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ozayon Make timelapses easily using FFmpeg

I recently found LosslessCut (https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut) that is basically a GUI for ffmpeg, you can make simple edits without re-encoding the stream.

ozayon Git as a debugging tool

git blame shows only who made the last change. Maybe that person only changed the name of a variable, applied a codestyle change, moved a function declaration to another file or many other things that the change was almost irrelevant to the code behavior.

There are a few options that help you out with this:

-M Detect moved or copied lines within a file

-C In addition to -M, detect lines moved or copied from other files that were modified in the same commit.

--ignore-rev <rev> Ignore changes made by the revision when assigning blame, as if the change never happened

--ignore-revs-file <file> Ignore revisions listed in file

https://git-scm.com/docs/git-blame

ozayon A clever “perpetual motion” device [video]

That's him imitating another YouTuber who does this stupid face all the time.

ozayon 2/3 of kids bike to school in Assen because it was designed that way (2013)

They don't wear helmets because they aren't zooming around like Lance Armstrong. The risk of accidents with head injuries a helmet would help against is limited. Same thing why you don't wear a helmet when you go by car although an occupants risk of head injuries in a typical accident is comparable.

ozayon Gödel, Escher, Bach: an in-depth explainer

Amphetamines aren't psychedelics. Like nicotine or caffeine they increase performance.

ozayon Gödel, Escher, Bach: an in-depth explainer

He doesn't say it was written while high. He is wondering if H knew the effects of psychedelics and maybe tried to replicate the feeling in the reader.

ozayon Byte Magazine: The C Programming Language (1983)

I was always fascinated by the BMW ads of the time: https://www.motortrend.com/news/bmw-1980s-ads-jeff-zwart-pho...

ozayon Twitter board adopts poison pill after Musk’s $43B bid to buy company

Did you mean uBlock?

ozayon The computers used to do 3D animation for Final Fantasy VII in 1996

> How does that happen?!

The guy who knows where it is stored, or who knows what is stored on "that hard drive", leaves the company.

ozayon Vitamin D Supplementation Improves Cognitive Function: 12-month RCT

Also look at Liebig's barrel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liebig%27s_law_of_the_minimum#.... It was originally applied to plant growth, but it is a helpful metaphor for vitamin substitution.