Jake [he/him]

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Cake day: April 3rd, 2024

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  • The offline AI that I tried a few months ago probably needed training on the noise environment to get decent results. I forget which ones I tried but likely the ones with extensions already in Oobabooga Textgen. I was messing with text to speech mostly, but some of the ones that do TTS also have packages and examples for STT. Nothing I tried for offline generation was good enough to speak as an AI prompt without manual corrections.



  • Yeah, but neither makes sense any more. I use yymmdd in my default file naming for natural sorting hierarchy. I just don’t think in that context. I guess that makes this post an interesting reflection from a couple of extra angles.

    Our US 3 digit area codes for phone number regions are likely not really paralleled elsewhere in the world either. It’s interesting all the little cultural subtleties that shape the mind.








  • The Expanse in the first couple of seasons did a decent job of showing that the characters were flawed and not at the center of the world while struggling against a system that is a more realistic portrayal of what monsters exceptionalism really creates.

    This aspect of Star Trek the next generation did a pretty good job of contextualizing the fact that the events on the Enterprise were the stories of one of many such vessels.


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    That is why I like Dune and Asimov’s universe as well.

    In Dune there is a ton of exceptionalism, and it is outright shown to be awful for the average person. I would argue that every form of exceptionalism throughout the books is always met with an equally negative outcome and flaw.

    In Asimov’s stuff there is exceptional altruism in Daneel. The most exceptional characters like The Mule is shown as a tyrant. Hari Seldon is unexceptional in his exceptional idea, but is dead for the exceptional events that followed and his exceptionalism is constantly in question.



  • I’m so sick of exceptionalism. Every damn thing seems to center around some shitty thinly veiled oligarch, their kids as some hero, or unhappenable origins and an impossible hero. Everything is geared towards cultural acceptance of some authoritarian neo feudal dystopian future.

    Stories can be interesting in other spaces. We all exist within those real spaces. We can fantasize about better places and times within similar realities as our own. I view all this exceptionalism like collective narcissism. I can’t tell if it is an universal writing bias or a publishing bias, but I don’t like it.



  • I don’t think so. I think it is more simple. People buy the laptop because they don’t want to hassle with all the nonsense surrounding all the peripherals. There is no anonymous neutral way to shop any more. If you need to research and buy a bunch of stuff, the predatory nonsense is awful. You can’t search to find honest info as search results are manipulative garbage and nondeterministic. Asking online is just as sketchy, and places like Amazon are strait up privateering (legal piracy) with a categorical system that is an outright price fixing scam. You are far less likely to get scammed by the US neo feudal criminal oligarchy if you simply make a single purchase. And that is exactly what they want as it will allow further consolidation and control in the long term as the system collapses further.

    It is a result of all the proprietary bullshit and scams. Like all the HDMI stuff is a closed conglomerate scam of incompatible nonsense. Displays are just as terrible on the high end. It is a ton of research and filtering through the absolute shit ton of marketing departments that are worse than worthless for anything useful, factual, or technical. Most of the time the front page of a commercial hardware vendor might as well be colored drawings by kindergartners on a website for their school. That would have more relevant information.

    I think it is likely that most people that buy a laptop like these, see the shit show and the scam market and say fuck that, just give me a single product that mostly works. It is ultimately the result of the failure of net neutrality, the US corporate ownership of all the relevant hardware companies which makes where you are located irrelevant, and failing capitalism. Like deterministic pricing of goods without rigged scales in a market is a social issue that was a problem fit for 2k years ago. That kind of regression with nondeterministic pricing and information access is beyond criminal and a failure of fundamental human rights.


  • Having all that heat in a laptop sucks bad. Maybe if a person is super into gaming and in a dorm or something they might use one for gaming. The really capable laptop GPUs like a 16GB all but negate the benefits of a laptop. The battery life is terrible, the noise is annoying, and the heat is everywhere, like blowing around the keys onto your hand. Plus you have an even more obscure hardware chain with modern laptops having all kinds of closed source and poorly supported nonsense that sucks.

    Your thermals are tied between the CPU and GPU in a laptop. If either is over loaded thermally both will throttle. There are also a lot more thermal interrupt states in a laptop GPU. If anyone tries to hack around with these to push them past their inbuilt safety margins while following guides that are intended for the desktop GPU version of the hardware it can easily lead to failure.

    The only real reason to get a gaming laptop is if you travel a lot, if you’re extremely space restricted like sharing a bedroom with someone, or if you’re disabled and need the ergonomics for a specific reason.

    I don’t see how any aspect mentioned is regional in nature.



  • Blueberries, 3% salt brine, microscopic Mason jar deathmatch for a month with burping. It yielded ~600mL of savory, slightly fruity-ish juice.

    5lb chuck roast, dry- onion, garlic, salt, pepper, - twice–before and after rubbing in a course Dijon mustard. Then 4 hours @165F on a pellet grill with temp control via a stepper motor auger; mostly just for the bark-ish hardwood flavor. Then the roast was placed in a dutch oven with some old chicken stock, and a cheap beer with some onion, garlic, and a couple baking potatoes as filler to ensure the whole thing was covered. I cooked this for 6 hours at whatever temp my oven calls 250F. That yielded ~1000mL of juice… and some excellent shredded beef BBQ.

    I mixed both of those juices and simmered them down to ~600mL total, filtered, and bottled it. The final product is like a smokey Worcestershire sauce with a hint of fruity flavor that is quite weak, maybe on par with the amount of fruity one might taste in a Hefeweizen beer but a more complex savory flavor than Worcestershire sauce.

    Overall, I’m just at the initial fermentation experimental phase where I am not concerned with reproducibility, yield, or cost, and am just using everything free, cheap, or about to get thrown out as fodder for low effort experiments.

    Disability makes me physically limited but time rich. So this is an abstract exploration of my available resources.