Wasn't mentioned on mine, either (Ohio, United States). My subscription is through in-app purchase, so I'm assuming that'll go through Apple's usual "your subscription price is increasing" flow.
I have a 2023 Crosstrek, my wife has a '21 Ascent. I have the same habit you do - edging away from large trucks slightly - and both of them do the same thing you described to me. It's essentially that Subaru's lane…
I'm deaf, so I test a lot of speech to text and transcription apps from an accessibility point of view. My answer to "why have a monthly subscription" would be that you need capabilities that Whisper doesn't handle…
Yep, I'm also deaf (since age 6), went through a lot of speech therapy, and have a very pronounced deaf accent. I live in the midwestern US (specifically, Ohio) and at least once a year I get asked where I'm from -…
Yeah, I've been deaf for over 40 years now and captioning glasses are something that I've wanted ever since I was a kid. I'm not a particularly big fan of Meta and I have some serious reservations around privacy that…
One of my weird hobbies is radar chasing storms, and all of that stuff is completely normal. NEXRAD is very sensitive, especially when it's in clear air mode (it has different modes depending on if it's raining in the…
> In the last 10 years has technology actually made my life better? In my case? Yes, absolutely. Automatic speech to text is now cheap or free, ubiquitous across most platforms (even Linux!), and generally very…
I would say it's cool in the sense that building anything is cool, but I find myself mostly in agreement with your take, although with a caveat. I can't find the quote now, but someone (I think simonw?) said that they…
Yup. I grew up in Hancock Co and used to ride occasionally with the bike club there, had a couple of days when the ride out was brutal because of persistent, endless wind, but then the ride back was awesome for the same…
Yep, I'm in the exact same situation as you. The tools for in-person are getting better, but aren't frictionless to set up and sometimes require you to spend time futzing with getting your iPad or iPhone to actually see…
I have the OG 13" MBP M1, and it's been great; I only have two real reasons I'm considering jumping to the 14" MBP M4 Pro finally: - More RAM, primarily for local LLM usage through Ollama (a bit more overhead for bigger…
Best retro I ever had, on a small team of seniors: we all sat down, looked at each other, agreed that a sprint happened and we couldn't think of anything that was good or bad about it. Then we called in our manager, who…
Yup - I've done double-ended safety razors, I've tried the Gillette and Harry's disposable ones, but in 30+ years of shaving what I keep coming back to is Braun electric razors. So far, they're the only option I've…
Yes, I was on an internal project recently that wanted to use LLMs in a way that was appropriate to evaluate if changes between two versions of a text were semantically meaningful, and limited to that scope, it would've…
I did something similar recently with my daughter's school calendar and ChatGPT with gpt-4o; her school has a ton of closures/teacher work days, I fed the PDF of the calendar in and asked it for all the dates that…
Speaking as someone who's deaf and uses these services a lot: for speech to text, the AI stuff is getting rather good. I'm not saying it's perfect for every situation, but I have a very high success rate using…
It does, but at least on iOS, turning on incognito mode also turns off the YT premium features that you're paying for.
I've been running Consent-o-matic [1] in both Chrome and Firefox for quite a while now, which automates a lot of them. You can set your preferences for what categories of cookies you want to allow. [1]…
As I recall, this was more or less the concept behind Brilliant Pebbles [0], except Starship makes it cost-effective to launch. I'm not going to argue whether building it is a good idea, but it also seems like Starship…
Yeah, I agree with this take. For web and console apps, C#/dotnet is a great choice and should continue to be. Blazor, I think, is also fine (for some use cases, it's situational) and I think it's at the point it'll…
NSubstitute is good, I used it at a previous job. I've favored Moq in the past because I think there are a couple of things it makes a bit easier or is a bit less opinionated about, but NSub is perfectly cromulent as…
That's a good point, and I had a similar reaction. I got laid off from my first job out of college in late 2006. Unemployed for 3 months, found a role with a new company 2 hours away, moved, and stayed there over 12…
Also built into Windows 11 as of the 22H2 release, just for the record. That said, I may have to try this out - I've wanted to give Linux another go on my desktop but since I use captions rather heavily, that's been a…
I definitely had to experiment as well - I bounced around between Claritin and Allegra for a couple of years. I did try Zyrtec and experienced significant fatigue with it, which led me to stop using it pretty quickly.…
If the audio was actually sent to MS, I'd feel no worse than I would about Google getting it for live transcribe; the privacy implications annoy me but I'd rather have the captions. That said, Win11 live captions work…
Wasn't mentioned on mine, either (Ohio, United States). My subscription is through in-app purchase, so I'm assuming that'll go through Apple's usual "your subscription price is increasing" flow.
I have a 2023 Crosstrek, my wife has a '21 Ascent. I have the same habit you do - edging away from large trucks slightly - and both of them do the same thing you described to me. It's essentially that Subaru's lane…
I'm deaf, so I test a lot of speech to text and transcription apps from an accessibility point of view. My answer to "why have a monthly subscription" would be that you need capabilities that Whisper doesn't handle…
Yep, I'm also deaf (since age 6), went through a lot of speech therapy, and have a very pronounced deaf accent. I live in the midwestern US (specifically, Ohio) and at least once a year I get asked where I'm from -…
Yeah, I've been deaf for over 40 years now and captioning glasses are something that I've wanted ever since I was a kid. I'm not a particularly big fan of Meta and I have some serious reservations around privacy that…
One of my weird hobbies is radar chasing storms, and all of that stuff is completely normal. NEXRAD is very sensitive, especially when it's in clear air mode (it has different modes depending on if it's raining in the…
> In the last 10 years has technology actually made my life better? In my case? Yes, absolutely. Automatic speech to text is now cheap or free, ubiquitous across most platforms (even Linux!), and generally very…
I would say it's cool in the sense that building anything is cool, but I find myself mostly in agreement with your take, although with a caveat. I can't find the quote now, but someone (I think simonw?) said that they…
Yup. I grew up in Hancock Co and used to ride occasionally with the bike club there, had a couple of days when the ride out was brutal because of persistent, endless wind, but then the ride back was awesome for the same…
Yep, I'm in the exact same situation as you. The tools for in-person are getting better, but aren't frictionless to set up and sometimes require you to spend time futzing with getting your iPad or iPhone to actually see…
I have the OG 13" MBP M1, and it's been great; I only have two real reasons I'm considering jumping to the 14" MBP M4 Pro finally: - More RAM, primarily for local LLM usage through Ollama (a bit more overhead for bigger…
Best retro I ever had, on a small team of seniors: we all sat down, looked at each other, agreed that a sprint happened and we couldn't think of anything that was good or bad about it. Then we called in our manager, who…
Yup - I've done double-ended safety razors, I've tried the Gillette and Harry's disposable ones, but in 30+ years of shaving what I keep coming back to is Braun electric razors. So far, they're the only option I've…
Yes, I was on an internal project recently that wanted to use LLMs in a way that was appropriate to evaluate if changes between two versions of a text were semantically meaningful, and limited to that scope, it would've…
I did something similar recently with my daughter's school calendar and ChatGPT with gpt-4o; her school has a ton of closures/teacher work days, I fed the PDF of the calendar in and asked it for all the dates that…
Speaking as someone who's deaf and uses these services a lot: for speech to text, the AI stuff is getting rather good. I'm not saying it's perfect for every situation, but I have a very high success rate using…
It does, but at least on iOS, turning on incognito mode also turns off the YT premium features that you're paying for.
I've been running Consent-o-matic [1] in both Chrome and Firefox for quite a while now, which automates a lot of them. You can set your preferences for what categories of cookies you want to allow. [1]…
As I recall, this was more or less the concept behind Brilliant Pebbles [0], except Starship makes it cost-effective to launch. I'm not going to argue whether building it is a good idea, but it also seems like Starship…
Yeah, I agree with this take. For web and console apps, C#/dotnet is a great choice and should continue to be. Blazor, I think, is also fine (for some use cases, it's situational) and I think it's at the point it'll…
NSubstitute is good, I used it at a previous job. I've favored Moq in the past because I think there are a couple of things it makes a bit easier or is a bit less opinionated about, but NSub is perfectly cromulent as…
That's a good point, and I had a similar reaction. I got laid off from my first job out of college in late 2006. Unemployed for 3 months, found a role with a new company 2 hours away, moved, and stayed there over 12…
Also built into Windows 11 as of the 22H2 release, just for the record. That said, I may have to try this out - I've wanted to give Linux another go on my desktop but since I use captions rather heavily, that's been a…
I definitely had to experiment as well - I bounced around between Claritin and Allegra for a couple of years. I did try Zyrtec and experienced significant fatigue with it, which led me to stop using it pretty quickly.…
If the audio was actually sent to MS, I'd feel no worse than I would about Google getting it for live transcribe; the privacy implications annoy me but I'd rather have the captions. That said, Win11 live captions work…