Wolf314159

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[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 2 points 6 hours ago

A CSV is just a long string of text with a few control characters tossed in for end lines. There are practically no rules enforced by the file type itself. You can dump that unsanitized and poorly awk'd data into whatever awful mess you want. Nobody's stopping you. Sure, excel will force it's CSV formatting rules on you when you export like a child's training wheels. But that's not relevant here.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They'd probably eat this up in one of those liminal space communities.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 13 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

It could have been an accident or incident that resulted in a death. They may have been collecting evidence. There are even some police in my area that uses conventional land surveying equipment and rapid high density laser scanners. Precise measurements of things like skids marks and other evidence of how the vehicles came to rest can be used to estimate initial speeds and confirm or refute the testimony of witnesses.

It could also be something more mundane like an actual land surveyor collecting data to support future design work or verify completed projects.

Neither of these are jobs that can be done at night or at times more convenient for your car.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 27 points 4 days ago (2 children)

There's no due process anymore. Why do you believe you'll ever be granted a lawyer, let alone a phone call, or a court date? They're just out there assaulting and disappearing people.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

If it made a PDF with an image, it also made the plain image for which you're asking. The PDF in this case is basically a container for that image (along with all the text, formatting, fonts, etc.). There are numerous programs for extracting images from PDFs.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 3 points 6 days ago

Bugs don't waste a lot of space on interior pieces. They're from an era before crumple zones and air bags. There's usually plenty of room for people around 2 meters tall in the front seats, not so much in the back seats (if they exist). I can testify that certain acts in the back of a Volkswagen beetle are as uncomfortable as Mallrats claimed, but far from impossible.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You want mpd to server and play the music, connected with a web front end (there are a few to choose from) accessible on the private store wifi. You should probably serve this frontend only to a certain machine on the network (like the managers computer in the back) and lock everything else out. The last time I ripped CDs on Linux I used whipper, which I believe was the successor to morituri. This is all only legal if the CDs they have already included the licensing fees to play them publicly or are themselves freely licensed. There are sources of freely licensed music out there that you can play publicly without paying.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

Nobody else grow up on tuna casserole?

I don't know the exact recipe, but it was basically canned tuna, frozen mixed vegetables (diced carrots, corn, peas, and Lima beans was the favorite in my house), and macaroni and chees. This all goes into a casserole dish and is cooked somehow (probably overn, I don't know, child me didn't worry about such trivialities). The crumbles at the end of a bag of ruffles would be sprinkled over the top of this before baking to add a bit of crunch.

I couldn't count how many times we ate this growing up. It's been a few decades, and the nostalgia is real, but I still have no inclination to make it for myself. If lower middle class had a flavor it's that mélange of canned tuna, fake cheese, and lima beans.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 4 points 1 week ago

Isn't this basically in line with the plot of the prequels anyway?

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