The first time I did that, I was 11 years old, and it was a school night. Ended up not going to school the next day because I had such a huge headache after watching all those movies back to back. I get really bad headaches when I really enjoy a good book or movie.
@BorrisInABox for me because I know it really well, I can sleep to it, and if I do wake up, I hear where I am, and just go back to sleep, as long as my body lets me go back to sleep.
@BorrisInABox most of the time I use HP fan fics, and NVDA, because JFW stops after three hours of reading, and for what ever reason most times I wake up if what started before I fall asleep stops.
@BorrisInABox it was a recent version, but I actually timed it, and at least for me, right at the three hour mark it would just stop reading. it was really weird.
For a long time, I have looked for voices that I like besides eloquence. I find that it can be a bit muddy sometimes. Not quite as bright as I would like. During a recent demo of NVDA, I listened to Microsoft Zira. I have started using it with NVDA and I quite like it. It is responsive, it pronounces things decently, and I find it a bit easier to understand using my laptop when I’m not using headphones and just using the speakers.
I wish you could put an equalizer on just Eloquence on Windows. On iOS, I rolled off the lows and peaked the mids. Helps a lot. I can do this globally with Equalizer APO on Windows, but that isn't specific to the synthesizer.
I tried all those Microsoft voices years ago, and just couldn't.
I usually fly to North Carolina around Christmas to hang out with my family for a bit. This year, with everything going on, I'm a little wary of doing that. I also would really rather not be here at that time. Do I risk my mental health, or my (AND OTHERS) physical health? So many choices.
Don’t let world or national events keep you from your family. If you don’t want to go, then don’t. If you really do want to be with them, go have a good holiday.
In case it helps, Amtrak has a train from Mew York Penn that passes through the city that I think your parents live in. I took it last week. Leaves at 2 PM and gets there in the early morning.
Ok, cool. Yeah, in my silly quest of riding subway lines to the ends, I rode the A train and then the shuttle to Rockaway Park Veach 116th St. it’s out there. Still haven’t gotten around to posting about all my train rides because family stuff hit the fan and I had to rush to Atlanta.
I very much hate 116th. I will do whatever I can to avoid it. I have previously walked to the bus to the ferry, then taken the ferry to Wall Street and gone from there to Penn Station just to avoid 116th Street.
Ah, sorry? No, wasn't referring to that. Just that it's a shitty Thursday and it just so happens to be Thursday. Everything that could happen on Thursday happened on Thursday. So I'm looking forward to Friday. You're good.
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@tragivictoria Carbonara: spaghetti, save the starchy salted water; pasta goes undrained from pot to second pot over low heat, butter, egg+salt+pepper, NEVER STOP STIRRING, add the guanciale/pancetta/bacon/whatever, add grated cheese. I had some grana padano around and a pecorino clone. NEVER STOP STIRRING; you want the egg to coat the pasta, not cook at the bottom of the pot.
CRITICAL STEP: add a couple ladle-fuls of the starchy water while you are mixing, until it becomes creamy and flowy.
@tragivictoria Ratatouille: more like a pretty version of a tian de courgettes. Preheat oven to high. Pan: cubed eggplant goes into olive oil; when half-cooked add cubed bell pepper; stir a bit; add lotsa garlic, salt, pepper, some herbs. All goes at the bottom of a dish for the oven. On top, lay rows of alternating tomato/zucchini slices, like in the movie. Add some extra virgin olive oil. Cover with foil and into the oven. When nearly cooked, uncover and add grated cheese; let it gratin.
@categulario decidí hacer justo la cantidad necesaria de carbonara para la comida, porque según yo no se conserva bien si sobra, pero ya me estoy arrepintiendo...
I see people on the news gawking about what has happened in #Jamaica , Cuba, Haiti, the Carribbean but my feeds on fedi have been really reslly quiet about this issue and I haven't seen any fund raising links or anything much.
As a descendant of Jamaican diaspora I've gotta share it around. Does anyone have any genuine fundraising links I can boost?
Edit: I have been provided with somes links to fundraisers, please boost. Jamaica has never had to deal with a category 5 hurricane until now. It's getting worse.
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I honestly think that AI does accelerate writing work but not in the way you think. Because it eases cognitive burden, it allows writers to create without burning out. Writers like me, anyway, whose day job involves writing cognitively demanding copy about high technical concepts 😅.
In the past, my work to so much of cognitive and creative energy out of me that there's often nothing left for my personal creative work. So I often have to sacrifice my personal writing. But due to the ability of AI to now help me with things that drain me, I can focus things that matter to me.
I like writing so yeah AI is never gonna take that away from me. (That's part of the reason why I don't pay for AI services because I don't really rely on it to generate much text.
(Writers often subscribe to models if they want to generate a lot of text as the free versions do not generate a large amount of text.) The open source Deep Seek is enough for me, because I use it mostly for planning and detail oriented work like editing. I also realize that I like to dictate my writing and I often use AI to help me organize my thoughts. And then I fix it by rewriting it. This has accelerated my blogging and writing.
Oddly I can't do it with fiction 😆. I usually use story beats to flesh out my chapter, and then use AI as a sophisticated swipe file to start my writing. And yes, I still write my fiction with my own fingers!
With that cognitive savings I gained from using AI, I could now write fiction, or my newsletters and #Cdrama reviews without feeling like I am draining my brain dry or burn out every month.
So I think AI doesn't exactly accelerate my work. It enables me to produce more because I no longer am exhausted as quickly or as often.
I think that's something people miss about AI when they comment on whether it accelerates tasks or not. Maybe it takes the same amount of time to do a task with and without, as such, but it takes less energy/focus/willpower, so where you might have been drained after an hour or two you might keep going for 3 or 4. Which still lets you do more things. At least that's my impression of it.
@modulux yes. I usually outsource work to Ai if it drains me - spreadsheet work, proposal writing etc, but I direct it like a draconian headmistress. Meaning I make sure that I give it a lot of context a lot of direction etc. Come to think of it, isn't this what managers or directors do? They have the vision and the ideas but they let the juniors execute it? Write the proposal, draw the vision board etc.
Of course this makes me worried for future juniors who will not possibly have this kind of work anymore. If juniors are not being developed, how do they become seniors who can direct AI properly?
Right, that's a serious problem; same thing for people using AI to do a task instead of (or before) they learned how to do it themselves, so they never really understand the task and the edge cases. Used correctly it can facilitate learning, used incorrectly it can pre-empt it.
I am officially not teaching a University class in the winter. So I am considering running a Python class in Q1 for tech workers who want to learn Python. I'm gauging interest.
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Nejotravnější vlastností #Bazzite je pomalé stahování obrazu systému při updatu. Ostree na Fedoře Silverblue je bleskové a to i při upgradu mezi vydáními. Tady to sosá a louská image klidně půl hodiny.
Mimochodem, na nějakou formu immutable systému přešel i Android. Z toho co mi píše ChatGPT to bylo s verzí 10, ale kdo ví. Nicméně můj Samsung se začal, myslím že někdy od předchozí verze, upgradovat výrazně rychleji než dřív. Všechno si udělá v běžícím systému a pak jen nabootuje do nového.
android je immutable od začátku ne? Striktně oddělený immutable OS, který je na samostatné partition a uktualizuje se nahráním nové image na tuto partition. Aplikace se instalují do jiné partition, do systému nezasahují. Android 10 jen přinesl že ty system partition jsou tam dvě, A a B. Jedna je vždy aktivní, ze které se bootuje. Když přijde update nemusí se telefon vypnout a čekat na flashnutí image, ale rovnou se flashuje do té neaktivní partition, pak se označí jako nová aktivní a až pak se rebootne rovnou do nového systému. Urychluje to update na úkor místa v paměti.
the showstopper issue - public Chatmail relays having very low storage quotas (I believe 100MB by default, which isn't a lot of animated GIFs) - is encouragement for me to eventually run my own Chatmail relay.
to be fair, the Delta Chat help group I'm in which blew my quota has over 300 users.
most chatmail relays have higher quotas (usually 200MB or more). #Chatmail relays remove messages unconditionally so the quota is not comparable with classic email servers which tend to keep messages forever. The "100MB" is an early default and it should be increased to better match current standard practises.
@delta I agree that 100MB is very low, and I think animated GIFs in the very large group had something to do with the issue. there also was some kind of bot mass adding users, not sure how much storage each of those messages takes up.
in my case I have 2 devices, phone and laptop, which caused the delete-from-server setting to be set to automatic rather than immediate, but it appears that the automatic setting doesn't delete messages right away once both clients (which are online 24/7 for the most part) have seen them, so I blew thru the quota pretty quickly just being in that big group because messages piled up on the server.
once I used the Clear Group function, it freed 75MB of space immediately.
the more I test Delta Chat the more I come to the conclusion that it needs another couple years of development before I would heavily rely on it. I've run into way too many issues in my first few weeks, although granted only one was a showstopper.
thanks for trying and telling about your experiences!
We generally recommend to use #deltachat for private chatting and your "300 people group" does not sound quite like that. Delta Chat is not geared and not well suited for groups of hundreds of people, today. Are the issues you noted related to such larger groups? If not, would you mind sharing a few, maybe on the support.delta.chat forum?
@delta hey, thanks for reaching out! the group in question is the Delta Chat support group, I forget what it was called earlier but somebody renamed it to "DC Explorers (fixed)" within the past couple days. it shows as having 325 members on my client.
I did end up making a new account on a Chatmail relay with a higher quota - ultimately I might end up setting up my own, it just depends on time + energy + having a VPS for reverse proxy with good reputation IP which doesn't block port 25. I have one of those but I'm trying to cut hosting costs so I'll probably just use a public relay til I figure out my consolidation plan :)
I'm definitely planning on submitting issue reports (already started actually under a different username) and registering on the forum, haven't gotten around to the latter yet though.
I'm very appreciative of everyone's work on this and do consider it probably the strongest contender for a grassroots answer to Signal in terms of having a product likely to Just Work for the most people most of the time with further development ... as somebody who's used Signal daily for probably 10 years or so, building services like this is clearly not easy, and it took them quite a while to refine from where they started too.
I know this is not a support site or programming course but I can't figure this thing out.
If you do know #rust perhaps you can give me a helping hand.
I am trying to contribute to an app.
I'd like to parse ipv4 addresses given as command line argument values. I have got two arguments accepting ipv4 address. If I specify single such option all is fine. If I specify both, I 'm getting error like this:
thread 'main' (624061) panicked at /home/peto/.cargo/registry/src/index.crates.io-1949cf8c6b5b557f/clap-3.2.25/src/parser/matches/arg_matches.rs:1879:13:
Must use `Arg::allow_invalid_utf8` with `_os` lookups at `[hash: A8F400C40154F09]`
This is simplified version of my code showcasing the issue: ``` use std::net::{IpAddr, Ipv4Addr}; use clap::{App, AppSettings, Arg, value_parser};
#[tokio::main] async fn main() -> Result<(), Error> { let mut app = App::new("Server APP") .about("My super cool app") .setting(AppSettings::DeriveDisplayOrder) .setting(AppSettings::SubcommandsNegateReqs) .arg( Arg::with_name("socket") .required(true) .takes_value(true) .long("socket") .help("Unix socket path"), ) .arg( Arg::with_name("relayaddress") .required(false) .takes_value(true) .long("relay-address") .value_parser(value_parser!(Ipv4Addr)) .help("External relay ipv4 address used together with --listen-address to run behind a nat"), ) .arg( Arg::with_name("listenaddress") .required(false) .takes_value(true) .long("listen-address") .value_parser(value_parser!(Ipv4Addr)) .help("Local listen ipv4 address used together with --relay-address to run behind a nat"), ); let matches = app.clone().get_matches(); if matches.is_present("relayaddress") & matches.is_present("listenaddress") { let external_ip = IpAddr::V4(matches.get_one::<Ipv4Addr>("relayaddress").expect("Invalid address")); let local_ip = IpAddr::V4(matches.get_one::<Ipv4Addr>("listenaddress").expect("Invalid address")); println!("Listening on local IP: {local_ip}"); println!("Relaying through external IP: {external_ip}"); }} ```
I know this is not a support site or programming course but I can't figure this thing out. If you do know #rust perhaps you can give me a helping hand. I am trying to contribute to an app.
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is this clap 3? Is there a reason not to use the latest version?
I had to make a few changes to make your code compile with clap 3.2.25, but passing both options works fine and it prints them out as expected.
I know this is not a support site or programming course but I can't figure this thing out. If you do know #rust perhaps you can give me a helping hand. I am trying to contribute to an app.
@Federico Mena Quintero Oh, huge thanks for taking a look. Yes it's clap 3. It's not my decision, I'm attempting to contribute to an existing project so if I can make it work without major changes that might be helpfull. As I don't feel qualified for making decisions when it comes to this. I'm novice when it comes to #rust. --socket argument is required, other two arguments are supposed to be used together and this condition is tested at runtime. So if I specify all three command line arguments, I am always getting that error. I have attempted using os::str and casting but the issue remains. I am simply compiling the app with cargo build --release. Have you been just adding stuff I may have overlooked when trying to simplify for posting or did you actually changed something please?
I know this is not a support site or programming course but I can't figure this thing out. If you do know #rust perhaps you can give me a helping hand. I am trying to contribute to an app.
@Federico Mena Quintero I've figured it out finally. The issue was not parsing ipv4 addresses but using matches.from_os() on the socket argument. I have changed it to use std::path::PathBuf and it's working fine for me now. Huge thanks for friendly hint and looking at my code.
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Wonder how much the way your speech synthesizer of choice says your preferred name effects how blind people in particular pick a new name for themself. It wasn't a problem for me, I have yet to find a synth that says my name wrong, but it's common.
@clv0 That's how simple it is to fix, sure. But I use Eloquence, as do many of the people around me, and if the name I like can't be said correctly by Eloquence by default, I'm going to have to constantly correct people. I was just wondering how much stuff like this effects peoples choice process.
Related: If I was ever to change my name (or to name a male child for that matter), I'd pick Daniel. It's the most universal name I came up with, country and language wise.
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Yeah, it was good... Painfully good...
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