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Yes! That's the talk.

I remember a talk given some years ago by a man who was using voice to text for creating source code. The key point I remember from his talk & demonstration is that it was not casual ordinary speech but instead a very weird mashup of sounds intended to represent the various symbols which we use in source code.

I am not much of a gamer but I've been sporadically playing this, solo style. I like it for the most part. Especially since Microsoft forced me to convert my Mojang Minecraft account to a Microsoft and then immediately decided it was suspect and closed my access to it.

Maybe you will find some useful info here:

https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/ymiwzs/zlibrar...

When I went back to uni, a lot of my classes had us using Mathematica. While the software is fine, I found Steven Wolfram's relentless promotion a bit off-putting.

Felt a lot like P. T. Barnum somehow and I wasn't really comfortable being a customer of someone who made me feel like P. T. Barnum was selling me something.

This does not seem to me to be a responsible way to manage a firm and retain the most competent and talented employees.

This is not building, it's vandalism.

I use a Firefox browser extension called "Dark Reader" [1] to force a dark mode on most of the websites I frequent and I'm more or less happy with it. If there was an extension that Solarized them instead, I'd probably go with that instead.

https://github.com/darkreader/darkreader

Hey, I've been fired for step two. I'll quote "you aren't paid to walk around and think".

So I'm scrolling through this and wonder just how useful this info would have been back in the day when we were working with Z80s and came across this:

This section might also relevant even if you don’t do anything with hardware; it might give some insight into how the Z80 operates. Besides, it took me hours to draw this.

I feel so validated because I myself have included content in user manuals for the pretty much the same reason.

Pity this , or something like it, never went into production. I think having a built-in Scheme interpreter on system with hardware acceleration would have been a much better solution that all the hoops we used to jump through back in the day.

I quit drinking after more than 25 years of problematic drinking by taking naltrexone just before drinking for 3-4 weeks. Given my prior experience with alcohol and trying to quit, it was the easiest thing I've ever done.

I urge people who have a problem with drinking and wish to quit, who for whatever reason do not feel that 12 step programs like Alcoholics Anonymous are right for them to find a doctor who is willing and able to prescribe naltrexone and have a serious discussion with them. Had I had access to it and known it was effective as it is I probably would have been able to stop drinking 20 years sooner than I did.

I go through this experience every time HotChips releases their talks on YouTube.

I did exactly the same thing and had a similar experience.

I think this is broadly applicable to most, probably all stylized movie user interfaces. Minority Report, Tron and Star Trek come to mind. They look really cool on the big screen and are inspiring but once you get home and try to actually use something like it in real life for something productive and it's an impediment more than an inspiration.

Back in 2014 when this was first published I found it really inspiring and incorporated many of the techniques it describes into my daily workflow. It's been a while, so I wonder what he's doing now.

I watch a lot of videos on YouTube, mostly metal machining content, lectures, or long form background music. I have come to the conclusion that for my use the front end, the recommendation engine, and advertising scheme are active impediments to my enjoyment of the platform. So I use yt-dlp these days. Their website and mobile apps just aren't worth the hassle

Pity it's only viewable by subscribers.

There are broad swaths of non-rural residential spaces which are zoned to excluded most mobile homes. These facts are part of what is driving the popularity of "Tiny Houses on Wheels".

I really enjoyed the book, actually all of William Gibson's work from that era. I didn't think that the movie was great but reading this interview, it really does seem like the things I didn't like about it were the result of studio interference. So I look forward to finding this new version on a platform I have access to.

This happened to me in 2006 as part of an attempt not to payout a large severance package, so I don't think it's anything new.

The title doesn't match the story at all.

I'd sooner see all residential spaces become nationalised and collectively maintained than to see this looser cooking up some new machination that promises investors will get rich quick through sneaky exploitation and delivers yet another bad debt inflated housing bubble.

OK, well that just sucks.

This is from July 8, 2021. The title should probably reflect that.

Well that's really good news. I really enjoyed the talks that Godard did and I've been hoping that they make it to production.

So I suppose that end game is those patents getting bought by some big name semi manufacturer and quietly incorporated into future chips using different terminology... and then folks will smugly talk about what a terrible idea it all was.

So I guess "The Mill" processor isn't really being worked on any more?

I thought this was one the most interesting talks given at HotChips the year when it was presented. I also think when people post about it here and over at Reddit or Real World Tech there's a lot of pointless hand wringing about how terrible VLIW was back in the day.

He may of "claimed" he did so but there isn't any real evidence of this. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, so I'll be waiting for all that.

I am familiar with this sort of thing. My expectation is that the "review" will take longer than the 3 day suspension and that you probably are going to struggle getting the black mark on your account removed.

I suppose the key element to your account's suspension is that you sent keywords for hate speech via direct message. Which is interesting and totally unsurprising.