HarmonyMusic is no longer maintained, but given that it runs flawlessly on Linux as well, I genuinely want it to run properly. But when I search for stuff, I am not getting any results.
Any forks of it that fix this issue?
Edit: It's up again, but the results are sometimes displaying, sometimes not
Let's go, this initiative will make Google less evil :) Thank you google for caring for us, thanks a lot. Thanks. Thanks. FRICKING THANKS :))))))))))))))) HELLO GOOGLE WANNA DO AN AMA????
[This is a post on my personal experiences. I haven't edited out the repetitive sections. It is as it is.]
It's not that I have stopped making any videos. I am almost unable to make AMVs anymore.
People probably know me by u/GiantJupiter45. I made a lot of AMVs a few years ago. I even have a YouTube channel, where I used to post stuff. Afaik, my best AMV has been geoblocked in Russia because of the song. It felt strange...
Anyway, it's almost like: I need everything to serve a functional purpose. I tried to make an AMV of "Creep" having the shot of a bicycle wheel moving, an AMV of "Bishakto Manush" with the Uzumaki anime, "Bhindeshi Tara" with Insomniacs After School, "Aadmi C Hain" with the Evangelion Rebuilds. All of the attempts failed, and I don't have any of the files I made. All of them are lost, forever.
Initially, I thought that I had a Kdenlive fatigue after switching from Vegas 14 (because Kdenlive behaves erratically at times, and frankly, I don't understand some of the basic effects in Kdenlive). But I did make a 1-minute edit on a song a month or two ago (which I can't upload to YT because Def Jam blocks everyone from watching videos longer than a minute). I really don't know what's the exact fatigue I had.
I really can't complete an AMV these days. The "best" AMV I talked about was termed as such because I took 8 months for that. Bentovid peeps know.
After that, I made a few AMVs, then I shifted to Linux. Because I had a PC with low specs, I had to use Kdenlive. It has a lot of features, so I preferred that. But, as I was saying, the color circle in Lift/Gamma/Gain is very unintuitive for some reason. Like, I don't understand how I can change the amount of R, G, and B channels in the output.
But I do edit videos on Kdenlive at times. It's just that I can't "express" myself when the intent is enjoying for the sake of enjoying, not changing the whole damn world. Like, in my eyes, these days, everything I do should have a purpose. Everything should be productive. It's as if my mind says, "You can slack on Reddit or Insta, but you shouldn't slack by making a long AMV."
Likewise, I don't watch animes these days. I watched Oshi No Ko (first episode), Insomniacs After School, My Dress-up Darling, and very recently, the first few episodes of 3-gatsu No Lion. Almost nothing feels like... devoting my time towards, so I don't get any of the scenes I need for select. I have watched a few movies over the past few years (including Iron Lung), and even attended a convention. Those experiences were really great, but they couldn't reignite my passion for watching animes. Like, it has almost become tough for me to watch any anime these days, even when many of them are freely available on YT.
And because I can't select the scenes based on the newer animes, I can't even make any AMVs.
Still, I might drop my last AMV sometime, but idk when I will start. Can't even promise if it will be completed or not. I have a lot of Kdenlive projects lying in my memory, just because I couldn't touch any of them after the first day. It's as if a fatigue constantly clouds me whenever I try to make something involving meticulous scene-selection.
But still, thank you to the AMV community in general. I hope I will be able to make something, someday, before retiring from AMVs. If I officially retire from being an AMV editor someday, I might even return like Tom Scott. But the strings are moving according to the whims of time, so can't say anything.
Just a simple request: please preserve my stuff and maybe apply some upscaling, because I have made everything I could've made.
Thanks.
Not the alternates and all, but the idea. A very nice metaphor for how totalitarian power structures pretend to be functional.
Had it not been an alternate in front of the door of Mark, it would have instantly become a crime thriller. Had there not been False Gabriel but False... something else, it would have become a disturbing case of impersonation.
The fact that the Mandela Catalogue feels like a metaphor for various scary situations is... scary enough.
External libraries: Adafruit_SH110X
Display: 1.3" SH1106 LED
Constructor used: Adafruit_SH1106G()
Pretty simple stuff. I had the libraries figured out.
Made it because I couldn't sleep.
On traffic congestion, after watching a lot of YT videos and understanding the exact problems from the LLMs, I proposed an idea in a hackathon. (LLM-written, but the idea was novel).
Let it be under the public archive. I hope you all will like it.
To solve traffic, we first have to recognize three "traps" that make building more roads useless:
Down’s Law (The "Full" Trap): If you build a new road, more people start driving until that road is just as jammed as the old one. You can't out-build demand.
Braess’ Paradox (The "Shortcut" Trap): Sometimes, adding a new shortcut makes traffic worse. Because everyone rushes to the "faster" route, that route becomes a bottleneck that slows down the entire city.
Phantom Jams & Gridlock: Traffic is like a wave. One person braking causes a chain reaction (a Phantom Jam). When these waves get so long they block the next intersection, the city enters Gridlock—a state where no one can move because everyone is waiting for the person in front, who is also stuck.
Instead of building more asphalt, we should manage the city using a Counting Semaphore.
Think of a semaphore as a "Smart Counter" at the entrance of a neighborhood.
Imagine a neighborhood can only hold 100 cars before it becomes a parking lot.
The Semaphore starts at 100.
When a car enters, the counter goes down (99, 98...).
When a car leaves, the counter goes up.
The Rule: If the counter hits 0, the entrance light stays Red. No one else gets in until someone else leaves.
1. Solving Gridlock (The "Buffer" Solution)
By using a semaphore at the "Perimeter" (the edges of a busy area), we stop cars before they enter the crowded center. It is better to wait 5 minutes at the edge of the city where there is space, than to be stuck in the middle where you are blocking four other streets. This keeps the "inner" city moving smoothly.
2. Solving Braess’ Paradox (The "Smart Gate" Solution)
If data shows that a specific "shortcut" is causing the whole city to slow down, we set its semaphore to 0. By "closing" that road strategically, we force drivers to spread out across the whole network. Closing a road can actually make the total trip faster for everyone.
3. Solving Down’s Law (The "Flow Control" Solution)
Instead of letting an infinite number of cars flood a new road, the semaphore acts as a Rate Limiter. It ensures that the road only ever holds the "perfect" amount of traffic to maintain top speed. It prioritizes quality of travel over the quantity of cars.
Traffic isn't a "space" problem; it's a coordination problem. By using Counting Semaphores, we stop treating the city as a free-for-all and start treating it as a synchronized system where the goal is to keep everyone moving, even if it means waiting at the "gate" for a few seconds.
I was trying to read a Typst PDF on Okular, but the selection was being mangled between the left and right columns, thus getting horizontal selection without any regard for the gutter.
It'd be genuinely cool if the reading order is enforced.
Specifically, SE(2).
I want to understand the group from inside out. I have seen a few videos on Lie Group and Lie Algebra; we had group theory class in the previous semester, but I do not know much about manifolds.
Any resources that can provide a 3Blue1Brown level of intuition for SE(n)? Books/videos/audios/anything will be highly appreciated.