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gcc hello_world.c ; beep -f MICROWAVE_DING_FREQUENCY
gcc hello_world.c 2> /dev/snd
./hello_world xargs -I {} curl -X POST "https://api.openai.com/v1/audio/speech" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer sk-Ajs7aNsa8dJa5dr8jS4xManJ6V9xIjk" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{"model": "tts-1", "text": {},"voice: "echo"}' > /dev/snd
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Yes, this. Imagine an elevator, gas pump, vending machine, or laundromat emitting sound effects constantly. Quite the dystopian hellscape.
> gas pump Most of them play advertisements while you fuel up. I hate it. The only thing that I like about New Jersey forbidding me from touching a gas pump is that I'm not subjected to ads for diarrhea medication or low-APR loans every time I fuel up.
Peep:... Abstract Activities in complex networks are often both too important to ignore and too tedious to watch. We created a network monitoring system, Peep, that replaces visual monitoring with a sonic `ecology' of natural sounds, where each kind of sound represents a specific kind of network event.... https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/lisa00/gilfix/gilfix_ht... (not my work; that of a former co-worker)
Here's a recent discussion here on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33017337
Easy to tell when you have messed up and re-rendering tons unexpectedly.
That command is a kinda fun. One time I had it read out to the lyrics to "Fitter Happier" using the Fred voice.
Something I have often thought about for years but never implemented was "sound logging" where you get specific points of your code to play audio clips or tones instead of/as well as logging to console etc. The idea being that you can test the app.and hear the sound logs going off as you go. In a tight loop that executes quickly I would hope that you could hear something "being off" in the same way that a mechanic ca…
In around the year 2000, for career day I went to work with my uncle. He worked in IT for General Mills. Their office was very much a stereotypical poorly lit IT cave in the basement. All their computers were a constant barrage of custom pop culture sound effects for every action. Minimize a window and a computer would emit like a "Ooh baby" clip for instance. Place had the tone of a morning radio show. Seemingly eve…