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Looks like a general case. I do the same a lot with Picard and Foobar, but beats can also auto tag based on file name and populate musicbrainz. Set library directory to that of navidrome so it will be coppied there on import.

Diverging away from is one way to solve it since it no longer affects you, no ? You can't remove the context. There are no problems in vacuum.


True, but if you diverge away too much, you end up living in a vacuum.


How do you monetize the server logs ?


Unclear, but I think it might have been something like, find out (via reverse IP lookups) which big companies depend on which gems, and then use that information to market consulting services to those companies.


I guess something sinister is also an option...


well,yes, already that description is sinister; I might be getting too old.


That description is not sinister. Its just marketing. An example of sinister would be to sell those logs to someone who could instigate a supply chain attack targeting some of those companies.


Try to identify companies making heavy use of $thing and use that as leads.


I have exactly the same experience as you. I tried educating people but all those developers (and beyond, up to stakeholders), no matter their seniority, do not want to get involved in the domain too much, just as little as they need. That naturally leads to me micromanaging all the things, leading to non scalability and finally overburn. As soon as I stop doing micro, all the stuff start to break down pretty fast. I wrote a book per project trying to get everyone on the same level but nah (more than 3000 pages in last decade, 20+ projects). Tried everything in hiring too, found almost nobody during all that time.

I am now off the previous work and will devote time to try AI, because I concluded it can't be worse than that.


Reading this thread brought back fond memories of sitting with front-line staff and just chatting with them while watching them work from the corner of my eye. My gimmick was to turn up for morning tea (the staff were older ladies that took homemade cakes to work), and by lunchtime have some frustration of theirs resolved.

It’s such a great feeling when you can make someone’s work better, for the life of me I can’t understand why others wouldn’t jump at the opportunity!

Sadly at current $dayjob, the devs are held at arm's length from the customer. On purpose!


Same here. No matter how hard I try, and use different approaches, from coaching, to sharing videos, through poiting out why this can benefit you personally, to showing how exactly it creates results, there simply is no interest. People don't care.


It's even worse than that - even the owner of the company I worked for didn't care that the product of his own company will be mediocre, while shouting generally the quality is the goal. It turns out that it was the goal as long as it was incidental and free (no such thing, but it looks that way if you are not deeply involved) and because it sounds good. As soon as reputation collides with the immediate profit, profit always wins.


Yuup. I do find that most of the time business decision makers actually have no clue about quality. Especially with software products if it looks like it works in the demo/looks pretty then the quality must be good right, and these engineers are just being pedantic, cause theyre engineers.


That’s something I relate too as well. I like working on different abstraction levels throughout the system.

Only way to cope was to let go things and pick my battles.

I always think about the joke where a sailor goes down to the dock and asks dock men if they speak French, English or German- dock men only shake their heads showing no. Later dock men chat and one saying to other he could learn languages so he would be able to talk with the sailor. The other replied that sailor knew 3 and it didn’t help him.


He expresses his opinions on his own blog. You are being extremely toxic in public.


There is nothing like AHK. All mentioned tools are toys in comprison.


I wish there was something like Keyboard Maestro for Windows or Linux. It seems like there isn’t. I’d love to be corrected, though!

From what I can tell, AHK can’t do (m)any of the cool things that KM does, like “Click at Found Image”, “Set the Find Pasteboard”, “Prompt for Screen Rectangle”, “Stream Deck Show OK”, “Increase Song Rating by Half a Star”, “OCR Image/Screen”, “Paste from Named Clipboard”, or many other useful actions. Is there any Windows or Linux application that can?


AHK can do all that, but you need to program a script, there is no out of the box solution.

For example: https://www.autohotkey.com/boards/viewtopic.php?t=134045


Thank you, good to know AHK is able to do part of what Keyboard Maestro can, it just requires more work and troubleshooting for every script/macro.

That example script also doesn’t let you simply drag a marquee selection to choose the image to find, you have to provide a file path to an image that already exists. That’s not

There must be a market for something more user friendly, at least on Windows.


> That’s not… an option for the workflow it’s currently being used in. I’ll hunt for more user-generated scripts to modify on that forum. Thanks for your response.


Agreed. AHK and Windows’ amenability to such things is an important reason why Windows is still my preferred GUI by far.


Thanks for making it public. I love the zen architect. Will definitely try it.


We do Rover, which is different from the Microsoft product but the goal is similar. I was just responding to the above comment. I agree with you, it is a pretty good project and will be taking a look. We are so early there are tons of things to learn and try.


On my projector (120 inch) the difference between 720p and 4k is night and day.


Screen size is pretty much irrelevant, as nobody is going to be watching it at nose-length distance to count the pixels. What matters is angular resolution: how much area does a pixel take up in your field of vision? Bigger screens are going to be further away, so they need the same resolution to provide the same quality as a smaller screen which is closer to the viewer.

Resolution-wise, it depends a lot on the kind of content you are viewing as well. If you're looking at a locally-rendered UI filled with sharp lines, 720p is going to look horrible compared to 4k. But when it comes to video you've got to take bitrate into account as well. If anything, a 4k movie with a bitrate of 3Mbps is going to look worse than a 720p movie with a bitrate of 3Mbps.

I definitely prefer 4k over 720p as well, and there's a reason my desktop setup has had a 32" 4k monitor for ages. But beyond that? I might be able to be convinced to spend a few bucks extra for 6k or 8k if my current setup dies, but anything more would be a complete waste of money - at reasonable viewing distances there's absolutely zero visual difference.

We're not going to see 10.000Hz 32k graphics in the future, simply because nobody will want to pay extra to upgrade from 7.500Hz 16k graphics. Even the "hardcore gamers" don't hate money that much.


Does an increased pixel count make a bad movie better?


Does a decreased pixel count make a good movie better?



It's not perfectly spherical though.


There is a technical difference though - yolo keeps the audio on the cards, while this project uses NFC tags to select locally stored audio. To have truly collectable experience, yolo type of thing is the only choice.


Yoto doesn’t keep the audio on the cards, all the audio is stored on the cloud and the NFC cards just have a link to the album. The Yoto can’t play a card it hasn’t already seen before without connecting to the Wi-Fi and downloading it.


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