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Effective total cost: $3–5/mo

Setup

Decide on an EC2 instance type:

At AWS Console → EC2 → Instance Types, filter for ≥1 GB RAM and sort by price.

t4g.micro is lowest.

Adaptive Streaming has become the neccessity for streaming video and audio. Unfortantely, as of this post, there isn't a whole lot of tutorials that accumulate all of the steps to get this working. Hopefully this post achieves that. This post focuses on using Amazon Web Services (AWS) to transcode for HLS and DASH and be the Content Delivery Network (CDN) that delivers the stream to your web page. We'll be using Video.js for the HTML5 player as well as javascript support libaries to make Video.js work with HLS and DASH.

So Here's what you need:

Set up three S3 buckets

What I Wish I'd Known About Equity Before Joining A Unicorn

Disclaimer: This piece is written anonymously. The names of a few particular companies are mentioned, but as common examples only.

This is a short write-up on things that I wish I'd known and considered before joining a private company (aka startup, aka unicorn in some cases). I'm not trying to make the case that you should never join a private company, but the power imbalance between founder and employee is extreme, and that potential candidates would

Setting up Pi Zero OTG - The quick way (No USB keyboard, mouse, HDMI monitor needed)

More details - http://blog.gbaman.info/?p=791

For this method, alongside your Pi Zero, MicroUSB cable and MicroSD card, only an additional computer is required, which can be running Windows (with Bonjour, iTunes or Quicktime installed), Mac OS or Linux (with Avahi Daemon installed, for example Ubuntu has it built in).
1. Flash Raspbian Jessie full or Raspbian Jessie Lite onto the SD card.
2. Once Raspbian is flashed, open up the boot partition (in Windows Explorer, Finder etc) and add to the bottom of the config.txt file dtoverlay=dwc2 on a new line, then save the file.
3. If using a recent release of Jessie (Dec 2016 onwards), then create a new file simply called ssh in the SD card as well. By default SSH i

	# Setup:
	# conda create -n whisper python=3.9
	# conda activate whisper
	# https://github.com/openai/whisper
	# pip install git+https://github.com/openai/whisper.git

	# Usage:
	# python whisper-audio-to-text.py --audio_dir my_files --out_dir texts

	import argparse

	const fs = require('fs');
	const { Configuration, OpenAIApi } = require('openai');
	const { RateLimiter } = require('limiter');

	const limiter = new RateLimiter({
	tokensPerInterval: 10,
	interval: 'minute',
	fireImmediately: true,
	});

	# Install XQuartz
	brew cask install xquartz

	# Restart MacOS

	# Open XQuartz
	open -a XQuartz

	# Ensure the "Allow connections from network clients" option in Preferences >> Security is turned on

	---
	AWSTemplateFormatVersion: '2010-09-09'
	Description: Creates a Systems Manager Association with inline PowerShell.
	Resources:
	Association:
	Type: AWS::SSM::Association
	Properties:
	AssociationName: AssociationName
	Name: AWS-RunPowerShellScript
	Parameters:


	type Set struct {
	list map[int]struct{} //empty structs occupy 0 memory
	}

	func (s *Set) Has(v int) bool {
	_, ok := s.list[v]
	return ok
	}

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