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What you NEED to Know Before Touching a Video File

Hanging out in subtitling and video re-editing communities, I see my fair share of novice video editors and video encoders, and see plenty of them make the classic beginner mistakes when it comes to working with videos. A man can only read "Use Handbrake to convert your mkv to an mp4 :)" so many times before losing it, so I am writing this article to channel the resulting psychic damage into something productive.

If you are new to working with videos (or, let's face it, even if you aren't), please read through this guide to avoid making mistakes that can cost you lots of computing power, storage space, or video quality.

How to install GUIX on M2 Mac computer

Downloading & installing UTM

You need to install the UTM virtual machine manager In your browser, go to mac.getutm.app, and click on the Download button.

Mount the downloaded UTM.dmg disk-image and drag the UTM app to the Applications folder. Next, launch the UTM app from your Mac’s local Applications folder. (Depending on your Mac’s security settings, you may get a confirmation dialog when you launch UTM for the first time. If such a dialog appears, choose Open.)

Let's list here crates that enhance Rust as a language.

It not "batteries" like in stdx, but Rust-specific crates for workarounds for various missing features and experimental ideals from non-accepted/postponed RFCs, or just hacky tricks.

The list is supposed to contain (mostly) crates that are internal to Rust, not ones for making Rust deal with "external world" like other languages bindings, file formats, protocols and so on.

Primary focus should be on crates that are not easy to find by conventional means (e.g. no algorithm name, format or protocol to search for).

Note that quality of the listed crates may vary from proof-of-concept to stable-and-widely-used.

How to set the Mac hostname or computer name from the terminal

Open a terminal.
Type the following command to change the primary hostname of your Mac: This is your fully qualified hostname, for example myMac.domain.com

sudo scutil --set HostName <new host name>

Type the following command to change the Bonjour hostname of your Mac: This is the name usable on the local network, for example myMac.local.

Minecraft Energy Types

Energy Name	Abbreviation	Original Mod	Version
Anima	AM	Anima-Mundi	1.11.2
Blutricity	BE (NO)	Redpower	1.6.4
Charge	RP (NO)/Fz?	Factorization	1.7.10
Crystal Flux	CF	Actually Additions	1.12

Achieving warp speed with Rust

	# ### THIS IS A LINE-SPLIT OF THE FOLLOWING COMMAND ###
	#
	# export PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin
	# export DEVELOPER_DIR=/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer
	# export SDKROOT=/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk
	#
	# /opt/local-2021.02/bin/cmake -G Ninja \
	# -DCMAKE_MAKE_PROGRAM=/opt/local-2021.02/bin/ninja \
	# -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
	# -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/opt/llvm-macos11.0-x86_64-13.0.0-release \

	INIT Init
	NEXT Next

	CONSTANT Setters = 3

	INVARIANTS
	IsEventuallySet
	NoWaiterDeadlock

	{ config, pkgs, ... }:

	let
	# Import unstable channel.
	# sudo nix-channel --add http://nixos.org/channels/nixpkgs-unstable nixpkgs-unstable
	# sudo nix-channel --update nixpkgs-unstable
	unstable = import <nixpkgs-unstable> {};
	in

	{

	import string
	import random
	vowels = "aoeuiy"
	def m():
	c1 = vowels[random.randint(0,len(vowels)-1)]
	c2 = string.ascii_lowercase[random.randint(0,len(string.ascii_lowercase)-1)]
	c3 = string.ascii_lowercase[random.randint(0,len(string.ascii_lowercase)-1)]
	print('z' + c1 + c2 + c3)

	m()