splatzone's comments

On: I use Cursor daily - here's how I avoid the garbage parts

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And yet I learned something!

On: Response to DHH

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Ah man, that’s brutal. For what it’s worth, it’s a gorgeous theme and it made me excited to learn Drupal when I was 14!

On: How to succeed in MrBeast production (Leaked PDF)

[splatzone]

This is absolutely the responsibility of the healthcare system tbh. It feels intrusive right now, but discouraging smoking would have felt intrusive once too.

On: Sublime Text 4 Build 4180

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ST is a brilliant editor and I really enjoyed using it until I eventually switched to VS Code as it had more useful extensions. The speed of ST is still unmatched.

On: Show HN: Markdown HN profiles at {user}.at.hn

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Nice implementation!

On: Show HN: Get your website copy and design roasted

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It insulted my attempt at minimalist design quite comprehensively. Well done!

On: Tell HN: Google's new summarize SMS just read another person's messages to me

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Why do you think OP made this up?

On: Show HN: Wadzilla. Play DOOM in Zork

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It would be awesome to have some kind on playable demo in-browser, or sample output. Nice work

On: Schools in UK send police to homes of absent pupils

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You can indeed homeschool: https://www.gov.uk/home-education

[lkdfjlkdfjlg → splatzone]

Thank you for that!

So I guess this is about problem kids and/or parents who can't get their shit together.

[stuaxo → lkdfjlkdfjlg]

No, there is a lot more context than that.

Apologies for not giving a more detailed answer, its late at night.

[bdjsiqoocwk → stuaxo]

Ok, does that mean that the Police is showing up to threaten wealthy parents of kids with good grades, who nevertheless miss school because they we're travelling with their parents?

[happymellon → bdjsiqoocwk]

No, because they know how to play the game.

The rules are normally around consecutive days of absence.

But also because wealthy parents don't take their children out of school to go travelling. There is a reason that boarding is popular.

On: The OpenAI board was right

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They passed off Sky as Johansson’s voice though. It’s highly misleading and passing off is a kind of theft of her persona.

[KaoruAoiShiho → splatzone]

It sounds nothing like johansson, like nothing at all.

https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1cx1np4/voice_...

This whole controversy makes no sense and is obvious that the media is looking for something to attack openai with.

[harryf → KaoruAoiShiho]

Sounds like they just shifted the voice with some Fast Fourier transforms - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/63339608/change-the-melo...

[tim333 → KaoruAoiShiho]

To my ears it sounds similar but not identical - I can tell which is which.

Apparently they selected the actress from auditions in early 2023, a while before the Johansson timeline.

Of course the OpenAI folk would likely have seen Her and may have selected someone sounding like that.

[twobitshifter → KaoruAoiShiho]

If you read that thread you will see a link to the sky voice outside of the demo voice which is much closer. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RcgV2u9Kxh0

[deanc → KaoruAoiShiho]

Indeed. I was looking for a sample this morning and it’s just nonsense. Sounds like a polite American voice actor female. Johansson has many mannerisms and a different accent. Sounds nothing like her.