pgz's comments

Was wondering the same, looks quite suspicious

I've used https://github.com/kaegi/alass and sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. It's not an easy problem to address automatically...

Video players wouldn't want that in their codebase, maybe if it was available as a C library.

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.

Great, I already feel inferior. I only put an ASCII cat on my profile.

I never expected the day would come when an AI to generate furries would be the top entry on HN.

I always suspected governments desperately seek 2% inflation because they are long term borrowers.

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.

You can look up words on the Kindle. And if you highlight them there are ways to access the highlighted sentences in a machine-friendly way (to i.e. export them to Anki).

Indeed, you get high quality in context cards, something that is still missing from most Anki decks.

The code is here https://github.com/pigoz/mpv-nihongo, keep in mind that a lot of stuff is hardcoded, poorly documented, and it requires an mpv patch to work.

If there's enough interest, I can try and make it simple for someone that's not me to use.

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.

The title kinda reminded of Evangelion where all the choices are made by 3 independent AI super computers with a majority vote.

I have not open-sourced my code since it's a gross hack I did in one afternoon.

It looks exactly like the screenshot of that project. Very interesting that I thought of the same solution without knowing jijimaku.

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.

Currently this is vaporware, but there are a lot of interesting ideas. Can't wait to get my hands on it.

The syntax for Lenses is particularly cool imho. Since it's bootstrapped on top of OCaml I doubt it has HKT though.

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.

Several people argue that working long hours will have a negative impact on productivity.

For example if you look at EU countries, the ones with the economy in worse conditions are those with longer working hours (Greece, Italy).