So… apparently Dragon Naturally Speaking (version 16!) has them all blown out of the water…
God that app was such trash. Voice recognition simply did not work in the 2000s yet everybody and their mother tried to push it upon us 20 years too soon, just like they’re trying to do now with LLMs.
Remember when windows vista itself came with a voice to text assistant / keyboard thing?
I remeber trying to train that software for hours as a kid just for it to still not understand me half the time lol.
Ironically, it was LLMs that made voice recognition work, but nobody is interested in pushing them anymore.
There’s a significant minority of us who relentlessly demand a TTS computer with Majel Barrett’s voice.
Good thing it’s not Morgan Freeman, then. Even naturally sounding like him can get you sued for impersonation, IIRC. 🙃
I love my local LLM voice recognition on my PC through Speech Note on Linux.
I don’t know to me the level it worked, is what makes it really silly to me that so few things can handle local transcription today without cloud services. I felt like it was 99% accurate running on a crappy win XP system with like 256 MB ram. Seems to me that it’s crazy that 20 years later we’re “well we need to hook you up to a supercomputer to do that”.
We literally have Enterprise wide systems where I work that had version upgrades over the last few years that moved transactions from our servers to cloud based ones. It’s been a fucking mess for every single application that did that. Regular outages with no real communication or ETA, and there’s nothing my team can do about it
Blast from the past, I remember having this included with some game I bought in the 90s and it felt very Star Trek at the time.
I used to work with a pathologist who was so old and stuck in his ways that when the practice was shifting to Dragon, they allowed him to remain on the old transcriptionist service, even though it cost them more.
Version 20,922,789,888,000 ?
Chrome bumped its versioning numbers to overtake Firefox back in the day, that’s how we ended up with stupid version numbers like 124.1.2 instead of meaningful versions.
I’ve started using CalVer (so a relase in October 2026 would be numbered 26.10). This is just so much better for end-user applications.
What’s the benefits here? Why is the semver even bad to begin with? I’m not sure why I’d care that it’s in the hundreds. It’s a number, right?
Dates - I can just look at the release date if I want that.
The only correct system is 0ver.
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IMHO, the leading number should always be a fully distinct version from its preceding iterations. But, there are very few tech-fluent (much less capable) people pulling those levers, it seems.
SemVer simply has no meaning to end users.
By definition, SemVer is supposed to have meaning to end users. If you see the third number increase, no worries, it’s just bugfixes.
If you see the second number increase, well, in theory no worries, it’s just cool new features but doesn’t break anything you were doing, whatever you were doing should keep on working as always, and you can explore the new features at your leisure.
The first number changes: beware, something you may be used to can change/go away so it’s not necessarily a slam dunk to update that.
The problem is that many projects just call it SemVer when they just play with arbitrary numbers. I’ll call it “Marketing Versioning”.
In a GUI application every change is a breaking change…
You leave Visual Basic alone!
I just don’t see what the point is of making the version the date. If I care about time then look up the release date metadata associated with the version.
Semver shows breaking changes. That seems more important than time to me, and I’d think for most people. Calver implies to me that people are manually reviewing releases and going “yeah this date is more recent so I think I’ll go with that one” which makes no sense to me. Basically everyone has some automated update system.
What does matter to me is if an update with break anything or includes new features.
SemVer isn’t bad, but it’s kind of pointless in the browsers. The value in SemVer is if you realistically promise to take bumping that first number seriously. Implying you take backwards compatibility seriously, and bugfixes seriously enough to keep patching an ‘old’ version. If you just maniacally bump the ‘backwards incompatible change’ number and never bother to revisit old releases, then I don’t really care about the SemVer.
Of course, I also don’t necessarily care about the CalVer either if there’s update notification in play, the browsers will aggressively let you know you need an update. However if update notification isn’t working or otherwise isn’t in play, then CalVer can at least make you think “24.7… that seems like it might be old, maybe I should look for updates”. In Windows world the CalVer has been informative as the system or corporate IT screw up has frozen a device at 22H2 and trigger some manual effort to figure out/fix whyever the hell the system won’t go to new functional levels.
really? i personally find the drive to FIFAfy software very distastefull. But to each their own!
Just because you release updates doesn’t mean you have to make people pay 60€ every time…
Not really, Chromium’s version just increased by one with every release. It’s kinda the same as the second number in the semver designation.
Has anyone checked on Bonzi Buddy lately, I think it’s time to unfreeze him
Wow, blast from the past.
I sorta remember that I think… But my mind keeps going back to kittens shoved into glass vases for internet shock value. Bonzai kitties was a whole thing in the wild west of the internet and it shouldn’t be forgotten.
wild west of the internet
you mean the free internet
Hunh. So it tracks, then? Throwing the gates wide for the desperate plebs to run amok across the lands, chasing dreams of a better life —just softening up the resistance of those who came long before and effectively paving the way with their blood, sweat, and sundry lives.
The playbook hasn’t changed in centuries.
This is a joke right? tell me it is please
This is also why I use AMD over NVIDIA.
Why?
AMD consumer GPU numbers are I think in the 9000s while Nvidia’s are only in the 5000’s or maybe 6000’s.
I’m an idiot.
I’m literally the oldest I’ve ever been in my entire life!
Windows 2000 has entered the chat
Shit like this would be laughed at by my professors. What a bunch of goons
crushing at saying stupid shit? both are gleefully sloppy
Clearly no AI can maintain an erection the way I do. It’s like a baby’s arm holding and apple, if the apple was of the Butchered Circumcision variety. Not as good for baking as the Grannie Smith or the Dutchmeal Sweets, but it holds turgid enough for penetration, so it’s whatever. And no AI can replace me, and you’re stuck with me for eternity cuz I know the true nature of reality and it’s a dog shit fucked in my ass cream last night, lengthwise in order to support the Huns invasion of Bulgaria.
TMBB
Heh, guess Gemini wasn’t even worth including
The Y-axis is a thing.
