I mentioned this story to coworkers who hadn't heard of it at dinner last night and figured I'd post it again. (surely, it's been posted many times over the years)
The video doesn't really go into how speech synthesizers technically work, so the title is misleading, but it shows how a wide variety of vintage devices and games added some kind of voice system.
> My greatest achievement has been convincing Steve Klabnik to try out Jujutsu
I came across jj from a recent Bluesky post by Steve Klabnik who was talking about having to learn something with git. That seemed very odd to me. I then gathered that he (and many others in the comments) had been using jj exclusively for some time.
I haven't had time to give it a try, but I definitely will. Your achievement has ripple effects.
I just came across this concept on Reddit. Proprioception is the perception of where your own body is, how it moves, etc.
Extended proprioception is the extension of this concept to the tools you’re handling. (despite the absence of direct sensory receptors) A classic example is how you can develop a sense of where the car you’re driving is in space. You see that also with drones, surgical robots, excavators, cranes, etc.
Following the murder, I was thinking about how much non physical violence there is, that isn’t usually seen and judged as violence. Things like denying healthcare, shutting down companies and laying off people to benefit private equity investors, forcing people into bankruptcy, losing their homes, charging overdraft fees, etc.
The people behind that kind of violence can hide behind the layers of indirection.
No, I’m on macOS. I think my main issue was with videos that didn’t always play correctly. Can’t remember exactly but I think either on Reddit or Twitter, it was just not reliable.
I’ve used both for many years. I’ve stopped using qutebrowser because it has some limitations due to be a bit behind on the web engine, which leads to problems with some sites. I still think it’s brilliant.
I wouldn’t say they do the same thing exactly. Vimium is similar to a vim-mode in something like VS Code, while qutebrowser is more like Vim itself. The Vim “spirit” is built-in and is the expectation rather than a layer added on top. The qutebrowser UI, already minimalistic, is also very configurable and scriptable.
The flip side to me is that some of the experience will be nicer with Chrome, the same way VS Code can be nicer and easier to manage.
I discovered the engine oil thing in the past two years.
In the US, I’ve always heard something like every 3 months or 3,000 to 5,000 miles. The cars even warn you in that timeframe.
In Europe, a mechanic was very confused when I talked about an oil change when one was done the prior year. He said it’s more every 2 years or 20,000 to 25,000 kilometers. Once again the cars were set up to warn at that distance.
I’d love to get to the bottom of it. Why such a difference? I can understand the garages wanting the extra business, but why would the car manufacturers go with it?
Thought I'd share again since I needed it, found it and thought it was a perfectly simple and efficient tool. I liked that I could download the ePub directly instead of figuring out how to allow KTool to send files to my Kindle when I could do it easily myself.
I put this in a different comment but you can also have a single automation that toggles the setting for those apps on open and close. This way you have a single list of apps to maintain.
You can also have a Shortcut that toggles the setting when you open and close specific apps.
I just did it and it’s very simple:
- in the Shortcuts app, go to Automations
- add a new one and pick “App” as the trigger
- choose the apps you want color in and pick “run immediately” and on open and close
- on the next screen pick “new blank automation”
- in the new shortcut add “Set Color Filters” and set to toggle
You can also make different automations for open and close, but toggle works as long as you toggle the effects manually. But in this case you can just toggle it back manually.
Ah that’s a great point! Yes, I was really talking about the presentation aspect only. And indeed how to get to experiment with it in the cheapest way.
I now realize the term I was looking for was “desktop environment”. Somehow it completely skipped my mind.
I do the same. It's what prompted the question: it's annoying that all these links include some tracking, and it feels (to me) that there can't possibly be enough money to be made to make that annoyance worthwhile. Evidently I'm wrong, but I don't really understand the scale at which it becomes valuable.