![]() ![]() Sometimes I come to write a piece of code and find that I wrote it last week and can't remember a thing about it. On the other hand, I have a shocking memory and can't hold context for long. The professor who ported plan 9 to raspberry pi (recent video here) is an example of this approach. Many look at the keyboard over glasses and hunt and peck. They have a slow-pace, methodical way of working. I've worked with people who are skilled developers and who can't even touch type. It's very different for different programmers. ![]() Dragon, and Windows, and a super PC to run it on are super cheap compared to your time, especially when your time is in six-minute increments punctuated by pain. Yeah, they say there is an open-source recognition engine that works okay, and time spent improving free recognition engines is time that really improves the world for all kinds of injured people, but here's the problem: when you need a speech system you really need it, and there are a lot of moving parts. The Mac version is pretty good for occasional email but lousy for emacs because it doesn't have the Python hook into the event loop that a saint hacked into the PC version years ago before leaving Dragon. You need a PC running the Windows version of Dragon. The most important hint I have so far is: do not waste time with Mac OS. There is nothing like trying to do a ton of emergency scripting on Python and emacs at the lowest possible point of your productivity. But I intend to keep going, not just because it is hilarious but because, well, RSI happens and it really pays to vary the routine sooner rather than later. Ironically, after seeing a physical therapist - which, let me tell you, you should do at the first sign of pain, because while they can't help some people I personally am batting 1.000 with PTs for RSI over my many-year career - my recovery is now so complete that I've totally fallen off the voice-computing path. This video was, literally, a life-altering motivator for me, and I was quite obsessed with it. A few months ago I had an RSI problem so bad - able to type only a minute at a time, even sitting with hands on keyboard hurt - that I started down this route. ![]()
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