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Wordle 350 3/6
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Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming βWow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Wordle 350 4/6
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I didn't know this word, got lucky on my third guess.
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How can you guess a word if you don't know it?
If you did, I would say you (re)invented it
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Because I have 4/5th or 3/5th of the word, and any other letter wouldn't make sense
In this case, I had "fro" and some spare letters.
I know it's not "froqx" or something like that, but "th" is a valid end of word and "froth" sounds like it may be an existing word.
So I tried "froth" and it worked, but it's a bit of (educated) trial and error sometimes.
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Wordle 350 4/6
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3 possible words at the end, so it could have gone to 6.
Wordle 350 4/6
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I suspect OG and I had the same penultimate shot. There were two obvious candidates at that point and we both guessed wrong.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Wordle 350 6/6
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Same here. 3 possible words, but I took it to the end.
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I pretty much ruled out one of the three, but I guess you tried it.
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Yeah. I just popped the 1st one off my mental the stack as it were without thinking. Had I thought about it first I would have solved in 5 because I would have given the actual solution a lower chance than my other choice. It's a good thing there wasn't a 4th word that I'd missed.
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Wordle 350 2/6*
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Very lucky guess for the first word
Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have. -Anon
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Wordle 350 5/6
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Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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In the old days of DVDs I had a program for extracting and OCRing subtitles from DVDs. It wasn't very good, and it never handled BluRay disks.
Are there (Windows) programs around doing a decent job of extracting subtitles from BD disks, preferably into SRT format (or at least a format with time stamps)?
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Maybe it can, but then it is well hidden. I can't find it!
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Just create a MKV and the subtitle files will be in the resulting MKV container.
It's a complex program. Maybe it would be better to use something that specializes in just subtitles. Go here:
Subtitle Editors/Converters Free Downloads - VideoHelp[^]
Change the second combo box to "Subtitle Editors/Converters" and press "Search" and there are 71 to choose from.
Good Luck.
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Thanks for the good wishes - but I haven't had that good luck yet
I never thought of creating an MKV to extract an SRT. I tried it, and had an MKV made that certainly includes the subtitle track. I can turn it on and off in an MKV player. But neither MKVToolNix (mkvextract.exe) nor MKVExtractGUI2 seems to find the subtitle track. At least not as something that they are able to extract.
Several of those 71 entries in the "Subtitle Editors/Converters" group talks about 'extraction' in the description, but when you start the program, it insists on opening an existing subtext file, not a BD image / directory for extracting and creating a subtext file. The majority of the 71 tools are for authoring your own subtitle file and having it incorporated into a container (such as MKV) - not the other way around, which is what I am looking for. I am still searching, but it is a rather frustrating experience!
I would certainly be grateful for advice from someone who has actually succeeded in extracting subtitles from BD disks, willing to reveal which tools they used for the task.
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Might be easier just to search for the subtitles online.
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Of course - but not all movies are blockbusters. They do no come to the subtitle sites. If they do, they sometimes come only in the major languages, not the one(s) you are looking for.
Besides, some movies come in different editions, with added or removed clips. If the file at the subtitle site is ripped from a different edition than your disk, time stamps are messed up after the first added or removed clip. If you BD contains clips not in the subtitle file version, it is more than incorrect time stamps, but rather completely missing subtitles.
And, I have picked up files at subtitle sites that were terrible - obviously published with no proofreading, sometimes in a-z alphabet only, ignoring that the subtitle language uses an extended alphabet (e.g. using æøΓ₯).
So I do have a need for subtitle ripping from my own discs, even if I mostly use subtitle sites.
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Some tests to check some functions not tested in link below:
Performance Improvements in .NET 6 - .NET Blog (arrays-strings-spans)
.NET 6.0 is (comparing its performance to .NET Framework 4.8):
β’ 3x faster on String.Replace operations
β’ 16x slower on String.IndexOf operations,
β’ 1.4x faster on String.Substring operations
β’ The same on String.Remove operations
Copy paste the code below and compile with .NET 6.0 and .NET Framework 4.8 and see by yourself.
string test = "Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text" +
" of the printing and typesetting industry. " +
"Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's " +
"standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, " +
"when an unknown printer took a galley " +
"of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. " +
"It has survived not only " +
"five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting," +
" remaining essentially unchanged." +
" It was popularised in the 1960s with the release" +
" of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages," +
" and more recently with desktop publishing software like " +
"Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum.";
System.Diagnostics.Stopwatch K = new System.Diagnostics.Stopwatch();
K.Reset(); K.Start();
for (var v = 1; v <= 10000000; v++)
{
test = test.Replace("a", "bla bla bla bla");
test = test.Replace("bla bla bla bla", "a");
}
K.Stop();
System.Console.WriteLine($"Elapsed Time for [String.Replace]: {K.Elapsed.TotalSeconds} sec");
K.Reset(); K.Start();
for (var v = 1; v <= 1000000; v++)
{
int i = test.IndexOf("including versions of Lorem Ipsum");
}
K.Stop();
System.Console.WriteLine($"Elapsed Time for [String.IndexOf]: {K.Elapsed.TotalSeconds} sec");
K.Reset(); K.Start();
for (var v = 1; v <= 600000000; v++)
{
var s = test.Substring(25, 50);
}
K.Stop();
System.Console.WriteLine($"Elapsed Time for [String.SubString]: {K.Elapsed.TotalSeconds} sec");
K.Reset(); K.Start();
for (var v = 1; v <= 90000000; v++)
{
var s = test.Remove(45, 60);
}
K.Stop();
System.Console.WriteLine($"Elapsed Time for [String.Remove]: {K.Elapsed.TotalSeconds} sec");
System.Console.WriteLine("Press a key to exit...");
System.Console.ReadKey();
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I don't have .net 6 available.
Might be better not to use a StopWatch for those tests.
Is it a debug build?
How long are those tests taking? Do they take "long enough" for a proper test?
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for (var v = 1; v <= 1000000; v++)
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Yes, so how long does it take?
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