lime!

wouldn’t make much sense to put up a solar roof after doing this. it would block the sun.

look what you did sharon, now the pets are gay

i’m glad you found it useful, best of luck :)

In north america, yes. i have municipal water, i’ve stayed in hotels all over europe, and i’ve never had the feeling of drowning in a pool when drinking tap water before going over there. the worst thing i’ve encountered in europe is filtered tap water, which tastes like charcoal but is drinkable. the chlorinated water just made my throat close instinctively.

everything is chlorinated. i get painful rash if i ingest chlorinated water, so basically everything was undrinkable. this was also true for soft drinks the time i visited Vegas, so my options for hydration were extremely limited.

this is more focused for sure, but it lacks the enthusiasm of the original. if i was trying to do this for work, i would appreciate how quickly it gets to the point. however, it no longer reads like this is something you’re interested in. it reads a bit wooden. i get that would happen after you’ve been told to correct your style though.

to be clear, the original article doesn’t need to be rewritten. for the future though, when you want to tell the story of how you got something working, include your reasons for doing something a certain way. if you need a self-inflicted complication, that’s not really a part of it (unless it’s funny)

chicken, peanuts, curry powder, banana. no pineapple.

that or the classic lyxkebabpizza (with fries), or maybe a good calskrove.

your writing overall is good! it’s just a matter of information priority.

here’s a tip, dunno how applicable it is but i use it when writing technical documentation:

for each step, explain to yourself why you’re doing it the way you are. if it turns out you caused the step to be needed, rather than it being required, you probably need to rethink, or at least add the explanation to the text.

this guide, and the previous one, have a lot of weird superfluous steps. like, why use a command that includes nvim and then ask people to change it instead of just saying “edit the file”? why symlink systemd stuff to your own home directory?

the info is good, but having to separate the actually useful stuff from things that are specific to your config makes it less useful.

when moz first bought pocket and the extension was included by default, it was before they open-sourced it. this was in the NPAPI days when plugins could do basically anything on the host system. that shit got disabled the moment it touched my browser. same as the drm blob.

man, i haven’t thought about pocket for like 10 years. i remember being annoyed that they added yet another binary blob to the software.

wait, pocket makes money?

llamafile is not really “effective”. it’s incredibly impressive, but it’s the opposite of effective. it’s a collection of a bunch of hacks reliant on coincidences in OS design, and works by basically recompiling itself on the fly to work with different architectures.

if you want effective, run llama.cpp compiled with actual optimizations for your platform.

she was the face of the occupy wall street movement, but her views back then were more ancap than anti capital. while working for google she tried to petition the us government to shut itself down and hand the reins over to the tech industry, with google’s ceo as president.

the base of the APE library that powers llamafile is called cosmopolitan libC, iirc in direct reference to the old soviet term.

to give credit she’s mellowed out a lot in recent years.

it did. it lives on as the proprietary KaiOS, used in cheap feature phones.

usually you invest in the main product to drive higher returns for diversifying. diversifying first means your baseline is unstable.

it’s a good idea to not look to deeply into the historic actions of the creator of llamafile. she’s pretty polarising.

well speech-dispatcher has no synthesis component, you can plug in any tts engine that follows the interface. it’s nice to have a choice in engine just by implementing the support. personally i use piper which i feel gives a pretty good performance.

i believe that’s what speech-dispatcher is; a uniform interface for tts systems.

yakety sax is based on a song with lyrics! “yakety yak” by the Coasters