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Neat! I don't like talking to my computer (audibly or not), but that's a cool demo.

I wonder if we could eventually end up with a "throat muscle" version where people learn to talk a new way without having to move the visible mouth muscles too.

Re:DoorDash to Acquire Instacart on Thursday October 29, 2026 @02:33PM (#50293801)
My daughter used to love sitting in the cart while perusing the books they sold at Costco. But maybe we didn't buy enough, they don't seem to carry many anymore!
Re:Sharing AI progress in mathematics on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @10:15PM (#49987194)
You might enjoy https://asteriskmag.com/issues/15/so-you-think-you-could-be-... if you didn't see it recently.
Re:When did Google get so f-ing weird? on Sunday September 27, 2026 @11:40PM (#49873334)
I had an incredibly dumb response today too. Appeared to fully understand the question, just 100% factually incorrect answer. https://mstdn.social/@sgraham/117346578326361464
Re:English: A vs. An on Saturday September 19, 2026 @11:19PM (#49772252)
I think that's one regional. It'd be super weird to pronounce the h in homage in most of Canada ime.
gphoto-pull!! I've been downloading NN x 50G zips every two months like a caveman. Assuming I'm backing up in "Original", this manages to retrieve byte-identical backups?
Re:QBE – Compiler Backend – 1.3 on Tuesday June 02, 2026 @08:10PM (#48377966)
I'm guessing you mean dwarf, but I started on a pdb library that I'd planned to use along-side qbe eventually. (The code currently lives in a jitting-C compiler https://scot.tg/2023/05/02/debugging-with-pdbs/ that uses dynasm directly though.)
Re:QBE – Compiler Backend – 1.3 on Tuesday June 02, 2026 @08:06PM (#48377932)
IR (https://github.com/dstogov/ir) is worth a look in this vein too.

I personally went with QBE for my hobby project because of C-interop, but at least in my tests, I found IR much faster and better codegen than MIR. Neither of MIR or IR are friendly/easy though.

Re:QBE – Compiler Backend – 1.3 on Tuesday June 02, 2026 @07:59PM (#48377891)
Drew and team are pretty clear about being philosophically against that idea: https://harelang.org/documentation/faq.html#will-hare-suppor...
Re:QBE – Compiler Backend – 1.3 on Tuesday June 02, 2026 @07:57PM (#48377871)
Quentin took pity on me and let me upstream amd64_win with my lengthy variable names and including chatty comments. :)

SysV and Win x64 differ enough that the Windows code is mostly unrelated to/detached from the other backends, so it doesn't feel (too) awful for it to have its own idiosyncratic style.

Re:Debug Project on Monday June 01, 2026 @05:37PM (#48363005)
(2017)

Unless there's been some new announcement that I don't obviously see here?

creatinine != creatine
Re:Canada in Technical Recession on Friday May 29, 2026 @04:44PM (#48329005)
We are of course still spinning, so I'm not overly confident we haven't just glanced off a guardrail on the way to the ditch (to belabour your analogy).
Re:Wake up! 16b on Sunday May 24, 2026 @04:10PM (#48260596)
Super cool!

I'm not sure if they did a writeup for m8trix (a predecessor) but I tried dissecting it around when it came out (2014): https://scot.tg/2014/05/31/amazing-code-density/

Re:The beauty and terror of modding Windows on Tuesday March 03, 2026 @07:16PM (#47241154)
I used to be more of a fetishist, and still use cmd on Windows. My modding contribution from long ago: https://github.com/sgraham/cmdEx
Oof, that scraped up frying pan in #5 should have a trigger warning.
Re:Web Browsers have stopped blocking pop-ups on Wednesday December 31, 2025 @05:39PM (#46449087)
It's also pretty challenging since they're not OS-level windows any more.

It's the same problem as video ad blockers and YouTube: the ads/sponsorships have just become embedded in the main stream so they're much more difficult to obviously delineate from the actual video.

Re:Fabrice Bellard Releases MicroQuickJS on Wednesday December 24, 2025 @12:46AM (#46372842)
I appreciate your point, but Python was invented in .nl which wouldn't be G7 strictly speaking.
Re:Fix HDMI-CEC weirdness with a Raspberry Pi and a $7 cable on Monday December 15, 2025 @07:35PM (#46283138)
And that Sonos is terrible to its users.

I had a houseful of overpriced speakers, some only 3 years old when they decided they were too old to support in their rewritten app, or some lazy crap like that.

For GP; I use some cheapo (sub $50) "100W mini amps" from Amazon. They seem fine to me.

Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025) on Sunday December 14, 2025 @06:20PM (#46268204)
I started playing a couple weeks ago (and got my Mum and one of her friends playing too).

I enjoy it, but I find the clues seem a bit too easy, and honestly I'm normally terrible at crosswords. Take that for what you will, totally understandable if you're aiming at "cozy/relaxing".

I appreciate the polish of the UI compared to a lot of the other janky word games out there anyway.

Re:Nvidia Isn't Enron – So What Is It? on Thursday December 11, 2025 @12:12AM (#46227909)
He rambles for "the humour bit" for a while, but I think the thrust of it is in the last two sections https://www.wheresyoured.at/nvidia-isnt-enron-so-what-is-it/... : Nvidia's valuation is dependent on an enormous amount of debt around the industry being funnelled to them, there doesn't seem to be a way to profit on this debt, so something is going to have to give.
Seriously, there's even that "Download" button but it goes to some weird janky browser-local storage instead of just giving me a damn file.

(I don't think they'd realistically get more paying customers, but I would appreciate it anyway.)

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