I came to class, and my university professor was there. I told him that I have somehow got 0 in all three internal assessments for different reasons (all my fault). My teacher said no when I requested him if they can be reopened or not.

Even after he went out, I was in the same room. All the students had left. I was all alone, with my faulty earphones. I have a lot to tackle. Next week, I have multiple final lab exams. Then I will have to submit a chart (where almost everyone told me their groups are full when I wanted to collab with them; so, I am doing it all alone). And a lot more. I am just here, coming back to the square 1. I don't even wanna go home, because right now, the report shows "feels like 47 °C" (El Niño showing its full form). And, I am even out of that room now.

All of my YouTube downloads will need to be re-downloaded just because I used a Japan VPN once.

I am lost.

Hello,

I never thought I would say this, but here I am.

Every year, a few seniors come to our class, and by any means, try to procure money from us. This year, when we didn't provide the money, they locked the door of our class.

When we asked our coordinator (aka the attendance-loving HR), she showed displeasure and asked us to give the money, as if telling us to remove the burden by budging to the wishes of those people. Then, she opened our door and all of us escaped the clutches of the room.

On the last date, we were approached by the very same people multiple times in the middle of online exams. People were running away after solving the questions, but they were immediately stopped and asked to show the receipt for the event. Some were using AI tools to doctor receipts in order to escape. Some were not lucky enough to doctor any receipt (because they didn't even have the photo of the original) and were thus almost forced to register for the event.

Is this a case of ragging? We have an anti-ragging cell, should we inform there? Or should we go somewhere else? Because there is a high probability that some of the students from our own batches will do the same when they will be in the final year.

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.

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.

The Synchronous City: A Concurrency-Based Framework for Mitigating Network-Wide Traffic Congestion

The Problem: Why Cities "Crash"

To solve traffic, we first have to recognize three "traps" that make building more roads useless:

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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.

The Solution: Treating the City like a Computer

Instead of building more asphalt, we should manage the city using a Counting Semaphore.

What is 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.

How this Solves the Traps

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.

The Conclusion

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.

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