Deebster

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[–] Deebster@programming.dev 1 points 9 months ago

You're assuming that we can't have both. Why not have it as an complementary input?

I think looking at a device and talking is better than saying hey $brandname before everything, but having both would be better still.

[–] Deebster@programming.dev 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The problem with stats like these are that Firefox users (and the browser's defaults) block a lot of the scripts and images used for tracking.

Cloudflare's stats show higher Firefox usage (4.737% for 2023 Q3), although that's still less than even Edge. My own logs show more still, although my visitors are more technical than usual.

[–] Deebster@programming.dev 3 points 9 months ago

"is in good health"? I was looking for autocorrect typos but can't figure out anything likely, unless they're not using querty.

[–] Deebster@programming.dev 12 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Even ignoring privacy arguments, I think that voice control is a great use case for running services locally - lower latency due to not having up upload your sample and the option of having it learn your accent is very attractive.

That said, voice control is irritatingly error-prone and seems to be slower than just reaching for the remote control. I agree that automatic stuff would be best, but some stuff you can't have rules for.

Something that would be interesting is a more eye- and gesture-based system: I'm thinking something like you look at the camera and slice across your throat for stop or squeeze fingers together to reduce volume. This is definitely one to run locally, for privacy and performance reasons.

[–] Deebster@programming.dev 8 points 9 months ago

Federation like that sounds perfect, and would definitely help out for the current situation I see where projects are officially on, say, Gitlab but still accept pull requests on GitHub. I'm sure that involves some annoying manual process (although should be less hassle than the code review!)

[–] Deebster@programming.dev 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

I think Google's the worst for this. Examples such as the browser Chrome, when browser chrome has been a thing for a long time. Go, a very common verb and keyword and also now a programming language. Not to be confused with their Go Links, which was a URL shortener. And then there's all the ones they either rebrand or retire and/or replace.

Perhaps they want confusing names because they think other search engines can't handle the ambiguity.

[–] Deebster@programming.dev 2 points 9 months ago

You mean "nuclear Gandhi" in the early Civilisation games? That apparently was just an urban legend, albeit one so popular it got actually added (as a joke) in Civ 5.

[–] Deebster@programming.dev 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

btw, if you put double spaces at the end of a line, it makes a new line without a new paragraph:

It's not DNS
There's no way it's DNS
It was DNS

[–] Deebster@programming.dev 3 points 9 months ago

Assuming an alternative goal is indeed the logical response here. It is plausible that the opposing team recognised that they could not triumph against a Vulcan team and set themselves a more achievable goal, for example scoring within 80%.

[–] Deebster@programming.dev 1 points 9 months ago

I've used some of their components in a little helper program that was scraping some stats from a service without an API, so Servo code will end up in plenty of projects besides Firefox (and Tauri). Good news for all of us.

[–] Deebster@programming.dev 15 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, I was thinking it's like the "Voyager Has Left the Solar System" story - we've heard that several times over the years, and probably will again.

[–] Deebster@programming.dev 1 points 9 months ago

I use this too, and find it better in almost every way.

Swapping @ and " is a mixed blessing since the quote is used quite a lot when coding, but then so is the @. In prose I prefer to use US-style double quotes for quotations and leave single quotes for contractions, possession, etc, so I have to do that awkward shift-2 combo a lot.

Having an extra key is great for us coders since we use most of those weird glyphs (never used ¬) and having easy access to # is chefkiss.png.

ISO layout's tall enter key is great for touch typing since you don't need to be very accurate with your little finger and moving the | \ key next to Z is much more convenient. I like the symmetry of the slash keys, too.

Alt-Gr make loads of shortcuts easier, although occasionally I want that key to be a normal alt instead.

Top one is ISO-UK:

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