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Comment on Introducing WebGPU support for llama.cpp in ~tech
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Comment on What have you been listening to this week? in ~music
cqns (edited )LinkI'm currently in the midst of a situation extra-ordinary. The YouTube algorithm likes to, sometimes, throw really small artists in my direction. It takes a while to find out more info about them,...I'm currently in the midst of a situation extra-ordinary. The YouTube algorithm likes to, sometimes, throw really small artists in my direction. It takes a while to find out more info about them, but eventually, I am able to...with the exception of this one: "Disfunction". They've got two full albums, "Remains of the Day (2011)" and "My World Now (2014?)", and...that's pretty much it. Can't seem to find any information about them anywhere else, not even on Discogs, which is my saving grace for these sorts of things. Of course, on "Remains of the Day", one of their tracks was used in a Ram Ranch bit, but I already know that...
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nHi_hX2X6Y8ngEeqaBgEMZAhNIpj9owiI
Post-Listen Edit: RotD was fairly well produced...I...can't say the same unfortunately about the second one. Despite MWN releasing in 2014, the specific album seems a bit too garageband-y for my tastes. The mixing was really dry, the singer, whoever they are, was seemingly slightly off-key throughout the entire thing, and there was one song in there that, although I found it funny, kinda just was a bit too unsavory for my liking. I'm not entirely sure still about this band's story, maybe there was a mix-up and their first album was indeed MWN, but man...if it wasn't...good god, they either (a) downsized their gear, (b) gave up on mixing, or worst come to worst, (c) lost a band member or several. Who knows, really?
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Comment on If you let AI do your writing, I will come to your house and kill you in ~tech
cqns Link ParentAbsolutely hard disagree. LLMs are a bane against knowledge itself. It ain't no "Roko's Basilisk", ain't no "Terminator 9,000" (don't know what it's actually called, never watched the movies), and...[, b]ut what they speak is the language of angels[...]
Absolutely hard disagree. LLMs are a bane against knowledge itself. It ain't no "Roko's Basilisk", ain't no "Terminator 9,000" (don't know what it's actually called, never watched the movies), and definitely ain't got the chops to be compared to anything considered a holy being, because at the most basest level, from my crude crude understanding of how LLMs work in general, it gets trained on stuff humans have already written and the result amalgamate is the lowest common factor of similarities, giving the output just this really painfully dry formulaic cadence that gets on my nerves every time I see it out in the wild, and yet, people still have no idea it's not some sort of garbage-laden I/O text. They don't know and I'm tired of pointing it out to people, because it makes me sound like some sort of conspiracy theorist.
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Comment on What creative projects have you been working on? in ~creative
cqns LinkRecently, I've gotten back to my roots with a high school project that I've never really finished, despite being graduated from college for several years now. Long story short, it was originally...Recently, I've gotten back to my roots with a high school project that I've never really finished, despite being graduated from college for several years now.
Long story short, it was originally intended to be an April Fools' Day prank essay to my AP English Composition teacher musing about the woes of the AP exam and how it is a general detriment to the conscious mind...except...I never really finished it in the classical sense.
Flash forward eleven years, and this magnum opus of mine (actually, magnum stercus nuntius at this point) is a whopping 145 pages long akin to the likes of the late D. F. Wallace and Mark Z. Danielewski. To give you a glimpse of just what this actually contains, here's a select few title headers for your general amusement:
"Pale Blue Dot Analysis Essay", "What Does It Mean To Own Something: Part 2", "The Part Where We Time Travel Into The Future To Sanction The Entirety of Mars For Some Reason".
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Comment on Tildes Survey #6: Vote for the next four surveys we do! (Results) in ~talk
cqns Link Parent"Oh, to be borne blind, to have mine own memory of that moment exiled by some deft party's handiwork from within me, to unsee what I have doth seen!""Oh, to be borne blind, to have mine own memory of that moment exiled by some deft party's handiwork from within me, to unsee what I have doth seen!"
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Comment on Tildes Survey #5: Pineapple on pizza? (Results) in ~talk
cqns LinkA thousand curses to you, Bauke, for not making this a free-response. I say that in jest, all in good fun. In the state I live in, we're known for our barbecue pizza. I, personally, am not a fan...A thousand curses to you, Bauke, for not making this a free-response. I say that in jest, all in good fun. In the state I live in, we're known for our barbecue pizza. I, personally, am not a fan of it, but to each their own.
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Comment on Tildes Survey #2: What country do you live in? (Results) in ~talk
cqns Link ParentMe! I did that one! I was trying to write some sort of a short story, then realized the character limit, so I compressed what I already had.Me! I did that one! I was trying to write some sort of a short story, then realized the character limit, so I compressed what I already had.
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Comment on Need help making an atlas-styled map without ultramega distortion in ~creative
cqns Link ParentThat is something I have not yet conceptualized fully. If it's any consolation, my list of the ten continental areas are, sans-mapping... WEST NCEV: North Cevanon SCEV: South Cevanon TAPH: Taphos...That is something I have not yet conceptualized fully. If it's any consolation, my list of the ten continental areas are, sans-mapping...
WEST
NCEV: North CevanonSCEV: South CevanonTAPH: TaphosOSRA: OsralesELET: EletriaEAST
DRAE: DraedalEDRA: Eastern DraedalSARE: SarelanCORT: CorthanARKA: Arkanen -
Comment on Need help making an atlas-styled map without ultramega distortion in ~creative
cqns Link ParentNormally, I avoid ai anything, but I'm honestly really desperate to get this off the ground, so my own personal morality aside, I'll test it out and see if it's something I could use. I do...Normally, I avoid ai anything, but I'm honestly really desperate to get this off the ground, so my own personal morality aside, I'll test it out and see if it's something I could use. I do appreciate you taking the time out of your day to do this, ai-regardless, because this is so niche.
Edit: If I want to clone the repo for this project, where would I go? This might be the one.
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Comment on Need help making an atlas-styled map without ultramega distortion in ~creative
cqns Link ParentMore than likely, I'm just going to end up using this thing (https://woowspace.com/MapToGlobe.html?i=1#) as a means to do so. QGIS is a special kind of hell. I had to manually add the points via...For images of individual continents, the simplest solution may be getting a good view with globe view on Orogen and screen cap that though.
More than likely, I'm just going to end up using this thing (https://woowspace.com/MapToGlobe.html?i=1#) as a means to do so. QGIS is a special kind of hell. I had to manually add the points via the Projection wizard, but the scaling/warping did not change a single thing.
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Comment on Need help making an atlas-styled map without ultramega distortion in ~creative
cqns Link ParentYes, I'm completely aware of that. The map I have provided is, I think, something called "equirectangular projection". The northern and southern edges are extremely distorted to the point of...On "flattening a 3D sphere in to 2 dimensions"...
Yes, I'm completely aware of that. The map I have provided is, I think, something called "equirectangular projection". The northern and southern edges are extremely distorted to the point of absurdity, and, to me, there's not a clean way to get those areas all...in the same area, but then I look at Antarctica and wonder how did they manage to get that view and what kind of projection that is specifically.
On "the wikipedia on map projections"...
In the realm of understanding the concepts, way out of my depth, unfortunately. I was never too good at my geometry when I was in school.
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Need help making an atlas-styled map without ultramega distortion
Hey, tildes - cqns here. I know tildes ain't never do me no wrong (apologies for the heavy colloquialism), but I've been working off and on with a worldbuilding project for the past decade and a...
Hey, tildes - cqns here.
I know tildes ain't never do me no wrong (apologies for the heavy colloquialism), but I've been working off and on with a worldbuilding project for the past decade and a half. Some four years ago, I finally hunkered down and created a world map completely from scratch. Due to my extraordinarily high standards, I couldn't help but slowly figure out that there was a lot of things wrong with it after I went through the effort of making it, so I ended up redoing it several times over with additions and subtractions, still feeling like there was something missing.
Turns out, my hunch was correct. Long story short, I found a website called World Orogen that procedurally generates a planet within a certain degree of "realism". Tweaking some settings, I came across a design that was good enough for working on outside of the website, in which I was beset on another issue that quickly spiraled out of control, and I found myself completely out of my depth - map projections, which is a rabbit hole all on its own, and I could only understand the bare minimum basics, such as lat/lon, but that's pretty much the extent of my knowledge. Seriously.
Undertaking this next phase of the project would eventually (and I do say "eventually" because I haven't even gotten around to it yet) lead me to making individual isolated continent maps like how one would find in an atlas. I have asked the Orange Alien Website for tips on r/mapmaking, and while I did get some nudges in the right direction, I'm still attempting to wrap my head around the programs they had suggested. QGIS and G.Projector being the areas of my focus. It's hard enough for me trying to fathom the extensive features of QGIS in general, and as for G.Projector, it comes with its own kind of clunkiness that I'm slowly getting used to. My ultimate question here is...how would I go about finding a map projection to ensure size and area accuracy (because both are apparently different) of all of my continents?
For reference, I have included the map in question so that if anyone wants to give it a go and offer up a solution.
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Comment on Turn an old jailbroken Kindle into a typewriter in ~tech
cqns LinkHey, Tildes. cqns here. Lots of talk about old Kindles lately going out of service due to downstream changes and a whole host of other things. Figured I'd post this here for the amusement of the...Hey, Tildes. cqns here.
Lots of talk about old Kindles lately going out of service due to downstream changes and a whole host of other things. Figured I'd post this here for the amusement of the posterity (and also because it's super niche n' neat in my opinion). Fair warning, it does require the use of a 3D-printer and a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W. -
Turn an old jailbroken Kindle into a typewriter
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Comment on Tildes Survey #1: How old are you? (Results) in ~talk
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Comment on Tildes Survey #1: How old are you? (Results) in ~talk
cqns Link Parent"That's what I get!" - Trent Reznor, Pretty Hate Machine."That's what I get!" - Trent Reznor, Pretty Hate Machine.
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Comment on Tildes Survey #1: How old are you? (Results) in ~talk
cqns LinkI'm the person who put 115. I did a little experiment to see what was the highest value before the website broke. It runs on JS, so the max number was 9,007,199,254,740,991. Obviously, the website...I'm the person who put 115. I did a little experiment to see what was the highest value before the website broke. It runs on JS, so the max number was 9,007,199,254,740,991. Obviously, the website caught on to my shenanigans and would not let me submit, so 115 was the maximum "safe value". I've been fudging with surveys ever since I discovered my free will. It's one of the little joys I get in this ephemeral and harrowing existence.
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Comment on Zombo.com - Now under new management in ~tech
cqns Link ParentSorry to break it to you, but it is unfortunately AI generated via Suno. To "know thine enemy", I routinely generate stuff on it to prime myself, making sure I won't get jebaited.Sorry to break it to you, but it is unfortunately AI generated via Suno. To "know thine enemy", I routinely generate stuff on it to prime myself, making sure I won't get jebaited.
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Comment on Dox with Grok in ~tech
cqns Link ParentI also tried my hand with my Orange Alien Website account and it was not able to find anything substantial. Strange, because I use the same username across multiple websites, had an account on the...I also tried my hand with my Orange Alien Website account and it was not able to find anything substantial. Strange, because I use the same username across multiple websites, had an account on the Orange Alien Website ever since 2015, and it got one aspect totally off base because my account shares the same name with something relatively common with graphic novel discourse. Of course the LLM couldn't figure it out. Not entirely sure what I expected.
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Comment on Heritage Foundation marriage bootcamps proposition confusion in ~society
cqns LinkHey Tildes, cqns here. I'm trying to wrap my head around this particular "recent-ish" proposition from the Heritage Foundation, which claims that they are considering sending single people to...Hey Tildes, cqns here.
I'm trying to wrap my head around this particular "recent-ish" proposition from the Heritage Foundation, which claims that they are considering sending single people to marriage bootcamp. Misinformation is, unfortunately, a powerful tool in today's breakneck society, and I can't make heads or tails out of the legalese. For some reason, this proposition (like many others from the group) in particular rubs me the wrong way. First of all, I believe it would be an enormous waste of resources, much less trying to integrate this into an already existing legal consortium. Second of all, if one partner is sterilized and does not plan on having children in any shape or form (adoption, surrogate, both off the table) - what then?
I interpret this whole thing, should it happen to go through, as a tax credit similar to EITC (Earned Income Tax Credit), where one can opt to gain a sum of money back from the IRS if they present the proper forms. For example, the...I guess, "Marriage Bootcamp Credit" (MBCC), would be attainable via the taxpayer's choice to go to some place where they offer such "service". Upon completion of whatever they end up teaching in there - don't want to get bogged down with the details - the taxpaper is provided with a form that they could use to claim credit, both people with matching forms, on the applicable year of tax submission.
Whether I'm right or wrong about my general musings, I would like a second pair of eyes to figure out what on Earth these people are going on about. I refuse to entertain the subject on the little bit that I've doomscrolled. The Orange Alien Site is no help; all they're good for is recycled commentary and timed jokes for karma.
Nothing good about this. Just makes browser bloat even more of an issue, especially with folks - such as myself - that keep a dozen or so tabs on the wayside just in case. So glad I don't update anything. I don't feel the need to.