Had a super fun event this weekend, I have a sunroom that has a wet bar in it and the previous owner installed a sink. Their method for getting water to it was to run a half inch poly tube along the baseboard and through a wall and tap off the water line that feeds the washing machine.

Went to leave the house and my laundry room had standing water in it. I tend to keep a couple of pallets of carbonated waters so I thought perhaps one of them had popped. But there was a lot of water.

So I dried it all up, left the house and came back later. The floor was sopping. Getting around, somehow the poly tubing sprung a leak as it crossed through the wall. I don't have mice, there has been no work there. I have no idea how this line broke. But it did. Annoyingly, the water sensor I have under the water heater was the one dry spot.

Also, thankfully, the laundry room is also where I keep my rack servers. However they are elevated so they survived the first and hopefully only water event.

@Trollllllllllllllllllll

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Also; In the same scene in #Hackers, The digital clock is going REALLLY fast compared to Dade's typing speed. Also, it's at a super strange angle in the scene.

Based on the flickering and positioning; I'm guessing this was a time-lapse composite meant to demonstrate that he's there all night. It's also going at a fixed rate of ~60x (1 second is 1 minute).

Okay, so we''ve avoided the Custom Keyboard rabbithole, unfortunately only because I'm already neck deep into a far more annoying one;

Compression video quality, and video quality testing.

So I have a couple video files, and I'd like to get them down to far more sane sizes while not losing lots of quality. Sounds reasonable?

However; If you've ever used #ffmpeg, #handbrake, #vmaf, etc. you know that there are only ~1,827,199 different CLI options that can be paired together with different results.

Thankfully; Tools like #Netflix's #VMAF help, however (on my system) they only process at ~110fps. That sounds like a lot until you realize a 45minute show might have 65,000+ frames. That's a slog for anything lengthy.

But hey! I found out that both ffmpeg and vmaf have #CUDA support and can hit 1400fps on 4k video; Fuck yeah! LET'S GO!

oh, but wait. They're non-free libraries from #Nvidia, so distributed builds of vmaf/ffmpeg can't have them enabled. The end user has to compile them.

To boot; Some of them won't compile if they can't find a compatible en/decoder. So they have to touch the gpu. Which isn't available in virtualbox.

SO much headache, but the delta between a 10 minute slog at 110fps to sub-1 minute, for seasons of video means it's worth it, I GUESSSssss