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by garblegarble 2mo ago
I have tried everything (that will run on a 12GB RTX 4070) and I have yet to find anything with better accuracy than Whisper V2 Large for my dataset (discord audio from TTRPG sessions, isolated per-speaker, mostly non-American accents)
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by garblegarble 3mo ago
Slightly off-topic but: does it concern you that you're letting atrophy a very important skill for human communication (organising your thoughts and ideas, and then clearly communicating them to others)?
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by garblegarble 3mo ago
That's what I meant by other thought leadership things - that's all covering different niches. For what it's worth, I think you do useful work and are a respectible influencer. I'd also say don't be down about your
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by garblegarble 3mo ago
>enough front-page posts that there's less value to him On the countrary I'd say it's probably even more important - without (amongst doing other "thought leader" things) getting on the HN front-page regularly an
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by garblegarble 6mo ago
"Damaged" is a bit of an understatement, if the photos[0] are accurate (positions do look consistent between different photos so doesn't seem like AI to me) 0: https://xcancel.com/TheIntelFrog/status&#x2F
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by garblegarble 6mo ago
Yeah, they do very much need an editor (I suppose it was tagged as a #rant!) The thing I found interesting (and I've not really observed much) is they're complaining about people who aren't making a distinction between the us
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"I hope you don't use Generative AI"(rmv.fyi)
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by garblegarble 6mo ago
Would you elaborate what you mean by saying Linux on an M-series chip isn't straightforward? That's not been my experience, I (and lots of other devs) use it every day, Apple supports Linux via [0], and provides the ability to use
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by garblegarble 6mo ago
GPU encoding is fast, but usually it produces poorer quality results because it avoids trying paths that are hard to do quickly on the GPU. If you want to optimise, try different encoders (sounds like you've already done some of this)
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by garblegarble 7mo ago
Sounds like the pitch writes itself, "you'd better spend a lot of token money with us before the bad guys do it to you..."
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by garblegarble 7mo ago
I couldn't parse the intended meaning from "lack of commitment to no longer commiting crimes"), so here's a response that just answers the question raised. Do you regard the justice system as a method of rehabilitating o
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by garblegarble 7mo ago
I assume this is a jailbreak / exfiltration detection condition triggering, I wonder if it would do the same if you started speaking to it in base64
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by garblegarble 8mo ago
>does this limit the agent's ability to run standard Linux tooling? Or are you relying on the AI to just figure out the BSD/macOS equivalents of standard commands? Slightly counterintuitively, Apple Containers spawns linux VMs.
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by garblegarble 8mo ago
I assume that will be better than whisper - I haven't benchmarked it against cloud models, the project I'm working on cannot send data out to cloud models
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by garblegarble 8mo ago
For my inputs, whisper distil-large-v3.5 is the best. I tried Parakeet 0.6 v3 last night but it has higher error rates than I'd like (but it is fast...)
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by garblegarble 8mo ago
>In June 2025, 56% of people in Great Britain thought it was the wrong decision It's not so clear when you consider that 48.1% of the original referendum voters wanted to stay in the EU. I'm honestly very surprised by this poll
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by garblegarble 8mo ago
That's helpful to know, thanks! I gave Max 5x a go and didn't look back. My suspicion is that Opus 4.5 is subsidised, so good to know there's flexibility if prices go up.
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by garblegarble 8mo ago
>Even with brew, the brew maintainers have already audited the code Realistically, how much are they auditing? I absolutely agree with your sentiment that it's better than a binary, but I think the whole security model we have is fa
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by garblegarble 8mo ago
>And what do you even mean by "prepare"? Not the person you're responding to but... if you think it's a horse -> car change (and, to stretch the metaphor, if you think you're in the business of building stable
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by garblegarble 8mo ago
If they're using Opus then it'll be the $100/month Claude Max 5x plan (could be the more expensive 20x plan depending on how intensive their use is). It does consume a lot of tokens, but I've been using the $100/mo
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by garblegarble 9mo ago
>the best way to install these tools is to build it yourself, i.e. make install, etc. And you're fully auditing the source code before you run make, right? I don't know anyone who does, but you're handing over just as much
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by garblegarble 9mo ago
> If both are present but different the unprefixed version should be favoured. That seems uncontroversial & not complex to implement. oops, you just enabled smuggling where there's a mismatch between what a proxy/firewall&#
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by garblegarble 11mo ago
"Treating the symptoms not the cause" would be the english equivalent. (for others: the Dutch expression is "Dweilen met de kraan open", "Mopping with the tap open")
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by garblegarble 11mo ago
I went looking for a source on this, looks to be: https://www.wsj.com/business/retail/walmart-employee-treatme... / https://archive.is/fPAlB
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by garblegarble 11mo ago
China currently can't make the high-performance, efficient, long-life jet engines that US & Europe make. The commercial market is heavily cost-sensitive, so they can't compete there currently as a result. This doesn't m
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by garblegarble 11mo ago
Interestingly when I posed this to ChatGPT (GPT-5) it only solved it (after 10 minutes of thinking) by googling and finding your message When I told it that was cheating, it decided to lie to me: "The user mentioned cheating, so
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by garblegarble 1y ago
>Is there anything C# _doesn’t_ have? You were maybe already getting at it, but as a kitchen sink language the answer is "simplicity". All these diverse language features increase cognitive load when reading code, so it's
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by garblegarble 1y ago
Yeah I know what you mean... one positive is it looks like Google use it in Chromium[0], so at least Google think the API will stick around for a while (and provides a big platform Apple would break if they discontinued it) 0: https:/
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by garblegarble 1y ago
Absolutely agreed on the lack of documentation, it seems completely insane (I assume this is because they want to reinforce that only Apple should be writing policies - but still no excuse for it) >Hard to recommend it with that axe hang
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by garblegarble 1y ago
Bubblewrap seems excellent for Linux uses - on macOS, it seems like sandbox-exec could do some (all?) of what bubblewrap does on Linux. There's no official documentation for SBPL, but there are examples, and I found sandboxtron[0] whic

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