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speech to text, with a newborn, replying to these and feeding her. i cannot purchase shift keys if they are on sparkfun, yes.
by ptorrone 9mo ago
speech to text, with a newborn, replying to these and feeding her. i cannot purchase shift keys if they are on sparkfun, yes.
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- Y_Y 9mo agoWeird that your STT doesn't handle capitals, but that's a good excuse. Sounds like you're having a challenging day, I hope my snarky joke wasn't too annoying.
- deng 9mo ago> I hope my snarky joke wasn't too annoying Don't worry, he always writes like this.
- komali2 9mo agoI think it's a trend among tech founders, I've seen some on Twitter doing it, and then a bunch of hanger-ons copying the behavior.
- renewiltord 9mo agoYou’re right. Sam Altman does this and others repeat it like people used to wear black turtlenecks.
- palmotea 9mo agoNot just tech founders. Jeffrey Epstein writing is just atrocious. Like how does anyone habitually use a commas ,, like this? I've heard it referred to as a "flex," basically doing something stupid to rub it in that you can get away with it.
- throwaway81523 9mo agoI took that as an indicator that the person was using an on-screen phone keyboard.
- komali2 9mo ago"Dictated but not read"
- georgemcbay 9mo agoI think it goes back a lot further than Twitter. As someone who hung out on IRC way back in the 1990s (and internet-knew Limor from Adafruit back before her handle was Ladyada) I associate this writing style with the culture of a lot of the hacker-related IRC channels I used to hang out in back then. Some of the same people from that era did in fact turn out to be tech founders and maybe that's how it got carried over into the Twitter-verse, but it predates that.
- quesera 9mo agoCorroborating. It goes way back to the early 90s IRC and MUD cultures, from which many of us sprung. Limor came to the scene a bit later, but the culture was well-established. Most of us would code shift when writing in other milieux, some weaned ourselves off the habit when our work started interfacing with nonreceptive readers, and a few retained the affectation to make a statement (or an anti-statement!). It's amusing to see the style resurface in a new generation though. I guess it's no more odd than when 20 year olds unknowingly emulate the dress and mannerisms from when their parents were young. We just smile and recall the age when we thought we were being different too. :)
- throwaway81523 9mo ago> early 90s IRC and MUD cultures It goes back before that. There were well known Usenet folks who adhered to the style. The 1970s-and-earlier Arpanet was before my time, but I'm sure it existed then too ;).
- stickfigure 9mo agoYou whippersnappers! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._E._Cummings https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._E._Cummings
- antonvs 9mo agoYeah, that’s what I was thinking. It’s like watching a discussion about who invented orcs, Terry Brooks or Terry Pratchett.
- CamperBob2 9mo agoExplanation: https://calteches.library.caltech.edu/51/2/CargoCult.htm https://calteches.library.caltech.edu/51/2/CargoCult.htm
- Sulf1re 8mo agoi'm 50+ I rarely capitalise, since i use punctuation and the need for capitals to break up the flow of barely legible cursive is not there. what's the point? other than social compliance. these things need purpose to live. london is still London, even without the capital. i am still me, even if I'm not overstating my own self-importance. this sentence still had a clear beginning, even if i didn't highlight it with a T. capitals are a leftover of cursive.
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- noncoml 9mo agoThe problem is not STT or feeding the baby. All his emails lack capitalization. E.g: https://gist.github.com/NPoole/d9aab9dfa2a18f4141039f7ce3505c99 https://gist.github.com/NPoole/d9aab9dfa2a18f4141039f7ce3505...
- kleiba 9mo agoCongratulations! (assuming you're the parent)
- cloudfudge 9mo agoIf not, congratulations on the heist.
- Freak_NL 9mo ago[flagged]
- zxcvasd 9mo agovaluing style over substance is folly.
- cjbgkagh 9mo agoIt is clearly a deliberate choice to send the signal of conforming to a particular type of non-conformance. It’s a costly signal because most people will see it as having the emotional maturity of a child, it signals to others that given their social status they can afford that self imposed handicap.
- zxcvasd 9mo agoyears and years and years of ptorrone's posts aren't capitalized, though. it's not like they suddenly decided today, for the purposes of this post, to change their writing style. in any case, i prefer to decide whether someone has the "emotional maturity of a child" based on what they say, not whether they push their shift key.
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- Brian_K_White 9mo agoIt's rarely the mature who talk about maturity.
- account42 9mo agoPerhaps but in this case the style does make it harder to read the substance.
- monooso 9mo ago*poorly written prose
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- layer8 9mo ago[flagged]
- cjbgkagh 9mo agoPerhaps a foot pedal? Maybe Adafruit could make one.
- 1-more 9mo agoAdafruit is maybe an all time amazing success story built on giving more of a shit than anyone else. There is a direct through line from reading MAKE in high school through programming the 8 LED POV thing through the rest of my career. Limor doesn't answer a forum question on a Sunday morning in like 2008 and I don't make my mortgage payment this month and my son gets store brand formula. I wish you every success professionally and in this new chapter with your tiny miracle, and I hope for an amicable resolution to this whole Sparkfun thing.
- spankalee 9mo agoWhat? Your other posts have capital letters for technical abbreviations and "Sparkfun", but not for "I" and the first letter of sentences. Sorry, from a bystander this looks like a straight-up lie, and why lie about such a small thing? It brings into question the truth of your other statements. Just say you like the style if that's the truth.
- ptorrone 9mo agosome are already words/abbreivations that are in my word list and some are me typing over later when i can, and some is a cut/paste if limor has something for me to add or does an edit as she looks at things. you can see my writings on the adafruit blog have caps, commenting on forums or hackersnews quickly, there will be some things someone does not like. we were at the doc with our 2 month old during this ... https://x.com/ptorrone/status/2011509017814659095 https://x.com/ptorrone/status/2011509017814659095
- jacquesm 9mo agoCongrats! It's insane to me that you'd have to defend any of this. I hope the visit went well.