It was done in Australia quite a few years back and widely mocked. There was a bit of a bump in “XBox babies”, but it was mostly from the kind of people who don’t understand that a one-off cash bonus spent on a bigger TV doesn’t cover the costs of raising a kid.

That is Trump’s demographic, but he’s being very optimistic if he thinks these kids will be going to the polls while he’s still alive.

I’ve been seeing a lot of reports lately of white people getting screwed over like this. They all had one thing in common: women traveling without male company.

The main limitation I always had with Strava was limited activities. I know there are off road onewheelers who log their routes as ice skating, for example.

It would also be nice to save points of interest that aren’t linear routes. E.g. nice vantage points, businesses that accommodate group rides, public water/toilets/power.

I haven’t encountered Brendan yet, but I look forward to yet another reality-bleed.

I just got into Cyberpunk 2077, and too many parts of it are leaking into the real world. This could be a Delamain interaction.

I haven’t tried Bazzite yet, but I feel the same about the other ublue flavours.

I’m the most productive I’ve ever been. Tweaking everything was fun for a few years, but now I just need a distro I can trust, that comes with the tools to do anything.

I see rebases to Bazzite DX are available now. I might give that a go today.

My last place was directly over a karaoke bar. It was weird how the sound of drunk off key singing became a comforting sleep sound. I missed it when they shut down.

I’m guessing you’re not in Melbourne then, but Red Sparrow is a fully vegan pizza restaurant with a few locations there. Very good, from what I’ve heard.

It’s actually easier to just use it every time. Deciding whether you need to is cognitive load that’s better spent on other things.

Yes, and the all new TwinkedIn is already experiencing a surge in active users! Most of them are coming from Grindr for some reason, but it still counts!

I thought it was Mr House.

I will never understand why people with power are this petty.

They probably think it’s a huge flex, but it makes them look like the most pants-shittingly immature little cry babies.

Real power is not devoting brain cycles to things that should be beneath you.

This would have been the real power play. Greenland says they will roll out the red carpet and welcoming party of locals. On arrival, the locals are bears and the carpet isn’t red. Yet.

At my last job we had a lot of old code, and our supposedly smartest framework people couldn’t be bothered learning front end properly. So there was a mix of methods for passing values to the front end, but nobody seemed to think of just passing JSON and parsing it into a single source of truth. There was so much digging for data in hidden columns of nested HTML tables, and you never knew if booleans would be “true”, “TRUE”, “1”, or “Y” strings.

Never mind having to unformat currency strings to check the value then format them back to strings after updating values.

I fixed this stuff when I could, but it was half baked into the custom framework.

I had a look at the Smite roster, and yeah it’s cool to see some Celtic and Polynesian representation there.

I would personally love to see indigenous Australian mythology represented much at all in media. It would be challenging because you’re dealing with hundreds of individual nations, most of which had their culture taken from them before it could be well documented, but there are a few recurring themes to draw from.

The closest thing to a god entity would be the rainbow serpent, which you could argue is related to common global themes of flying serpents. Similarly, the yowie has almost spiritual status in some places, but is similar to yetis and sasquatch. I recently learned about the Seven Sisters myth being another one.

Which mythologies would you like to see represented?

I think this would apply to all media, and probably just comes down to some traditions being more familiar and having more cultural impact in general.

I’m assuming it has social networking features shoved in for no reason?

Yeah, but he’ll need to borrow a vehicle to get to work now.

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As most have said, doubling up compression won’t usually get you much.

However, video compression is usually designed to facilitate performance of sequential reads because videos are typically played beginning to end, so theoretically there may be ways to compress them more if you’re willing to make sacrifices there.

I doubt RAR is the way to do it, though. It just hasn’t been designed for this kind of data.

Maybe there’s a video compression format out there designed specifically for archival storage, but I’m not aware of it.

ISO won’t get you any further compression, that’s for sure.

You could certainly test this out yourself and let us know if you get any space savings.