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Yeah, I can 100% understand your frustration. It’s also a bit opaque as to why it’s re-encoding.

That said, we are a family so I can’t get everyone else to stream to mpv, so Jellyfin works better for everyone. mpv is also a great piece of software, plays everything!

Back-of-the-napkin math supports that, but baby births aren’t uniformly distributed. Well, anyway, I’m sure they thought about it. Thanks for explaining how I got my Belgian ID number!

Newspaper ads weren’t targeted specifically to YOU based on what the newspaper knew about YOU.

Are there never more than 1k babies born in a day?

Setting HW-encoding is a tad complicated indeed, it’s hard to debug WHY it’s not working. But once you have it, you’re good. Jellyfin has been rock solid for us in 2 years since we ditched Netflix and Prime Video.

You can check why it’s re-encoding, there’s some guides out there. In my case it was the subtitles! Turns out Safari can’t handle all types of subtitles. Might be worth looking into it.

And the old horse you had lying around might also become Trojan now. Yuck.

Is the modern non-Catholic school system somehow expensive or ineffective? I fail to understand this take. Education also got vastly more complex, we teach kids a bunch of new stuff.

Yes, Things Get Better Over Time, that’s also not a new phenomenon. Even if you don’t compare against a well-off previous generation, there are 2 issues:

1) Not enough young people can contribute to make social security payments to the elderly, across most of the developed world. A typical pension in Belgium is almost comparable to a typical young person’s salary.

2) At a young age, the previous 2–3 generations could afford social mobility levers, i.e. a house and car.

Note that I’m not commenting on the management, investment strategy, returns, or sustainability of social security (point 1).

“Across the vast majority of space-time”, the elderly also somewhat contributed to the tribal/community needs, trained their replacements, cared for grandchildren, and so on. Oh, and everyone was poor, so the range in standard of living was reasonably tight.

My counterpoint is that if you’re always listening to the same stuff, your collection feels stale and you’re less likely to listen to more music.

Maybe that’s actually advantageous to the streaming services, but one big reason I cancelled them was that I wasn’t getting anything new.

(Instead, Radar FM in Portugal is where I started tuning into to learn about new stuff.)

Hmm, with unmetered traffic? I played DarkGalaxy one month at home and we got a ~95€ bill, my dad wasn’t amused. Literally just DG’s website once a day.

Kudos to you then, that’s commendable. Maybe it’s a branding choice on Apple’s side to have this curation?

One SpaceX, of course.

Thank you. The rest of the file is much more serious. I’ve now instructed Clod to consider passing TypeScript compilation and linting successes as “suspicious glitches”.

It’s true I didn’t grow up with that at all. When music blog were popular I’d have been in university exclusively listening to what I already liked.

Bandcamp is indeed really bad at suggesting things you’ll like…

To your last point: it’s weird how Bandsintown or Last.fm didn’t figure this out. Last.fm has so much potential but just isn’t… interested?

One advantage of the offline scene is that I see a lot more local artists, all knowing each other and playing together. There seems to be some camaraderie/support for each other going on.

If only they had gobs of cash to pay people to curate content… or, I don’t know, AI that can check if something is AI. Or ask uploaders for some kind of proof, since we’re in the age of asking citizens to prove they’re adults. If only there was _something_ they could do!

Yeah, GP is rose-tinting piracy and Apple’s stance a bit…

When I was a teenager we had _dial-up_. My first 2 iPods were strictly playing ripped CDs, which I, friends, or family had bought. Buying the iPod itself was probably cheaper than 2 months worth of internet traffic back then.

Okay, a bit of devil’s advocate but how much of that network effect was caused by being young?

I’m making an assumption, true, but a lot of us that grew up with ripped CDs were teenagers or young adults back then. Sharing music was inherently part of what we did because we were young and that was an activity we shared.

And as to Spotify: why do we keep complaining about these platforms but also keep patronising them? They deleted my account when I moved countries, so I deleted their app. We’re done. Years ago. Now I get music from the library when my kid goes there to pick up books. There’s Bandcamp, Qobuz, what have you. Look at local festivals with weird bands (how I discovered Constantinople and Huun-Huur-Tu). iPod hacks have never been easier! Let’s shake it up a bit :)

Eh, I was prescribed 2mg of slow-release melatonin to help with insomnia (baby-related).

Man, were these the worst nights of my life! I’d get 2-3 hours of shut-eye and then be FULLY awake. Ready to go, couldn’t sleep the rest of the night. I was dead tired by day 7 and gave up.

Tried 0.3mg. Tried 5mg. Nope. There’s some evidence that melatonin can mess you up if you’re sensitive to cortisol/have too much of it. I’m not touching it again. No side effects? Sure.

N=1, but if it’s not working for you, don’t push it. My doctor instead prescribed a bit of therapy (CBT-i) and my sleep went back to normal after a couple of sessions.

I laughed a good 20 seconds at this, and even typing Clod makes me chuckle. This is great, can you please provide us with more guidance of the sort? I wanna laugh a bit at my LLM.

I agree with you, but after the 14th load-bearing thing in a day, it does get a bit tiresome; especially since words have meaning. I’d expect OpenSSL to be load-bearing; but no, that one-line function isn’t load-bearing. It might be important or even widely used throughout the codebase, but it’s not bearing the load of everything above it. What?

Bruce Schneier goes on about this A LOT, and you’re exactly on point. If the knowledgeable tech people don’t get into policy, it will become law drafted by lawyers and MBAs. Man, I wish I knew how to get into policy…

Theoretically, you vote for the Parliament, and they influence the Commission.

The Parliament and Courts keep the Commission in check, although their… misguided rule of majority is bound to allow some nonsense to pass. Especially since the Commission is, in my view, made up of people that do NOT want what the citizens do. You could argue they represent the majority of their specific countries, but even that is stretching things a bit given how many people actually vote.

So: the Parliament, the Courts (you can bring them issues), the European Citizens’ Initiative, and indirectly through your own country’s agencies (e.g. your local DPA).

It’s not that different from the high levels of indirection and bureaucracy in most democracies, I think. (Not that I’m defending the EU, there’s plenty to attack.)

Strange, I use M3 and Sonnet a lot, they never hallucinated. Gemini used to make up some function names, but it was in long context windows. My AGENTS.md does specific they should use context7 when unsure about a library, but still…

Running LLMs with some form of sandboxing is much easier than eating healthy or going to gym. Speaking as someone that is procrastinating lifting weights but found 15 minutes to lock down Claude.

The chase of more and more books because of my Goodreads friends’ goals is what got me reading 70 books a year, and abhorring the experience. What a joyless hunger to get through books FAST.

I stopped counting, and with a toddler I find bits of time to read about 20 books.

Don’t obsess about reading more. Yeah, get off your phone, but get into books to enjoy them. You don’t remember most of what you read, might as well derive pleasure from it.

The safety and trust that comes out of a very reliable database setup is, apparently, a misplaced feeling that makes data bugs harder to fix. I really don’t understand their take.

My experience is the opposite: add as many checks and safety rails to <DB> (Postgres, in my case), and you don’t have to go looking for this sort of mistake, which shouldn’t happen in the first place.

I don’t think we could have a productive conversation together.

I’m sorry that parents irk you so much, I really am, and hope that this eventually gets better for you. I’m not in your country, and any tax breaks you think I get are offset by the cost of raising a kid. I’m not at your job, but parents everywhere are known to be reliable workers that are more likely to stick around as their risk threshold gets higher. And all people everywhere contribute what they can, especially since knowledge workers can only crank out so much; staying up late increases mistakes and decreases productivity. These parents you think leave early are dead tired and probably catching up on work whenever they can, while juggling the unfair stupidity of a 2-unit nuclear family in the modern society.

But hey, I don’t want to convince you of anything. As I said, I doubt we’d come to terms with each other’s worldview. I hope someone’s kids contribute enough to your country’s social security backlog so that you can retire one day.

And perhaps… don’t insult strangers on the internet? Especially since they agreed with you that Chat Control is pointless and unwanted. Yapping manchild at someone is kinda funny when your entire take is aggression and the teenage angst typical of arrested development.

Deno offers practically everything I see here, but is mature, serious, written before LLMs (not sure about now), and has a solid team behind it.

But okay, it’s not the fastest kid on the block; although “X but faster” isn’t the most compelling argument to adopt a new runtime.

As to the choices this project made: well, Claude or Codex seems to have chosen to copy large parts of the Elk codebase.

I didn’t mean to go with the easy, default criticism of AAAs as slop and repetitive; it’s just that _lots_ of smaller devs/studios are putting out excellent gameplay and/or narratives.