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GitHub: https://github.com/pigoz Twitter: @pigoz Freenode: pigoz
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pgz··on Coinbase Announces 18% Layoffs
Was wondering the same, looks quite suspicious
pgz··on Ask HN: What small library or tool do you want that doesn’t exist?
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.

pgz··on Calibre 5.0
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.
pgz··on Building a self-updating profile README for GitHub
Great, I already feel inferior. I only put an ASCII cat on my profile.
pgz··on Show HN: Fursona Editor
I never expected the day would come when an AI to generate furries would be the top entry on HN.
pgz··on Japan to subsidize 100% of salaries at small companies
I always suspected governments desperately seek 2% inflation because they are long term borrowers.
pgz··on Language Learning with Netflix extension
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.

pgz··on Serverless Development with Serverless Framework
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.

pgz··on Mate: Netflix browser extension for learning words via subtitles
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).
pgz··on Mate: Netflix browser extension for learning words via subtitles
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.

pgz··on Mate: Netflix browser extension for learning words via subtitles
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.

pgz··on Japan's Hometown Tax
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.

pgz··on How can we be sure AI will behave? Perhaps by watching it argue with itself
The title kinda reminded of Evangelion where all the choices are made by 3 independent AI super computers with a majority vote.
pgz··on Show HN: Submerger – A SRT subtitles merger useful to study new languages
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.

pgz··on Show HN: Submerger – A SRT subtitles merger useful to study new languages
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.

pgz··on Reflex: Reactive Programming at Facebook – Julien Verlaguet
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.

pgz··on Project IINA – The modern macOS video player
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.

pgz··on Dentsu CEO resigns after overworked employee commits suicide
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.

pgz··on Dentsu CEO resigns after overworked employee commits suicide
> 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.

pgz··on Dentsu CEO resigns after overworked employee commits suicide
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).

pgz··on Ask HN: What do you want to learn in 2017?
I am learning Japanese as well. Thanks for that NHK link that's a great resource, I love the furigana!
pgz··on Verified Voting
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.

pgz··on Verified Voting
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.

pgz··on Amazon to deliver in 30 mins - BBC trials for delivering goods by drones
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.

pgz··on Amazon to deliver in 30 mins - BBC trials for delivering goods by drones
Aside from the delivery in 30 minutes, for me the coolest part is delivery to the back of your garden. You can get secure deliveries, even while not at home. That's great.
pgz··on Docker Betas for AWS, Azure, Mac, and Windows
So I assume the new native hypervisor is available from cli as well? Then that's excellent!
pgz··on Docker Betas for AWS, Azure, Mac, and Windows
I don't understand why Docker for Mac is a GUI application. I'd rather get the same features from the CLI.
pgz··on Show HN: I made a database of remote companies
I agree, this is how it should be done! It's very useful :)
pgz··on Voxel art
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.
pgz··on Airbnb: Building a Visual Language, Behind the scenes of our new design system
I agree, I really, really hope design tools and practices evolve more in the direction of building a design language and components.

As a developer, it would make my life easier as well, when I try to split designs into components / css.

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