To run text-to-speech on my laptop, I've been using Justine Tunney's downloadable single executable Whisper file.
I use it transcribe audio then copy into an LLM to get notes on whatever it is. Helps me decide to watch or listen to something and saves a bunch of time.
I installed Aider last week - it just started doing this prompt-write-run-ingest_errors-restart cycle. Using it with git you can also undo code changes if it goes wrong. It's free and open source.
That you've managed to have problems does not negate the fact I have as many bad experiences per year as you've had total experiences this year (this yer alone, I've used self-checkout at least 80 times ... probably a lot more)
Dislike self-checkout you want, but still sounds like a "you" problem, and not a "self-checkout" problem
Neat fact! You don't have to self-checkout at any store I've been to in the last 5 years (unless it's super weird hours ... and even then - you're probably there by yourself, so the attendant's likely to come over to "help" just to have something to do)
>Sounds like you just want to throw around low-effort personal insults instead of addressing anything I said. This is HN, you can do better.
You're insulting my success (and, quite frankly, the overwhelming majority of people I've observed over the last close to decade) with self-checkout by saying you have had 2 bad experiences?
Self checkout in combination with a regular cashier is great. Not because I want to go through the person but because people will form unreasonably long lines to avoid self checkout. This means I can normally have a minimal wait as the self checkout is less congested.
I'm using self checkout almost daily, in different stores with different systems. I almost never have any issues. The last time I had to call for help due to an unscannable bar code was at least 6 months ago. Staff is also available to approve purchases that has a minimum age requirement.
I don't recognize the situation that you describe, and I have been using these several times a week for a decade.
You mention paying by cash, which tells me you are probably an American (I pay by card or an app). It could be that your systems are worse, but there's nothing wrong with self checkout in general
- There are no winter killoffs due to warming temperatures.
- Invasive plants like Japanese barberry are becoming extremely common and create microclimates that support mice that ticks live on before attaching to deer.
I believe some tick-borne diseases are becoming more common - I know two people that have had babesiosis, and one person and one dog with anaplasmosis. One of the babesiosis cases was not caught by the hospital in the first go-around and required a blood exchange and almost 2 months in the hospital and rehab.
There is a new invasive insect called the deer ked [0] that crawls like the girl from The Ring and may be a new vector for tick diseases (and they fly!).
Highly recommend checking out the CDC on tick-borne diseases [1], using DEET/permethrin [2] (no permethrin with cats, though), and doing tick checks if you spend time outside.
When you go to a hospital due to a suspected tick bite, keep in mind the standard tick panel does NOT include babeosis screening
You must do a full panel (some 26 tests) in order to detect it. These are often not available in most vet offices.
Babeosis is extremely common in the tropical climate of LATAM. If you take your dog there, and he comes back to the US sick , Consider that your US hospital may be dealing with an exotic disease (unlike LATAM, where this would be a dime a dozen)
Even not-so-great-sounding contracts pay 50-65/hr, might be a confidence boost. Level up your skills on udemy, if necessary (wait for courses to be 80% off or whatever, happens regularly).
Could also go corporate at a non-tech for low stress and a decent salary.
I'm actually thinking of pivoting from web dev (10 years a laravel dev) to prompt engineering, and entry-level ai stuff, I'm not going to perfect the next big algorithm, but I can use langchain to create custom KB enhanced chatGPT instances, or automation agents for small-to-mid size companies.
I'm super obsessed lately w/ AI, on youtube, github, HN, reddit, etc... and working on actually building a clone of myself to do the mundane parts I don't like to do... hehe... this is kind of a green field, and the opportunities are huge, might be the last dev jobs when AGI hits -- training custom AGI's...
This is so wildly inaccurate that I can't believe you'd make this claim.
You think a 90-150 lb animal has something like 10 lbs of meat on it?
30-60 lbs is much more accurate. Here's a chart from the PA Game Commission: https://www.pgc.pa.gov/Wildlife/WildlifeSpecies/White-tailed...
Why even post if you have no idea what you're talking about? Do you think everyone at the food bank is on the carnivore diet?