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I've found another new thing I can't get enough of. They're pizza rolls, accept they're triangular and filled with things you'd put on nachos. meat beans cheese. They're sooooooo good!
At the top of the hour, @Liz will be live with the return of FullCircle, and tonight it's the Australia day show. So tune in, and interact with the show. HKCRadio.com
I am hoping, assuming I can do it properly, to tinker with the IDL/ACF so that we can still get this functionality but allow multiple instances to be present if people need this. If people tell me not to though, then I'll keep it as is.
@Bri Heh, I wasn't sure but ultimately changed it to allow it just because all the other backends do so it seemed a bit inconsistent to disallow that for one backend. Even if backends are given a loooooot of freedom in what they can and can't do
You know, I was kind of surprised but just for the hell of it, I gave Claude Prism and went OK, implement this into a cpp project I'm working on and it just figured it out. Was kinda cool. I checked it out after it was done and yep, it did it right
I don't even think it used the docs lol. For the record, if you're curious: // Prism state #ifdef USE_PRISM static PrismContext* g_prismCtx = nullptr; static PrismBackend* g_prismBackend = nullptr; #endif
and in the init funcs: // Initialize Prism for screen reader support #ifdef USE_PRISM bool InitPrism(HWND hwnd) { PrismConfig cfg = prism_config_init(); cfg.hwnd = hwnd;
g_prismCtx = prism_init(&cfg); if (!g_prismCtx) { return false; }
g_prismBackend = prism_registry_acquire_best(g_prismCtx); if (!g_prismBackend) { return false; }
@Bri That code was almost right. You need to check if the error code is specifically PRISM_ERROR_ALREADY_INITIALIZED and ignore it; acquire/acquire_best may return an initialized one, so that shouldn't be a fatal error. Also, since it passed in the window handle, you can use the UIA backend
@Bri Did the docs have a vaguely relevant emoji prepended before the title of each section? That's like 50% of how I score good docs now. As in, if those exist, knock off 50 percent no matter what else I find lol.
Well, Prism has gotten some great new functionality! I think the biggest is that Prism can now act in place for the NVDA controller client! It does not need the DLL present to communicate with NVDA since it performs the internal RPC binding automatically. The current downside to this is that there may only be one NVDA backend active at any given time, which is abnormal and inconsistent with all the other backends. If you currently try to do this, it will (safely) overwrite the existing one.
@Bri No, it doesn't. The controller client is (L)GPL license, and I have done everything I can to comply with it. Even if the (L)GPL code is combined into the larger prism.dll library, I don't see how I could possibly be violating it given that the project is entirely open source and so complying with the "allow people to modify/relink" thing is from what I know automatically satisfied. I'm not sure how else to comply other than what I've already done.
The only thing I wish FastSM could do, which I currently don't see is to filter boosts from home timeline. Some folks boost endless amounts of things I don't necessarily hold interest with. I don't think TWBlue can do this either, but TweeseCake can. FastSM takes less ram than both of the aforementioned two though.
Tomorrow's my big development talk y'all, I'm gonna stay real quiet and hunker down. Nervous as hell, I hate dev talks. So. No speech player updates, let's give language packs time to change a bit. I already see a few improvements coming, can't say what, but yeah, this will keep evolving the more folks try it and are honest. We now restored the UK English sound in this pack very close to the sound it had in the original IPA rules, which were much smaller and sparce in comparison, but I understand how we were contaminating phonemes with each other, which was the huge huge downside before I moved things into the frontend. Honestly, building that frontend was the best decision I made early. AI would have kept on piling in Python code, specific language variables, and stich me a 300 kilobyte Python file by the end. No no. We are not doing that. It's funny how real work changes you. I used to be a spaghetti-code type guy, all day I'd just throw my code in a single file. Today I shutter at the idea of zero abstraction. If it's not modularized well, it's not worth reading as code, period, unless it's clean small code. Yes I'm that much of a snob. Gosh. AI will happily spaghetti all day, unless you're Google Gemini, which can (sometimes) do better at helping you abstract it, but you are still the architect, if you don't know coding fundementals, it's hard to use AI to code something not considered "AI slop."
estava aqui a olhar para a roupa da Dina da Coelha, a unica explicação é ela não ter autorização para sair de casa desde 1986, e o André ter a televisão sempre a passar episodios da tv rural seguidos daquele programma do Herman onde ele cantava quanto mais me bates mais eu gosto de ti, e episodios da eurovisão anteriores a 1974
“Europe is a regulatory morass that is built on bureaucracy, and the layering and layering of rules that constrain economic activity.”
Scott Bessant, US Treasury Secretary
To which Europeans say:
Flint, Michigan East Palestine, Ohio Uniontown, Alabama
These places are global bywords for the poisoning of people and nature when you have no regulatory oversight of business and you prioritise ‘economic activity’ at all costs over health and safety.
Everyone is going to Threads. My professional community - iOS developers, AI researchers, accessibility advocates - they're all there. I'm completely locked out, missing networking opportunities and professional conversations. This is disability discrimination. I cannot access Threads without assistive technology, and their systems automatically suspend me for using it. ADA compliance issue.
I've noticed that some client, maybe FastSM? Is doing this thing where it will add you to a thread even if you just boosted a post in it, not actually replied, and I'm not sure yet if I like it or find it annoying, maybe a bit of both?
Phewphsh! We had a frying on this instance that lasted about 20 minutes. With the help of Gemini, we're back and successfully updated to 4.6.0-alpha.3+glitch.
Remember "don't print this email" in signatures that was a bit cringe? It doesn't feel that cringe anymore in retrospect. I'm doing an experiment now with this new email signature :D Anyone doing something similar? Could it catch on?
edit: BTW please absolutely steal/modify this idea if you want!
This is a test of using Fast-SM with our J-Say technology. This application is quite timely, because I would like to demonstrate to somebody how we can use the programme with bluesky. He has always wanted to use Bluesky and now he has an ideal opportunity of doing so. Dragon is working exceptionally well in this application, and I can easily correct errors such as the name of the social media network that I have just described. It treated the name of the social network as two separate words with no capital letter, so I had to put that right. There was absolutely no problem in doing so and there is no deterioration in terms of responsiveness on the computer while we are using Fast-SM with Dragon and JAWS. I am even able to proof read the post that I have just dictated with no difficulty. All good stuff!
I'm currently using js-sequence-diagrams[1], which looks like it has similar syntax as PlantUML.
Putting the code/text representation of the diagram feels like it'd be helpful for a small diagram, but maybe too much to keep in ones head for a larger one?
First of all, let me tell you something: we appreciate every move like this. You know, every blind person struggles. They may tell you it's fine, we're good, someone will even say "I'm proud to be blind" (sic!), but… we struggle. And if a person comes and tells like: "I'm posting a diagram, I want it to be seen by my blind readers" — woosh, like a wave of warm air in a cold winter street. Why am I saying this? Because it's not even better than nothing, it's quite enough for a technically or scientifically inclined person to decipher what you're saying. I'm not proficient in this at all (JS-Sequence-Diagrams looks also good, also there's Mermaid supported by GitHub, I think) but if I need or want it, I'll read the docs and cope with it. Or… drop you a message and ask for help 😊 Anyway, thank you so much. It's really heartwarming.
@menelion Aww thank you André. ❤️ I'm touched, and not really sure how to respond!
I guess I'll just say that I want to live in the world where we all look out for each other's needs, and where we can ask each other for accommodations or help when we need to. Where we all get those warm breezes when we're cold :)
I have a blind friend studying data science, he says he found it very useful. I know plenty of blind folks, one internationally known mathematician among them, who use LaTex, for example, to read and write maths. Not the simplest thing in the world, but it works. I believe, it's the same with PlantUml/Mermaid/solutions alike.
Uruguay's electricity grid going 100% renewable in just five years proves how quick and easy the transition can be, and therefore how the failure of other countries to do the same is inexcusable
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