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The "try for free/generate" button didn't work for me. I uploaded a short video (15MB of White House press secretary) and tried to substitute various voices without success.

Yet, things could be worse. Back in the 80s & 90s it was possible to select a resolution/refresh frequency that would permanently damage (e.g. destroy) a CRT (cathode ray tube) mon…

I ran a sample through my Apple Newton Messagepad: Iss Martha auf.

Following the "John Deere" style brand lock-in strategy: "Sure the Kubota is half the price and I can fix it myself, but all of my implements work with my Deere." And unless I swit…

How many times must we re-learn "Good. Fast. Cheap. Pick Two"? What's gone wrong, is what goes wrong at most major corporations -- a focus more on "business" (which itself falls vi…

You could absolutely write professional software in BASIC. As a kid I wrote my first "professional" product in Applesoft. My family used to rent videotapes (Betamax!) from a little…

This is a very good description of precisely what happened. People forget that Pascal & C compilers were not only unusual/academic, they were also very expensive - $300-$500 or mor…

Sadly this book makes me miss what I used to love about programming, and realize just how much programming has stratified into protected roles. The days of one person sitting down …

it's a fun article, but I would liked to have seen at least a brief mention of power consumption comparison among the four designs.

For anyone that enjoyed LoTR/The Hobbit and thinks this new story might be interesting or entertaining, allow me to assure you it is not. The writing is meandering, unclear, futile…

Indeed! Daniel Lanois, musician and grammy award winning producer (U2, Neville Brothers, Emmylou Harris, etc.) uses the Omnichord extensively in his own music. He used it throughou…

But consider that Sunnyvale, California has the benefit of a very upscale demographic, no gang activity, low organized crime, etc. What works for one place will likely not apply el…

laughably, transparently poor implementation. While using the gasoline engine, the power accessories (power steering, power brake assist, ABS!) are functional, but when the gas eng…

OK, but there are a few questions first. Is this change desirable, or undesirable? What is the correct number of glaciers and are we moving toward that or away from that number? Wh…

History repeats itself. I'm old enough to remember when "Cable TV" meant "no advertisements." And then it was just a few between programs. Then during the program, which eventually…

That's a great idea to make the recruiter actually look at your profile and ensure it indeed matches the offer. Too many lazy recruiters do a simple linked-in search and bulk email…

The worst sort of "elephant in the room" journalism -- everything is to blame, but that obvious thing that everyone took leading to an enormous, never-seen-before statistical anoma…

J.F. Sebastian? He's suffering from a genetic condition that causes him to age prematurely (ironic, since he's a geneticist who designs replicants and simpler creatures). He failed…

"a low-price tools brand" Excuse me, but what? The Craftsman brand historically was a consumer premium brand, priced midway between tradesmen premium brands like Snap-On and consum…

anyone who likes this will probably also enjoy Blinky - a retro-CRT text editor for osx. https://blinky.en.softonic.com/mac

My mother was a banker. She asked a hypothetical question of me, 30 years ago, that I've never been able to answer: "Name for me one company that was better, for the customer or th…

> If the code you write is uncovering bugs in compiler, you literally are too smart for your own good. Definitely not in my case -- sometimes we just stumble over these things. As …

It's important to note that "North America" != "United States." It likely means a shift to production in low-cost Mexico, Costa Rica, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, etc. I'm in …

The best scifi alien short story, ever. Meat https://www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/think...