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Tapes can have long term issues in storage, as the tape reel winds will eventually start to bleed over magnetic signals from one wind to the next.

In analog world, they call it tape hiss. In digital world, with good error correction, it can last a long time, but is still ultimately prone to data corruption, eventually..

I recommend a video surveillance rated multi terabyte hard drive, they're designed to run 24/7. I have two 4TB Seagate Skyhawks.

People assume that because I'm into technology that I can unlock stolen phones or do XYZ whatever with their Facebook/Twitter/Instagram accounts or whatever. One, I don't touch stolen devices. Two, I don't have any accounts with any of those sort of services, and ain't about to start one to learn the ins and outs for other people.

Looking past the days of old, while also dismissing modern artificial intelligence, the same techniques would still work if you just processed the thumbnails of the images, which for simplicity sake, might as well be a 1/8 scale image, if not actually even lower resolution.

JPEG works in 8x8 pixel blocks, and back in the day, most JPEG images weren't all that big. Each 8x8 pixel block (64 pixels per block) could easily and quickly be processed as if it were a single pixel.

So if you had a 1024x768 JPEG, then the fast scanning technique would only scan the 128x96 blocks, not necessary to process every single pixel.

Of course the results could never be perfectly accurate, but most images are unique enough that this would be more than sufficient for fast scanning.

Incorrect. You don't mirror flip it, you swap the images to convert between cross/parallel view.

Source: I wrote my own stereogram software, I know the difference.

Boo, these are cross-view, not parallel-view.

Everyone counting legs, nobody counting arms.

My lady had a limb for every day of the week!

Don't ask what the Friday limb was...

That's what happens when they eat their lasagna.

Where's Odie?

CIF - Compressed Image File

No particular reason, except that it's a proprietary format I wrote myself, comparable compression to PNG, but totally different codebase and format.

You spelled fine fart wrong. 😂👍

Oh, thank you kindly stranger! I don't know what I was thinking..

NASA - National Anal Science Agency

Agreed. Vinegar and salt water works way quicker..

I do believe that would qualify as sabotage, if done deliberately anyways. Soda acids will eventually corrode wires, motors, gears and chains.

There was a certain type of perfume that seemed popular back in the 90s, that would make me instantly gag and almost puke within seconds. I have no clue how anyone found that as any sort of pleasant smell.

To me I thought it smelled like a woman with a nasty yeast infection, trying to cover it up with potpourri. But it wasn't even the women's health causing it, literal potpourri smell alone causes me the same gag reflex, the stuff just smells nasty to me and I can't be in the same room as that smell for long.

So yes, there are reasons to be offended by particular scents, even if others somehow find them pleasant.

Instructions unclear. Sees hole, unzips...

That wasn't the question though. They asked..

"What's going on by the Burger King?"

From what I can tell, it's a hooker on crack blowing some dude dressed as the King, while fighting off a family of raccoons..

I don't even have half an idea what all foods do or don't contain gluten, but I am still almost equally inclined to call out people just plain out being nasty, especially in a public space where they're about to exchange paper cash.

Like shit, I totally respect paper cash, but FFS, try to make sure your hands are clean when handling or exchanging money. And definitely don't be literally eating food with your bare hands right at the register before even paying for it.

Our park is mostly a water park for kids at the front, with a couple pavilions, and a boat ramp and senior citizen center in the back. So yes, it's not an official dog park, but unofficial its accepted as one by pretty much everyone.

We keep him on the leash when there's lots of people or other dogs around, but on days when the park is practically empty, we let him roam free and burn his calories.

He was abandoned for like 5 months out at the park before we decided to adopt him, so most regular park visitors already know him. Police officers approve, they even helped us adopt him.

He's a medium size dog, and mostly chill, just sometimes playful. He's never hurt anyone.

Of course that's not true for all dogs though, hence why we're very careful regarding what sort of days we might let him roam around off the leash.

Even though the woman proved to be a Karen, the cashiers working the store that day totally understood why I was upset. If only they had or enacted a policy of don't consume any products in the store...

As far as the dog on the leash thing, we're about 99% in favor of that, only exception being when we take our dog out to our city park, where we adopted him from as abandoned.

Brownie knows every inch of the park and I feel it would be wrong to not let him roam free occasionally when there's not many people or other animals around. Those sort of days are few and far between though, so 99% of the time he's on the leash.