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robmsmt··on Sick of smart TVs? Here are your best options
What’s wrong with never configuring the WiFi for it?
robmsmt··on Swiss glaciers have shrunk by a quarter since 2015, study says
Tragically common. A tragedy of the commons if you will.
robmsmt··on macOS Tahoe
This is a bug. The applications need to be reindexed. Happened to me on my work laptop and personal one
robmsmt··on The Synology End Game
I’ve been thinking more and more with synology’s recent changes that it would open up the market for some new entrants that are like the system76 of NAS that are:

- low power cpu (arm?)

- uses latest kernel and flavor of Linux distributions

- makes own modular hardware in smallish form factor

- basic support package with slower SLAs to more professional SLAs for enterprises, I would happily pay per month to prevent enshitification if I had guaranteed support and even more so if it bundled some zero trust encrypted cloud storage.

robmsmt··on New Study: Waymo is reducing serious crashes and making streets safer
Waymo is part of my investment thesis as to why Google is undervalued
robmsmt··on Donald Trump Names XRP, Sol, ADA, BTC and ETH as Part of U.S. Crypto Reserve
It can seem great when the market jumps like this... but I am more wary and skeptical than ever. Now feels like a good time to de-risk.
robmsmt··on Show HN: Robyn – “Batman Inspired” Python Web Framework Built with Rust
Can't speak for Robyn since that is competing in an already aggressively competitive landscape (webserving). Whereas introduction of RUFF/UV by astral has been exceptional.
robmsmt··on Show HN: Robyn – “Batman Inspired” Python Web Framework Built with Rust
Python's success is partly because it is easy to do things. It has a huge market share. Combining the speed advantage of one programming language, with another seems like a great idea.
robmsmt··on Mozilla flamed by Firefox fans after reneging on promises to not sell their data
In another alternative dimension, the Firefox guys 10 years ago would have capitalized on what their users wanted which is mostly around privacy and not being Google. Instead we got pocket, a re-hashed VPN and a bunch of privacy-degrading changes which slowly erode trust.
robmsmt··on NIH.gov DNS servers down, making PubMed, BLAST, etc. unreachable
Because NIH has been targeted by DOGE, keep up
robmsmt··on The decision to eat may come down to these three neurons
Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08098-1
robmsmt··on Dropbox keeps threatening to delete my files
I also had exactly the same experience. I ended up losing lots of documents.
robmsmt··on Memorizing a programming language using spaced repetition software (2013)
Also curious
robmsmt··on Inverted perovskite solar cell breaks 25% efficiency record
can you elaborate a bit more on your setup?
robmsmt··on I think GCP is better than AWS (2020)
I am about to go through this so happy to give feedback
robmsmt··on A Texas semiconductor boom on the horizon?
reminds me when a friend said "escape goat" rather than "scapegoat"
robmsmt··on macOS updates for Apple Silicon Macs are larger than reported
I don't understand how Apple have got this update process so wrong. I recently switched from a Ubuntu work laptop (that had live Kernel patching and occasional non-forced reboots) to big whole image OSX needing to update at the worst possible moment.
robmsmt··on The Pile: An 800GB dataset of diverse text for language modeling (2020)
Would love to see an early version of it!
robmsmt··on Could you train a ChatGPT-beating model for $85k and run it in a browser?
and is completely at capacity
robmsmt··on Gut epithelial barrier damage caused by dishwasher detergents and rinse aids
can you explain more on the gas stoves and oven part?
robmsmt··on What went wrong with Snap, Netflix and Uber?
I had the same issue and reinstalling the app fixed it. it started when I got a new phone and some of my data must have been corrupted on the initial app download
robmsmt··on I wish my web server were in the corner of my room
curious what Speech to text you're running on it
robmsmt··on Why are nuclear power construction costs so high? Part III – the nuclear navy
Thanks for the link, what are your thoughts on the position that France is in with a number of reactors out of action and requiring repairs? From an outsiders perspective, I am curious if it is really as simple as the French not keeping up with maintenance and it catching them at a bad time or are there issues with the reactor type or other influencing factors.
robmsmt··on Day ahead electricity prices for EU
Can you elaborate on what you reduced and what was remaining for the 800w? I am curious
robmsmt··on Spotify podcasters are making $18k a month with nothing but white noise
... and please hit subscribe. Now a message from our sponsor.
robmsmt··on Metrication timeline (2018)
since this is hn, perhaps base 16?
robmsmt··on Managing Python Versions with Pyenv
why did they call it pyenv when it has nothing to do with python environments, well at least the existing python virtual environment nomenclature
robmsmt··on Day trader army loses all the money it made in meme-stock era
the problem with options is that you need to guess the right direction as well as the timing. With stocks you just need the former
robmsmt··on Show HN: Bookvine.io – Help find age appropriate books for kids aged 6 to 14
Fantastic, bookmarked. I would love to see book suggestions for younger kids too
robmsmt··on Otter.ai has saved reporters hours transcribing interviews. Caveat emptor
Offline: Sphinx, VOSK, Nvidia NeMo, SpeechBrain, Coqui, Kaldi... some off the top of my head. Some of these require more setup & effort and are more research grade than others.

There are also proprietary ASRs which can run offline.

I wrote a small python application to evaluate some of them. Link in my profile!

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