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Calibre 5.0 6 years ago

For me it used to jump to the next chapter instead of the next page when reading Japanese novels but they fixed that bug in 5.0.

I've made my own mpv extension for Japanese subtitle analysis too. It can also create Anki cards automatically (with screenshot and audio).

Having a scriptable media player is really something else.

Well, if you really need the autoscale feature to handle sudden and ludicrous spikes of traffic, you will most likely also use a database that autoscales too. i.e. DynamoDB.

For most applications, it's really not needed though.

I did something similar for myself using mpv's scripting interface (for Japanese immersion).

I can press a button and have the current subtitle analyzed for words with mecab, or press another button and have audio + screenshot + text sent to Anki for review.

mpv allows to seek previous/next subtitle, so even relistening a particular phrase is really convenient.

It makes language learning really fun.

I always found this system very interesting, since the citizen can decide how some of their tax money is spent (besides voting).

On the other hand I have always lived in Northern Italy, and around half of my taxes go to the poorer regions of Italy, mostly to be squandered by corruption, clientelism, and organized crime.

I made something similar for Japanese learning, but instead of merging subtitles, I analyze the Japanese subs with mecab, look up the words I likely don't know based on their JLPT level, and add them with reading and translation on the top right of the video.

I also plan to auto generate Anki cards with unknown words when I do the analysis pass.

This look really nice!

I contributed a lot of macOS related code to mpv, but even if the project has a huge user base of power users, developers, videophiles, it's quite hard to use by your average joe. This project fills that gap very well, and I finally have something to recommend over VLC.

Of course I don't believe these countries demise is caused by longer working hours. I know Italy a bit more than Greece and the main problem there is decades of widespread corruption at all levels of society.

But in some way it's a small reflection of an inefficient society.

The idea of not leaving before the boss leaves is weird to me. I get higher pay and more stock options, why should I be leaving early when my team is working their butt's off?

For two reasons:

- You get higher higher pay because hopefully you are more useful to your company than the other people in your team.

- You are probably forcing your team to work longer than they would if you left before them.

Verified Voting 10 years ago

Yeah but the people corrupting you, would ask you for your sha as confirmation.

Here in Italy for example it's forbidden to bring your smartphone into the voting cabin, because the Mafia was asking for photo proofs.

So esrauch found a great counter to my idea.

Verified Voting 10 years ago

I know very little about security but couldn't a system be created like git, where for every vote the voter gets a sha of his vote?

That way she can later verify that in his section repository his vote is still there and has been counted. Of course the mapping sha1 <-> voter will be anonymous, but this way everyone can see all the votes.

This doesn't solve the problem of some hacker adding votes on top of the legitimate ones though.

For non prime packages, I live in Italy and a lot of stuff on Amazon catalogue is generally not available for next day delivery (which I use to time deliveries when I know the next day I work from home).

In Italy the express couriers are not allowed to leave stuff in your front yard, and it's generally not possible to schedule the first delivery attempt.

Voxel art 10 years ago

When I see this beautiful art, it makes me want to play with Voxeljs. Sadly I'm a developer, so what I make would not turn out so pretty.