Thanks for all this, what you wrote and the discussion that followed has been genuinely helpful, and I think it might help bridge some cultural divides that I've experienced when working with Indian people.

Another question I'd like to ask of you is, do you see any aspects of the western style of cooperation that are the inverse? i.e. which create divides in which the westerner's ways of working can be the source of conflict?

1. Same here. I too learnt a lot more from the following discussions.

2. None. We absolutely adore the ways westerners work. Your ethics, discipline, hardwork, attention to detail, inventive and creative nature, the support structures, and fair pay (and many more).

If you make every single person go through Github's miserable auth process just to do git pull, they are going to leave

Practically and ergonomically I prefer a centered lens. Your hand has to reach less far to reach the focus ring and aperture control. Most slr cameras have buttons on both sides of the lens, so developing muscle memory is easier when those actions are split between each hand. Rotation of the camera is also much more natural. It also centers the lens' pov between your eyes, matching their parallax, which is really important for composing the photograph outside of the viewfinder.

> It also centers the lens' pov between your eyes, matching their parallax, which is really important for composing the photograph outside of the viewfinder.

The compact sonys have the viewfinder in the top-left corner, so having the mount to the side improves the paralax situation, although doesn't remove it.

Huh? You reach towards the lens from the bottom left and thus a centered position puts a corner of the camera body in the way.

I had my directions reversed, so the extra reach doesn't really apply, I suppose, but I think aligned to the right side (when looking into the lens) is even worse. I maybe see what you mean about your hand hitting the body, but i actually want that; my grip has me resting the body along much of my left hand and cradled in my palm. That is really important to stability for me, it gives me an extra stop to work with.

All personal preference I guess!

Please approve my anglerfish. Thank you.

The fork that I've been using, WhisperX, seems to do better. I've used it on clean splits of mic tracks (ie total silence when the other is talking) with far fewer hallucinations.

WhisperX works better because it implements a robust VAD (Voice Activity Detection) preprocessing step that effectively filters out silence segments before they reach the model, preventing the hallucination triggers entirely.

I think something else would come in its place, like an automated way of trying out the options for solutions that you get when using it. Which AI incidentally is pretty good at.

This is scarily accurate about how I use stack overflow. And then I never make the post, and the information never ends up out there!

My life is given meaning by my relationships with my partner and family, pursuing my passions and hobbies, semi yearly bicycle trips, petting my cat etc. Its meaning is chipped away at when I hear about random grandparents black bagged at the home depot; the idea that immense and pointless suffering is being meted out an underclass supposedly for my benefit, without any significant way to protest or stop it without focusing those dark forces upon myself.

3%, dear god... do you have a link to where you heard that?

nah, but I can provide the source material for the 27 compliance popups claim.

The typesetting is finished whenever you want it to be. I spend most of my time thinking about the content.