I only know the art technique and the french meaning of the world, and i'm afraid to look up what other meanings it may have.
Dragon-raptor-y looking creature. Techy. Builds things. Hoards computers 'n cars. Forklift-certified. Travels a lot. Builds interactive amusement rides. Asexual. Canadian. Francophone. Rawr. @Pyxaron@dragonchat.org
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I only know the art technique and the french meaning of the world, and i'm afraid to look up what other meanings it may have.
Catastrophically much.
I kept complaining about a really high pitched sound that I couldn’t pinpoint the source of, that seems to fade in and out at random. Supposedly nobody else could hear it. Was told that I might have tinnitus. Today i found there’s a tiny alarm buzzer a HVAC cabinets that has been going off...
These things are weird enough to require a device like that, for some weird use case where you are leaning forward to look down at a label and need to type in the SKUs.
That wouldn’t look too out of place in a 1994 turret forklift.
Meant to type « wireless », somehow typed « wireels », now i’m getting dumb ideas about data-transmitting eels.
That is scarily accurate, and i hadn't though of looking at it that way. And LLMs make it a bit worse 'cause you don't have different usernames and other details as hints to how reliable or not that bullshit is, it's all coming from one single source with one single voice.
I absolutely would want to, but i’m also absolutely still crashing when attempting to be social, and i haven’t escaped the Middle East yet.
The deeper argument is that money itself is entirely an artificial construct with arbitrary rules that is somehow accepted by most. It could all stop being a thing if people decide to stop playing along.
Yeah, i can relate to that. It’s a hardware mismatch, not more than that.
Most of my memories related to payphones are either scavenging quarters from them, or either calling my mom to tell her i won't be home for dinner, or that i broke my bike (again) and need someone to come recover me. Nothing bad associated with them. They were just kinda, always there as an option.
It's what the company, our partners and our clients use, so no way around it. I've taken the habit of screenshotting important messages i send in case they mysteriously never existed after restarting Teams.
Freshly booted, 3 tabs in Edge, Sharepoint x2 + Jira. Outlook, Excel and Teams open, nothing else major. 500Gb SSD. It's not a hardware issue, it's Microsoft's junk being absurd. I can open things just fine in Libreoffice, I can browse just fine with Firefox. But i can't use that for workstuff.
Yes, i know! I just find it insane that with that much hardware, they still find a way to make it slow. There’s no reason for it to be that bad.
AaaAaaAaaaAaAaaaargh!
Yeah, i know the actions i can take, but i know it won’t last. I’m just complaining about it out of frustration, coworkers have the same issues, it’s just absurd how at this point I need to spend so much time fighting business software to get any work done. It shouldn’t be like that.
I’ve just been using whatever OS works best for the purpose as far as personal machines, so I’m running a fun blend of everything. But work is strictly locked down HP laptop on the domain with the standard software package for business. At least i got to be local admin…
I personally hated XP, stuck with Win2K on all my machines until Win7 came out! So yeah, i have experience in making it work on hardware it wasn’t meant to!
Yeah, i am stuck using it, signed/approved documents require it for business reasons.
Ryzen 7 Pro 5850U, from 2021. And it’s really the software that is bullshit, i can run VR games acceptably on that laptop, but MSTeam, Outlook, Sharepoint and Acrobat are just running like garbage. If i kill all the “business” stuff, it works great! But this is the work laptop.
It did support USB, and with 48bit LBA enabled, i think 2Tb is the limit it’ll support for disk size. The killer was the 32bit memory size limit. Win2k-x64 would have been amazing.
I still have a Win2000 laptop, Thinkpad T42, that i still use for messing with older hardware. It’s impressive what it’ll still do. But that’s personal stuff, not business.
It’s incredible how useless and frustrating “business” tech is these days. 8 cores at 3.9Ghz, 32Gb of ram, 1Tb SSD, and i can’t even scroll a webpage or a PDF without lagging. I can’t search a MSTeams conversation without it giving me results from local files. Sorting by date is not an option.
There should simply be a threshold that once crossed the rest of the week becomes weekend, even if it's Tuesday..
It's a bit why things get stupid sometimes with language and such. In those situations, i just want it to sound professional and assured, so i don't really care what "it" says, as long as the right information is transmitted. When speaking to friends, i want to mean the words i say. It's harder.
I've gotten the comment a few time from some people who know me a bit more that it's like if i spontaneously was someone different. Because yeah, internally, i'm pulling out a character and making it say things, and it doesn't matter as much because it's just the character saying things, not "me".
Yeah, i get that a lot, especially when doing things like giving training or getting involved in engineering-related meetings. My mental picture of that is still always just the dragon-raptor-y me sitting behind human-me kinda puppeting me through it with a dumbass "If only they knew..." grin.
The thing is, at this point, i've been myself for long enough that i pretty much know how it works. I'm really just wondering if it's really like that for everyone, or, well, how does it work for other people. So many things still feel so alien to me, when involving other people and such...
In a good state, it feels like all the side-threads are nearly 1:1 with the main thread and everything feels real. If things get complex, they run parallel to the main thread, with extra overhead to figure which way to go. In a bad state, they drift apart, and I see the world through a tiny viewport
A lot of this is brought by being stuck in bed for a stupid amount of time, until i just went "Wait, something is missing." bringing up one process that was missing, which just immediately pointed out the deadlock, and then i just switched to instantly making coffee, breakfast, getting laundry done.
I'm not sure for how many questions like "How many side-threads feed into your brain's main thread?" would make sense, or be relatable.
I'm having one of those days where i'm thinking about thinking, and it's still weird. I really would love to be able to compare how my own internal brain-things compare to other people's, but it's hard to just throw into words, especially without computer analogies...
How often does the average person go "Brain is deadlocked, resetting..." in a day?
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Normally, yes. This year the number of places i've been sent to is rather low, and the time spent there rather high.
Still in the middle east.
… i just can’t seem to escape …
Yeaaah, i deal with that "fun" on a daily basis, it's always tricky to find the part that'll make it fall apart for them without directly appearing to be against AI.
G+ was a strange thing. It implemented a lot of things in a good way, and probably could have been great, if it hadn't been all google-y and "No, you must only use your legal identity and post valid content about you we can use!"
'tis alright, that was just the "switch to 2D" button, they just have to un-press it and it'll revert.
Hah, that is a good way to implement the "bird with teeth" concept, i like it!
Executive dysfunction?
Why are you running two different DHCP clients at the same time… *Sighs*
That’s a big part of why I enjoy photography. I don’t care much about the photos in the end, but I love finding different ways to look at things.
My answer to that is either sleep or VR.
That'd lead to some "interesting" public transit situations...
I really don't know why it makes a difference to Steam, but yeah. I figured it out when i tried searching for my oldest Steam emails, and the oldest i got was the confirmation of e-mail change, and the purchases after that one match up with the oldest ones i can see on Steam.
This hotel has too many mirrors and it's really messing with my mental state.
I don't know who Newton is so i guess they all are?
Figured out what's going on. For some reason, all the purchases i made with my old ISP's email account are not listed, only the ones i made after switching to gmail as my Steam account email. And yes, same 20+ years old account.
Found out what's going on. It cuts in when i switched from my old @sympatico.ca email on Steam to gmail.
I... kinda was? I know i got HL2 way before that and some other stuff.
That Steam purchase history thing is making me wonder where purchases from 2003/4ish to 2008/9ish went. I absolutely remember being pissed at Steam back then when i was still working in the computer store for breaking LANs, and making game sharing a pain. But history starts in 2009 for me.
It is a fun thing to think about! I'm kinda struggling with the bit where it's kinda... I know what it feels like, but i'm not sure how to break it down into an explainable way.
Right now we can't even trust things to do what we want them to when we explicitly press the UI elements to make that thing happen. Voice is way far off.
Some people's strategy seems to be to clog the line so that nobody shows up for the other boarding groups, so that they get to their group faster.
"You'll be home mid-august" is turning into "You'll be home in September."...
Open office space with dozens of people trying all at once to shout at AIs, getting progressively angrier...
Strategic!
What really bothers me from a technical point of view there is that stored data doesn't require cooling. It's just there. If it's not being accessed, then nothing is happening. Going through pictures to decide which to delete and which to keep would be the part that'd actually takes power.
The "ALT" got captured in a speech bubble and it glitch'd me for a moment.
This is an everyday thing out here. I miss Quebec.
I’m not built for this…
It’d be interesting to give a try for sure, i like the idea.
When dealing with cartoonish situations, sometimes you have to use cartoon rules.
In that case, just put on the parking brake, stop the airplane in the air to take time to deal with all this, then release the parking brake.
Considering how things were back then, and how phone numbers were still assigned, it's not as if it revealed much that couldn't have been found anyway. Wanted to call my neighbor's house? Just add 1 or 2 to my own phone number! And what you could do with a phone number back then was very limited.
The amount of "That's just not a thing that happens in reality." contained in my life makes absolutely no sense.
Sorry for asking and going quiet, work is being apocalyptic right now, but i'm still interested!
Depends on what your intent is? Personally i use Tailscale for my personal stuff, OpenVPN for work stuff and ExpressVPN for public access during travel in restricted regions.
... i'd bite pre-emptively, but then that warning could have been about me, and that'd turn into a self-fulfilling prophesy type thing, and i don't like those ...
It'd be fitting to have a handheld vacuum cleaner creating that effect!
Also, it'd be fun to abuse some features of the "swap". Teleporting into water would create a creature-shaped blob of water at the previous location. But that whole thing might be a pain with the instant change of air pressure, ears might not be happy.
I'd want mine to work in a way where i "ghost" to the target location, position myself, and just swap place with the "ghost". No special sound effects, just maybe some level of popping due to pressure difference as things swap. Maybe a light blur effect and "light carried over" flash in darkness.
Just needs a dustbuster model...
It is, i hate it. I've been getting crap that doesn't address the issue, is wrong, but clears the symptoms temporarily, as a side-effect, without fixing the issue. There's an issue. Power-cycling makes the issue go away for a bit. The suggested fix requires a system restart. "Hey, it works!"
I am so tired of getting "This is what (some LLM AI) said to try" answers when attempting to troubleshoot things at work... Especially since so much of it leads to fake-fixes.
What i find fun with this is that it can be, in a way, both at the same time, and possibly more! How it feels can be extremely subjective to each of those involved, without necessarily causing conflicts. And i really love to see that being played with.
A badge for @pyxaron.bsky.social, commissioned and delivered during Anthrocon :) This was such a fun one to work on!
One of the thing that really bothers me with that is that they absolutely did not need to do it that way. There's way to make coolant loops that don't waste water like that. But it's cheaper to do it the wastefull way.
Nah.
If i’m an avali, that means i can fit in the overhead bin and sleep the whole way to destination. Hm…
I could safely tackle-pounce a 18ft Alsnapz.
Yesterday i drove a small truck. I enjoyed it.
If you’re still open for those, I’d definitely be interested.
It gives the impression that it’s super-squish in there, which cancels out some of the threateny-ness of it.
... nose cancelling headphones.
But it's always "Almost perfect, except for (thing), but with it's so close...", and they just keep doing it. They end up looking like addicts in front of a slot machine. Sure that they're so close to "winning" that they can't stop, but never getting there.
From seeing some people use AI in a work context... I think the problem with AI is really addiction. It only "kinda" works for what they want it to. But it's always a little off, not good enough, it could be better. So they tweak parameters a little, and re-run it. Over and over and over and ...
That does sound like the kind of thing you would do.
I kinda want some weird kind of house centipede-taur-creature...
... become a cat? I have no idea, i can absolutely relate to the situation, but have not yet found an answer myself.
That's a bit of a "too many variables" question. But in general, i wouldn't qualify it as "suggestive" unless something is actually being suggested. Aside from that, it's kinda, what kind of public will it reach, and what would they expect from your account.
Accidentally causing many surfaces to become polished and shiny…
Another case of no alternatives found by the client?
I half-did, i was hoping they would cancel the flight earlier and give me more time to do things! But i've still got some time tomorrow.
Same for me, but that was somewhat a scenario i had fully anticipated, i was just hoping they'd cancel my flight sooner than this, and that i'd have more time to do things...
Get the Best Western!
Due to flights being flighty, i am spending the night in Chicago near O’Hare. Anyone out there wants to hang out? Flight is at 5PM tomorrow.
