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New comment by synkarius in "Cloudflare Email Service: now in public beta. Ready for your agents"

synkarius — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 14:29:13 +0000

Along these lines, I am experimenting with a two-tiered system where I use Proton's sieve filters to create a sender/cc/bcc whitelist for personal emails (which alert my phone) and a non-Proton collection of burnable aliases for everything else (which do not alert my phone). It doesn't solve the problem completely, but it is mitigating it pretty well so far.

New comment by synkarius in "Experiencing scientific revolutions: the 1660s and the 2020s"

synkarius — Fri, 11 Aug 2023 15:07:37 +0000

It's on Amazon.

https://www.amazon.com/Pandaemonium-1660-1886-Machine-Contem...

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

synkarius — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 04:45:21 +0000

https://explosionduck.com

Mostly covers various software side projects I've worked on over the years, or concepts related to them.

New comment by synkarius in "2023 State of Software Engineers [pdf]"

synkarius — Mon, 06 Mar 2023 18:08:42 +0000

That whole chart seems off.

New comment by synkarius in "Automate writing changelog using ChatGPT"

synkarius — Mon, 06 Mar 2023 15:20:01 +0000

I'm also using Firefox for Android. For me, it's not flickering but there are lots of skipped frames on the initial scrolling animation.

New comment by synkarius in "US Government demands direct police access to European biometric data [pdf]"

synkarius — Tue, 27 Dec 2022 22:31:54 +0000

That's true about rights inside the US border, but in context, this thread was talking about non-US citizens in their home countries when said countries are being pressured by the US government.

I could have been clearer there. I can see why you replied as such.

New comment by synkarius in "US Government demands direct police access to European biometric data [pdf]"

synkarius — Tue, 27 Dec 2022 19:58:39 +0000

Citizens of other countries have no rights under the US constitution.

New comment by synkarius in "Whisper – open source speech recognition by OpenAI"

synkarius — Thu, 22 Sep 2022 22:26:18 +0000

It would. I wonder how this compares with Kaldi, one of the two open source speech recognition engines that Dragonfly currently supports.

New comment by synkarius in "Law Enforcement Is Accessing Locked Devices"

synkarius — Wed, 09 Dec 2020 14:31:40 +0000

If you are in an environment in which someone else can physically access your device (like an airport), don't bring it with you. For example, when traveling abroad, use a cheap alternate cell phone.

New comment by synkarius in "Lenovo Caught Installing Adware on New Computers"

synkarius — Thu, 19 Feb 2015 06:55:21 +0000

This is like the Avast spyware story: once you break trust, it's really difficult to get it back.

Scientists Create Cyborg Skin Which Can Feel Pressure, Temperature and Humidity

synkarius — Wed, 10 Dec 2014 11:54:34 +0000

Article URL: http://www.businessinsider.com.au/scientists-have-created-a-cyborg-skin-which-can-feel-pressure-temperature-and-humidity-2014-12

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8728727

Points: 1

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New comment by synkarius in "HSBC, Goldman Rigged Metals’ Prices for Years, Suit Says"

synkarius — Wed, 26 Nov 2014 15:09:35 +0000

What problems qualify as "my" problems versus someone else's problems? Also, if there is nothing wrong with the world, why are you defending your opinion here? Doesn't doing so imply that you perceive opposing opinions as flawed or inaccurate enough to be worth debating? If so, whose problem is that?

New comment by synkarius in "What If Age Is Nothing but a Mind-Set?"

synkarius — Wed, 22 Oct 2014 22:26:25 +0000

Could you give an example of how to be proactive as such? I agree that being prepared is good, but I don't personally know enough about old-age care / geriatrics / Social Security to really be in favor of or against any particular policy changes.

New comment by synkarius in "Programming by Voice: Staying Productive Without Harming Yourself"

synkarius — Tue, 21 Oct 2014 11:59:47 +0000

I concur. I got a Leap Motion, hoping to use it to replace some or all mouse function. It's a fun toy but not much else.

New comment by synkarius in "Programming by Voice: Staying Productive Without Harming Yourself"

synkarius — Tue, 21 Oct 2014 09:08:21 +0000

Regarding the first line of this comment, though voice strain is something to look out for, if you speak correctly[1], you can minimize your chances of damaging your voice.

[1] http://www.mainespeechtherapy.org/content/4021/Voice_Disorde...

New comment by synkarius in "Programming by Voice: Staying Productive Without Harming Yourself"

synkarius — Tue, 21 Oct 2014 08:54:15 +0000

I use the word "bark" too, albeit for a different purpose. I think that sort of spec selection is just a habit that you naturally get into when creating a lot of voice commands.

Incidentally, I've learned a bit of Korean, and it's caused me to notice that Dragon recognizes words which don't end in multiple unvoiced consonants more easily than those that do. (For example, "taze" is better than "taste" and "pad" is better than "pact".)

New comment by synkarius in "Programming by Voice: Staying Productive Without Harming Yourself"

synkarius — Tue, 21 Oct 2014 04:32:25 +0000

Like the author of the article, I've been making the switch to programming by voice. At first, the delay was really jarring, but you get used to it.

You're also completely correct about how when you speak a chain of commands, one of the commands in the middle getting messed up can invalidate the rest. That happens a lot. You learn to speak in shorter chains, and also to make the commands phonetically distinct.

That said, both the delay and the inaccuracy problems can be greatly ameliorated by a fast CPU and a good sound card. I don't have any benchmarks, but I have noticed the difference since upgrading.