Opportunist… “It’s an empty glass. I drank it while you were arguing.”

I guess my point is that there’s very few people that are actually concerned by how quickly a file is deleted

It’s just a weird thing to brag about.

I’m so confused as to who needs to delete files quickly.

Load files? Yes. But deleting them?

If you’re worried about an fbi raid or something, just stick a can of thermite above the disk and blow torch to get it lit; or something.

For everything else there’s just good data security.

Don’t tell him. Cat wants to see how dense he is.

there’s a trial service that gets them the premium stuff and that eventually expires and they have to buy tokens.

The goal of the trial is to get them addicted to using it.

they’re still on the free service. When they run out of trial subscription, rough a week or two after they fire everyone… that’s when they have to start buying tokens.

None of the OG Xbox games were digital licenses. They only came on disks.

It was xbox360 that started the digital downloads- they may have ported something to the digital store, but it would still be a digital port (or something with an emulation layer.)

Either way, if you bought the game for an og Xbox, you didn’t buy a digital pass.

bet that guy creates a lot of PEBKAC though.

because most new games today require downloads in some form anyway. You can’t play a disk without an internet connection the way you could in the past; so it’s without purpose. The disks are license tokens now.

Fuck, the last time I bought a game for the PS, it didn’t even have a proper disk. It had a game key for the PS store.

there were other ways in which that shift was manufactured, too, like early access through downloads; and the fucked up shit of delivering crappy buggy games that they then fix over the next month.

Because prices haven’t gone up enough to maximize profits

Kids are great.

Kids are even better when you can hand them back to mommy and daddy.

Mozilla Thunderbird isn’t in your emails silently judging you (and selling your data)

RFKjr is not worm brained!

The brain worm died from starvation!

At least until they wake up.

The. It becomes a bowl of extremely cute chaos.

Oh you’d think.

But I doubt that Dawkins is the only creep with ai girlfriend.

I’d like to see the source that says Dragon’s WER in the 90s was 3-5%. I used Dragon in the 2000s and it just wasn’t comparable to the current state of the art.

https://dragon-medical-transcription.com/history_speech_recognition.html, for example. a lot of adverts and awards were given to it (admittedly awards like PC Mag that were probably paid advertising… but that’s why I went with Open AI’s assessment on whisper at 2%.) Dragon was boasting 99% accuracy after (admittedly months) of training; and it frequently reached it. there were some gotchas in that- the months-long training was a big one. The other was that you frequently had to slow down and be careful to enunciate that you don’t have to do with modern systems (including the MS versions of Dragon- they bought it out at some point)

whisper.cpp is an opensource implementation, although I’m not certain exactly how open.

It’s on the MIT license, if that helps. I take issue with anything OpenAI is involved in. for oh-so-many reasons.

You’re only partially correct about input speed. If you want to dictate an email then yes you need to think about each word you want to say and the order in which to say them. Coupled with an LLM that problem is diminished because you can just kind of have a conversation with the LLM and tell it to draft an email.

and how much of that conversation with an LLM is “No, what I want is…” because it assumed something; or just straight up hallucinated or the typo made it go off on a tangent?

As for whisper, I can find sources that are saying for American-English speakers in a not-noisy environment (aka the best case scenario,) the model has a word error rate between 2-8%. For reference, Dragon NaturallySpeaking had a WER of 3-5%. So I wouldn’t say that Whisper has made any substantial improvements, and they’re OpenAi. you can trust them if you want. I don’t think that’ll work out well in the long run, though.

I remember Dragon SpeechDragon Naturally Speaking saying the same thing in the 90’s. It’s improved, but not enough to make it useful as more than an aide for people who can’t type. I do agree, that for simple accessibility, it should be integrated into every field, but I doubt it’s ever going to take over.

As others have noted, that it’s only technically true that dictation is faster than typing. In a practical sense, there’s a fair number of reasons why that’s not the case, including that usually thinking about the entry is what’s the slowest, and also the errors in both are typically what slows people down.

there’s also the problem of, for example, keeping entries confidential. You don’t want to speak your passwords where others can hear you.

Well the mask is a steno mask

Theoretically most people will speak faster than they type. You have to type around 180-200 wpm to be faster than speaking.

(I say theoretically, because usually typing speed ratings also ding you for errors, and uh, speech transcription isn’t really there, either.)

I don’t normally suggest punching people because they wear glasses…. But I think an exception should be made.

They’re very punch-able glasses.