Sounds like a pretty neat program, Have you played around with Voice Access The application included with Windows? I'm using it right now to type this message. Unfortunately I can't use programs that have a push to talk as I am paralyzed from the neck down... But believe me when I say It's nice to see someone working on text to speech And that any improvement or new application can only make mine and people like me lives better. I haven't really done much with the open AI offerings but I do use Gemini CLI and it is exhausting To the point where my throat gets dry and I have to drink some water if I want to Keep working** Edit** drinking water involves me calling a care aid to assist me!
Thanks so much for your response, if nothing more came from this project than directly helping you - I'd consider this an absolute success.
I'm going to look into what I can do to make this more accessible for users like you. If there is anything specific you can think of in the meantime, please feel free to reach me here or at support@speakeasydev.com
If I end up getting something that I think would be useful for you, I'll let you know!!
what effect if any will the solar flare emissions have on the new ish constellation style satellite networks? and or vice versa? EG would a shielded group or constellation provide a pathway for charge particles around the Earth?
My memory must be going Because I lived through this And don't recall things going like this at all.
While maybe saying I don't remember it like this at all is a little harsh it seemed to recall a little bit that was similar But a lot of it seems like it's been written by An A I.
I'm pretty sure I went to those computer shows And weren't they called COMDEX?
Also before halt and catch fire I don't even think I ever heard of Osborne.
Another thing that seemed to have been messed is the Commodore 128 did I just imagine that computer? anyone else remembered it? Go 64?
As far as Compaq Gateway HP and any other flavor of PC goes that was more because of open architecture: suddenly every startup in the world could produce hardware and software and compete with the big guys, this article claimed that the home computer market was dying off as of 19 96 but from my point of view things just really took off right around that time Has everyone wanted the internet So they could meet at Tom Hanks or Meg Ryan Winky Face.
They do have to admit wanting a pulmonary 64 though, My buddy had one And all of the Bulletin boards at that time Had really cool games for it.
I don't want to be too critical though It was a good read and they brought back some memories and actually I kind of feel like we're just entering very similar time As was back then. I can only imagine what this generation will come up with and hope there is just as much if not more innovation and enterprising companies like Commodore And Atari... even if I might not be around to see it!
I didn't get the AI vibe from the article, thought it was well-written, a good view on Jack and the industry during the era.
I always believed Osborne was a little bigger in the UK, got the feeling they had a slightly better machine in some aspects than the Sinclair and TI and as polished as Commodore but just burnt out really early, unfortunately. I had a C64 but enjoyed programming enough to flip through the books at the library for the other machines, to see the differences in language, programs and games. Thinking about it now, I wonder how many Osborne programming books got printed vs machines sold?
It's unfortunate there was no mention of the C128, but it was mostly a stopgap machine in the wars between the 64 and the Amiga, there wasn't any mention of the earlier Atari 400/800/XL, etc machines before the ST either. I wanted a C128 just for ELSE, the 64 only had IF-THEN natively.
The C128 was great, and they sold something like 4 million of them. But that was overshadowed by the C64 selling 15-20 million, and the fact that very little 128-specific software was made, because of the 128's near-100% compatible 64 mode. Unless your program had to have a 128 feature, like the 80-column screen, you wrote it for the 64 and had a much bigger market.
I think it was also hurt by the fact that Commodore was turning attention to the Amiga, marketing-wise, by the time the 128 was on the market. It was intended to be a stop-gap, just to have something new until the next big thing, but it did better than that and the company didn't know what to do with it.
Bil Herd has done some talks about the development of the 128 that are worth watching. They threw the thing together in a matter of months, and features like the 64 mode and the Z-80's CP/M mode were added almost as accidents.
I believe part of the problem is the fact that Aa.exe fil B is created BY packaging multiple library files And or graphics , arrays ETC. and there is no default order into which part of the EXE file they land.
there are some Tools ... hex editors come to mind. I seem to recall NOPING out A jump or two in my younger days
edit: the these days that probably wouldn't work due to CRC checks... but there was a time... Then again that may be just the perfect place to start riverus engineering;) smile I have some good memories of playing a Medal of honor in which I changed all the door Textures to transparent window textures and having to work around CRC protection... good times smiley :)
Approximately how long does it take to collide a CRC naively? I'm guessing there's a trick that makes it faster, these days?
It takes my computer on a single core about 7 minutes to find a nonce for an arbitrary files sha256 to prefix the left side with 4 or 5 zeros (like bitcoin difficulty doubling). Obviously the heat death of the universe would occur trying to collide sha256 on a single core, but CRC - Gemini says it depends on the algorithm, but crc 32 should take about an hour to collide, but it didn't specify "any" or "arbitrary" collisions, but mentioned "any" right before that. So if the most probable sentence after "any collision" is a time estimate, with the logic of LLM implies that's the easier case of any collision.
I'm surprised brute force is even needed. As far as I know, CRC has absolutely no intent to be a cryptographically secure one-way function. It is purely used against unintentional corruption of data. With that in light, does it really take an hour to find a collision? Can't you construct one much quicker?
893 byte source file, python can single-threaded do ~1 million crc32 per second. It's about "10%" done with the AI's version which is nonce = 0 while true nonce +=1 crc32 (data+nonce.to_bytes) which i don't buy will actually cover the whole field, so i'll just repurpose my sha256sum bash script to use cksum and run it again - that puts arbitrary bytes, not arbitrary integers as bytes into the file.
nonces tried: 515000000
nonces tried: 516000000
Collision found with nonce: 1327202703
walltime ~12 minutes. So whoever i replied to (sorry my vision is going blurry so i don't want to breadcrumb back) was correct, modern CPUs just blow through this.
you'll note the nonce is > 2^32. Cute.
This is what AI does. This sort of crap is going to make everything feel slower. except now instead of inefficient humans making inefficient code because "hey, just scale" or "my desktop has 32 threads, why do i care about a 50ms hot loop? one of the other 31 threads can pick up slack" - now it's ... this.
i absolutely cannot believe it chose the absolute most naive way to accomplish this monumentally trivial task.
Just a gas but maybe it's because they're using multiple esp32's in an array? But also I seem to recall something similar in the Snowden papers?
But I get your point, given that the esp32 and all its design files are available from SPRESIF maybe they built a board that's running out of much faster clock rate?
PS: sorry about the typos and miss takes but sadly I have to use Voice typing due to a recent traumatic injury.
Considering my city Is still running 16 bit Operating systems Off floppy drives For some of the infrastructure... Well I don't know, Maybe that makes it more secure? I have no idea How These systems haven't been hit yet. Or maybe they have?
I'm trying to understand if this is article is about how global warming will cause our extinction or why we need more leftist government policies. Maybe both?
Rather than just leave it at that snippy remark I feel it is only fair to explain my point of view.
First, the disparity between those that work outside and those that work indoors is not a new thing and regardless of any real or imagined global warming there are many factors that affect the health and wellbeing of workers, including working odd hours such as graveyard shifts as the author suggests.
As an employer, I find this general attitude of who I assume are aggrieved socialists with an axe to grind offensive and ignorant when they claim that only legislation will protect workers from unfair working conditions.
The reality is most of us are doing anything we can to just get someone to show up for work and willing to accommodate and reasonable requests our of employees. Personally I don't even like the term employee as without them I have nothing.
The problem as I see it is, the few bad bosses and the people that work for them seem to be the focus. I would say that 40 years ago the argument that the majority of workers are being exploited may have been true but these days, any unskilled worker that shows up on time and doesn't make everyone else walk on egg shells or argue for the purpose of arguing can write their own ticket.
Finally, this idea that we need more unqualified and IMHO lazy post secondary educated bureaucrats to expound their worth by imposing regulation is dumber than a bag of hammers.
Do you really think that the majority of employers are more concerned with profits than people? I can assure you that I put every worker before profit and bear a huge burden just trying to keep my company going so that they have an income.
Maybe the author should start a company and gain some perspective before parroting this garbage coming from those intellectuals that mooch of us true proletariats!
