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drunkenmadman

@drunkenmadman@aus.social

Expat Welshman living on Aboriginal Land in Naarm/Melbourne

ADHD Haver and Head of Infrastructure at a disability-focused startup. Wannabe Welsh translator on training wheels.

#devops
#politics
#3dprinting
#dysgucymraeg
#music
#python
#powershell
#cloud
#wales
#australia
#expat
#melbourne
#cryptic
#crosswords
#disability
#adhd
#biketooter
#cycling
#gaming
#hmhb
#dadpunk
#bassplayer
#guitar
#ukulele

"Cofiwch Dryweryn" on the HMHB forums

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drunkenmadman, to random
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Well, that’s me thoroughly pissed off for the day. Anyone want to join me in starting a grassroots-funded think tank called “The Fuck What Those Guys Reckon, People Are More Important Than Money Institute”?

https://youtu.be/22DkShsfumU?si=f6e5P9FzdhS1O90F

nic, (edited ) to random Welsh
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Rhag ofn y bydd diddordeb, dyma edefyn mawr ar gyfer “records brawd Wil” a ddaeth i'm gofal ddoe.

Dyma'r degfed tro, o leia, i fi gael rhodd fel hyn, ac heb os un o'r casgliadau mwya difyr a diddorol dw i wedi’i dderbyn.

(Cewch fudo’r edefyn os nag oes diddordeb!)

drunkenmadman,
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@nic i’ve got the hologram boxed 7”.

drunkenmadman, to random
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Did I take a massive dose of acid during lockdown and literally never come back down?

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/russell-brand-bear-grylls-baptism-b2540954.html

drunkenmadman, to random
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Gina Rhinehart: “I hate this picture and nobody should see it”
Have I Got News For You: “challenge accepted”

drunkenmadman,
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Go on. Add to the problem

https://youtu.be/6r5pOz3sxtI?si=whF36B7pI_QXPG2O

drunkenmadman,
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Ordinarily, I’d dislike mocking someone based on their looks.

But Gina is a literal dragon. She’s laying on a pile of gold. She’s a monster, and it’s fine that she looks like one.

drunkenmadman,
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@luciedigitalni that too

drunkenmadman, to random
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Shot; chaser

“Do not strike hard surfaces with cyberhammer”

drunkenmadman, to random
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Corporate Australia fucking loves a PDF.

Link on intranet: "Get IT Support"

Links to a PDF which explains at length how to log a ticket.

Because linking straight to ServiceNow would be, I guess... illogical?

drunkenmadman, to random
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"These characters have specific meanings in computer systems" is a fucking weaksauce excuse.

If you can't deal with an apostrophe, you shouldn't be allowed within 10km of a computer system, mate.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/05/north-yorkshires-dropped-apostrophe-for-street-signs-upsets-residents

drunkenmadman, to random
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Fucking Facebook. Logged in to check one notification then almost immediately spotted some complete arseclown recommending homeopathy to treat a pet.

That’s fully pissed me off.

Don’t fucking treat your pets with placebos. They do fuck all for your dog but trigger a placebo effect in your gullible brain. Deeply unethical and likely to get you eviscerated by people who know more than one fifth of fuck all.

drunkenmadman,
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Never log in to Facebook. Just fucking don’t.

tantramar, (edited ) to animals
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The cat, at the back door, demanding to be let inside first thing in the morning.

I don’t have a cat.

drunkenmadman,
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@dkozlov @tantramar we had an orange tabby who once vanished for a several days and then returned looking very smug with a new, personalised collar complete with name and phone number.

Obviously we called the number and patiently explained that “yes technically he’s our cat. His mum lives here and he was born under our bed but actually he’s probably his own cat so maybe he’s sort of yours now, good luck?”

drunkenmadman, to random
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There's an old joke that does the rounds among musicians.

"Why is a drum machine better than a human?"

The answer is "You only have to punch the info into a drum machine once."

This article on AI video with SORA suggests we have gone backwards since that joke.

pullquote:

"...while SORA is correctly applauded for its object consistency during a shot, [but] there is nothing to help make anything from the first shot match in a second shot. The results would be different even if you ran the same prompt a second time. “The closest we could get was just being hyper-descriptive in our prompts,” Patrick explains. “Explaining wardrobe for characters, as well as the type of balloon, was our way around consistency because shot to shot / generation to generation, there isn’t the feature set in place yet for full control over consistency.”"

https://www.fxguide.com/fxfeatured/actually-using-sora/

drunkenmadman,
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Even my minimal and trivial experiments with MS copilot have been frustrating, in how detailed a prompt needs to be and how often you tell it you want a thing and it just doesn't give you that.

AI: It's not.

drunkenmadman,
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The balloon guy video apparently used a ratio of about 300:1 "raw" video to what actually made it into the final. That's a LOT of footage being thrown on the floor. Not only that but there was extensive post-processing required to correct the fuckups.

The article also quotes up to 20 minutes per render - so at 300:1 ratios, you may be looking at 100 hours of rendering time for 1 minute of finished video. According to my quickly scribbled, back-of-a-beer-mat reckoning.

That's like 40 days of computer time, and that is very hard to parallelise because so much of the renders will be not what you thought you asked for, necessitating a repeated prompt.

TL;DR Sora seems super unuseful except as a novelty.

SergKoren, to writing
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When you write longhand, you write slower than typing. Because it takes longer, you spend more time with what you’re writing. When you spend more time with what you’re writing, you remember and learn more. Typing shortcuts memory by shortcutting time.

drunkenmadman,
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@SergKoren minded of this quote, often misattributed:

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/04/28/shorter-letter/?amp=1

drunkenmadman, to random
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I’m officially off the booze for a while as of today.

It’s nice to have a night out or a few relaxing drinks at home but my poor middle-aged system just doesn’t cope with the next day like it used to. Alcohol also seems to exacerbate Ashley’s flare-ups, especially in winter with cold mornings, so any benefits are currently outweighed.

drunkenmadman,
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@mxtthxw yeah beer screws with my system too. The Two Bays gluten free doesn’t. Additive free wine is also way more forgiving next day, the Temple Bruer ones particularly.

But really it’s spending the next day feeling generally stupid and unproductive is the killer for me.

drunkenmadman, to random
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I brought my little convertible sit/stand podium desk up to the lounge room, along with my spare office chair.

I can now hack code in front of the TV without being hunched over on a sofa with my lap on fire.

drunkenmadman, to random
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Well that’s gonna go down in history as a bunch of dipshits who know fuck all certifying a technological boondoggle that knows fuck all. https://press.coop/@BBCWorld/112200680003519498

backupbear, to random
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Australia's new DigitalID will feature an advanced 2FA mechanism. You'll have to listen to a random pronunciation of "Maaaate" and determine whether it was friendly, neutral or a deadly-enemy statement.

drunkenmadman,
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@backupbear “someone just said ‘yeah na’. What do they mean?”

drunkenmadman,
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@andrewfeeney @backupbear I bestow upon you your Australian English Phd. Use it well.

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Tired Cricket is judging you all.

andycarolan, to vegan
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I don't care what anyone says, Tofu fried rice is the BEST lunch 😋

#vegan #tofu #food #lunch

drunkenmadman,
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@andycarolan yeah but… tofu fried rice noodles… huh?

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