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by smeej 2y ago
I've been (semi-)intentionally unemployed for a little over a year now, and I reached a point a couple months ago where I just LOST IT at the prospect of having to continue to make decisions at every moment of every day about what to d
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by smeej 2y ago
I think most of the problem I run into is that I don't use a lot of mainstream services. Like, my step count, heart rate, and weight info isn't in FitBit and Google Health. It's in GadgetBridge and openScale. And I'm not
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by smeej 2y ago
Well, right, but largely for that reason, most of them suck.
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by smeej 2y ago
I'm looking for something like this that runs on Linux. Best thing I've found is LiveCaptions, but its output is janky. I can't just use it to type in any old text field, and its output requires substantial editing after the
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by smeej 2y ago
The example of "fast food drive-thru" really cleared this up for me. Frankly I'm surprised there isn't already some sort of NFC info transfer system in fast food restaurants' apps that lets you and everyone in your
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by smeej 2y ago
Good question. For the team: From the term "personal dashboard," I was expecting something that would allow me to track data that's important to me, locally, like if I want to track my sleep stats and my spending and my food
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by smeej 2y ago
Which "3%" stat are we measuring, though? That's the part I don't understand. Does it mean we would expect 100% of people to miss an average of 3% of the total words, or does it mean we would expect 3% of the people to m
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by smeej 2y ago
This is incredible to me, the kind of science fiction I actually want to see become fact in situations like this. I'm wondering a bit about this claim, though, and hoping someone more familiar with the field can shed some light on it:
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by smeej 2y ago
Misery is (usually) a choice. Yes, there are situations of exploitation and abuse, and that's why I put in the caveat, but even if you imagine situations that seem terrible from where you're sitting now, most of them have examples
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by smeej 2y ago
Punctuating is enough of the hard work of generating a transcript that it's not very useful to me without this, unfortunately. What use cases are you planning for where the words themselves are the desired output?
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by smeej 2y ago
Is there a way to get it to punctuate? Or does it only jot down words?
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by smeej 2y ago
For some reason I have a hard time with "quest" because it seems to have an endpoint. I'm not "on a quest to hike all the mountains." I'm just the kind of person for whom that kind of thing eventually happens b
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by smeej 2y ago
Do you mean ephemeral, or are you actually wondering about something implanted under the skin? I'd think/hope if it goes under the skin, it ends up in "hearing aid" territory. I'm less sure about if it doesn't
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by smeej 2y ago
I was so excited until the very end. I have the wrong hardware.
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by smeej 2y ago
I've been using Transcribro[0] on Android/GrapheneOS. It's FOSS and only local, and while it's not word-for-word real-time, it doesn't have to wait for the whole audio to be uploaded before it can work. This is on a
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by smeej 2y ago
I think I slip into this mode automatically. As soon as I think of a "goal," I immediately ask myself what kinds of habits a person who accomplished that goal would likely have. Then I find the lowest possible resistance way to ha
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by smeej 2y ago
Maybe. Or at least it's probably one of the factors that helps them sleep at night and get up in the morning. I don't really see what that has to do with my point, though. I'm saying we don't have to assume anyone has
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by smeej 2y ago
Lifespans were going up, for older generations who were raised under different conditions than we have today. Today's young people are much more sickly than their forebears.
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by smeej 2y ago
Every day it gets harder for me to believe that the medical and pharmaceutical industrial system's configuration of incentives can ever lead to improvements in health for people. I don't doubt there are many, many researchers an
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by smeej 2y ago
It's surprising and disappointing how rarely it goes over well. It's led me to believe most people deserve to feel "impostor syndrome." One of my favorite feelings is the one I get when I have an opportunity to change
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by smeej 2y ago
I developed something like this, but it manifests more as "question everything until it makes sense to me. " I feel like I'm constitutionally incapable of taking anybody's word for anything, but it's vastly worse
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by smeej 2y ago
I really don't like that this worked on me even though I'm not the person you were replying to. But thanks too.
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by smeej 2y ago
Is it? There are several ways to draw against the equity of the house in the U.S. Are these absent in Canada?
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by smeej 2y ago
Just because we normally aren't reading letter by letter, it doesn't mean we can't. We can recognize common words on sight, ignoring minor variations, because we've seen the words thousands or millions of times, but
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by smeej 2y ago
To be fair, he also uses the pulpit for the announcements before the Mass, not just preaching ;) It really does help especially the elderly parishioners to hear it directly from the mouth of someone they trust, though. And he tells them if
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by smeej 2y ago
I don't know how much name recognition matters when people are SO polarized about the extremely well-known name on the other side. It seems like this is really going to be a "for Trump" and "against Trump" election
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by smeej 2y ago
I didn't think I did, but cycling it a couple times and restarting did fix! Great guess! The thing I'm tripping over now is just that I keep pressing the button more than once when I'm done speaking because it's not clea
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by smeej 2y ago
Not sure what I'm doing wrong, but I tried installing it on a GrapheneOS device with Play Services installed and nothing happened. When I pushed the mic button, it changed to look pressed for a second, and went back to normal. Nothin
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by smeej 2y ago
I've assumed these were VOIP calls, not actual telephony calls from other countries.
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by smeej 2y ago
I beat that drum so long it turned into beating my head against a wall. The last two companies I worked for insisted that customer account security was the highest priority, but as soon as I said we needed to stop hiding links to our own we

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