It’s open source, so the name has to be a diaper fire. It’s an acronym, it stands for Kool Desktop Environment Non LInear Video Editor.

Everyone I’ve heard pronounce it out loud says “kayden lyve.”

Yes, that’s a built-in feature called proxy video. It makes lower resolution copies of the video files, you edit with them, it’s a big load off your machine (and easier on RAM), you can render a low quality version from the proxy files for you or someone else on your team to preview for any last minute changes, then you can render out the entire thing from the original high res files.

Well we’ll sick Tantacrul on it once he’s done with Audacity, MuseScore, GIMP and FreeCAD.

Loss is a meme about miscarriage in the same way that Press F To Pay Respects is a meme about dead and wounded soldiers.

Loss, as an episode of Ctrl-Alt-Del, was like running a sweeps week episode of General Hospital in the middle of a Jackass marathon. The audience of Jackass fans you’ve attracted are going to phone in to ask just what the cunting heck you think you’re doing.

I’m drunk and belligerent to not give a shit about pointless pedentry, but to finally assert that…it doesn’t fucking matter. Back when actual humans still liked Google, back before we forgot they technically changed their name to Alphabet, back when their motto was “do no harm,” they started interviewing engineers with clever brain teaser puzzles. Because at the time, Google was out “Think Differentlying” Apple. Web 2.0 was all the rage, connecting shit together in ways we didn’t know we shouldn’t was in vogue, so it made sense for them to ask software engineers about the traveling salesman dilemma and shit like that. Because they were designing things like Google Maps, and they needed people who could solve “find a route from all addresses in the United States to all other addresses in the United States on consumer-grade hardware.”

But “Someone who needs an ordinary LAMP stack for their completely unoriginal eCommerce website” Inc. decided to start interviewing IT guys the same way because it made them look hip, and as a result Elon Musk spent a quarter term as Chief Superpower Fucker Upper.

Multi-day power outages are a yearly occurrence where I live (North Carolina), typically caused either by a hurricane, a tornado or an ice storm.

That’s kind of my point. Google started that nonsense of making job interviews into lateral thinking puzzles, then all managers latched onto that to make themselves look hip.

I want to see competence and practical problem solving skills.

You know, we’re talking about how pointless a riddle it is. “Why can’t I walk into the room more than once?” I’ve heard similar hiring riddles about things like “You’ve got ten ethernet cables that run the length of a long hallway. They’re not marked at either end, what’s the most efficient way of finding out which is which?”

And you know what? If I’m hiring a networking guy, I don’t want him to deliver me an “ooh I know this one” answer to that, I want him to tell me he’s got a cable tester with several remote probes so he can figure that out in a small number of trips. Maybe show me how he can hook a couple together with a coupler and use the cable length function to shave a couple of trips off. Not recite a memorized brain teaser answer.

The “premise” is detecting that a now dark light was recently turned on by feeling for residual heat. “Hot” is a relative term.

My favorite is Death Star vs Borg Cube. A couple years ago I wrote this whole big thing about which would win, but it boils down to:

Death Star victory, IF they hit the cube with a full turbolaser shot, and then jump to hyperdrive immediately before any surviving drones slap into the Death Star’s hull.

Borg victory if the cube is only mostly destroyed and they stick around long enough for surviving drones to get a foothold.

Tau’ri victory when SG-1 rings aboard with three men, one woman, four P-90s and a kilogram of naquadria. They take out the death star by dropping a couple of hand grenades down the power core, and then they hijack a TIE fighter over to the Borg Cube where they blow up the queen. Daniel Jackson is killed a couple times but it’s okay he gets better.

LED bulbs do get warm, not as hot as incandescent bulbs but they do emit heat. You might have to run them longer than a minute to warm it up enough to be immediate about it.

The official answer to this riddle is turn switch 1 on for a minute or so, switch it off then switch 2 on. if the bulb is hot but dark, its 1, if it’s lit it’s 2 and if it’s out and cold its 3.

the adult answer is why do I have only one chance to walk in the room?

Same reason she did a show with a gigantic toilet. Ridiculousness is all she’s got.

I seem to remember hearing this story: Back in the 2000s, Google did all their back-end stuff in C++ to make sure it was performant, and when they acquired Youtube they found it was made in Python, slow to run, fast to develop.

My dad made up probably the most believable bullshit reason as to why:

The gash photoshopper device stimulates the immune system to heal the wound with tremendous speed, which you can afford to do to a healthy person with one “that’ll need stitches” grade injury. Their entire immune system rushes over to heal this one thing. But that’s not safe to do to someone you just fished out from under a rock slide whose everything is broken or punctured.

But no, it’s because someone who is plot hurt needs to look hurt while they’re hurt, because it’s a TV show. The gash photoshopper device is another case of Roddenberry utopia-ing too close to the sun.

Something that always bothered me:

You get a gash on your arm or face wakeboarding on the holodeck or having sex with a Klingon, go to sickbay and the doctor can wave a thing that makes a meedly noise over it that photoshops the gash away. But if someone has been plot hurt, like “spends the second act laying in sick bay” hurt, they don’t use the photoshop gash remover, they leave the gashes on the character’s face, so the audience remembers they’re hurt.

many don’t deliver enough power for a Pi 4.

Well I figure if they include the rest of the crew with the Enterprise kit, adding Ro with the shuttlecraft prevents duplication. Just need an O’Brien and a Q. Maybe O’Brien should come with a DS9 set?

TL;DR: The Arduino language is C++ with an automatically included library, but it’s descended from a Java project with an automatically included library.

Processing is a graphics and art based graphics library/IDE that uses the Java programming language. It basically includes some classes and methods by default on top of Java that makes programming graphics and even simple games a bit more straightforward.

Processing’s IDE was forked by the Wiring project for the purposes of microcontroller hardware programming. Because the Java Virtual Machine is a bit much to ask a 16MHz 8-bit AVR to run, they switched the language to C++ which compiles straight to machine code that runs on the bare metal. Again, it’s just C++ with a library included, under the hood it uses gcc to compile and avrdude to program the chip. I believe the IDE itself is still written in Java.

Arduino took Wiring and painted it teal. They’ve extended it quite a bit since then but in the early days Arduino was really a hardware project. They’ve since added support for non-AVR boards to the Arduino IDE, including ARM-Cortex and ESP32 based boards.

Raspberry Pi offers C and C++ SDKs and a MicroPython interpreter for the Pico series. Someone contributed support for RP2040 based boards to the Arduino IDE; I don’t believe that was done officially by either RPi or Arduino.