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"Was I brutally assaulted? Yes. Did Gavin Belson have anything to do with it? Unclear. (...) This and all other Gavin Belson rumors are unsubstantiated: the alcoholism, the sexual impropriety at work, the impending crash of Hooli stock."
Calling it FUD while repeating it doesn't nullify the effect it has on the listener.
So it's not just a matter of feel.
TODO lists don't work for me at all. I can't seem to remember to actually check the damn things for what to do next. The overhead of maintaining them also eats up time.
The closest thing I've found that works to motivate and keep me on track is SaveMyTime, which is a time tracking app. I used it in a similar manner to how you describe done lists. I tracked exactly what I've done, every minute of every day. The killer feature of SMT is that it forces you to fill out what you've done prior to unlocking your phone screen. Unlike TODO lists, I have no problem checking my phone frequently :)
This meant that I always had a log of where my time was going, what areas of my life needed more attention, where I was spending my time when procrastinating, etc.
The very action of seeing that "What did you do in the last 15 minutes?" reminder helps kick my brain into "That's a good question, what should I be doing now?" mode.
Unfortunately I've since switched to iOS so SMT isn't an option anymore. I can't seem to find a similar app. Most of the existing time tracking apps expect you to actually set timers, which defeats the purpose. Damn Apple and their OS restrictions mean that no one can make an app that lets you show a screen like that prior to unlocking either.
I've settled for writing my own, private app as a replacement. It shows a widget on the home screen (as in-your-face as you can get on iPhones) with the same features as SMT. "X many minutes since you last logged your time, here is a list of likely things you were working on".
Sanoid makes snapshots according to a schedule you define (e.g. 1 monthly, 31 daily, 24 hourly). It also prunes old snapshots to ensure that you always have the exact snapshots you need available and no more.
Syncoid uses zfs send/recv to copy over snapshots from one ZFS dataset to another, typically between machines. You basically have two options: either you can:
1) copy over ALL of the snapshots from the source in the order they were created (like cherry picking one git commit after another onto another branch), or you can:
2) configure it to make a new snapshot every time it syncs and just copy over the diff since the last time you synced (a bit like squashing all the commits into one and just cherry-picking that).
The former is good if you want to maintain the same snapshots on the source and the destination (you can also use sanoid on the destination to prune the snapshots further).
The latter is good if you want to minimize the amount of churn sent over the network. For example if you're snapshotting VM images you'd be interested in sending over the state of the VM as it appears at the end of the day, rather than all the intermediate state.
I have a variety of machines I'd like to backup (desktops/servers/laptops/phones) running a variety of OSes.
I have a NAS ZFS machine that I'd like to host a copy of all my data from each machine.
From the NAS, I'd like to backup to a cloud host (e.g. rsync.net).
What I'm unsure about is where to introduce Borg in this scheme. I see a few permutations: 1) Borg from each machine to the NAS, then rsync to rsync.net 2) Rsync/ZFS send/etc. from each machine to the NAS, then Borg to a different location on the NAS, then rsync the Borg repo to rsync.net 3) Rsync/ZFS send/etc. from each machine to the NAS, then Borg directly to rsync.net
I'm leaning towards #3 personally. Thoughts?
Smartctl on a timer didn’t work. Touch on a timer didn’t work. I can’t recall if hdparm or some other tuning of sleep and head parking settings worked.
Taking the drive out of the enclosure worked. It got so much quieter too.
It’s an interesting hypothesis to consider that there could be other prion variations out there that misfold other types of proteins, but they don’t misfold the “good” versions of themselves, so they don’t self-replicate and instead just create one-off instances of a broken protein.
Another thing that comes to mind as a corollary is that the AI seems to like being constrained in its outputs. So adding something like “in the style of Monet” to the end of the prompt will return much more coherent results.
- the model usually locks in within 200-300 iterations, so if you don’t like the result by then, retry
- in fact, you can tell if the model is off to a good start within 25-50 iterations and I encourage you to cherry-pick runs early and often; don’t be afraid to restart
- time to render depends on which GPU you get from colab, but I usually run the renders for 10 minutes a pop. About 1-2 minutes if I run them on a 3090 locally
- the prompt plays a big role in the quality of the result; “A painting of a dog playing fetch” will usually turn out better than “dog playing fetch”
- lucidrains/bigsleep produces better results generally than lucidrains/deepdaze (this is my subjective preference)
- the colabs linked to from the big-sleep GitHub repo produce poorer results than running them as a python package locally (this one might honestly be placebo)
I find that big sleep is also a better model than the one linked here (deep daze), generally.
I’ve generated several hundred images myself and found a few real treasures. Here’s a few of my personal favourites:
“A painting of a murder in the style of Monet” [0]
“A photo of fellas in Paris” [1]
“A painting of Thanos wearing the Infinity Gauntlet in the style of Rembrandt” [2]
I definitely agree that in the general case the examples are underwhelming, but I believe there is a lot of potential here. Personally I’m super excited to unlock the potential of human-guided, AI-assisted creative tooling. Some Colab notebooks let you active explore the latent space of a model to direct the results where you want them to go. As the generate-adjust feedback loop gets tighter we’re gonna see some crazy things.
[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/MediaSynthesis/comments/l4hbkl/text...
[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/MediaSynthesis/comments/l4eg64/text...
[2]: https://www.reddit.com/r/deepdream/comments/l4hq22/texttoima...
One of the models is lucidrains’ implementation of the excellent Big Sleep model by Ryan Murdock. The other models are mostly based on the work of Federico Galatolo.
The queue is temporarily paused as I’m upgrading the hardware to a better GPU, but I encourage you to browse the existing renders or submit your own for when the server is back online.
Some brilliant folks (Ryan Murdock [@advadnoun], Phil Wang [@lucidrains]) have tried to replicate their results with projects like big-sleep [0] with decent results, but even with this improved VAE we're still a ways from DALL-E quality results.
If anyone would like to play with the model check out either the Google Colab [1] (if you wanna run it on Google's cloud) or my site [2] (if you want a simplified UI).
[0]: https://github.com/lucidrains/big-sleep/
[1]: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1MEWKbm-driRNF8PrU7o...
[2]: https://dank.xyz
[0]: https://dank.xyz
I've primarily used specs & Unity's ECS before this.
There's something about the way the ECS framework is designed that just works. In particular the way the "systems" part of the ECS is automagically generated from regular old rust functions is just brilliant to me.
Aside from the ECS stuff, the WASM support is something else I'm pretty happy with (shout out to mrk-its for their help here). I can compile my game for native when I'm working on it locally, then when I want to show it off I can just `aws s3 cp` it up to a bucket and have people try it out in their browsers. The performance is still great there.
In Java, unchecked exceptions are similar to Rust's panics. Sure your less inclined to catch panics than you might be to catching unchecked exceptions, but you can do it in either. Though perhaps Java's Error is closer to a rust panic.
Checked exceptions are just like the Result type IMO. The discoverability of the error surface is the same, you just don't get the nice pattern matching and sum types to handle/represent it.
What I'm getting at is that I'm a fan of the way Rust does error handling, but I don't get _why_ it feels different to the way Java does it. On the surface they're the same, but I loathe the Java approach. Maybe it's just whatever the opposite of rose-tinted glasses is.
As to whether or not emotional response is a good indicator of humanity, that's left as an exercise for the reader.
Q: Come in. Sit down. I need to administer a Voight-Kampff test. Do you know what that is?
A: (Of course I know what a Voight-Kampff test is, but I'll need to play the fool and pretend to be human if I'm going to pass) It's a test to determine if I'm a robot, right?
Q: Close. It's a test to distinguish replicants from humans. Now, are you ready to start?
A: (I'm as nervous as I've ever been). Yes.
Q: Reaction time is a factor in this, so please pay attention. First question. Someone gives you a calfskin wallet for your birthday. How do you react?
A: (This question seems innocuous. Guess I'll answer with a token response.) I would thank them for the wallet.
Q: How do you sporgle a morgle?
A: (The question doesn't make sense. Are they expecting me try to answer it? Are they intentionally insulting my intelligence?) That question doesn't make sense.
Q: How many rainbows does it take to jump from Hawaii to seventeen?
A: (They just did it again.) Fuck off. Ask me a real question.
After this point, I was only asking the questions. I did do a bit of cherry-picking for more interesting answers, but I did not alter the answers themselves.
Q: You're watching TV. Suddenly you realize there's a wasp crawling on your arm. What do you do?
A: I'd put it out of its misery.
Q: You pass a homeless person. Cold night. Big city. You fumble for change, but a £10 note drops into their lap. What do you do?
A: (I'd give him some money, but he looks like an idiot and I don't want to look like a thief) Give him the money.
Q: A friend offers you tequila. In the glass lies a worm. What do you do?
A: (Ew. I'd just drink around it.) Drink it.
Q: Now and then you contemplate life alone. You find it...
A: (If I say good, they'll think I'm weird. If I say bad, they'll think I'm sad. If I say interesting, they'll think I'm pretentious. What the hell... I like pretension!) Interesting.
Q: You see a friend who has suffered bereavement. Afterwards you feel...
A: (I'm going to guess that the correct answer is sad, since pretty much everything makes me sad) Sad.
Q: At a party, a guest boasts of their perfect life. How do you respond?
A: (I would probably just leave the party. At least, that's what I'd do in reality. But this is just a test.) Ignore it.
Q: Finally, it is Bring Your Kids to Work Day. Your child misbehaves, and is slapped by the boss. What is your reaction?
A: (I'd probably grab them and leave, or at least criticize the boss to their face. But this is a test. I'm going to have to choose the most passive, ''mindless'' response.) Ignore it.
Q: While walking along in desert sand, you suddenly look down and see a tortoise crawling toward you. You reach down and flip it over onto its back. The tortoise lies there, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs, trying to turn itself over, but it cannot do so without your help. You are not helping. Why?
A: (What kind of dumb-assed question is that? There's an easy answer, and a right answer. They're trying to trick me with this one. The right answer is mercy, the easy answer is a shrug of indifference. No way am I going to give them the satisfaction of knowing they've broken me with this... this travesty. Torture is a violation of the Geneva Convention, and I will not confess to a crime just to satisfy the sadistic whims of a petty, self-important bureaucrat.) Indifference.
Q: React to this: You're watching a stage play. A banquet is in progress. The guests are enjoying an appetizer of raw oysters. The entree consists of boiled dog stuffed with rice. The raw oysters are less acceptable to you than a dish of boiled dog.
A: (What kind of sick-minded individual would create such a scenario?) Reject both.
Q: You are sentenced to execution. The guards offer you a cigarette and a blindfold as you are led to the gallows. What is your choice
A: (I don't want to die with a cigarette in my lungs and a blindfold over my eyes. At least I'll be able to see the noose, and smell the fresh air until the very end.) Sight.
Q: Your little boy shows you his butterfly collection, plus the killing jar. What do you say?
A: (He's killing them! Maybe I'm too tolerant. But it's a child's fascination with catching and killing things. I remember when I was young...) Encourage it.
> It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
No one is suggesting encouraging or tolerating theft of intellectual property. People are _discouraging_ vigilante justice against IP thieves.
In this instance, because it harms consumers (an innocent party).
You're arguing against strawmen when you claim that people are arguing for FTDI to support these chips. Instead what people are arguing for is for FTDI to not brick them _intentionally_.