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> no password, ever. we email a code that works once and expires in ten minutes. Why? What's so horrible about passwords? They work so well with password managers. I hate this forced email sign-in bullshit that's spreading like covid.
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> moby dick didn't align properly, there's a confidence gate it didn't pass. What does this mean?
well! (i've been waiting for someone to ask ha) when i first knew i wanted to align audio to text, i reached for aeneas, which was built for this exact problem/product ( https://www.readbeyond.it/aeneas/ ) however, it drifted by hundreds of seconds deep into chapters and emits no confidence signal, so i couldn't eval it cleanly so i switched to a neural acoustic model trained with ctc (meta's massively multilingual s…
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well! (i've been waiting for someone to ask ha) when i first knew i wanted to align audio to text, i reached for aeneas, which was built for this exact problem/product ( https://www.readbeyond.it/aeneas/ ) however, it drifted by hundreds of seconds deep into chapters and emits no confidence signal, so i couldn't eval it cleanly so i switched to a neural acoustic model trained with ctc (meta's massively multilingual s…
Could the problem be Moby Dick ’s infamously large vocabulary, which contains words used essentially nowhere else?
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you wrote brat! i 'own' your book (on kindle, ha, so i'm not sure if that counts as real ownership), and it's on my to-read pile anyways, i'm going to send you an email i filed tickets for myself for the play button weirdness, thanks for including the browser, it might be related, and the product feedback around sign up (i didn't want to be too pushy, maybe went too far in the other direction) for your thinking: glob…
lol, nice. I think AMZN can revoke your ownership of my work at any point, but your sale is still chalked up towards the total, which seems more like a very expensive library to me except with no incentives (other than user retention) for AMZN to behave like a library. I never played dark souls… bad attention span. What’s the link? I would just have global highlights as toggleable, personally, with some kind of relat…
dark souls: in dark souls as you wander around you can leave little notes around the world, and then the game will surface them to other players, almost randomly. players can vote on notes, which makes them appear more or less often. dark souls is a famously obtuse game, so the notes are genuinely helpful sometimes, and sometimes they are trolling you. but it makes the whole experience less lonely. i wonder if that's what people are missing when they read a book: the book _club_ feeling.
Is it something you intentionally want or need? It makes it impossible for me to read in bed.
> the internet was being built around non-fiction I guess you don't tread the same internet waters. https://www.royalroad.com/home https://archiveofourown.org/ and the good old link rings like https://topwebfiction.com/
https://fanfiction.net/ https://forums.spacebattles.com/ https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/ https://questden.org/ and of course usenet before it. the internet was always built around fiction.
I installed this as a PWA on my Pixel, and for some reason it keeps auto-rotating (to landscape mode), despite having disabled auto-rotation on my phone. Is it something you intentionally want or need? It makes it impossible for me to read in bed.
sadly it may take a bit for your phone to pick up the new manifest, an uninstall and reinstall might fix it
> no password, ever. we email a code that works once and expires in ten minutes. Why? What's so horrible about passwords? They work so well with password managers. I hate this forced email sign-in bullshit that's spreading like covid.
1. everyone uses the same string
2. if they don't use the same string, they forget which password goes to which site, which is really frustrating
3. if they do use the same string, someone guesses it and the user feels 'hacked'
4. what's up with magic words proving identity anyways?
i personally feel like your computer should know who you are and then pass along that identity to the website, and passkeys get close to this (which i haven't implemented quite yet here)