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: A typical 5-minute video at 30 frames per second contains roughly 9,000 individual images.

Explain the (like ffmpeg ) used to extract frames from a video. XKTC-015.mp4

: Like the famous xkcd "Standards" comic , trying to bridge the gap between "what I want" and "how things work" often leads to more chaos. : A typical 5-minute video at 30 frames

Instead of arguing (which we’ve all learned is often a losing battle), the protagonist of this story decided to follow orders to the letter. Instead of arguing (which we’ve all learned is

The video is famous for a story where an employee, asked to "print" a video by a technologically illiterate or unreasonably demanding boss, does exactly that—printing thousands of individual frames on paper to fulfill the request literally. When Logic Meets Literalism: The Saga of XKTC-015

Stories like the printing of have become folklore in tech circles for a few reasons:

: As noted in various tech forums, no tool can fix a broken office culture; sometimes you just have to let the system fail spectacularly to prove a point.