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New comment by mgaudet in "Pocket TTS: A high quality TTS that gives your CPU a voice"

mgaudet — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 18:32:58 +0000

Is this just sort of expected for these models? Should users of this expect only truncation or can hallucinated bits happen too?

I also find Javert in particular seems to put in huge gaps and spaces... side effect of the voice?

New comment by mgaudet in "Pocket TTS: A high quality TTS that gives your CPU a voice"

mgaudet — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 01:10:15 +0000

Eep.

So, on my M1 mac, did `uvx pocket-tts serve`. Plugged in

> It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way—in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only

(Beginning of Tale of Two Cities)

but the problem is Javert skips over parts of sentences! Eg, it starts:

> "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, ..."

Notice how it skips over "it was the age of foolishness,", "it was the winter of despair,"

Which... Doesn't exactly inspire faith in a TTS system.

(Marius seems better; posted https://github.com/kyutai-labs/pocket-tts/issues/38)

New comment by mgaudet in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

mgaudet — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 21:27:34 +0000

Regular blog: https://www.mgaudet.ca/blog/ Technical Blog: https://www.mgaudet.ca/technical/

Non-Traditional Profiling

mgaudet — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 22:01:36 +0000

Article URL: https://www.mgaudet.ca/technical/2026/1/8/non-traditional-profiling

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46559998

Points: 1

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Exploring a Language Runtime with Bpftrace

mgaudet — Wed, 28 May 2025 16:46:55 +0000

Article URL: https://www.mgaudet.ca/technical/2025/5/28/exploring-a-language-runtime-with-bpftrace

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44117937

Points: 29

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A Performance Investigation Challenge

mgaudet — Fri, 09 May 2025 22:38:16 +0000

Article URL: https://www.mgaudet.ca/technical/2025/5/9/a-performance-investigation-challenge

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43941577

Points: 1

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User Defined Primitives: A Sketch

mgaudet — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 20:25:00 +0000

Article URL: https://www.mgaudet.ca/technical/2025/2/24/user-defined-primitives-a-sketch

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43164524

Points: 3

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Making Teleporting Smarter

mgaudet — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 01:17:23 +0000

Article URL: https://spidermonkey.dev/blog/2025/02/19/Making-Teleporting-Smarter.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43109966

Points: 1

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5 Years of CompilerJobs

mgaudet — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 16:40:06 +0000

Article URL: https://www.mgaudet.ca/technical/2024/12/19/5-years-of-compiler-jobs

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42463165

Points: 4

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New comment by mgaudet in "Optimizing the Ion compiler back end"

mgaudet — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 19:35:36 +0000

It's too bad the title prefix "75x Faster" got dropped.

New comment by mgaudet in "jj init – getting serious about replacing Git with Jujutsu"

mgaudet — Sat, 03 Feb 2024 01:54:36 +0000

I stumbled a bit using jj on a big repo [1], but I too am very interested in seeing it grow and evolve.

I plan to return to my experiment sometime, would love tips on large repos and making it more manageable.

[1]: https://www.mgaudet.ca/technical/2023/11/23/exploring-jujits...

New comment by mgaudet in "Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?"

mgaudet — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 01:19:08 +0000

https://www.mgaudet.ca/ for general interest stuff, https://www.mgaudet.ca/technical for tech stuff.

Some good ones IMO:

- Implementing Private Fields for JavaScript https://www.mgaudet.ca/technical/2021/5/4/implementing-priva...

- Histories, by Herodotus: https://www.mgaudet.ca/blog/2020/11/26/histories-by-herodotu...

New comment by mgaudet in "Mercenaries Were More Common in Greek Warfare Than Ancient Historians Let On"

mgaudet — Sat, 08 Oct 2022 19:27:59 +0000

Big thumbs up to the Landmark Histories project (http://thelandmarkancienthistories.com/). Excellent production value making reading these histories much more managable -- you're 100% right on the frequent maps and good appendixes.

Don't have Anabasis, but Herodotus was excellent.

New comment by mgaudet in "Java BitSet performance-flicker mystery"

mgaudet — Sun, 06 Feb 2022 02:47:47 +0000

Would also be interesting to see if this is a Java issue, or a JVM implementation issue: ie, does an OpenJ9 based JVM (Available under the weird IBM Semeru name here [1]) have similar behaviour?

[1]: https://developer.ibm.com/languages/java/semeru-runtimes/

New comment by mgaudet in "Azul introduces remote compilation for Java"

mgaudet — Fri, 17 Dec 2021 16:43:37 +0000

Interesting. OpenJ9 has something similar in preview: https://blog.openj9.org/tag/jitserver/

New comment by mgaudet in "CompilerJobs – A listing of compiler, language and runtime teams"

mgaudet — Sun, 04 Jul 2021 22:44:36 +0000

I too would love this icon, and would take a PR from teams who can speak to that.

Hard to judge often!

New comment by mgaudet in "CompilerJobs – A listing of compiler, language and runtime teams"

mgaudet — Sun, 04 Jul 2021 17:08:50 +0000

Yeah, I posted a blog post [1] that explains my motivation in curating this list. Seeing the broad range of companies that do this kind of work was really helpful early in my career.

[1]: https://www.mgaudet.ca/technical/2019/12/10/compiler-jobs

New comment by mgaudet in "CompilerJobs – A listing of compiler, language and runtime teams"

mgaudet — Sun, 04 Jul 2021 17:05:51 +0000

I think it's possible to join the compilers field with no previous experience if you can find the right team willing to mentor. Best would be for you to have adjacent skills that are valuable to the team; things like domain expertise, low level programming skill, or hardware knowledge.

Everyone starts somewhere. It's not the easiest thing, but I think can be done.

New comment by mgaudet in "CompilerJobs – A listing of compiler, language and runtime teams"

mgaudet — Sun, 04 Jul 2021 17:02:35 +0000

Pull requests very welcome! Even if to just update your team location and/or add internships and remote friendliness.

Implementing Private Fields for JavaScript

mgaudet — Wed, 02 Jun 2021 14:44:39 +0000

Article URL: https://www.mgaudet.ca/technical/2021/5/4/implementing-private-fields-for-javascript

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27369266

Points: 1

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