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declnzon Scaling up the Prime Video audio/video monitoring service and reducing costs

"Singleton" sounds like a good word here (though I've never heard it used in that context)

declnzon Ask HN: Is the job market brutal? or is it just me?

The problem is: this is absolutely not true in the real world.

declnzon I don't want streaming music, I just want to stream my music

A shameless plug, but you may also like Quod Libet[1]. Although not for everyone, it has very advanced searching and the more unusual integrations and features all implemented as plugins.

[1] https://quodlibet.readthedocs.io

declnzon I don't want streaming music, I just want to stream my music

> But then I've got some scripts that maintain a copy of that collection, except converted to MP3 at a variable bitrate

Yes. I have / had been doing this for years, and just want to sing high praises of mp3fs[1], assuming some kind of Linux or macOS machine. It solves this problem in a way that I think more people should know about!

[1] https://khenriks.github.io/mp3fs/

declnzon Ask HN: I just want to have fun programming again

This

Elm brought back joy and longevity for side projects to front-end for me (that had been ground down by the JS ecosystem sadly)

declnzon Z-Wave Alliance Announces Z-Wave Source Code Project Now Open and Available

I'm on my second home of full Z-wave (mostly Fibaro, pricey but would recommend) and though smaller this isn't my experience at all.

No it's not perfect but agree with others that the S2 seems to be way better.

Also bandwidth as a metric to aim for seems like a bad choice for IoT to me.

declnzon 2022 State of Haskell Survey

> We use Stack together with Nix to pin all dependencies. That works very well.

Could you elaborate on the path you took here? Sounds interesting

declnzon Ask HN: What social media site could replace Twitter?

Lol, so just like Twitter then

declnzon VS Code – What's the deal with the telemetry?

IMO it's because they've done very smart pivots / rebranding (VSCode, Github, NPM, even the Surfaces) and people who even know start thinking "new Microsoft"

declnzon Show HN: Digs.fm – For passionate music explorers (like Goodreads but for music)

Nice! Have signed up and will play. What would work for me especially is some kind of API, so we could integrate it into, say, music players...

declnzon Show HN: Rocket Drone, a lunar lander type game for the web

Agh so good but so annoying :)

declnzon You Don't Need Microservices

> Odds are it is easier to resolve performance issues and bottlenecks in your monolith than it is to transition to a new architecture pattern.

I dunno but when I see odds are $X I read unproved and perhaps unprovably, my opinion is $X

declnzon The Dhall Configuration Language

Whilst I like the look of Cue... this argument reminds me of the Kubernetes trap ( We should use it... because Google does it and they're huuuuuuuge don't you know etc )

declnzon The End of CI

Thanks for the link

Side note: makes me sad when even open-source tools for Gitlab are hosted... on Github...

declnzon Why programmers are not paid in proportion to their productivity (2009)

Oh God, are we still discussing 10x programmers?

Please let's not.

declnzon Ask HN: How is Python's OOP is superior vs. Lisp CLOS?

> It is said that <x>

I for one have never heard that said about Python; if this was on Wikipedia I'd definitely be mumbling Weasel Word[1] now...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weasel_word

declnzon How Trustpilot Extorts Businesses

Wow this left me a bit depressed. Are there any good third-party review systems out there then?

declnzon Schools should be using open source software

But do we really think that learning (current) Photoshop etc will have any relevance to them being successful in say 5-20 years? (if the graphic design world even exists by then)

declnzon Windows OS, Services and Apps: Network Connection Target Hosts (2021)

Yes.. but are we really saying that people can install Windows and ride off into the sunset?

IME there are always people who "get stuck" with their computer or end up in "nuke from orbit" situations.

declnzon Windows OS, Services and Apps: Network Connection Target Hosts (2021)

I disagree. Which "Linux" are you even talking about? (it's not the Kernel that's relevant here of course)

declnzon Windows OS, Services and Apps: Network Connection Target Hosts (2021)

Reaper on Linux is really quite impressive IMO

declnzon The domain for the Python Requests library is expired

Yes this. I feel people avoid it because of inertia, but I've started using it by default now, and typically only adds a few lines of code. (old) batteries included etc etc

There's also https://docs.python.org/3/library/http.client.html, which ironically refers people over to requests anyway...

declnzon Show HN: Loodio – A Bathroom Privacy Device

A new take on the data processing maxim of "garbage in, garbage out"?

declnzon FFmpeg now supports JPEG XL

TIL about JPEG XL itself, looks pretty cool. Thanks!

declnzon Hush, a modern shell scripting language

Shellcheck is truly a game-changer, even for people who've been hacking Bash (etc) for 20+ years.

Side note: it's also one of (or the ?) most popular Haskell projects out there: https://github.com/koalaman/shellcheck/

declnzon The bottom is dropping out of Netflix

Yes. Though stepping back a little further, I'd add (with some qualification):

24 (which perhaps opened my eyes to TV overtaking film in new ways) Lost Buffy

And then further still:

The X Files This Life (UK only?)

declnzon What chords do you need?

I agree with the sentiment but not the 90% figure here.

declnzon Java 15 introduced a cryptographic vulnerability

Well, I wouldn't say it doesn't need none at all...

declnzon Ask HN: How do you avoid video game addiction?

Probably doesn't help, but for me, just plain being bad at games has definitely saved me (ish) from this kind of addiction cycle, even though they interest me a lot.