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Re: Software Development at 800 Words per Minute

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Neurrone wrote: post #47
cess11 wrote: post #46

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Users of the email client mutt has a similar problem, it doesn't render HTML and CSS and displays it as text, so instead they've developed a variety of workarounds like pushing the email body through a terminal web browser before showing it in mutt. Might work for you too. Edit: Also, do you MUD?

Oh yes. It was one of my formative childhood experiences. My first mud was Alter Aeon, but I haven't played in almost 10 years. I enjoyed myself during the 5 years or so that I played and got to know a lot of people. The first first thing I ever programmed was a bot to automatically heal group members. Then Empire Mud, but I left due to disagreements with the admin. I loved the concept but it didn't really have the p…

Neat. I mostly play Discworld MUD, which isn't very often due to small kids these days. It's a good all-rounder, has both fine grind and massive amounts of quests, exploration and crafting. Over the years I've become friends with many screen reader users there, and some of them were the fastest hunting group leaders I've seen.

http://discworld.starturtle.net/lpc/

Re: Software Development at 800 Words per Minute

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cess11 wrote: post #71
Neurrone wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh yes. It was one of my formative childhood experiences. My first mud was Alter Aeon, but I haven't played in almost 10 years. I enjoyed myself during the 5 years or so that I played and got to know a lot of people. The first first thing I ever programmed was a bot to automatically heal group members. Then Empire Mud, but I left due to disagreements with the admin. I loved the concept but it didn't really have the p…

Neat. I mostly play Discworld MUD, which isn't very often due to small kids these days. It's a good all-rounder, has both fine grind and massive amounts of quests, exploration and crafting. Over the years I've become friends with many screen reader users there, and some of them were the fastest hunting group leaders I've seen. http://discworld.starturtle.net/lpc/

I tried it briefly but bounced off after the tutorial finished, I couldn't figure out what to do.

Is reading the books required for enjoyment? I haven't read anything from the Discworld series.

Re: Software Development at 800 Words per Minute

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Neurrone wrote: post #72
cess11 wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Neat. I mostly play Discworld MUD, which isn't very often due to small kids these days. It's a good all-rounder, has both fine grind and massive amounts of quests, exploration and crafting. Over the years I've become friends with many screen reader users there, and some of them were the fastest hunting group leaders I've seen. http://discworld.starturtle.net/lpc/

I tried it briefly but bounced off after the tutorial finished, I couldn't figure out what to do. Is reading the books required for enjoyment? I haven't read anything from the Discworld series.

After the tutorial, if you choose morporkian as language and Ankh-Morpork as starting location you'll be put in one of the busiest places in the world, outside a bar. Either outside or inside you'll find people who can help you get started. The 'say' command says something to the entire room, and 'tell username message' sends them a private message.

There's also a newbie group chat where you can ask for help, the syntax is 'newbie' followed by your message. It'll go away once you get too many levels in your skills.

A drawback with Ankh-Morpork is that it has cops, they might interfere if you decide to attack something that isn't a rat or cockroach or somesuch, but if you get caught and put in jail you'll eventually be released. Getting killed is a bit worse, you either waste your experience points by getting a raise from an NPC, or send a message to a particular type of priest that can resurrect you.

Re: Software Development at 800 Words per Minute

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gizmo686 wrote: post #5

Some vaguely related research: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aaw2594 If you compare different languages, the speed people tend to speak (measured in syllables per second) varies significantly. However, the number of possible syllables also varies significantly. Once you account for that, the speed of speaking in terms of information is fairly consistent across languages. I'm not aware of any specific res…

The fact that the speed of information is consistent across languages makes it unlikely to have a speedup as described by the article

Re: Software Development at 800 Words per Minute

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Post by c6401 »

Neurrone wrote: post #63
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Really liked the article. The interesting part for me was that you can recognize synthetic voice much faster than human speech. Is there a specific voice you are using for 800wpm or it can be any TTS? Also, I think older voices sound more robotic that the newer ones (I mean pre AI, like the default on android is newer for me). Is there a difference for how fast you can listen to the newer more nicely sounding ones or…

> Is there a difference for how fast you can listen to the newer more nicely sounding ones or the older more robotic ones? Yes. The main requirements for the TTS I use is it must be intelligible at very high rates of speed and it must have no perceivable latency (i.e, how long it takes to convert a string of text to audio). This rules out use of almost all voices, since a lot of them are focused on sounding as human…

Thank you for the answers. Even I'm not new to TTS usage, overall, this feels a bit like cyberpunk for me, like a neural interface that can provide you information as fast as you can consume it, not just how fast your "ears" can recognize it. Like a human modem.

Re: Software Development at 800 Words per Minute

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Post by necovek »

mbb70 wrote: post #31
thunderbong wrote: post #28

From the article - > Windows might not be trendy among developers, but it’s where accessibility works best. I don’t have to worry about whether I can get audio working reliably. The NVDA screen reader works on Windows and is free and open source, actively maintained, and designed by people who are screen reader users themselves. > That said, I’m not actually developing on Windows in the traditional sense. WSL2 gives…

His comments on VS Code reminds me of the quote "Good accessibility design is mostly just good design": > Consistent keyboard shortcuts across all features, and the ability to jump to any part of the interface by keyboard This is something I notice and appreciate about VS Code as a fully sighted person. Just like I appreciate slopped sidewalk cutouts when I'm walking with luggage. A11y is a big commitment and cost, a…

Apart from rolling luggage, one also experiences a lot of physical world a11y issues when they start taking their kids around in baby strollers.

Re: Software Development at 800 Words per Minute

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Post by Neurrone »

cess11 wrote: post #73
Neurrone wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I tried it briefly but bounced off after the tutorial finished, I couldn't figure out what to do. Is reading the books required for enjoyment? I haven't read anything from the Discworld series.

After the tutorial, if you choose morporkian as language and Ankh-Morpork as starting location you'll be put in one of the busiest places in the world, outside a bar. Either outside or inside you'll find people who can help you get started. The 'say' command says something to the entire room, and 'tell username message' sends them a private message. There's also a newbie group chat where you can ask for help, the syn…

Thanks, I'll try this out again sometime.
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