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> if you use an English word as a command, such as ‘return’, it means you can never type out that word.

Not exactly true. The word by itself would be recognized as a command, but in a sentence it’ll be treated as any other word, assuming you don’t pause for too long before it.


You're probably thinking of some other voice command system, or Dragon's built-in commands (which are bad because they have no continuous recognition, requiring constant pauses while talking). Voicecode behaves exactly as described in the article.

I just defined a command "return" in Voicecode which presses enter.

"testing return testing test test return test return test" spoken in one breath types the following:

  testing
  testing test test
  test
  test
Voicecode defines commands in Dragon by just adding words to the English vocabulary, leaving Dragon in dictation mode, and running a parser on the English output. Commands are executed anywhere they land in the phrase. The Voicecode grammar makes this somewhat less painful by using lots of non-English words for commands... but this approach is convoluted and hurts accuracy quite a bit imo.


The pausing solution is incorrect, but to say you could never use the word is also incorrect. See "keeper" such as "keeper return".


No, pausing will not prevent the word being recognized as a command in Voicecode. However, you can tell VC to ignore commands and just treat what's spoken as regular text. The command "keeper" will do this.


however, voicecode's use of dictation as I outlined in my sibling comment means keeper will type out all the nonsense words too (which is some of what I meant by voicecode's approach affecting accuracy)


The first heading overflows on mobile, hiding the "a" and "y" in "application delivery"and causing horizontal scrolling.


Thanks, it'll be fixed soon.


If that was truly the case, they ought to have moved away from flash "a long time ago".


Fix it for mobile. Quick glance says the headings are overflowing the width causing horizontal scroll, and the two buttons near the top are overlapping each other.


Also, the color choices of the navigation dropdown literally makes it impossible to read it on my dimmed mobile screen, change it/increase the contrast.


The colors were bad, we deployed the fix. Thank you so much for letting me know about the issue.


Good catch. We've fixed the issue, it should be working fine now.


Bandwidth for lightsail is 1tb, not 5tb like the article says.


Yeah, thats pretty significant mistake


yeah, since been updated... remnant from a previous post.. i'm only human :)


    TL;DR: Don’t trust AWS status reports, they’re lies
Or as some would say, alternative facts.


One powerful computer, hooked up to 3 locations in my house: 1: a heavily modified recliner chair with a monitor on an adjustable swing arm, where I tend to spend most of my time.

2: next to it, a backapp chair coupled with a separate mount for the "recliner monitor" so I can use the same monitor but elevated.

3: upstairs, standing desk, where I don't spend enough time.

All keybords are in the 60% form factor. I don't use mice, in other words my hands never leave the keyboard. This coupled with heavy customization to keyboard layout and functionality (custom layout, Autohotkey, etc) has worked wonders for RSI.

Two monitors, Eizo 27" IPS 2560x1440 by the recliner, 144hz IPS monitor with same size and resolution at the standing desk.

I also have a separate computer hooked up to the tv, a laptop hooked up to another screen, a cheap chineese tablet in the kitchen keeping track of temperatures and misc news etc, and an "old" t420 laptop which isn't in active use. I only work on the one main computer though, and I only ever use one monitor at a time (personal preference).


Vimium and stylish haven't been mentioned yet.


I'm a power vim user and tried a vim extension for Firefox. I didn't find that command mode for coding translated very well to browsing the web.


Site activity on the bottom of the page goes back to February 12, 2009


Worth a read, or at the very least a look: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racket_(programming_language)


Thanks.

To the creator of this site:

Take into consideration the commonality between all of these:

https://www.python.org/

https://golang.org/

https://www.rust-lang.org/

https://dlang.org/

http://elm-lang.org/

http://plt-scheme.org/

Each of these language homepages clearly explains that they are introducing a programming language. This new racket-lang.org page doesn't. It has a huge impact on what users will think when they load the page.

The PLT Scheme homepage is leagues better than the new Racket one because it tells me exactly what it is for. Don't let yourselves go backwards.


https://www.rust-lang.org/ is the best example. There is a code example, clear links to documentation and source, a concise description, easy to see links to most common places. Very, very good.


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