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  • Behold the future of programming

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  • You’re only partially correct about input speed. If you want to dictate an email then yes you need to think about each word you want to say and the order in which to say them. Coupled with an LLM that problem is diminished because you can just kind of have a conversation with the LLM and tell it to draft an email.

    and how much of that conversation with an LLM is "No, what I want is..." because it assumed something; or just straight up hallucinated or the typo made it go off on a tangent?

    As for whisper, I can find sources that are saying for American-English speakers in a not-noisy environment (aka the best case scenario,) the model has a word error rate between 2-8%. For reference, Dragon NaturallySpeaking had a WER of 3-5%. So I wouldn't say that Whisper has made any substantial improvements, and they're OpenAi. you can trust them if you want. I don't think that'll work out well in the long run, though.

  • Behold the future of programming

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  • I remember Dragon SpeechDragon Naturally Speaking saying the same thing in the 90's. It's improved, but not enough to make it useful as more than an aide for people who can't type. I do agree, that for simple accessibility, it should be integrated into every field, but I doubt it's ever going to take over.

    As others have noted, that it's only technically true that dictation is faster than typing. In a practical sense, there's a fair number of reasons why that's not the case, including that usually thinking about the entry is what's the slowest, and also the errors in both are typically what slows people down.

    there's also the problem of, for example, keeping entries confidential. You don't want to speak your passwords where others can hear you.

  • Is this a rope hanging under a helicopter?

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  • And why would that be?

  • Is this a rope hanging under a helicopter?

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  • Is this a rope hanging under a helicopter?

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  • riding skis!

  • Behold the future of programming

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  • Well the mask is a steno mask

    Theoretically most people will speak faster than they type. You have to type around 180-200 wpm to be faster than speaking.

    (I say theoretically, because usually typing speed ratings also ding you for errors, and uh, speech transcription isn’t really there, either.)

  • Mitch McConnell provides proof of life, reveals fall led to hospitalization after weeks of silence

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  • Right. and it looks kinda... off, too. Like. I dunno. these fucks can't be trusted with anything.

    Edit: someone showed why down below...)

  • Sláinte I'm a Romulan

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  • Star fleet, sure.

    And humans dominate Star fleet for some (out of universe) reason

  • Sláinte I'm a Romulan

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  • She’s ex Tal shiar.

    They’ve been known to do ridiculous things to infiltrate places and kill people.

    I assume the “southerners” are way more zealous and changed themselves to look not-romulan. (Vulcan and human are obvious choices)

  • definitely not recording!

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  • I don’t normally suggest punching people because they wear glasses…. But I think an exception should be made.

    They’re very punch-able glasses.

  • US Democrat Ro Khanna detained by Israeli settlers during West Bank visit

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  • Detained is a polite way to say it.

    Actually. It’s really quite rude. Rude to Ro Khanna. Rude to us. Rude to everyone who gives a damn about the truth. Rude and downright offensive.

    The only people this is “polite” to are the settlers and genocidal maniacs.

  • What causes this type of surface defects

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  • This is also my take on it.

  • Any idea what could be causing this? Update: I thought I figured it out but I was wrong. Update 2: Actually solved!

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  • Looks like some extrusion issues, at least for the stuff along the vertical walls. my initial guess is clogged nozzle, though it might also be temperature issues

  • Nothing but the best [Scott Metzger]

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  • there's a huge in the city where I work. Hundreds of birds. Sometimes when it's extremely cold... they roost in a few trees at my building. They seem to move around a bit; in any case, I knew a guy that made the dumb decision to shout at them.

    They did not let him forget his mistake. And, yeah. I'm not sure changing town was enough.... dude was a total dick so I'm there for the pettiness.

  • Nothing but the best [Scott Metzger]

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  • Like most people, they’re highly motivated by food.

    Find where they roost and feed them. Roasted peanuts, etc, are a good option (just avoid super salty stuff.)

    Be patient and set the food down and walk away to start, then walk less far then set it down and stay close and so on.

    Also remember that they have excellent memory and can recognize individuals, so they will remember you. They might even come find you.

    (And don’t be mean. They will remember you! And they might even come find you.)

  • Best Star Trek Captain (wrong answers only)

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  • Jelico wasn't a bad captain because of what he did. he's a bad captain because of how and why he did it.

    remember, the whole reason that he was assigned to the Enterprise by Admiral Bitchqueen was because he convinced her that Ryker was too unprofessional to handle a mission of that severity. Which, he fucked up pretty badly. One has to wonder, though, if it might not have been better to send Cairo, instead of the enterprise while they dealt with their captain who had been taken prisoner by the Cardassians. or even better, have sent Jelico and Cairo on the covert mission while Enterprise did the diplomatic thing (which was kinda their job anyway. They're basically a mobile embassy armed up like a battleship. exploration just happened when there was nothing else to do.)

    I don't think the change in starfleet's culture was all on Jelico. It's incredibly difficult to change culture like that- even on a single ship. Genuine leaders know this and, in the place of a short term command, they don't even try. They change themselves to fit and operate in that cultural framework.

    While Jelico may have been technically correct on a lot of things, and people can go round and round arguing about four shift or three shift crew rotations, the reality is that he was going to be be there for a few days and Picard had things the way he wanted, and would presumably change them back. Any half-baked leader would know that it takes time to make the kind of changes he was instituting. Just for the crew shift rotations alone, that would take a month or more before the circadian rhythms of the crew weren't feeling out of whack and they were back to peak. Doing it when you know you're likely to be going into battle in the next few days is asinine.

    Further, he didn't communicate with the crew. They didn't feel the urgency he felt, or the need to be "peak" because, frankly, he didn't tell them shit. he told them what to do and expected them to do it, even though his officers on the Enterprise are themselves qualified as commanding officers and highly experienced (both in combat and in tense diplomatic negotiations. Again, the Enterprise was Starfleet's diplomatic flagship.) So that lack of urgency in their prep was more Jelico's fault than the crew's fault.

    he was like that all over the place. Dismissive of Troi's suggestions and advice in handling Ryker and the rest of the crew, dismissive of Ryker's advice, of everyone's advice. He didn't trust them to make decisions and was implementing bullshit changes without explanation or even a reasonable timeframe to get it done.

    Which only served to alienate the crew.

    The crew was expecting to go into a tense diplomatic negotiations with. The crew that he was ignoring despite this exact thing literally being their exact area of expertise within starfleet. He's an idiot and shouldn't be in charge of an automated replimat, never mind a captain (and what the fuck? they made him an admiral?!)

    yeah he was technically right about the uniform, but that conversation could have gone much, much differently. ("I understand that as ship's counselor, you want to keep things casual and comfortable, but you're not just a ship's counselor. You're a vital diplomatic aide, and I need you to look the part. Not because I'm being a jackass, but because it's important we project professionalism and unity.") (seriously. he was an ass in that conversation.)

  • Best Star Trek Captain (wrong answers only)

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  • Student pilot successfully lands plane after instructor jumps to death mid-flight

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  • Not really. Cops always default to "crime".

    Gotta pad those numbers, amirite?

  • Graham Platner suspends bid for Maine Senate seat amid sexual assault scandal | Platner announced he was leaving the race in a video posted to X.

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  • Obstruction of justice requires a physical, usually forceful, act. Like physically blocking cops from serving a warrant.

    Simply being like “I didn’t do it” or whatever his statements were… is not obstruction.

    None of that matters here. He’s unelectable. He can’t win. Doesn’t matter if he did, doesn’t matter if it’s fair. Trials can’t happen that quickly any way; and there’s plenty of other shit that he can’t power through.

    (I do happen to believe the allegations. Maybe not fields… that’s a bit suspect… but the others.)