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  • I have no idea if there’s a “normal” way to do it, but in case you don’t find anything better and if you’re willing to spend a bit of time tinkering, an option could be writing a kate plugin. I did it only once, so my knowledge is extremely poor, but it should be possible to connect to the “text selected” signal, and everytime some text is selected, you read the text document and search if there’s a comma or a period etc and in case select the whole number




  • It looks interesting, but more focused on conversions than actual operations it seems:

    octave:37> a.value = 100
    a =
    
      scalar structure containing the fields:
    
        value = 100
        unit = W
    
    octave:38> a.unit = 'W'
    a =
    
      scalar structure containing the fields:
    
        value = 100
        unit = W
    
    octave:39> b.value = 3
    b =
    
      scalar structure containing the fields:
    
        value = 3
        unit = s
    
    octave:40> b.unit = 's'
    b =
    
      scalar structure containing the fields:
    
        value = 3
        unit = s
    
    octave:41> a*b
    error: binary operator '*' not implemented for 'scalar struct' by 'scalar struct' operations
    






  • Other answer seems to suggest that the problem is that the same podcast can be available, depending on where and who is listening to it, with different length due to different ads injected into. Here’s my probably stupid and completely ignorant suggestion: instead of using timestamps for both begin and end of the ads segment, you could use a timestamp for the beginning, and an hash of the first part of “non-ads” segment. I’ll try to explain better:

    |----------------xxxxx--------------------|
                    ^     |___|
    

    The xxx is the ads segment, the ^ is the timestamp of the beginning of the ads, the |___| is a small duration segment (for example, 0.5 seconds) right after the ads segment. The data of that segment is hashed and used as “end ads segment indicator”.

    On the other device, with a different duration of the ads, you should start hashing it to find the corresponding segment.

    Is this doable or did I just said a bunch of idiot things?