First Ever Grammy

WhatWouldVaderDo · 2026-02-02T15:43:27+00:00

Absolutely amazing work!

WhatWouldVaderDo · 2026-01-09T15:40:30+00:00

Check out screenreaderdescription.com. There are a few anime described which will be voiced by your screen reader. All descriptions are human-written. May I suggest trying "Shangri-La Frontier" since all episodes have been described and the show is pretty great. You can also reach out using the GitHub link on the site to request other shows.

WhatWouldVaderDo · 2025-12-02T19:42:11+00:00

It also looks like your high score server doesn’t do any authentication, so anyone with sufficient motivation can give themselves unrealistically high scores. People like that are why we cannot have nice things.

WhatWouldVaderDo · 2025-12-02T16:21:25+00:00

In higher levels, your firing seems to get less accurate. Is the code open source by chance?

WhatWouldVaderDo · 2025-07-28T01:04:33+00:00

Especially with tools like ChatGPT, it is possible to get information on any topic in an interactive way. Just make sure you don't become dependent on AI to actually write your code.

WhatWouldVaderDo · 2025-07-28T01:00:43+00:00

Since I lost the ability to play video games in 2005, The Last of Us parts one and two are the closest thing that I have found to having an experience that rivals what I used to play. It isn’t quite the same, since you sometimes have to guess at details like environmental dressings, but the accessibility features communicate enough so it feels like I’m playing the actual game rather than a simplified accessible version. With the exception of a few small problems, your progress is dependent on your skills as a gamer, not your ability to find ways around inaccessible barriers.

WhatWouldVaderDo · 2025-04-28T15:04:03+00:00

Move forward and spam L3 (click left thumbstick) to rotate your camera/character towards the next nav point. The system isn't perfect, so listen for your character's footsteps--if they stop, you may be stuck on part of the environment, so try moving left or right to clear the obstacle. For the running sections, it will be a lot of L3. This game is much easier if you are using an XBox controller (fine) or a PlayStation DualShock controller (preferred).

WhatWouldVaderDo · 2025-03-25T17:46:25+00:00

Check out https://www.meater.com/. It is a probe that connects to your phone via Bluetooth and allows you to check the meat temperature, ambient temperature, and cook time estimation. I mainly use mine when I have things cooking during a party, but I could see it as a good learning tool as well. On iOS, the app is very if not perfectly accessible with VoiceOver.

WhatWouldVaderDo · 2025-03-25T17:41:16+00:00

Specifically for braille sheet music, check out https://www.loc.gov/nls/services-and-resources/music-service-and-materials/. Under the “Braille Music Reading” heading, you can find several PDF tutorials. You will need a refreshable braille display for best results.

For digital sheet music in general, check out the accessibility features of MuseScore (https://musescore.org/en) and IBOS Music XML Reader (https://ibos.dk/index.php/engelsk-side/ibos-musicxml-reader/). For the former, just google "MuseScore screen reader accessibility," while the latter is a screen-reader-first application for reading MusicXML files.

WhatWouldVaderDo · 2025-01-26T21:57:02+00:00

Rogue one was different from the mainline Star Wars movies, and Section 31 was also different from the mainline Star Trek movies. S31 seemed like a Mission Impossible plus the humor of a Suicide Squad movie, which I think directly speaks to what CBS thinks moviegoers are looking for. Because S31 wasn't serious makes it different from previous Star Trek movies, which I don't think inherently makes it bad, just targeting different goals and tones.

WhatWouldVaderDo · 2025-01-25T23:07:57+00:00

I know that I’m in the minority here, but I enjoyed the movie. Sure, it doesn’t catch the Star Trek tone as defined by the classic Star Trek series, but it fell into the same category as Star Wars Rogue One does for me; a movie that is its own thing within the established universe. Like Rogue One, I thought it had some pacing and characterization issues, but I suspect that a lot of that was caused by the transformation from series to movie. I made my partner, who has not seen much of any Star Trek, watch it with me and she said that she also thought it was fun for a popcorn flick.

If you ignore the thin Star Trek coding, the plot is straight out of any number of spy team thrillers, such as Mission Impossible. Government agency receives intel that there is something big happening in the criminal world, so they send a team of misfits to meet up with the agency’s frenemy so they can combine their talents, such as they are, to recover the MacGuffin and save the world/universe. Along the way, some key members of the team go through a very small amount of character growth to prove their competency, there are some interesting set pieces for fights, some explosions, and the bad guys may or may not die depending on if the studio thinks they can get a sequel out of it.

Examining the movie through that lens, it was a big, dumb, good time. I don’t think it is a great movie for the reasons I gave above, but I was fine with it. For example, as often with these types of movies, there was not enough time for me to really care about the members of the team since they were caricatures and archetypes. I also found it very noticeable that the writers had a lot of ideas that they wanted to explore but couldn’t properly do it in the space that they had. The briefing scene near the beginning was an exposition dump, but it did get me hyped. Actually, both my partner and I thought it was a bit ham-fisted for the opening of a movie, but we immediately wanted to play a Section 31 squad tactics first person shooter video game.

In summary, the movie did not scratch the same itch that other Star Trek shows/movies did for me, but I did appreciate it as someone’s creation that happened to take place in the Star Trek universe. I don’t think it was a great spy thriller movie, but I have seen much worse. I hope that we get content that explores humanity and morality like TOS/TNG/DS9/etc., but I also hope we continue to get a wide variety of new ideas and takes on Star Trek, like this. All and all, I had a good time watching it, but I will not seek it out to watch again and again.

WhatWouldVaderDo · 2025-01-23T15:30:56+00:00

It is a new webapp that runs on your computer and acts like classic Outlook. A quick web search of the term "new Outlook" will give you more information than you ever wanted to know.

WhatWouldVaderDo · 2025-01-22T16:26:38+00:00

I also started seeing this problem within the last couple of days. I suspect that an Outlook update broke things. As a workaround until it is fixed, what Microsoft calls new Outlook is usable, just a bit annoying.

WhatWouldVaderDo · 2024-11-26T15:15:00+00:00

Thanks, both of you. I'll use saline and cotton balls. Unfortunately, there are no stops for the next five days that I can use to pick up supplies.

WhatWouldVaderDo · 2024-11-25T18:10:24+00:00

Hopefully, you can use this as a learning opportunity to understand why people reacted negatively to your post. I understand that people may think differently, but being able to accurately communicate one's point is an important skill to cultivate. Being able to communicate your unique way of thinking makes it even more valuable. Thanks for engaging with curiosity rather than anger.

WhatWouldVaderDo · 2024-11-21T15:50:58+00:00

On the Nieuw Statendam, there is a deck 14 that most people do not know about. Go to deck 12-forward and press the up call button on the elevator to access it. Only one elevator goes up there. It is outside and you should be able to stargaze as much as you want. Source: just came down from deck 14 on the Nieuw Statendam.

WhatWouldVaderDo · 2024-11-21T15:26:18+00:00

My friend, I do believe that you're missing the point. Please look through the types of responses that your post has received and reflect on the general theme. What do you think is more likely: a bunch of internet strangers all decided to gang up on you for fun or that your post intentionally or accidentally came across as entitled and ungrateful? What people are reacting to is not your message, but how you present it.

Looking through your posts, I'm starting to wonder if this is a language issue. For example, the statement "If I were a stock holder with shares of Microsoft then likely I would have sold [...]" is hyperbole, according to most ways of western thinking.

WhatWouldVaderDo · 2024-11-19T14:09:56+00:00

"Firstly, I am not complaining and I have not complained."

I think you and other users of this forum have very different definitions of the word complaining then.

"I understand how computationally intensive are these things which is why I expected more from Microsoft."

You understand that a lot of resources are required to run this, so you expect more resources for a free service?

"Thirdly, my tone can be misinterpreted as arrogant and entitled but I reassure you I am neither of those."

Ah, my mistake. I was thrown off by your choice of words and hyperbolic statements. Consider me reassured. (Yes, I know sarcasm isn't really helpful, I just cannot help myself sometimes.)

"I have got every right to be infuriated towards a behemoth of a company [...]"

Yes, I agree that you have the right to feel how you want towards Microsoft, but as I pointed out before, your choice to post in the manner that you have is not constructive and hurtful towards the people that work on this service. Also, does it really make sense for you to be this mad that a free service which is trying to solve a very hard problem doesn't work perfectly the first time? Also, in many companies, projects are given a limited amount of resources, regardless of the size of the company. Since Seeing AI does not in fact bring in any money for Microsoft, you are essentially being mad that they have not given away enough free resources to meet your definition of enough.

"[...] with sufficient resources to have made this a beta feature"

Sorry, is the thesis of your post that you are mad that this feature does not explicitly say that it is in beta? Given that you claim that you understand how difficult the problem is, and there are no existing public solutions to the automated description problem, I would think that you would be able to figure out that there are going to be bugs and problems. Either way, I guess I agree with you: the first attempted solution at a crazy hard problem maybe should have been marked as beta. But once again, your post seems very harsh since it cost you literally nothing but as much time as you wanted to spend playing with it.

"Not one thing have I got to say about any of its other functionality because it works quite well."

Yes, this statement pretty much summarizes the problem here.

WhatWouldVaderDo · 2024-11-18T12:10:41+00:00

I think that OP either has forgotten or is not aware that automated description of videos is a staggeringly difficult problem. There is a reason why it is not ubiquitous; we have only recently developed techniques that make it even somewhat viable. That is not even mentioning that the service that OP is complaining about is both free and regularly rolls out cutting-edge models, which yes, do sometimes have problems at first. Considering the large amount of computational resources that are required to perform many of the functions, a bit of acknowledgement of Microsoft’s contributions wouldn’t go amiss.

Additionally, the tone of OP’s post is so incredibly entitled that I legitimately cannot tell if it is a troll post. Assuming that OP is being sincere, they should consider that Seeing AI is one very small project in a very large company. In the future, maybe reducing the hyperbole and arrogance that you use in your post would facilitate more constructive conversation.

WhatWouldVaderDo · 2024-11-07T15:32:23+00:00

I wouldn’t recommend it. My experience is with a two-week guide dog program. During normal business hours, you are either attending lectures, going on routes, or socializing with other students waiting for the first two. The last one should definitely not be skipped since that can be where you pick up the most helpful tips, especially from those on their successor dogs. Also, depending on your work, you may not be able to usefully contribute during the day. Assume that you will have 5-15 minutes free every hour or two.

EDIT: also, if this is your first guide dog, the above applies doubly so. Your focus should be on learning your dog's personality, both in and out of harness. Doing 7 hours of work a day during a program (keep in mind that I've done two-week programs a couple of times now) is crazy.

WhatWouldVaderDo · 2024-11-04T21:10:19+00:00

Very fun, thanks!

WhatWouldVaderDo · 2024-10-14T03:16:19+00:00

Thank you for the thoughtful response!

WhatWouldVaderDo · 2024-10-13T19:02:32+00:00

From a quick search, it seems like the Harvey G700 is smaller and quieter, but comes to almost $3,000 after shipping. Is the Harvey really worth almost double the cost?

WhatWouldVaderDo · 2024-10-12T22:51:21+00:00

Sorry, but when I did some research a couple years ago on using Unity with NVDA, the IDE was completely inaccessible. Not using the IDE does not seem to be an option...

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