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Simple website that uses the ffmpeg's removesilence filter to remove silent windows (>= 1s) from audio files. Everything is done locally in the browser using ffmpeg.wasm.

Command: `ffmpeg -i INPUT -af silenceremove=stop_periods=-1:stop_duration=1:stop_threshold=THRESHOLD OUTPUT`

I made it in a few hours, so it's probably full of bugs.

This is also how some problems are solved more efficiently in Operations Research: solving the dual of the problem instead of the actual problem.

I watched the presentation some months ago on YouTube. Really really well done. Thanks to that video I was able to get some tricky concepts of Erlang that I was previously struggling with.

It is very easy to convert HTML to ePub, you could create simple script that converts every newsletter into ePub and adds it to your library. I don't know if it would work for Kindle devices, but you could always install custom firmware that has support for Dropbox synchronisation.

This is very inspiring and touching. Makes me think of the many people out there risking their lives to do something good.

I think I feel particularly close to this story because I've relatives in Ancona.

I'm very grateful to whoever shared this article, it changed my day.

The Google Squeeze 7 years ago

Thank you for this very informative piece. This is one of those articles that when you finish them you feel you have much more context than before.

Modern hardware has lot to improve, memories and transmission lines have been the main bottlenecks for more than a decade now, bigger caches helped but are not enough. Solutions are being developed, like on-circuit optical fiber transmission lines, but it takes time.

When my father goes to Detroit for business trips is always astonished by the amount of money his collegues get paid. He works on engineering processes and tooling in a robotics company and makes about 30K €/year here in Italy, while his american collegues make 120K $/year. I think there is a great chance for businesses to save a lot of money by hiring personnel outside of the U.S.

I agree. I noticed the same thing with reading articles online (or threads from HN), there's no friction and you end up getting a good amount of dopamine after much less time than you would by reading a book.