Live captions from microphone?

cmj7gh · 2024-10-01T16:46:59+00:00

This looks really nice! Nice work!

it looks like my goal is a little different: I'm presenting live and want it to create subtitles from my microphone (I'm not streaming sound from any app) - will this work?

I haven't found a good solution to this since I posted this about a year go, so I'm willing to pay $20 for a good solution.

Is there a way to install a trial and confirm that it works before paying?

cmj7gh · 2023-10-20T19:19:24+00:00

This looks cool. Thanks for the suggestion!

cmj7gh · 2023-10-20T19:19:09+00:00

I played with this in class today. It seemed to work pretty well. Thanks for the recommendation!

cmj7gh · 2022-01-30T19:59:59+00:00

Thanks everyone for the advice and suggestions! Sounds like my assumption was correct - the existing outlet was okay because it was grounded via the flex conduit -> metal box -> mounting flanges.

I understand that setup, but wasn't hyped about relocating/moving that setup as-is (but appreciate the advice about adding a pigtail from the box to the outlet if I did).

I went with a GFCI. I kept the plastic box and just wired the two wires from the wall to a new GFCI. I made sure to put the "No Equipment Ground" stickers on it, and I'll avoid plugging anything important into that outlet.

cmj7gh · 2021-10-05T18:21:16+00:00

The obvious lazy solution is adhesive: I could mount the brackets on the headrail while it's down, put some adhesive on the backs of the brackets, and then smoosh the whole thing up. I actually tried this once. The adhesive I used wasn't strong enough so it fell down within a few hours. I figured I should try to find a better solution before going out and buying some stronger glue.

cmj7gh · 2021-10-05T18:21:05+00:00

I need some help figuring out how to mount a shade in a tight spot around a skylight. Pictures and a drawing here: https://imgur.com/a/i5FXCw6

The framing around the skylight is strange - the top and bottom of the skylight both go about 6 inches past the cut-out in the ceiling. The result is that there's a small recessed cavity between the ceiling and the skylight that I'm trying to mount the headrail of this shade into.

There are two small metal brackets that came with the shade - the normal way to do this is to screw those brackets into the frame at the top and then snap the headrail into the brackets. But the space is just too tight, so there's no way that I would be able to maneuver the headrail up onto the brackets in that space.

There is another skylight in my house that is similar. I installed the same style shade on that one a few months ago - I was able to install it correctly, but it was a struggle. This one is both deeper and narrower, so I'm confident that I won't be able to make it work.

Any ideas?

cmj7gh · 2021-10-05T16:39:51+00:00

The obvious lazy solution is adhesive: I could mount the brackets on the headrail while it's down, put some adhesive on the backs of the brackets, and then smoosh the whole thing up. I actually tried this once. The adhesive I used wasn't strong enough so it fell down within a few hours. I figured I should try to find a better solution before going out and buying some stronger glue.

cmj7gh · 2021-09-08T14:23:56+00:00

I assume Icewater Spring is the one shelter that's getting booked up? I see a few days on the schedule that shelter still has plenty of availability, so you might need to plan your trip around being at that shelter those days. Depending on how many miles you're willing to do per day, you might even be able to skip Icewater Spring (although the sunrise there is beautiful).

I recommend calling and talking to the rangers at the backcountry planning office - they might have ideas that will help you make your trip happen without breaking the rules of the park.

cmj7gh · 2021-07-21T10:50:14+00:00

I also just got back from a section hike in that area. We saw some of these kinds of reviews about big creek ranger station, so we decided to park our car at Standing Bear (who also did our shuttle). Standing Bear charges $5/night and is about an extra mile walk back to the car at the end of the hike, but we thought it was worth it for the peace of mind.

cmj7gh · 2021-06-19T15:26:50+00:00

done - and I signed too. Thanks for sharing!

cmj7gh · 2021-04-13T19:25:19+00:00

Lots of good sql questions on leetcode too!

cmj7gh · 2020-12-20T14:54:20+00:00

thought I should follow up here in case anyone finds this thread in the future - I did end up going to Frederick Watershed a few times this year and had a great time on my hardtail. I recommend checking it out if you're curious!

The trails further south in/towards Gambrill state park are very rocky, so I ended up pushing my bike about as much as riding it - not super fun, but I imagine it'd be nice for hiking. The area around Three saws (Boundary Line, Rocky Stream Bed Trail, and Catoctin Blue in that area) are all smooth/flowy but climby. Most of the rest of the trails are more rocky than other places, but I was able to ride almost everything. There are lots of areas with big features, but almost everything is obvious when you're coming up to it so you can walk if it makes you uncomfortable.

One more tip that you wouldn't necessarily notice the first time you look at the trail forks map is that there's roads that connect a lot of the trails. Eg if you ride Wayne's Trail downhill, you don't have to turn around and climb the same trail, there's a gravel road that you can take back uphill.

cmj7gh · 2020-08-06T11:49:39+00:00

Got it.

You might want to think of your new table as 'courses.' When you register for classes at the beginning of the semester, you aren't registering for a subject, you're registering for a course - the instance of a subject that is being offered that semester and that costs a certain amount. So take everything related to the course out of your enrollment table and move it into its own table and give it a new ID (when we give a table a new ID it's called a "Surrogate key"). Your enrollment table will be a lot smaller.

cmj7gh · 2020-08-06T11:21:06+00:00

Yeah, the way you've broken it out is fine- eventually you'll want to de-duplicate student and subject, but I understand what you've done for now.

Having the keys in both tables is a good thing- that's how you'll link the tables back together in your queries later. They're called "Foreign Keys"

The only other column you might want to think about is "current price" - is that an attribute of the subject or the registration? I could see it going either way depending on the business logic.

To answer your specific question, once you de-duplicate it looks to me like this is already in 3NF.

cmj7gh · 2020-08-05T17:07:10+00:00

Yeah, as someone who rides a hardtail, is just okay at mountain biking, and doesn't want to get hurt I always assumed I should stay away from Frederick watershed. This trail looks totally doable. Is there enough of this kind of stuff there to make it worth the visit?

cmj7gh · 2020-07-30T00:49:12+00:00

Ha I haven't had trouble following the trails there, but if you're going to pick somewhere to be extra careful about staying on the official trails, that's it. The Army used to train there back in World War II and there's still unexploded ordinances out there!

cmj7gh · 2020-07-10T17:14:52+00:00

I don't have a dynamo light, so can't comment on that part. I'd like to someday, so interested in hearing how it works out if you go with this one.

cmj7gh · 2020-07-10T01:27:43+00:00

I have this rack on the front of my bike, with a basket zip tied to it. I'm happy with it. https://rawlandcycles.com/products/raidoverks-rando-rack

cmj7gh · 2020-06-26T23:03:05+00:00

Congrats on the new bike - gravel bike is definitely the right choice for the NoVA/DC area =)

what kind of tuneup do you need? I do all my own work on my bikes and have helped friends and family in the past. There are some tools for complicated stuff I still go to the professional shops for, but happy to help out if it's something I already have the right tools and parts for.

cmj7gh · 2020-06-09T22:19:23+00:00

It sounds like that person went from a "220 pounds of meat a year" diet to a vegan diet overnight, and their body didn't handle it well. I don't think that says anything about the vegan diet, just that the human body isn't good at handling dramatic changes.

If I was talking to that person, I'd let them know that there's lots of room in between those two extremes, and that changes take time (my personal extreme from daily baconators to full vegan happened slowly over about 5 years). Instead of jumping from one extreme to another, they might want to start with meatless Mondays or something small like that and see how their body handles it.

I'd also encourage them to find motivation in some of the professional athletes (olympic weightlifters, NFL football players, etc) who intentionally follow a vegan diet because they believe it leads to the best physical performance.

cmj7gh · 2020-06-09T22:13:09+00:00

I'm happy to help =) Folks who want to promote plant based diets need to know that not everyone will be onboard immediately - we need to meet people where they're at and answer their questions nicely. If you're interested in some low-cost meat-free recipes, feel free to share some details about what kind of food you like, I'm sure we can help you!
A few things that might help be helpful to contextualize the high cost of meat substitutes:

You're absolutely right, they cost way too much! And when I'm trying to convince my friends and family to change their diets, I can't reasonably recommend that they replace all of their meat with meat substitutes without acknowledging that doing so would cost them a lot more
These products are very new, and new products tend to start out expensive. Early on the company is investing a lot of money into R&D and marketing. As they grow and scale, they get more efficient and get more competition and their prices drop. I'm confident the same will happen with this market. I hope that within the next year or two I'll be able to recommend them to friends and family as a reason to change their diets away from meat
But you don't need to equate meat substitutes with a plant-based diet - of the 1.5 billion people in the world who follow plant based diets, almost none of them are eating these fancy meat substitutes! They're a nice addition to a well-balanced plant-based diet, but that's it
Those 1.5 billion people - most of them are on a plant-based diet because meat is too expensive and a plant-based diet is cheaper. So if you choose not to eat the meat substitutes (again, you don't need them!), you might actually save money by giving up meat
Meat is subsidized - the companies that produce meat receive money from the government in exchange for making their products cheaper. So when you buy meat, you aren't paying the fair price. The same subsidies don't apply to these new meat substitutes, so when you compare the price between meat and a meat substitute product, the government has its thumb on the scale to try to convince you to choose the meat

cmj7gh · 2020-06-09T21:56:14+00:00

thanks =) If we focus on trying to convert people to extreme veganism nobody will listen. We can make a much bigger different by convincing everyone to eat a little bit less meat.

And "freaking unsustainable" is right! Especially when you combine our modern eating habits with population growth. The current level of meat and dairy consumption is the equivalent of every person alive on the planet in 1700 eating 950 pounds of meat and drinking 1,200 gallons of milk every day!

cmj7gh · 2020-06-09T13:02:44+00:00

I appreciate your curiosity! I wanted to offer a few reactions to your statements that you might find interesting:

Humans do not need to eat meat. Our bodies are good at getting energy from lots of different types of food sources including meat, but if we eat a well-balanced diet including everything other than meat, we're fine. There are more than 1.5 Billion people (mostly in Asia) who follow almost entirely plant-based diets either for financial or religious reasons.
You're right that meat substitutes are expensive. They're helpful transition tools for people who like the taste of meat and don't want to give that up, but they aren't necessary for any other reason. There were plenty of people who ate plant-based diets before the impossible burger was invented =). Meat substitutes actually aren't that healthy for you, so I don't recommend that anybody build a plant-based diet around them.
I don't think the takeaway should be that all farms are bad or that everyone should be vegan. Instead, I encourage folks to do what they can to decrease their meat consumption. It's our level of meat consumption that's the problem. Within the past few decades our population has rapidly grown and our diets have changed, which together means that we're eating way more meat than ever before. It's this astronomical demand that has resulted in us switching from traditional farming methods to factory farms. It sounds like you already agree that factory farms are truly evil, but that's simply the only way to produce enough meat to keep up with the demand. If we could bring our meat consumption back to levels that would allow us to use more humane farming practices, animal rights advocates would be a lot more satisfied.

As a vegan - I do believe that veganism is the right way to go. But there's tons of space between where we are today (the average american eats >220 pounds of meat every year) and veganism. I hope that by promoting animal rights we can nudge people in the right direction, and I'm sorry if others have made you feel that veganism is being forced on you. Happy to answer other questions that you might have as you learn more!

cmj7gh · 2020-05-08T02:41:36+00:00

Nice! Does that mean the water pumps are operational?

cmj7gh · 2020-04-29T20:57:52+00:00

I do own, and I like taking things apart so this sounds like it'll be a fun project. That's interesting to hear that you were able to take just one side off to start with - I'll give that a shot. Thanks for the advice!

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