It’s reasonable to have a store provide a service where an employee processes the customer’s items to check for damage, verify prices, and bag them intelligently.

But it’s not worth the risk of getting the wrong chatty cashier.

No, I’ll roll the dice and scan them myself. If I hit an “unexpected item in bagging area” error that requires someone to come over and help me, I can always burn down the store and run away and try again somewhere else.

I feel sick saying it, but I think this is a project you could complete with AI. It sucks ass at understanding complex problems, but it’s good at cranking out small scripts to integrate tools together.

You basically just want a wrapper around ffmpeg with a light web interface to handle upload, script execution, and download.

LLMs are pretty good at spitting out a simple web interface that runs in a barebones server like Express or nginx.

If you don’t need to worry about security or accessibility or any “not on the critical path” concerns, this could probably work after a few iterations.

As for anything already out there - I’ve never come across anything. The closest app I can think of is TDARR which is intended to automatically transcode your media library to h265. That wraps up some of the ffmpeg stuff you want, but doesn’t address the upload/download half of the workflow.

Why don’t you post them here and advertise the links on your instagram page instead?

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It had a rough night, too. It’ll show up eventually

I think it was the FDA, but with this administration I think every one of them is for sale.

You can also have fun with that one.

“I’m not racist, but why is the receipt printer at the self checkout always so low?”

“I’m not racist, but how come there’s no hardware stores close by?”

Let em spin their wheels trying to figure out what’s racist in a bland question.

And that ocean is preferably on a planet other than Earth.

People like this are the reason AI is so unreliable at exploring code issues.

Like, I just want Copilot to look at my dependencies to explain a vague error I’m seeing and it’s telling me to downgrade Ruby, upgrade Rails, and install Python. Bro, it’s a node package.

“I TOLD YOU I DON’T HAVE A PASSWORD”

It’s being savvy

I think this is just a picky optimization.

The first one runs the constructor to instantiate a new string, then gets its class (which is presumably a static property anyway). The second doesn’t have to run any constructor and just grabs the static class name from the type.

Maybe there’s more implementation nuance here but it seems like an opinionated rule that has zero effect on performance unless that code is being called thousands of times every second. And even then the compiler probably optimizes them to the same code anyway.

OH MY GOD I SAW A TIT

Wasn’t it Visual SourceSafe or something like that?

God, what a revolution it was when subversion came along and we didn’t have to take turns checking out a file to have exclusive write access.

This happened to me once and I completely overthought it.

In my case, I removed the PCB from the drive and took a close look and saw a single scorched IC that I figured was the problem. I think it was a voltage regulator or something like that.

So I bought a scrap drive and tried to transplant the PCB onto my dead drive, but of course that wouldn’t be able to read my old data.

So took it into a local electronics repair shop and asked if he’d be able to make it work.

He took one look at the damaged PCB, pushed the scrap one back at me and said “yeah I’ll just replace this part.”

40 bucks later I had a working drive again and was able to rescue the data.

Amazon pro tip: if you find something that has lots of good reviews, sort them by Recent. Those ones are the reviews by the people who were suckered in by the initial dump of 5 star fake reviews and you’ll probably see a lot more honesty from those people.

Even better: run Fakespot on the listing to see if it detects manipulation or fake reviews.

Best: don’t use Amazon to buy things.

Some people prefer to make people wait 15 seconds while they fool around with their settings before they can make their audience watch a 10 second video they didn’t want to see in the first place.

They’ll feel better after sending a few dozen fundraising texts to half of America.

It looks like Shrek infiltrating the cybermen.

Guys I don’t think this is real. It’s possible AI was involved.

If you look very closely, you’ll notice that Elon Musk looks young and is ripped. I don’t think that’s right.

The rest checks out.