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   by montag 4y ago

   There's a pretty advanced Mac OS speech markup language, I wrote about it here: https://www.mattmontag.com/personal/mac-os-x-speech-synthesi... Going back further, there was also a prosody markup for Sound Blaster
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   Dyson Headphones with built-in air filtration(dyson.com)

   2 points by montag 4y ago|0 comments
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   by montag 4y ago

   Yes! I remember running my finger down the column of electrical contact switches and changing the channel at 60 fps. "brrrrrrip!"
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   by montag 4y ago

   Eventually, we will rely on machines to help us understand software code. Think "fill in missing code comments with GPT-3." Now add 10 years of focused research to make this more reliable and intelligible. It must be inevitable, r
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   by montag 4y ago

   Brilliant explanation and walkthrough of some problems encountered along the way. Thank you for demystifying Blink/Skia a little bit.
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   by montag 4y ago

   Beautiful story. Incidentally, we now have Twitter rebranding Birdwatch as Community Notes…
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   by montag 4y ago

   Today I learned "toot sweet" is an eggcorn for "tout de suite" (very quickly).
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   by montag 4y ago

   How do you like the miniDSP? Thinking about getting one - room correction definitely seems like a job for hardware; i.e. easy enough for a DSP, more portable and hassle-free than setting up software on one computer.
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   by montag 4y ago

   I accidentally implemented this behavior in a number input recently. Felt stupid after fixing it. This stuff can happen so easily when people don't use the stuff they build.
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    by montag 4y ago

    This has got to be some kind of vestige from Windows 3.11, when the spinner control was about 3x larger - relative to the common screen sizes of the time, that is.
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    by montag 4y ago

    Yes, I love that the entire fix is a 5 byte change.
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    Fixing a 30-year-old Roland synthesizer bug(vogons.org)

    189 points by montag 4y ago|33 comments
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    by montag 4y ago

    Absolutely, 100% this. Also, I really appreciate how candid the author of the article is. Why is it so hard to admit our human foibles?
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    by montag 4y ago

    Another pet peeve: The effect of gun ownership on suicide rates goes totally ignored. Suicide accounts for 21k out of 33k annual gun deaths in the US[1]. If we're outraged by school shootings, we should be apoplectic about facilitating
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    by montag 4y ago

    I have to disagree with you. The site went from a basement project look-and-feel to something much more slick and credible. I'm with you right up until the point where people are paying for TinyPilot out of the business account; then t
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    by montag 4y ago

    "I don't have a horse in this race, but (impassioned rant about what the horses should do, which ones should win or lose, and why...)" As consumers, we do have a horse in the race. I would cheer for the horse with fewer regul
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    by montag 4y ago

    In my opinion the Samsung Q7C is the best 4K TV for desktop computing: - it's curved - it can do 1920x1080 at 120 hz - it does 4:4:4 color That said, I still like multimonitor setups. The built-in partitioning is a nice feat
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    by montag 4y ago

    The actual PR looks so poor that I can't imagine it was submitted in good faith.
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    by montag 4y ago

    It’s a great serif, introduced with macOS Catalina I think.
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    by montag 4y ago

    Back in my day, if you had Helvetica installed on Windows, it wasn’t made for screen rendering and looked terrible. I remember putting Windows-friendly fonts higher in the stack for that reason
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    by montag 5y ago

    I didn't say _perceptual_ watermarking, which, as you point out, is at odds with perceptual audio compression... :)
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    by montag 5y ago

    The Universal watermarks story is mostly in the past. The Spotify catalog has been cleaned up to the point where I rarely come across it. Here's a playlist I used to share at Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist&#
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    by montag 5y ago

    Any source for this? Interested to read more. I feel the whole AOL saga would make a great Netflix documentary series. Lots of interesting wrinkles, like the acquisition of Winamp.
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    by montag 5y ago

    If nobody knows the difference, I'd consider the problem solved. But in order to get to that state, search engines need to exert continuous pressure.
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    by montag 5y ago

    Or maybe you’re one of us whose car and microwave clock is an hour behind for 6 months every year…
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    by montag 5y ago

    Reminds me of when we removed the “Previous Track” button on the Rdio player controls. The data showed that users skipped to previous only a tiny fraction of the time. Lasted about 3 days in production. Underlying this fallacy is the assump
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    by montag 5y ago

    Not just work. Deep Work.
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    by montag 5y ago

    This guy is my favorite Forbes clickbait artist: https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/
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    by montag 5y ago

    It does feel like a bargain, all things considered. Plus you get YouTube Music.
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    by montag 5y ago

    I'd place a very small bet that a few of these trickle back online after the furor dies down...