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Continue reading →: fcp: The Mystery of Final Cut Pro CaptionsWell, they finally added automatic caption creation, but of course they are biased towards the apple itt format so nothing much happens. So here is a guide to making captions work:
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Continue reading →: obs: HDR Output not looking greatOK, I’ve been doing a lot of HDR work and it’s been mysterious how to set OBS to do this properly. I tried to do one and the colors were way off, but looking at Reddit, you get to the OBS notes and it says that is it. using the…
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Continue reading →: net: Google Drive Sharing dual layerOK, so we have Google Drive for sharing things and man has it gotten complicated. The problem is that sharing is more restricted now and the default is that you cannot share things with non-workspace members. It is confusing because when you try to share with someone, you set it…
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Continue reading →: pod: Rich and Steve Talk DeepseekWell, I somehow forgot all about podcast publishing, things get too busy, but now things from way back in February are getting caught up. Here is one where Steve Suarez and I talked about Deepseek R1. A little dated now in September, but for posterity
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Continue reading →: dev: ubuntu 22.04 google chrome and asdf strangenessWell, asdf, direnv and the plug asdf-direnv are wonderful when they work, but very mysterious when they don’t. As of today, you need to use my build of asdf-direnv and you also have to do some work to setup it up if you are on a out of date Linux…
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Continue reading →: dev: The pain of moving from wsn to ws fixing ComfyUI Desktop, asdfSam showed me years ago a great way to organize your local machine. Basically you create workspace directory ws and then you put git, data, cache and everything else you need to build for that project. For a long time ws was my home GitHub project I keep at richtong…
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Continue reading →: mac: No space because of Time Machine hidden in Restricted FilesI had totally forgotten that I had setup one of my machines with Time Machine. Most of the time it has no impact, but when you are trying to download 500GB of LLM models it makes a difference. Time Machine is supposed to be smart about local snapshots, but when…
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Continue reading →: git: tag overwrites, recursing submodules and fetching themWell this is really advanced stuff, but with large mono repos you really want things to stay in sync, so here are some tricks:
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Continue reading →: dev: git submodule magicWell, git submodules are useful and frustrating at the same time, since we have literally a few dozen of these, I finally spent time figuring out what was wrong and it comes down to two commands and making sure you do not have error: Now that this is set, by…
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Continue reading →: mac: Text to Speech and Speech to TextAs part of their accessibility offerings they have a ton of cool but hidden features. here are my favorites Clock speaking every 30 minutes Apple has made it really hard to find settings, they are buried everywhere, but in System Settings > Control Center > Clock > Clock Options you…
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