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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago (10 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I am not up-to-date on Scotland's news, but are those nicknames or are they both really named after fish?

[–] [email protected] 33 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Just what you would expect from the CEO of an AI company. Fucking idiot.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 hours ago

Having v-cache on one CCD is not an issue. It seems most of the scheduler issues have been fixed and that was just software. It would be nice to have v-cache on both, but it actually adds more complexity.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago

While young birch stems can taste almost minty, it's not going to do much to attract honeybees. The chances of those being honeybees is minimal. It's possible, but unlikely. If the bees have the opportunity, they will probably be camping next to fruit trees of some kind instead.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 23 hours ago

A bad trip isn't fun even in the best of familiar environments. On the battlefield, it would lead to a very unpredictable situation in an already chaotic environment.

Psychedelics are so different from person to person, it could be extremely inhumane for some, but the exact opposite for others. In other cases, you might actually be improving the reflexes and eyesight of your enemy. (For example, my visual acuity gets substantially better and it's much easier for me to identify shapes against camouflage as an example.)

If no combat action is planned against a drugged opponent, it becomes much more humane in that regard. That entire division would absolute out of commission but trying to capture them could become even more dangerous. It's easier and cheaper to pin an enemy with a stream of bullets flying over their head, TBH.

Sorry, I am basically thinking out loud.

After thinking through a few scenarios regarding psychedelics, it would be pointless in most cases as the risks are higher than the rewards as its application would be extremely niche and would have to be combined with some other kind of deep psychological coercion. Otherwise, bullets and explosives are equally effective against someone who is drugged and someone who isn't.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (3 children)

This goes in the "shit UM would say" bucket.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago

Yeah, it's a common pattern with the "victim" crap. Same stuff I was just testing, actually. (Check my comment history with UM over the last day or so; re: define propaganda)

Very nonsensical responses, no discussion and just absolute crap posts. If it is LLM assisted, it's tuned to respond to people like they are hating on the acual article and UM. It's an easy formula: post a shit article and just argue with everyone about anything while assuming they are commenting against the post.

But I have met people just like that IRL and it usually comes with some serious mental disorders or poorly prescribed medications. (I am being extremely serious with that comment and no joke is intended, at all.) It's probably for that person's benefit to get kick-banned at all turns. Assuming it's actually one real person, social media is not where they need to be spending their time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'll read the ingredients on many things first, just because I can. It's just a good practice if you even have the slightest bit of interest in food chemistry.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Totally. I was just adding a little more flavor for those who didn't know what was going on, or were hungry for more information. My intent was to share in good taste, friend.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

I don't mess with physical pedals much, but I use the software equivalents on a regular basis in my DAW. (For me, hardware vs. software arguments are pointless if I get the sound I want.) Guitar-centric effects can produce some crazy and fun sounds, actually.

FWIW and more for the people that don't know, the use of guitar pedals fairly common with synthesizers these days. To the average synth person, a pedal is just another flavor of module with different form factor.

Heck, I was using my DAW as a "guitar pedal" the other day. It makes no difference to me how all the pluggy bits plug together as long as it still makes noise. (I don't know squat about playing a guitar, but I still got some awesome and super unique samples though.)

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (3 children)

BTR's be delivering meals hot and fresh. (Probably more hot than fresh, actually.) In the last article I read, the hogs were going all Pavlovian over the sound of Russian vehicles.

 
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Let them eat cake (en.m.wikipedia.org)
 
 
 
 

I have two MacBooks that I acquired through two different startups. Both companies no longer exist and I was basically given the laptops. (They have just been sitting in my closet for a few years collecting dust, and it seems like a waste.)

Unfortunately, now that I want to use the laptops as part of a local k8s cluster (or even dedicated music production hardware), I am locked out of wiping the things because they want to connect to MDM servers that no longer exist or have admin passwords that have long since been forgotten.

Since these laptops are essentially "bricked" I have no problems opening them up and attempting hardware hacks to get around this stuff.

Both laptops are in various states of reset or wipe due to previous attempts to reset. (Funny thing, actually. I was personally responsible for locking down one of these laptops at the time they were in corporate use...)

Trash or treasure? I dunno. I am apple-dumb.

 

Edit: Deleting this post. It's starting to get controversial, but that's OK. Not what I planned on, but whatevers.

 

The one trick that Big Music doesn't want you to know!

I was absolutely struggling when I went to do a final mix after writing everything in stereo. For me, it was a whack-a-mole game: Fixing one problem created ten more, bass was unmanageable, highs tended to blare or everything was a midrange soup and I constantly struggled with frequency cancellation.

Above all other problems, music was not portable. It would sound great with headphones, but became a blown out mess on external speakers.

Mono. Just write everything in mono. If the track sounds good in mono, even just the slightest bit of stereo separation makes it sound awesome!

As a perk, it forced me to learn more about compression and limiting and when it is applicable. If something is inaudible in mono, it's going to sound like absolute garbage in stereo. (It also forced me into EQ'ing nearly every component of a song at first. I am not nearly as aggressive with that now, but again, it opened up new doors that I didn't realize existed.)

Why, oh why, is this technique not pushed more to hobbyists and beginners? Is there a shortcoming that I am not aware of?

Obviously, this isn't a cure-all and I kinda framed this post as a magic trick. Its one hell of a teaching tool, if nothing else.

 

Yolo.

 

(Wait, what? This is from 2022??? I have known about CAL for a while, but this glass stuff is new to me.)

3DPN video: https://youtu.be/pkBP_eO-Pug?si=l4__tZwrNDB4qNlU

CAL: computed axial lithography

Researchers at UC Berkeley have developed a new way to 3D-print glass microstructures that is faster and produces objects with higher optical quality, design flexibility and strength, according to a new study published in the April 15 issue of Science.

 

I am fed up with resin slicers.

Chitubox is about as stable as a drunk on a tightrope, Lychee is bad for engineering models and over-priced if you just want some basic support functions and PrusaSlicer is under-developed. All of these solutions work for different things based on the goals of the user. (For some, Lychee is an excellent value so my distaste is likely not universal.)

What really pissed me off is that support painting shouldn't be a paid feature. You hold the mouse button down and drop a support at specific distance from the last. It doesn't take massive cloud computational clusters or huge storage requirements but yet, money. Fuck. That.

I want a completely FOSS tool that is stable and includes functionality for auto-positioning models and has a full set of knobs and levers for support generation, support painting included.

So, I spent the morning getting a dev environment setup for PrusaSlicer to use as a base for resin-only tools. Over the next month or so, I'll take some time to strip out all the FDM support and get the slicer into a bare-bones state with only the existing resin features. Of course, it'll be on GitHub.

Back to the main subject. I was hoping that y'all had references in regards to anything resin printing: Support placement methods, model rotation optimization, resin strength data, FEP peel force data or anything that could be coded and implemented into a slicer. Hell, even discovering different methods for hollowing an STL would be nice.

Data and strategies for various tools would be nice to have at this point to at least start forming a roadmap for development. (One of the first goals is to integrate UVTools as a snap-in, somehow.)

FDM tools are plentiful because of wide spread adoption. Resin printers still seem niche so printer manufacturers naturally gravitate to writing their own tools for their own hardware in their race to the bottom.

With all of that said, I am actually curious if others would even want to see a project like this kicked off.

 

I have been using FL Studio for years. It was easy to pirate when I was younger and broke, and it's still flexible enough for anything I want to do now without hassle. (The license these days is "meh" for clips and plugins. However, I am designing and beginning to record most of my own instruments now with a core set of plugins.)

I would like to experiment with an open source DAW, but not sure which routes to take there.

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