RobMurray

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by RobMurray 5mo ago
Accessible PDFs are quite rare in reality. Especially if there are tables, graphics, maths, forms or anything more than plane text.
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by RobMurray 5mo ago
Apple's stt has been on-device for a long time now, long before iPhone 16. I haven't noticed any improvements since my first ever iphone 5S. I'm pretty sure wispr flow can use on-device models. I use Voiceink[0] which can us
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by RobMurray 5mo ago
for every person like your coworker, there are probably several who have a much harder time with technology and who would benefit from a simpler interface. If this includes improvements to the screen recognition feature in Voice Over, it co
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by RobMurray 5mo ago
I know plenty of blind people who have their voice speed unbearably slow and barely scratch the surface of what technology can do for them. I think an interface where you can tell your phone what to do in natural language will really help a
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by RobMurray 5mo ago
not just lan mode, you have to enable developer mode, which blocks cloud access entirely so you lose advertised functionality.
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by RobMurray 6mo ago
I'm working on a visual description app for the blind. even Gemma 4 E2B can give very useful image descriptions while at the same time taking questions as audio. It's also much faster than most of the current popular cloud based a
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by RobMurray 6mo ago
why? it's mostly reads. the weights are static.
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by RobMurray 6mo ago
First time I have seen AI psychosis being used in this way to apparently describe something positive. I think AI psychosis is a real problem that we have only just started to scratch the surface of.
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by RobMurray 6mo ago
Why is floating ground still a thing? I've found it can actually sting quite a bit if you are grounded or touch something that is.
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by RobMurray 6mo ago
it's unmistakably AI as soon as the vocals come in. maybe your ears are full of shit?
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by RobMurray 6mo ago
I got codex to vibe reverse engineer two devices from rom dumps recently - a talking timer that uses an 8051 cpu and a custom 5 bit audio format, and an ice cream van chime box that used a z80 and a ym2149 sound chip. Quite simple devices,
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by RobMurray 6mo ago
It's still Siri. Apple intelligence plus ChatGPT really didn't improve it. The speech to text is still as bad as ever. If you want to use it with ChatGPT the best way is "Siri open ChatGPT voice" which worked fine on my
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by RobMurray 7mo ago
I don't like the sound of that. Why do humans always need to spoil new advancements by finding the worst use cases?
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by RobMurray 7mo ago
any headphones or speaker with skip buttons. in podcasts it skips forward 30 or back 15 seconds. perfect for skipping ads.
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by RobMurray 8mo ago
strawberry isn't a trick question. llms jus don't sea letters like that. I just asked chatgpt how many Rs are in "Air Fryer" and it said two, one in air and one in fryer. I do think it can be useful though that these err
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by RobMurray 8mo ago
for a laugh enter nonsense at https://gradium.ai/ You get all kinds of weird noises and random words. Jack is often apologetic about the problem you are having with the Hyperion xt5000 smart hub.
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by RobMurray 8mo ago
And in copilot.
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by RobMurray 8mo ago
How does this compare to Happy Coder? https://github.com/slopus/happy
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by RobMurray 8mo ago
How have you found performance with chrome in 8gB? Is the ram shared with the GPU?
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by RobMurray 8mo ago
I had a look and it does look like a great deal for the price. It would probably be good for running home assistant. If you marketed a version with HA preloaded you could beat the Nexus1 AI base station [0] to market. The thing Home Assista
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by RobMurray 8mo ago
Yes, that makes perfect sense. Apologies for the overly negative tone of my comment. Do you have a description of the device with specs, or is it in earlier development than that? Are you using the technology from DotPad, or do you have you
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by RobMurray 8mo ago
It would be good if it used interval names rather than relying on absolute notes. Eg minor third, fifth etc. Also notes played together and more and more complex chords as level gets higher. keyboard shortcuts would be great too. And a full
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by RobMurray 8mo ago
about power usage: sure there exists a light bulb such that this draws less power, but the vast majority of light bulbs are far less than 15W. Also the mac mini sips power when idle at only 2-4W. This isn't a criticism of the product,
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by RobMurray 8mo ago
Also a lot of what you learn is how to work around limitations of today's models and agent frameworks. That will all change, and I imagine things like skills and subagents will just be an internal detail that you don't need to kno
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by RobMurray 8mo ago
My feeling is that focusing on the display hardware is the way to go. I have seen so many great Braille devices let down by poor, slow, out-of-date software, especially since they started using Android. The computing device part will always
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by RobMurray 8mo ago
There are some, in particular the orbit reader[0] is much cheaper than a piezoelectric display. The trade off is that is is relatively slow to refresh and quite noisy. There is also the dot pad[1] which is much more like a screen with a rec
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by RobMurray 8mo ago
Wow your ability to research products is truly inspiring! We should campaign to get this site renamed to buyer news to reflect what really matters in life.
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by RobMurray 8mo ago
How often do you need to invent novel algorithms or data structures? Most human written code is just rehashing existing ideas as well.
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by RobMurray 8mo ago
You can work around this by putting most of your project in spm packages and making the Xcode project a small shim that depends on the other packages. Tuist makes this even better, it generates the Xcode project so you don't commit the
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by RobMurray 8mo ago
Xcode isn't necessarily the problem. Some people like it. That's fine. But apple forces it's use for iOS development. There are workarounds like Tuist, but you are still locked into Xcode for debugging, instruments, and even

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