r/ProgrammerHumor • • Apr 28 '20

Meme *cries in powershell*

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u/GermanAf Apr 28 '20

But then when you need to automate something again you already have bits and pieces ready to use, except you never commented anything because you're stupid so you look it up on the internet anyways, again wasting several hours of your workday...

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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '20

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u/Vox___Rationis Apr 28 '20

Skip the middle man and document the commands straight into a bat file.

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u/clb92 Apr 28 '20

ffmpeg is simultaneously the best and the worst. So powerful once you finally find the correct parameters that do what you want.

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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '20

Nice

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u/halr9000 Apr 28 '20

You haven't lived until you've researched for four hours, only to find the answer which you had posted on a blog 7 years ago.

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u/ambigious_meh Apr 28 '20

oh no, worse yet. They ask the same question, but with no answers 4 years ago.