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gumboshoes··on It's a shame what's happened to radio
I don't want to hear morning show hijinx. I will gladly listen to well-produced news and features.
gumboshoes··on It's a shame what's happened to radio
I still work in radio and have for more than 30 years. Perhaps I'm an outlier, but I never cared about the DJs, never felt a connection, never wanted their Morning Zoos or their Tammy and Frankie in the Morning junk, with the fake callers, the forced laughs, the crappy contests, the gossip lifted from other uncredited sources. All I ever wanted was lots of unrepeated music. Or, failing that, lots of intelligent talk and news.
gumboshoes··on Mr. Baby Paint and accidentally discovering a new cellular automata
Mr. Baby Paint owes at least a mention to KidPix, that Mac OS 9 program that got there first for kid-focused computer art.
gumboshoes··on How We Made IPFS Content Publishing 10x Faster
Am I the only one who has never managed to get an IPFS file to successfully download?
gumboshoes··on Journalism is rearranging the deckchairs. It needs to reinvent itself
Journalism has been talking about the future of journalism for fifty years or more. It is literally always the same answers, none of which are both feasible and realistic. All the problems boil down to this: journalism is a product, not a public utility. And the product isn't in the information category; it's in the entertainment category.
gumboshoes··on On the Skin-Furrows of the Hand (1880) [pdf]
Here's the article as it originally appeared in the journal "Nature": https://archive.org/details/nature221880lock/mode/2up
gumboshoes··on The Future of the Con Is Here, It's Just Not Evenly Distributed
The author may really like "The Sting" but the movie was a rip-off of a book by David Maurer, and all of the con mechanisms in the movie were lifted without permission from his book. The theft was later settled privately for a huge sum.
gumboshoes··on Hacker News but for independent blogs
Waiting for the inflection point that all social sites go through: When a social site's top content stops being about itself, then it is probably going to be successful.

A second corollary: When a social site's top content stops being about the internet, then it is probably going to be even more successful.

gumboshoes··on Where to Find the Colors Your Screen Can't Show You
"The eyespots on a peacock’s train are super cyan, so when the peacock spreads its train feathers it is going super saiyan super cyan." Haha.
gumboshoes··on How many of the 170k English words do you know?
The 171,476 figure from OED is used inaccurately in a way that shows a gross misunderstanding of dictionaries and language. The number 171,476 refers to the number of full entries for words in “current use” as defined in the 20-volume Second Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED). It does not represent words. It also does not include all the OED's variant spellings, inflected forms, phrases or run-ons (sub-entries derived from the main entries). Additionally, the OED is by no means a complete inventory of English. In fact, it's probably millions of words short, especially as it has an incredibly slow update cycle. Source: I am a dictionary editor and lexicographer, use OED daily, and know the people who make it.
gumboshoes··on The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
You are not a good person.
gumboshoes··on A dumpster arrived behind my university's library
"Almost across the board" is a damning statement, not a remark that supports careless deaccessioning. I work in the margins of my field, and literally thousands of books are unavailable to me through interlibrary loan. I have to buy them or fly to libraries around the world, at a cost of many thousands of dollars I do not have. (One of my colleagues was fortunate to get a large inheritance; they almost exclusively use it to acquire or travel to books they need for their subject.) And mine is not even an esoteric field, nor esoteric subject. It's just that too many books were deaccessioned on the baseless idea that someone else would surely have the book and make it available to scholars.
gumboshoes··on The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
This has been circulating for many years and at this point is so widely spread as to be considered ordinary and unremarkable.
gumboshoes··on macOS needs its grid back
Forget all that. I want my stuff in text-based lists. Showing icons and file previews is way slower and less informative.
gumboshoes··on Localsend: An open-source cross-platform alternative to AirDrop
Posted here many times https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=github.com/localsend
gumboshoes··on North American English Dialects
Yes, this is being done, and has been done. A variety of linguistic atlas projects record audio and make written phonetic transcriptions: https://www.linguisticatlasproject.org/ There are also many dialect and accent arechives, such as https://www.dialectsarchive.com/ and https://accent.gmu.edu/.
gumboshoes··on The 'paperwork flood': How I drowned a bureaucrat before dinner
Outstanding. May his fax endure forever.
gumboshoes··on Americans Are Weird
Your malarkey sounds the same in this language, too.
gumboshoes··on Computer dramatically plays BBC news music before every meeting
people out here applying their genius with things to with no profit incentive
gumboshoes··on FreeFlow – seamless speech to text in any app
Here are just a few I found in just a few minutes of looking:

https://github.com/Ljove02/AIT-AiTranscribe-MacOS

https://www.soink.ai/

https://hitoku.me/draft/

https://altic.dev/fluid

https://www.typewhisper.com/

https://github.com/kitlangton/Hex

https://github.com/cjpais/handy

https://spokenly.app/

https://www.trykoe.com/

https://saga.deepgram.com/

You can find more here under the "Dictation" tab:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1HtJN4oQ6oBDFmFaF4Qeq...

gumboshoes··on FreeFlow – seamless speech to text in any app
How many times will this particular problem be solved? 500? 2000? 10,000?
gumboshoes··on I Drove $31M in Bookings as a Consultant. The System Said I Needed Improvement
Still sounds bitter even if you were right. I would reconsider this approach.
gumboshoes··on Chrome Prepares Nudge to 'Move Tabs to the Side' as Vertical Tabs Near Release
There goes two decades of muscle memory.
gumboshoes··on macOS app to copy text from screenshot
Aren't there a lot of these? Like a lot a lot?
gumboshoes··on Girl Scout troop sets up shop at weed dispensary. Cookies are in high demand
Yes, this is common.
gumboshoes··on Show HN: A weird thing that detects your pulse from the browser video
Worked for me on Android. Love the simplicity.
gumboshoes··on Show HN: Poppy – A simple app to stay intentional with relationships
Even the word "intentional" alone is an AI tell.
gumboshoes··on What podcasts are you listening to?
A Way with Words, language and linguistics https://waywordradio.org/
gumboshoes··on Apple Will Kill iPadOS
Barf. Speculative BS.
gumboshoes··on Sourdine – open-source macOS app for meeting transcription with 100% local AI
Your comment repeats itself.
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