I recently updated my podcast pre-processing script to Python 3.6 & the multiprocessing.Pool module and then a few days later realized the whole thing would be much better as a simple Makefile
The goal is to:
reduce filesize of podcasts (192kbit/s is overkill for spoken word!)
normalize the volume and convert to mono (easier to listen to when riding/running and it's windy)
Bob Fass Wait a minute, wait a minute. Before you say goodbye, give us like -- it takes about 20 minutes to trace a call, and you haven't been on the phone with us for three minutes yet.
Suicidal Caller You telling me the truth?
Bob Fass I'm telling you the truth. It takes about 20 minutes to trace a call. I know, because we tried to --
Suicidal Caller Why does it take so long?
Bob Fass Because the telephone company is more messed up than your life is, and they're not about to commit suicide.
I made a
little script
that uses
Selenium
to create a single page containing all the new posts from my Facebook friends.
This lets me see everything that is posted without having to seek it out and
wade through the ads and other things Facebook is trying to recommend to me.
The output is currently very rough, but it'll do for now - in particular, it
just screenshots the post, rather than trying to extract the content and
re-render it.
"... Henry Rollins [on] not labelling what you do, why he’s not interested in advice, the need to make things constantly, and why he’s never had a creative block." And 4 minute naps.
Some really "long now" thinking. I love the possible answer to the Fermi Paradox too - that the ETs are hoarding mass & energy to do their computing when the universe cools down and it's more efficient to run their data centers.
"the utopian structure was a fascinating yet wholly anachronistic remnant of a past future". Unbelievably this wasn't a filming location for The Fifth Elelement.
A Long Now talk based on Steven Pinker's book The Better Angels of Our Nature and the counter-intuitive fact that we're living in the least violent period of history.
Bruce Sterling poetically throwing some cold water on the singularity at the Long Now.
"the singularity is a place where matters that would be of great importance and interest to futurists become impossible to write about"
"the idea that technology is being built too fast for straight people to comprehend ...kind of lacks a business model"
