ShaunaTheDead

East is sunrise. West is sunset. The sun will also always be slightly south and even more so in the winter (unless you’re in the southern hemisphere then it’s slightly north).

If your local area has some kind of landmark like a big tower, or a big lake, learn where that is relative to you and use it as a reference point. For me, I live near a big lake and it’s always south of me. It might be easier for you to ask yourself “which way is the lake?” instead of “which way is south?” or whatever your landmark and direction happen to be.

That’s a handsome woman right there!

It’s possible to be queer and racist, unfortunately.

I don’t understand the appeal of foldable screen smart phones. Seems like nothing more than a gimmick to me.

I don’t get it, but I assume there’s some obscure historical or philosophical joke going on here. Can someone explain?

Or maybe it’s “read” as in “read his book” and the drag term “read him for filth” lol I hope it’s that one

Cool animation! 10/10 style points!

For those unaware, Adobe changed their terms of service recently to say that if you agree to the terms then they officially own anything you create using their software and can use it however they want. Specifically this line:

you grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free sublicensable, license, to use, reproduce, publicly display, distribute, modify, create derivative works based on, publicly perform, and translate the Content.

This probably means that Adobe has built some kind of backdoor into their programs to access your files and send it off to their servers. Pretty shitty of them!

One place I worked at recently was still using Node version 8. Running npm install would give me a mini heart attack… Like 400+ critical vulnerabilities, it was several thousand vulnerabilities all around.

Every other planet looks like shit. Another W for Earth, the best planet in the universe! (as far as we know)

Reminds me of an early application of AI where scientists were training an AI to tell the difference between a wolf and a dog. It got really good at it in the training data, but it wasn’t working correctly in actual application. So they got the AI to give them a heatmap of which pixels it was using more than any other to determine if a canine is a dog or a wolf and they discovered that the AI wasn’t even looking at the animal, it was looking at the surrounding environment. If there was snow on the ground, it said “wolf”, otherwise it said “dog”.

Reminds me, I drive a school bus part-time and my bus has a malfunctioning sensor in the transmission and so on the screen on the dashboard it says “CHECK TRANS”. So every morning I’m like looks down at crotch “yup, still trans!”

lol holy shit that was really funny!

What is /A/? You mean like the letter A?

Inertia is the tendency of objects in motion to stay in motion, and objects at rest to stay at rest, unless a force causes its speed or direction to change. from Wikipedia

So they’re kind of just saying that once it picks up enough rotational speed.

I’m not super familiar with VLC but I asked a chatbot, does this help at all?

1. Open your video with VLC.
2. Navigate to the scene that you want to capture. You can use VLC’s frame-by-frame feature to access a specific frame in your video.
3. Capture the screenshot by pressing Shift+S (Windows and Linux) or Command+Alt+S (Mac).
4. Alternatively, from VLC’s menu bar, select Video > Take Snapshot.

If you’d like to use advanced controls to capture the screenshot, then from VLC’s menu bar, select View > Advanced Controls to enable those controls. Then, in VLC’s bottom-left corner, click the camera icon to take a snapshot1.

Your screenshot is now captured and saved in a folder on your computer. The default location for the screenshots is as follows:

1. Windows: C:\\Users\\username\\Pictures
2. Mac: Desktop/
3. Linux: ~/Pictures

If you’d like to change where VLC stores your screenshots, or you’d like to change the file format, then select Tools > Preferences from VLC’s menu bar. On the “Simple Preferences” window that opens, select the “Video” tab. To change the default screenshot directory, then in the “Video Snapshots” section, click “Browse” next to “Directory.” Then, choose the new folder that you want to set as the default for your screenshots. If you’d like to use a different image format (the default is PNG) for your snapshots, then click the “Format” drop-down menu and choose a new format. Your options include PNG, JPG, and TIFF. After you’ve made the changes, at the bottom of the “Simple Preferences” window, click “Save” to save your changes.