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willwade

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    Comment #48869432

    Sony presented a simpler solution to this at CHI https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3772318.3791397 - check video in that. Also it seems every Cornell student is working on this. Just …

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    Comment #48305025

    Interesting. It sounds like something I was doing : https://github.com/Smartbox-Assistive-Technology/app-automat... my use case though is people with disabilities. Not robots.

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    Comment #48195448

    It's been done for a while - follow the links to who they reference. ie https://www.tolt.tech but it's their integration they've done into the OS is interesting.

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    Comment #48162268

    I can promise you it isn’t. This totally predates llms. Been using them for a long time

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    Comment #48162249

    Use those a lot to (always try and focus off the shelf first). But for cases where we need to position differently we often need something custom

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    Comment #48162243

    I’ve provided a lot of different of the balls. Last one was for someone in bed and needed to control the whole pc with his chin. We adapted the base to fit on a mount. Other uses f…

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    Comment #48160527

    I’ll give you a use case. People with disabilities who can’t use the keyboard. Ploopy stuff has been absolutely amazing.

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    Comment #48082788

    I find that the new "drug" is constantly hunting down new cheaper models.. z.ai/glm, mistral, deepseek.. if you need to get your fix - find the cheaper path..

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    Comment #48032694

    take a peek at https://github.com/willwade/app-automate?tab=readme-ov-file#... - its early and needs some work -but this is the idea behind this.. (my use case is not agents but ac…

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    Comment #48032560

    Interesting! I started something - nowhere near as complete as that and quite different but again using accessibility UI elements. The BIG problem I've found is SOOOO much stuff do…

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    Comment #47305520

    It gave me strong vibes too. It’s the writing style. I’ve seen OpenAI write just like this. Doesn’t mean it’s bad. There’s a few other markers. Note “silly” in quotes and over use …

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    Comment #46606681

    how did you redact the sensitive data? did you use a library for that?

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    Comment #46606649

    this is so cool. I think so much of the logging Saas products are bloated. This looks much simpler. I'd like a python interface.. I've used papertrail and datadog for some of this …

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    Comment #46524857

    .. and fentanyl for sure right? surely its the largest producer of fentanyl.. or is it cocaine? hold on whats that drug ICE? ah thats it..

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    Comment #46237870

    sorry.. global gitignore.. what have i been doing..

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    Comment #46233394

    that to me looks like a error in whatever logic is behind the positional error code. You'd think they would have transformer models based on different layouts but maybe some weight…

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    Comment #46231391

    I wonder if this would have been useful https://github.com/microsoft/presidio - its heavy but looks really good. There is a lite version..

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    Comment #46231384

    can i have this between my machine and git please.. Like its twice now I've commmited .env* and totally passed me by (usually because its to a private repo..) then later on we/some…

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    Comment #45882251

    Meta cheated with the mms models. That is they didn’t use a phonemeizsr step. This means they just won’t work or sound very strange. ASR data is usually not quite right for tts. Bu…

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    Comment #45874262

    We built this for our use case (we create solutions to help people speak who have a disability). This is a prediction model you can run in node or the browser. Next word, next char…

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    Comment #45557004

    I’m interested to see how this compares with other heroku clones. The compassion stuff is interesting. I’m using apps on digitalocean. Can we get a comparaison of using app with dr…

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    Comment #45509142

    Yeah I totally want this. How much data are we talking about on average?

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    Comment #45164882

    See also https://github.com/mikeborozdin/vibe-composer-midi-mcp?tab=r...

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