To run text-to-speech on my laptop, I've been using Justine Tunney's downloadable single executable Whisper file.
I use it transcribe audio then copy into an LLM to get notes on whatever it is. Helps me decide to watch or listen to something and saves a bunch of time.
I installed Aider last week - it just started doing this prompt-write-run-ingest_errors-restart cycle. Using it with git you can also undo code changes if it goes wrong. It's free and open source.
- There are no winter killoffs due to warming temperatures.
- Invasive plants like Japanese barberry are becoming extremely common and create microclimates that support mice that ticks live on before attaching to deer.
I believe some tick-borne diseases are becoming more common - I know two people that have had babesiosis, and one person and one dog with anaplasmosis. One of the babesiosis cases was not caught by the hospital in the first go-around and required a blood exchange and almost 2 months in the hospital and rehab.
There is a new invasive insect called the deer ked [0] that crawls like the girl from The Ring and may be a new vector for tick diseases (and they fly!).
Highly recommend checking out the CDC on tick-borne diseases [1], using DEET/permethrin [2] (no permethrin with cats, though), and doing tick checks if you spend time outside.
Even not-so-great-sounding contracts pay 50-65/hr, might be a confidence boost. Level up your skills on udemy, if necessary (wait for courses to be 80% off or whatever, happens regularly).
Could also go corporate at a non-tech for low stress and a decent salary.
Some crane operators in NYC apparently make up to $500,000!!
Kind of crazy that some skilled work pays so much. That may be fine, but makes me wonder if any planners/civil engineers/whatever are making anywhere close to that.
- Require a photo of the author with a photo of gov-issued id.
- Maybe require a dated piece of paper or a Clarkesworld word-of-the-day in the photo.
- If submitter is from a country with hard-to-get gov-id, or just doesn't have/want it, their submission goes in the extra scrutiny pile.
I'm not too keen on requiring gov id, so maybe someone has a better idea?
I'm pretty sure you just need to increase friction for spammers in meatspace to solve this. I'm not saying this is scalable, but we're just trying to fix it for Clarksworld.
And the attitude in your comment toward the program seems to be "Why bother?" But this program:
- connects people together
- provides hormone/antibiotic-free meat
- is low cost
What's wrong with that?
The pedantic negativity on HN towards good things, in comments like yours, is a real bummer.