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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
> 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.