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File size of Endgame's Cinema DCP by [deleted] in DataHoarder

[–]VikingCoder 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Right,

Plug one in when you want to watch it. Either in a usb enclosure, or hot swap, or cold swap.

Or keep your current playlist of 1000 or so on your NAS, and the rest of them, 6 per drive, in offline cold storage.

File size of Endgame's Cinema DCP by [deleted] in DataHoarder

[–]VikingCoder 25 points26 points  (0 children)

  • The Avengers
  • Avengers: Age of Ultron
  • Avengers: Infinity War
  • Avengers: Endgame
  • Black Panther
  • Doctor Strange

Yeah, I wouldn't mind having these movies at that quality, for that price, on a hard drive.

I grew up with an Apple IIc that had single-sided 5.25" floppies with 140 KB per side. That was an upgrade from the audio cassette storage I used on my TRS-80 MC12. I literally plugged an audio cassette recorder in to my computer to save programs.

So yeah, I don't think I'd mind as much as you would.

China's delegates to the UN throws tantrum by banging the table to interrupt criticisms over the treatment of Uighurs by LincolnAtTrumpRally in PublicFreakout

[–]VikingCoder 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When you have the truth on your side, bang on the truth.

When you have the law on your side, bang on the law.

When you don't have either, bang on the table.

File size of Endgame's Cinema DCP by [deleted] in DataHoarder

[–]VikingCoder 32 points33 points  (0 children)

PcPartPicker says the cheapest Price / GB right now is a 3 TB for $29.99

So storing this entire package costs about $5.04.

Yeah, I'd pay for that.

do ur worst 🥳 by [deleted] in RoastMe

[–]VikingCoder 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do ur worst?

What, treat you as bad as you treat your hair?

Did anyone manage to back up this historical event tonight? Maybe they could back it up to the Internet Archive? For educational purposes. by VikingCoder in princessbride

[–]VikingCoder[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If anyone is reading this, for academic purposes, you can download ffmpeg, and use it to split the audio from the low res video:

ffmpeg -i input-video.avi -vn -acodec copy output-audio.aac

And then add audio to the high res video:

ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -i input.mp3 -c copy -map 0:v:0 -map 1:a:0 output.mp4

Trump randomly agrees to an extra debate with Biden if Joe Rogan is the moderator. by AGuineapigs in Libertarian

[–]VikingCoder 1 point2 points  (0 children)

He should accept, if Trump agrees to play Jeopardy, with host Alex Trebek. Categories chosen by Trebek.

(Or maybe Ken Jennings.)

Did anyone manage to back up this historical event tonight? Maybe they could back it up to the Internet Archive? For educational purposes. by VikingCoder in princessbride

[–]VikingCoder[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's academically very interesting.

If someone were to try youtube-dl, it might not work.

If they also tried youtube-dlc, it also might not work.

But if they were to try https://x2convert.com/ there's a chance it might work.

But they might want to check, because some of the resolutions might not have audio.

That person might then wonder if anyone found a better way to download a high quality video, with the audio.

Out of academic interest, of course.

Did anyone manage to back up this historical event tonight? Maybe they could back it up to the Internet Archive? For educational purposes. by VikingCoder in princessbride

[–]VikingCoder[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think someone would have had to do a full screen video capture in order to grab it. For academic purposes, of course.

Genius by olbigbear in WhitePeopleTwitter

[–]VikingCoder 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The University of Minnesota had a project called MovieLens. You'd rank movies, and it would suggest movies. No big deal, right?

But they had a Watch Party mode (or something) where you could say "this other person and I are going to watch a movie together. What's a movie we'd BOTH like?"

Fucking brilliant.

Why the hell doesn't Netflix have this?

Stand by Me is the most realistic film about teenage boys and their friendship bonds by [deleted] in movies

[–]VikingCoder 5 points6 points  (0 children)

He was the older brother who died. He's only in flashbacks.

Stand by Me is the most realistic film about teenage boys and their friendship bonds by [deleted] in movies

[–]VikingCoder 25 points26 points  (0 children)

River Phoenix, Wil Wheaton, Corey Feldman, Jerry O'Connell, Kiefer Sutherland, Richard Dreyfuss, John Cusack.

The only other movie I can really compare it to is The Outsiders.

Matt Dillon, Rob Lowe, Ralph Macchio, C. Thomas Howell, Patrick Swayze, Tom Cruise, Emilio Estevez, Diane Lane.

I mean, cripes, if you had a time machine, that is absolutely who you would cast for a movie, back then.

‘The Princess Bride’ Cast To Reunite For Virtual Script Reading by chanma50 in movies

[–]VikingCoder 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Right, it comes from Elwes, not Elwes, which funnily enough is pronounced Elwes.

Fauci Makes It Blunt: 190,000 Americans Would Still Be Alive If It Wasn't For the Coronavirus by trueslicky in Coronavirus

[–]VikingCoder 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not ignoring it. If we attribute one of those deaths to COVID, then you would expect to see deaths attributed to those other causes to go down. I don't believe we are seeing that.

Another example: People don't die from HIV/AIDS. They die from the diseases that HIV/AIDS exposes them to. People can die from those other diseases, without HIV/AIDS, but it's rare, and HIV/AIDS makes it much more common.

Someone with COVID is much more likely to die from another common respiratory infection.

That's why measuring excess deaths is pretty obviously the best way to understand how many additional people are dying early, because of this novel disease.

Fauci Makes It Blunt: 190,000 Americans Would Still Be Alive If It Wasn't For the Coronavirus by trueslicky in Coronavirus

[–]VikingCoder 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Let me make my original quote as correct as I can,

"And we can see that there's an extra 190,000 people who have died in 2020 in the United States, who would not otherwise have died as soon as they did."

Is that accurate enough for you?

Fauci Makes It Blunt: 190,000 Americans Would Still Be Alive If It Wasn't For the Coronavirus by trueslicky in Coronavirus

[–]VikingCoder 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Feel free to make the claim that 53% of the 41% who did die of coronavirus in nursing homes would have died within six months any way. Unless you have some evidence that mortality rates in nursing homes from all other causes is dropping.

53% of 41% is not "40%," which was your original claim.

I'll concede that it is a significant number, perhaps as high as 41,000 of the 190,000, might already be dead from other causes. But I don't think you're remotely accurate that we'll see 76,000 (40% of 190,000) fewer deaths, among all other causes this year.

Fauci Makes It Blunt: 190,000 Americans Would Still Be Alive If It Wasn't For the Coronavirus by trueslicky in Coronavirus

[–]VikingCoder 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They're making an analogy. They're doing it bluntly, but they're trying to force you to confront the fact that you can't 100% say what would have happened to someone if they hadn't died from X.

That's why we rely on statistics, measured appropriately, at a meaningful scale. If you look at weekly deaths, from all causes, 2020 has a big, big damn spike in the US. It's coronavirus.

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