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Jellyfin will let you set up alternate metadata providers and select between different episode ordering if available ( https://forum.jellyfin.org/t-resolved-dvd-order-instead-of-a.…

I don’t think pricing is the only problem with theaters. Especially over the last 15 years or so they’ve been increasingly competing with alternative ways of watching movies, and f…

It is pretty riddled with ads though. By default the Home Screen shows the tv all and it’s completely crammed with ads.

I sometimes talk with ChatGPT in a conversational style when thinking critically about media. In general I find the conversational style a useful format for my own exploration of m…

I shared the story as I remember it. Memory is imperfect. It's been years since I deleted my account, and I don't have the luxury of access to server or moderation logs. What I do …

I was a pretty active member in the comments for a long time and left a few years ago after getting chastised by a moderator and accused of spamming for sharing a link to a blog po…

The only acceptable number of ads is zero.

I’m finishing up Haskell Brain Teasers ( https://pragprog.com/titles/haskellbt/haskell-brain-teasers/ ) It’s much shorter than my first book, Effective Haskell, and leans more adva…

I worked on a foveated video streaming system for 3D video back in 2008, and we used eye tracking and extrapolated a pretty simple motion vector for eyes and ignored saccades entir…

Although thus isn’t directly related to the idea in the article, I’m reminded that one of the most effective hacks I’ve found for working with ChatGPT has been to attach screen sho…

I’ve had similar experiences where AI saved me a ton of time when I knew what I wanted and understood the language or library well enough to review but poorly enough that I’d gave …

Looking at my own use of AI, and at how I see other engineers use it, it often feels like two steps forward and two steps back, and overall not a lot of real progress yet. I see pe…

It would be much less interesting than the actual chat histories. My experience with chatGPTs memory feature is that about half the time its storing useful but uninteresting data, …

I remember back in the gnome2 days there was still a lot of fragmentation. Gnome, KDE, WindowMaker, AfterStep, Enlightenment, ratpoison. Linux has always appealed to tinkerers and …

The biggest issue to me is that beyond and impossible aren’t just making replacements that are worse than meat, they are making things that are worse than the alternatives we alrea…

join has the type `m (m a) -> m a`. That's the thing that really shows off the monoidal structure. People normally implement monads in terms of bind, but you can easily define join…

Unfortunately even without engine noise people will still install gigantic subwoofers in their car and roll around rattling windows. This has consistently been the biggest problem …

Several years ago I (briefly) worked at a startup that was trying to do this for publishing (but has since pivoted into generic ad-tech). My impression at the time was that most pu…

I’ve been lucky enough to work on a number of teams in my career that are full of brilliant high performing people who are also kind, empathetic, and focused working together to de…

I don't really remember when they started, but they now include 1-2 prerolls for other Apple TV+ content. You can scrub past them, but you can't disable them.

yeah, the pre-rolls for the other shows are exactly what I'm talking about. Those are ads. And they are only skippable if you scrub forward past them. You are forced to deal with t…

> Apple TV+ / movie-streaming services (without ads) Apple TV+ doesn’t have an ad-free tier. They have a tier they call ad-free where they still force you into pre-roll ads for app…

Don’t forget recursion schemes. The last example in the article was just asking for a hylomorphism.

> While it's possible to bake in this particular inductive bias (repetitive actions might be useful), they decided not to (it's just not that interesting). What's interesting to me…

I think most people care about some things. Most people don’t have the capacity to feel strongly about every issue, but there are some overarching ones that tend to hold along poli…