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by shade 2mo ago
I have not formally published it, but it's open source: https://github.com/edmistond/larmindon and https://github.com/edmistond/larmindon-core - you'll want to clone them into the same
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by shade 2mo ago
Nice - I'm definitely going to take a look at this. I've built my own cross-platform (Mac/Win/Linux) live captioning app on top of Nemotron, and it works well but dealing with ONNX is kind of annoying. With this having R
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by shade 7mo ago
Wasn't mentioned on mine, either (Ohio, United States). My subscription is through in-app purchase, so I'm assuming that'll go through Apple's usual "your subscription price is increasing" flow.
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by shade 8mo ago
I have a 2023 Crosstrek, my wife has a '21 Ascent. I have the same habit you do - edging away from large trucks slightly - and both of them do the same thing you described to me. It's essentially that Subaru's lane system act
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by shade 10mo ago
I'm deaf, so I test a lot of speech to text and transcription apps from an accessibility point of view. My answer to "why have a monthly subscription" would be that you need capabilities that Whisper doesn't handle wel
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by shade 11mo ago
Yep, I'm also deaf (since age 6), went through a lot of speech therapy, and have a very pronounced deaf accent. I live in the midwestern US (specifically, Ohio) and at least once a year I get asked where I'm from - England being t
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by shade 1y ago
Yeah, I've been deaf for over 40 years now and captioning glasses are something that I've wanted ever since I was a kid. I'm not a particularly big fan of Meta and I have some serious reservations around privacy that need to
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by shade 1y ago
One of my weird hobbies is radar chasing storms, and all of that stuff is completely normal. NEXRAD is very sensitive, especially when it's in clear air mode (it has different modes depending on if it's raining in the area) and
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by shade 1y ago
> In the last 10 years has technology actually made my life better? In my case? Yes, absolutely. Automatic speech to text is now cheap or free, ubiquitous across most platforms (even Linux!), and generally very effective. Total game chan
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by shade 1y ago
I would say it's cool in the sense that building anything is cool, but I find myself mostly in agreement with your take, although with a caveat. I can't find the quote now, but someone (I think simonw?) said that they feel a bit o
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by shade 1y ago
Yup. I grew up in Hancock Co and used to ride occasionally with the bike club there, had a couple of days when the ride out was brutal because of persistent, endless wind, but then the ride back was awesome for the same reason. :)
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by shade 1y ago
Yep, I'm in the exact same situation as you. The tools for in-person are getting better, but aren't frictionless to set up and sometimes require you to spend time futzing with getting your iPad or iPhone to actually see an externa
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by shade 2y ago
I have the OG 13" MBP M1, and it's been great; I only have two real reasons I'm considering jumping to the 14" MBP M4 Pro finally: - More RAM, primarily for local LLM usage through Ollama (a bit more overhead for bigger
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by shade 2y ago
Best retro I ever had, on a small team of seniors: we all sat down, looked at each other, agreed that a sprint happened and we couldn't think of anything that was good or bad about it. Then we called in our manager, who also acted as s
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by shade 2y ago
Yup - I've done double-ended safety razors, I've tried the Gillette and Harry's disposable ones, but in 30+ years of shaving what I keep coming back to is Braun electric razors. So far, they're the only option I've
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by shade 2y ago
Yes, I was on an internal project recently that wanted to use LLMs in a way that was appropriate to evaluate if changes between two versions of a text were semantically meaningful, and limited to that scope, it would've been a really v
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by shade 2y ago
I did something similar recently with my daughter's school calendar and ChatGPT with gpt-4o; her school has a ton of closures/teacher work days, I fed the PDF of the calendar in and asked it for all the dates that impacted 2nd gra
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by shade 2y ago
Speaking as someone who's deaf and uses these services a lot: for speech to text, the AI stuff is getting rather good. I'm not saying it's perfect for every situation, but I have a very high success rate using InnoCaption[0]
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by shade 2y ago
It does, but at least on iOS, turning on incognito mode also turns off the YT premium features that you're paying for.
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by shade 3y ago
I've been running Consent-o-matic [1] in both Chrome and Firefox for quite a while now, which automates a lot of them. You can set your preferences for what categories of cookies you want to allow. [1] https://github.com&#x2
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by shade 3y ago
As I recall, this was more or less the concept behind Brilliant Pebbles [0], except Starship makes it cost-effective to launch. I'm not going to argue whether building it is a good idea, but it also seems like Starship has the potentia
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by shade 3y ago
Yeah, I agree with this take. For web and console apps, C#/dotnet is a great choice and should continue to be. Blazor, I think, is also fine (for some use cases, it's situational) and I think it's at the point it'll achi
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by shade 3y ago
NSubstitute is good, I used it at a previous job. I've favored Moq in the past because I think there are a couple of things it makes a bit easier or is a bit less opinionated about, but NSub is perfectly cromulent as well. Someone post
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by shade 4y ago
That's a good point, and I had a similar reaction. I got laid off from my first job out of college in late 2006. Unemployed for 3 months, found a role with a new company 2 hours away, moved, and stayed there over 12 years because I did
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by shade 4y ago
Also built into Windows 11 as of the 22H2 release, just for the record. That said, I may have to try this out - I've wanted to give Linux another go on my desktop but since I use captions rather heavily, that's been a disincentive
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by shade 4y ago
I definitely had to experiment as well - I bounced around between Claritin and Allegra for a couple of years. I did try Zyrtec and experienced significant fatigue with it, which led me to stop using it pretty quickly. Earlier this year I di
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by shade 4y ago
If the audio was actually sent to MS, I'd feel no worse than I would about Google getting it for live transcribe; the privacy implications annoy me but I'd rather have the captions. That said, Win11 live captions work on-device an
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by shade 4y ago
I've been testing 22H2 via Insiders Beta channel for a couple of months now; the Live Captions feature is great and has been almost life-changing for me. Really glad it's rolling out to wider availability now.
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by shade 4y ago
Pilot's ultra-fine pens are great, though for the money, I think the Juice and Juice Up 0.3mm pens are nicer all-around than the Hi-Tec C. A bit less scratchy, more comfortable to hold. Just in case you needed a rabbit hole to fall dow
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by shade 4y ago
I have not, but thanks for the recommendation - I just put it on my to-read list.

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