Several years ago I spent over two months working out how to integrate Text To Speech and Speech To Text (TTS/STT) into any windows program I wrote in Delphi, originally for a powerful flat-file search engine. Does anyone know if TTS/STT is useful on windows 10+ or have any use?

I was thinking about redeveloping the search engine into a stand alone program which can be used as a fast and light query tool with trigger functions, it can be made into a "reply bot" or used with a server like Apache, but without the old IBM mainframe mentality being readopted as "AI" and "social media" everywhere today. low-level Independent and secure droid like systems sound more fun to develop.

A company weekend in a homestead with a bathhouse and a cold pond.

After a good bathing [~x6 cycles] I'm in my bedroom [left the party early, really want to enjoy the calm and silence]. I thought it would be a good idea to charge my ITware overnight.

Apparently there's only 1 wall socket in the room. And now I have to choose: whether I want an electric heater to basically stay alive until the morning, or a full phone and lappy battery in the morning...

I made the choice

Somebody claimed to be an "ex-McDonalds chef". This is right up there with "prompt engineer". Buahahahahahahaha!!!

I guess I should put on my resume: "Hardee's Chef - 2 years" hahahahahaha!!!

my mom is still in hospital but in extreme pain. she keeps crying and vomitting from pain. heart surgery is a serious fcking surgery not smth to joke ab

Priorities.

>zig
how does one manage to make a language with syntax that is uglier than both C++ and Rust combined

Why is everyone on this platform close to a certain timezone resulting me being alone here right now. Just woke up. Can't sleep. It sucks

Here is a new meme inspired by @retoor's request...
https://devrant.com/rants/11374197/...

If you don't use AI for coding you're a kinda dinosaur. Cute, but that's all

A human is but a set of diagnoses driven by the fear of death.

Want stickers?
DM me on telegram @NoobMasterOne9

India only!

Did you know that "Bazmd" is an Indian name? I use it because it's an abbreviation of my real name. (Yep! Dr Baz).

It's just a coincidence, I used to wonder why algorithms would infer that I was Indian.

The algorithm: "Here I am with a brain the size of a planet and they ask me to pick up a piece of paper. Call that job satisfaction? I don't.".

I have this ux intern next to me and like every programmer i’m cursing on my code daily and she made a remark today like: it never works for you does it?

-_-‘ SHUTUP!

According to the minister of external affair of Germany, the geneva convention is a "tiktok fad".

What a fucked up country seriously. We should "nuance" the bombing of civilians. Sure /s

As I settled into my armchair with a steaming cup of tea, I thought back to the time I almost lost my heart—and a small fortune—to a smooth-talking scam artist. It all began innocently enough when I joined a dating site after my children encouraged me to put myself out there again. That’s when I met David. With his charming smile and heartfelt messages, he made me feel seen and cherished. We talked for hours about everything—from our favorite books to our dreams of traveling the world. I felt like a teenager again, butterflies in my stomach as we planned our future together.

But soon, the conversation took a troubling turn. David claimed he was stuck overseas due to a sudden medical emergency and needed money to pay for treatment. My heart ached for him, and against my better judgment, I sent him several wire transfers, believing I was helping the love of my life. Weeks passed, and suddenly, the sweet messages turned into silence. It dawned on me that I had been scammed. Just as I was drowning in despair, I heard about a group called Specter Lynx. I reached out, sharing my story with them. They sprang into action, tracking down David’s digital trail and uncovering the web of deceit. With their help, I was able to recover a significant portion of my lost funds. Now, I not only have my money back, but I also have a newfound appreciation for caution—and the strength of community. I often share my story, reminding others that love online can be a double-edged sword, but with a little vigilance, you can find your way back.

@retoor you wanted something IT related.

"During the early stages of the war, the army gave sweeping approval for officers to adopt Lavender’s kill lists, with no requirement to thoroughly check why the machine made those choices or to examine the raw intelligence data on which they were based. One source stated that human personnel often served only as a “rubber stamp” for the machine’s decisions, adding that, normally, they would personally devote only about “20 seconds” to each target before authorizing a bombing — just to make sure the Lavender-marked target is male. This was despite knowing that the system makes what are regarded as “errors” in approximately 10 percent of cases, and is known to occasionally mark individuals who have merely a loose connection to militant groups, or no connection at all."

well now that I put my wallet through the wash and these "very important" vaccine passport cards were in there that disintegrated (also by the way the email with the digital vaccine cards they sent me doesn't have a PDF attachment but has a link to a PDF file -- that is now 404! whatcha trying to hide, fuckers?). evidently fake vaccine passport creation is the only sort of fraud the Quebec government cares about, since there was a news story recently how the council for discovering fraud is just 95% faking vaccine cards fraud (kicker I've never heard of this council, seems they've only been active in the post covid era), nevermind that that shit fucked me up and I've had dementia at 30 for 3 years now, with my body having self heating / metabolism issues, pink blood or clots showing up everywhere issues, a fucking purple toe (actually I would just randomly turn purple on and off, and once yellow! I'm sure my liver is fine), numbness in my left side, hands, feet, mania / feeling like you're dying... but anyway it's all in your head and fuck off stop calling 911

I decided I would take a photo of the papers (since they're so important and came at such a cost!) and evidently now my camera app crashes anytime I try to take a photo. rebooted. somehow my photo viewer app updated with a reboot but the camera app is still busted.

I think this is a sign I should root my phone

but I'm already doing 4 things right now. on top of being reminded of my fucking medical trauma making this post RN I guess

fuk

speaking of crypto scams

Work does not make me wealthy.

Can't sleep. Nothing to do besides telling @Demolishun he lost the game again and try to sleep again I guess. Good night

tools doing things you didn't ask them to is intuitive. Your're just a dinosaur, Harry. Get with the times

We're a data science company. We do medical research. We have patented results.

My manager describes half of our code base as on par with a random number generator. At least 1 part of our pipeline overfits random data with 99.9% accuracy.

My manager is a wise man.

It did not happened again as mentioned before. Tradition:

>Difficulty: Tell Me a Story
>Aim Assist: On
>Weapon Sway: Off
>Invisibility While Pron: On
>Slow Motion While Aiming: On
>Autosave Before Every Encounter: On
>Enemy Perception: Low
>Enemy Accuracy: Low
>Boss Fight Skip Option: On
>Discord open for emotional support

Time to game.

do people not understand achievements unless you brag about them =-=

been asking AI on different examples of flexing and all of them sound like vapid LinkedIn posts

"just asked AI a question that's been bugging me for hours! it's such a nothing to have no answers still! 🎉"

one of my favourite examples: "accidentally set my kitchen on fire while trying to impress my friends with my cooking skills. but hey, I now know how to order takeout like a pro. win?"
lol what

I now wonder if I'm depressed cuz graduating school or finishing projects or... uhh ordering food? just sounds stupid to me

rewrote my code from hashset to hashmap. actually kind of re-organized some data types. brain is fog because fuck you. but everything ran so I guess rust thinks it's ok. I'm just annoyed by all that though cuz I just wish I didn't have to do it in the first place

TF is there to brag about

also if you brag about anything good everyone just wants to steal it from you

WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF BRAGGING

I keep coming back to read this comment. Out of all the interactions I've had with y'all here, this one has hit me the hardest.

TW gore

https://criticalpast.com/video/...

Dead germs lmao

Tim Cook should go back to his kitchen and prepare us a meal

How come the zionists didnt get a part of italy? Fascism and meloni are claiming to be inheriting from the roman empire who exiled the jews from they ancestral homeland.

So give them rome. Imagine a jewish rome it would be so much better.

But why did the stupid brits gave them their colony instead of just dismembering the countries that started ww2. The whole shit is their fault really

Hi, people, i dont post often on here but here goes.

https :// www . ncnbc . com / 2024/10/18/the-perfect-3-word-phrase-when-someone-hurts-your-feelings.html

It has an interview from bill gates in there.

Also i want u to know that i care about u.