'No Stupid Questions' (NSQ) Internet & Technology Edition

Not a Step said:
I don't know of anything like that for VLC, unless it's somehow trying to remember where you left off. Does the same thing happen if you try another player? It's possible that whatever you used to rip the videos bailed out and only saved however much it felt like saving.
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Least Concern said:
The hard part is learning enough about programming to do it effectively. In terms of actual development, it's not that hard, particularly since there's less you have to consider compared to a graphical desktop app (no menu bar, no drag-and-drop from other applications, etc).

How much do you already know about programming? Anything?
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VLC does that on mobile for anything that is long. Seems to be meant for podcasts, that's nice, but it behaves the same way on an album that is ripped as a whole. No idea what is considered long enough to enable it though.
As far as I know, and I have looked, there is no way to disable this. Maybe muck around in the settings files when connected to a computer, but in the program itself there is no option to disable it.
PFM said:
Anyone have any experience with Toshiba hard drives? I recently ordered some 10TB WD Red NAS drives but just came across 14TB Toshiba drives for like $30 less per drive.
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Toshiba have a pretty good rep, better than Seagate I think, and I have no problem buying a drive from them. You hear good things about WD, bad things about Seagate, nothing about Toshiba and no news might be good news. I just looked and I have a 7200RPM Toshiba drive with 33000 hours on it and it's fine according to the SMART status. It's a good thing I just looked, my 22k hour WD Blue is at "CAUTION" in CrystalDiskInfo.
 
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Smaug's Smokey Hole said:
As far as I know, and I have looked, there is no way to disable this. Maybe muck around in the settings files when connected to a computer, but in the program itself there is no option to disable it.
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I found it under Settings : Video : Resume played videos, and it's set to Always, apparently by default. It's easy enough to set that to Never or to Ask confirmation. Whether the setting is available probably depends on your version and OS, though.

theshitposter said:
How hard/labor intensive is it to make an app?
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Depends on your programming skills. One thing I would recommend is planning in advance, as that can save you a lot of work. A lot of modern development practices are memes, but technical debt is a real thing.
 
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theshitposter said:
Wdym by that? Asset prep or some kind of workflow prep?
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Both are important in their own way, but mostly the latter. If you have at least some programming experience, you should be able to formulate a basic structure for your application, such as what parts of it should do what. Since you mentioned APIs, you could also design the API before implementing it rather than the other way around. It doesn't have to be perfect or even complete the first time, because what you should try to do is to avoid having to design everything only when actually needed.
 
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Not a Step said:
Both are important in their own way, but mostly the latter. If you have at least some programming experience, you should be able to formulate a basic structure for your application, such as what parts of it should do what. Since you mentioned APIs, you could also design the API before implementing it rather than the other way around. It doesn't have to be perfect or even complete the first time, because what you should try to do is to avoid having to design everything only when actually needed.
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What i get is - design the arms and then attach them to the torso. Right?

And what's the best awe inspiring app for you?
 
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So I got this western digital SSD as a secondary drive and it worked fine at first, but now any time I'm downloading something big, it will just shut down intermittently. Installation will stop, and the drive will even disappear from explorer. Then after a minute or two it will start up again and continue installing. This creates a lot of problems as you might assume because half the time when I do an install the installation ends up broken and if I'm not using something like steam that allows me to verify the files and only reinstall the fucked up ones, that means I have to do the install all over again. I tried taking a look at it using western digital's diagnostic tool and it doesn't tell me anything. The drive is working fine one second, and then the next it's "no western digital drive detected".

Anybody have any ideas?
 
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Akashic Retard said:
So I got this western digital SSD as a secondary drive and it worked fine at first, but now any time I'm downloading something big, it will just shut down intermittently. Installation will stop, and the drive will even disappear from explorer. Then after a minute or two it will start up again and continue installing. This creates a lot of problems as you might assume because half the time when I do an install the installation ends up broken and if I'm not using something like steam that allows me to verify the files and only reinstall the fucked up ones, that means I have to do the install all over again. I tried taking a look at it using western digital's diagnostic tool and it doesn't tell me anything. The drive is working fine one second, and then the next it's "no western digital drive detected".

Anybody have any ideas?
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I got that on a regular HDD, basically a faulty disk controller board.
 
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Akashic Retard said:
So I got this western digital SSD as a secondary drive and it worked fine at first, but now any time I'm downloading something big, it will just shut down intermittently. Installation will stop, and the drive will even disappear from explorer. Then after a minute or two it will start up again and continue installing. This creates a lot of problems as you might assume because half the time when I do an install the installation ends up broken and if I'm not using something like steam that allows me to verify the files and only reinstall the fucked up ones, that means I have to do the install all over again. I tried taking a look at it using western digital's diagnostic tool and it doesn't tell me anything. The drive is working fine one second, and then the next it's "no western digital drive detected".

Anybody have any ideas?
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What exact drive is it? If it is a really crummy one with no DRAM and it is almost filled to capacity then it might time out like that due to what we in the plumbing business call being clogged up. Open Task Manager and highlight the drive, start a large transfer to it and check active time, response time and transfer rate. Maybe download CrystalDiskInfo and see if it alerts you to something.

But like @Gamepad said it could also be a faulty controller.
 
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Gamepad said:
I got that on a regular HDD, basically a faulty disk controller board.
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Smaug's Smokey Hole said:
What exact drive is it? If it is a really crummy one with no DRAM and it is almost filled to capacity then it might time out like that due to what we in the plumbing business call being clogged up. Open Task Manager and highlight the drive, start a large transfer to it and check active time, response time and transfer rate. Maybe download CrystalDiskInfo and see if it alerts you to something.

But like @Gamepad said it could also be a faulty controller.
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It's a WD Blue 3D NAND 1tb SSD. https://www.newegg.com/western-digital-blue-1tb/p/N82E16820250088?Item=N82E16820250088

I don't think that's the issue as I've had the problem even when it was nowhere near capacity. Faulty controller is something I've been led to when researching this problem in the past. My computer is a prebuilt with a no-name motherboard they likely skimped on so I'm leaning towards that. I will check it with CrystalDiskInfo.
 
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theshitposter said:
What i get is - design the arms and then attach them to the torso. Right?
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That is one way to describe it.

theshitposter said:
And what's the best awe inspiring app for you?
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There isn't one, because anything awe-inspiring stops being that way once the novelty runs out. I just expect something I use to work for what I need it to do. If it doesn't, I replace it. Simple as.
 
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When the youtube algorithm suggests videos I've already watched, I select the "not interested>I've already watched the video" option, and it tells me "got it. We'll tune your recommendations." I have done this SO MANY TIMES. How long does it take for the algorithm to get the hint that I don't want it to recommend videos I've already watched? it that option doesn't do anything then why do they even put it in there?
 
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Stephanie Bustcakes said:
When the youtube algorithm suggests videos I've already watched, I select the "not interested>I've already watched the video" option, and it tells me "got it. We'll tune your recommendations." I have done this SO MANY TIMES. How long does it take for the algorithm to get the hint that I don't want it to recommend videos I've already watched? it that option doesn't do anything then why do they even put it in there?
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The algorithm knows but thinks it's funny
 
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On the topic of Youtube and the algorithm. I've watched Joe Rogan, Don't Walk and one or two other alt-right subhumans for years and my recommendations haven't changed. I have now watched three Jimmy Dore clips over the last week and suddenly I have McInnes, TheQuartering, some guy called SaltyCracker, Thunderfoot, Beanie Man, Russel Brand(???) and other people shitting up my front page.
 
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