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2 days agoIt’s a monument to Trump. A horrendous scar on America. And that’s sort of why I hope it sticks around, to serve as a lesson to America. This is what happens when you squander your democracy.
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Depends how strong their climate change denialism is. If they’re willing to let themselves die of measles perhaps they’ll just stay there and drown.
Global warming can’t drown that place fast enough.
That’s what’s balanced against “when it gets too expensive.” This is basic economics. When one approach is too expensive you move to a less expensive one, then if the prices change and you’re once again on the expensive one you move back again. The point is to have competition so that neither option can simply jack their prices up arbitrarily.
10·5 days agoFinally I’m justified in doing everything via a GUI.
Basically just a tour group!
Yeah. This is the abusive drunk standing outside the door declaring “I haven’t had a drink all day, I’ve changed, baby!” And begging to be let back in.
Good on you for spending the day sober. I hope it’s the start of a new life and fervently wish you well. Still not letting you back in.
Could also be that he wanted this Dana White, this Dana White said no, and so now Trump is trying to pretend like nobody said “no” to him because it was “just a prank bro.”
What a surprise, Trump doesn’t like people telling him “no.”
The tricky part is that Germany was beaten in a war and had external forces standing over them forcing them to clean house. That’s not going to happen to the US, so there’s not going to be that sort of house-cleaning happening.
I’m not struggling. It’s not my responsibility to put any effort into this at all. I’ll trust America when they’ve fixed the things that make them untrustworthy.
Which unfortunately includes their electorate, so that’s going to take a while.
When Hitler was in his bunker at the end of the war he spent a lot of time reviewing the plans for grand monuments and architecture for Berlin. Same vibes here.
16·9 days agoIt’s nice to have representation.
The whole point of hope is to get it up. It drives action.
True, the Democrats are masters of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. But maybe they’ll fuck up fucking it up this time around.
No, never just sit back. Offer them forks and knives. Provide appetizers. Invite them over to dinner and then lock them in the cellar with only each other and a collection of machetes and spices.
They really want to promote open models, eh?
Phishing attempts that got far enough to actually show up in our internal corporate inboxes like that aren’t common, though. They’re normally blocked by the layers of firewalls and whatnot. We almost never saw email on those accounts from outside the organization itself, period.
And once you’ve run something capable of remote execution on a machine that’s inside the local network, with the sort of privileges that his machine had (he wasn’t just a bureaucratic sort of manager, he was writing code too), you don’t want to mess around.
A company I was in a few jobs back had several layers of IT department, there was the local studio department that handled our everyday stuff and a “head office” somewhere far away that set policy and handed out budget and whatnot.
One day “head office” IT decided it was a good idea to send out some fake phishing emails to “test” us. They didn’t tell the local IT department about it, I guess they were also being “tested”. My manager received one and only recognized it as a phishing attempt after he’d clicked just one too many things for it to feel safe to ignore. So he yanked the power on his computer and contacted the local IT department, as is protocol when something potentially dangerous just happened.
The local network went into lockdown while local IT tried to figure out if something actually dangerous had happened. It cost the studio as a whole several hours of work time, which for a studio our size translated to an obscene dollar cost. Nobody on our side of things did anything wrong, even that one extra “dangerous” click my manager did wasn’t something he could be blamed for - head office had crafted the fake phishing attempt well and his reaction to it would have prevented damage had it been real.
Head office never tried a stunt like that again.
Ah, the code itself won’t really help with that.
My setup is: LM Studio running the local model Qwen3.8-27V, quantized down to Q4 with Q8 for the KV cache, on my system that gives me 128000 tokens context. The harness is VS Code with the Qwen Code Companion installed.
I opened the folder that has all the music I wanted to organize as a workspace, adding a git repository with all the actual music folders gitignored. This was the first prompt I gave the agent once all that was in place:
The folder you’re in, and the subfolders inside it, are where I’ve been putting the music that I’ve generated using various AI music generation services (and my own local Ace-Step 1.5 model) over the past year or so. I’ve stored a lot of metadata (usually in a .json file) along with the music files themselves, along with lyrics in .srt and .lrc form, cover art, and so forth - different formats, different sources, not entirely consistent. I’ve decided that it’s about time that I try to organize this all a bit better, and I’ll be enlisting your aid. :)
[ A few specific paragraphs about the details of the filesystem layout omitted]
Before I explain the format the text files are in and how I’d like them to be converted, would you like to take a look around the folders to familiarize yourself with them and write whatever preliminary memories and notes you might want? And of course ask me questions about the stuff in here if anything isn’t clear in its purpose or organization.
Then after it had looked around and had read the various different metadata formats, it asked me some questions about what data I’d like to have in “unified” metadata files for each of the tracks, file naming conventions, and whether I wanted it to do anything with the cover art and subtitle files. I answered the various questions (telling it to leave the cover art and subtitles alone for the time being) and it wrote some python scripts that ran through all the existing metadata to tidy up the stuff that fit existing patterns and create a list of all the oddball exceptions it ran across for me to fix manually. It found stuff like situations where the punctuation was different between music file and metadata file, where there were cover images with no apparent music associated with them, and so forth.
It became a back-and-forth exchange of me telling it what to fix and it finding new things that I didn’t know needed fixing. Eventually I had enough random Python scripts to wrangle that I asked it to write a GUI, which made it much more convenient for me to edit the metadata by hand wherever needed as well.
It’s all relative.
It’s been estimated, based on the background luminosity of the universe, that 50% of all the stars in the universe are not bound by galaxies. They drift between galaxies, each one isolated from its nearest neighbors by thousands of light years.
The night sky on a planet orbiting such a star would be basically black. The only points of light would be the other planets in their own solar system, there’d be no “fixed stars” visible to the naked eye. The nearest stars would likely be small M- or K-class stars, invisible at those ranges. If they happened to be somewhat close to a galaxy it might be faintly visible as a cloud or smudge in the night sky, like how Andromeda is visible. Human-like beings living there wouldn’t know other stars were a thing at all until telescopes were invented and wouldn’t know that those faint smudges were galaxies consisting of hundreds of billions of stars until modern telescopes were invented.
Those are the actual suburbs of the universe.
If you want to get to the boonies, though, the real wildernesses, you need to go to the Voids. These are the “bubbles” in the cosmic web, the regions of the universe that have almost no matter in them whatsoever. They’re so low-density that according to some theories the difference in gravitational potential has allowed time to pass more quickly there, so that out in the middle of a galactic supervoid the universe is about 18.7 billion years old rather than the 14.7 billion years it’s been down where we are in the thick of things. But despite their incredibly low density, there are still a handful of void galaxies out there. And if there are void galaxies, there are likely intergalactic stars that were ejected from those void galaxies as well. There wouldn’t be as many such ejection events though, since that’s mostly driven by intergalactic collisions, so the few void stars wouldn’t even have as many nearby neighbors as the intergalactic stars in our dense neck of the woods.
People who evolved orbiting one of those stars wouldn’t know that other galaxies existed until their equivalent of the 1960s - assuming they bothered with astronomy at all.