I used it when I was studying Spanish because I grew up on rock ballads.
Ordinarily I would suggest "anchoring" foreign language generated lyrics to known melodies - but this would might run you pretty quickly into copyright issues.
As always - it depends on the kind of ostensible "serious work" you do.
I've got 32GB and often work with legacy .NET Winform/WPF applications on a Macbook. That means spinning up a Windows 11 ARM distro virtual machine and running Microsoft Visual Studio. The VM has 8GB of ram allocated to it, and based on qemu-system memory pressure, it hovers around ~4-6GB of that.
I also do a lot of colorgrading and video editing with longform 4K videos using Davinci Resolve - scrubbing in an uncompressed format would absolutely thrash the hell out of your swap with only 8GB.
Not sure about slack vs discord, but browser Gmail is almost certainly less memory hungry than Outlook. And that’s probably enough of a difference by itself.
VS Code (or rather VSCodium in my case) is also electron based but it's been relatively snappy in my experience - though I don't use a lot of third party plugins.
Shah Kur is a chess trainer that lets you set novel types of invisibility to help teach you to learn to play blindfold chess (without a board). It's got VAD + voice recognition (can use on your phone hands-free) alongside a WASM implementation of the chess engine, etc.
Lend Me Your Ears is a free piano game in the style of the old "Simon" toy which presents players with a sequence of musical notes and challenges them to reproduce the sequence using either an on-screen piano or a connected MIDI keyboard. It uses the Web MIDI API and YIN for realtime accurate detection of notes (so you can use a guitar for example).
That's just a few examples, but you'd be surprised how far you can get with nothing more than a client-side application.
Same. Been rocking Sonoma on my M1 Mac for years at this point and it’s been great. There’s been almost zero upsides to upgrading MacOS versions lately.
This is how I understood the original decision a while back - that there had to be some additional element of human involvement post-"gen", though to what extent is still a bit unclear to me.
What's the threshold? Can the person just slap an LUT on an SDXL image in Photoshop and call it a day?
Shameless plug - and nothing so grandiose as SimCity but I built a pretty substantial 2D/3D blindfold trainer chess game. It's by no means "vibe coded" though, and there's a fair bit of manual work around the 3d modeling that I had to roll myself.
Even with that I'd still say 70% of the code was written using LLMs with the opencode agent.
> The mechanism seems to be melody acting as a retrieval cue.
My concern is that one of the significant reasons that the melody aids as a retrieval cue is because that motif is familiar to you.
Take for example the Latin America cover of Bonnie Tyler's "Total Eclipse of the Heart" - Total Eclipse del Amor by Lissette.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3_snyvNNNk
I used it when I was studying Spanish because I grew up on rock ballads.
Ordinarily I would suggest "anchoring" foreign language generated lyrics to known melodies - but this would might run you pretty quickly into copyright issues.
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