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Well don't just stand there awkwardly holding her neck, she needs help with the compiler!
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Feb 17, 2024 22:59
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No fair using AI
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Feb 17, 2024 22:59
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I wanted to know more:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APF_Imagination_Machine
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Feb 17, 2024 23:23
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Even at the time the fancy of ad copy writers seemed to be painting a picture of a future adult world of mysteries that did not appeal at all, like "balancing your checkbook" (a thing you apparently do once and for all!) or "storing your recipes"
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Feb 17, 2024 23:25
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What problem is this thing solving?
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Feb 18, 2024 05:10
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Rappaport posted:What problem is this thing solving? Amputation
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Feb 18, 2024 06:14
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Rappaport posted:What problem is this thing solving? flat hands
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Feb 18, 2024 06:15
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This one is for double-amputation: http://www.maltron.com/store/p24/Maltron_Head%2FMouth_Stick_Keyboard_-_US_English.html Maltron keyboards are amazing, the Kinesis Advantage line is just an imitation Maltron. Still great tho
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Feb 18, 2024 06:16
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that looks so frustrating and tedious to use, I hope speech recognition got good enough people don't really need this anymore.
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Feb 18, 2024 06:29
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By popular demand posted:that looks so frustrating and tedious to use, I hope speech recognition got good enough people don't really need this anymore. It works pretty well, except sometimes it can't handle strong accents. You can see it in iPhone transcriptions of voicemails.
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Feb 18, 2024 07:39
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dobbymoodge posted:This one is for double-amputation: http://www.maltron.com/store/p24/Maltron_Head%2FMouth_Stick_Keyboard_-_US_English.html The Kinesis Advantage makes a great movie prop. It's in the Bone Collector and one of the Men in Black movies.
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Feb 18, 2024 08:28
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dobbymoodge posted:Amputation That's pretty cool, though as noted above, you'd think speech-to-text these days would be a better alternative. But back then? Nifty.
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Feb 18, 2024 08:35
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Feb 18, 2024 12:00
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Rappaport posted:That's pretty cool, though as noted above, you'd think speech-to-text these days would be a better alternative. But back then? Nifty. Depends on what you are doing - there are enough technical tasks where you're either typing things speech to text doesn't handle at all (programming being an obvious example), or using a lot of keyboard shortcuts. If I had just one hand, and someone at work had the bright idea to replace one of those keyboards with a microphone and software solution, I'd be looking into what sort of aids and accommodations would make it easier for a one-armed man to murder someone.
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Feb 18, 2024 12:51
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WHAT UP MEMBERS OF THE COURT Y'ALL READY TO MAKE SOME NOISE *scratching vinyl*
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Feb 18, 2024 13:06
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pe157yBa00
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Feb 18, 2024 14:18
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Computer viking posted:Depends on what you are doing - there are enough technical tasks where you're either typing things speech to text doesn't handle at all (programming being an obvious example), or using a lot of keyboard shortcuts. Fair enough!
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Feb 18, 2024 15:20
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https://twitter.com/3five9/status/1758961589053743290?s=20
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Feb 18, 2024 17:49
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I love the weird world of tech company employee swag. Not necessarily the stuff they give away at trade shows or conferences, or the “we put the company logo on a hat!” sort of items that might be distributed at an all-hands, but the internal stuff that’s clearly a well-meaning attempt at recognition when “paying people more” is a ludicrous notion. I once worked on a project to add QR code based login and ended up with a yoga mat with the project code name printed on it.
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Feb 18, 2024 18:03
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I have a mug and a hat with the Anaplan logo on, the latter of which I only ever put on because of how appalled my wife is by it.
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Feb 18, 2024 18:56
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My most used winter coat is covered with initialisms and acronyms I don't even know the meaning of but supposedly worked on.
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Feb 18, 2024 19:07
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I still have an... I think Compuserve UK mug downstairs. It's an awful mug because it kind of has a ridge around the bottom inside, and you can never get it clean.
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Feb 18, 2024 19:11
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I still have my Firedog mouse pad from when I worked at Circuit City back in '06.
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Feb 18, 2024 20:21
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I have a Norsk Data bottle opener I found at a flea market, which is a treasure to an extremely small audience.  (Beyond that it's just University coffee mugs and ThermoFisher USB sticks.)
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Feb 18, 2024 21:11
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My oldest tech related swag is a Panasonic ruler from the 1983 NCC in Anaheim.
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Feb 18, 2024 21:43
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I have a very nice Windows 7 messenger bag I paid $8 for a thrift store.
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Feb 18, 2024 22:00
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I've got these SGI mugs. Not weird merch, but I find the design of the one on the right to be pretty weird.
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Feb 18, 2024 22:47
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My most recent goon Secret Santee has a strong dislike of MS Surface devices so, naturally, I threw in some brand new swag:
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Feb 18, 2024 22:58
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I found a ROLM coffee cup at the thrift store not too long ago, it’s pretty rad!
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Feb 18, 2024 22:58
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I fell all over myself to purchase an SSI keychain when I saw one at the like 2007 Gen-Con Auction. Sadly I am one of those people who actually uses collectables for their intended purpose so by 2009 it had faded to near-illegibility and the keychain connector part had snapped in half. BUT I STILL GOT IT
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Feb 18, 2024 22:59
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Computer viking posted:Depends on what you are doing - there are enough technical tasks where you're either typing things speech to text doesn't handle at all (programming being an obvious example), or using a lot of keyboard shortcuts. You can program with speech to text, I've seen videos of people doing it, it's just that you end up having to define weird little non-words for all the symbols and you end up sounding like a raving lunatic who's also choking on a fish bone. Obviously the answer is to only code in Lisp because you'll only need to define special words for ( and ).
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Feb 19, 2024 00:18
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Gromit posted:I've got these SGI mugs. Not weird merch, but I find the design of the one on the right to be pretty weird. To this day cannot fathom why SGI changed their logo. So cool. Yes I recreated it in povray who didn't
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Feb 19, 2024 00:20
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I have a ton of game and video card company swag from the late 90s/early 00s including some sweet Unreal, Bungie, MacSoft, Cyrix, Savage 3D, GT Interactive, and other shirts.
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Feb 19, 2024 01:29
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The coolest tech relic logo is clearly sun microsystems
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Feb 19, 2024 01:46
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Every time I see that logo this plays in my head
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Feb 19, 2024 01:57
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When I was in high school, there was some kind of contest for students to build webpages about their school. I knew babby HTML, which in 1999, was good enough for my Geocities page. A teacher got me to enter the contest and I thought I was pretty decent, until we got up to the competition and the other students knew Shockwave. I still have a Microsoft branded shirt in m t-shirt box. I can't find a picture of it online, so I might have to dig it out. First time I ever used a digital camera was for that project. It used 3.5" floppy disks.
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Feb 19, 2024 03:27
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While their main logo is very, well, "international business", I like how IBM still uses the bee from the silly "👁🐝M" rebus logo as their favicon.
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Feb 19, 2024 03:29
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RC and Moon Pie posted:First time I ever used a digital camera was for that project. It used 3.5" floppy disks. Probably the Sony Mavica, great concept given everyone had a ton of disks around but I’m sure its write speed was its major flaw.
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Or that weird Panasonic one that used SuperDisks interchangeably with floppies, I had one. It was loving huge
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