone recommending DaVinci Resolve. Fine. Install Resolve. Looks great. Import my clips, and get only audio. A quick Google search tells me that Resolve free version doesn't support importing 10-bit video. Welp.

- Let's try FOSS then. Shotcut is supposedly better than Openshot. Install Shotcut. Import all clips, add to timeline and export. Takes a few hours to export, displays a Success message and gives me the first few seconds of video, followed by a couple of hours of just audio.

- F** it, let's try Openshot. Hesitant because I've heard a lot of crashing happens, but what do I have to lose. Install. Import clips. Add to timeline. Let's me add transitions. Export takes a few hours. Gives me flawless output file.

Moral of the story: For occasional amateur video editing, Openshot is great.

Even in tempered music theory, calling a note a sharp or a flat generally depends on the scale.

For eg: Bb major uses: Bb C D Eb F G A Bb while A# major uses: A# B# Cx D# E# Fx Gx A# (x indicates double-sharp) Despite all the notes being exactly the same on a tempered instrument.

I have a suggestion: You could optimize the website to be easily readable and navigable on the Kindle's web browser, and recommend it as an option. I've often found it to be the easiest way to get non-store books on my Kindle. I've also noticed that cover images are handled correctly when the ebook is downloaded straight onto the device, with no need for a separate image file.

A hurdle for this though, is that building a good website for the Kindle browser is a pain, as the browser's support for various html/css/js features and standards is all over the place, with no debugging tools available.

Oh that's not the reason. Animation in general is seen as childish by the vast majority here in India, and a lot of people wouldn't even imagine that animation could be NSFW. Most folks wouldn't care less if the child was watching, say, Bojack Horseman (except any blatantly explicit scenes/words of course). Tom and Jerry is an easy reach, since the humor is more slapstick than verbal, and it's been around long enough that parents today have grown up watching it on TV. Most of the NSFW stuff in Spongebob is too subtle for the average uninterested Indian adult.

Basically, children's entertainment = animation = Tom and Jerry, more often than not. Urban 1%er parents tend to default to Peppa Pig.

> folks will just forget why they were taking it in the first place.

Not if the results of the study are true!

As a native Kannada speaker, I agree. With most Indian languages, spelling bees are a laughable concept. They generally have about 35 alphabets, each associated with a specific sound and organized by type of sound. So there's no ambiguity with spelling, and pretty much any verbal sounds can be expressed in written form.

Roald Dahl wrote a short story, 'The Sound Machine' that's on very similar lines. Looks like it can be found in its entirety here: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1949/09/17/the-sound-mach...