Paul_S

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by Paul_S 2mo ago
"Avoid even audiobooks. Big corporations want to grab your attention by trying to market audiobooks as books for busy people, but don’t fall for the trap." What nonsense. I doubled my number of books by using audiobooks. Audiobook
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by Paul_S 2mo ago
I can tell it's not accurate because it has half the trains marked as on time. Reality is far more depressing. You'd also need to add ghostly white for cancelled and bus icons for replacement buses. Why do I live here god. Why can
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Foreign Influence in the Campaign Against American AI(btcpolicy.org)
3 points by Paul_S 3mo ago|0 comments
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by Paul_S 4mo ago
What a strange person, from the same author: https://www.thran.uk/writ/yarn/2025/03/road-rage-maxxing-or-... I don't understand how you can feel morally superior by blocking the overtaking lane and
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In China, Juncheng Vehicle Co Is Making New AE86(forum.retro-rides.org)
2 points by Paul_S 4mo ago|1 comments
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by Paul_S 7mo ago
Can we subtract the number of dollars that it would cost not to start a war?
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by Paul_S 8mo ago
The speed of improvement of tts models reminds me of early days of Stable Diffusion. Can't wait until I can generate audiobooks without infinite pain. If I was an investor I'd short Audible.
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by Paul_S 8mo ago
All the models I tried have similar problems. When trying to batch a whole audiobook, the only way is to run it, then run a model to transcribe and check you get the same text.
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by Paul_S 10mo ago
Most drivers here don't adjust the light angle based on loading of the car (if you have passengers in the back in a small car that is enough to move your lights completely out of whack). I assume it's just laziness or the a "
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by Paul_S 10mo ago
How about making the arseholes who dumped that rubbish clean it up.
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by Paul_S 10mo ago
There are traffic management cameras literally everywhere in the UK. It's impossible to drive up to that spot without passing by hundreds of them. The fact that they didn't charge anyone speaks volumes about the level of incompete
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by Paul_S 1y ago
20 years ago it was a chore but nowadays it's faster than baking a cake. 10 minutes prep time (configure os and add drives), 10 minutes bake time (installation) (or 10+ hours bake time if count building the array) But let's assume
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by Paul_S 1y ago
I read the article and I really don't understand. Linux already buffers files into RAM if there's any unused, why would you do this?
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by Paul_S 1y ago
Found the name: Fractal node 804.
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by Paul_S 1y ago
Any of those cube gaming ones I think are great. I got a dual chamber one which makes shuffling drives and cabling easy. Can't remember the name but it was 90 pounds, way more than I paid for the old 4U, although inflation from the 90s
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by Paul_S 1y ago
I ran my own NAS for over two decades in some old 4U I got for cheap, using whatever discarded consumer HW I got for free and I never got the point of Synology. Colleague who has one said it's compact. Well, this year I bought one of t
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by Paul_S 1y ago
Since the server is overloaded apparently and people can't see what this is without connecting: Connection to clearsky.dev (155.133.22.147) 29438 port [tcp/*] succeeded! AXR2KPxr2000.leo.spacenet:send a single 0 byte followe
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by Paul_S 1y ago
Are you telling me a country is more constrained by space than a spaceship? As for democracy "These sorts of societies propagated for hundreds or even thousands of years in antiquity just fine" - I don't know of any that prac
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by Paul_S 1y ago
I love that most of those designs give bigger houses to people in a spaceship than modern houses in the UK on planet earth. Love the designs, doubt democracy would get them through more than 250 days, let alone 250 years.
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by Paul_S 1y ago
That includes women, children and elderly. If you count fighting age men only, 1M becomes significant. If you count men actually available for draft, you're already at 10% loss.
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by Paul_S 2y ago
Does anyone know a game where 2d sprites sit on 3d chairs? This is something this engine will have to tackle.
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Yudkowsky and Wolfram on AI Risk [video](youtube.com)
4 points by Paul_S 2y ago|0 comments
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by Paul_S 2y ago
I played the game and didn't like it, you're welcome to disagree and engage with me by showing examples that disprove my assertions from my original post. I think I'm on safe grounds calling it a walking simulator. The gamepl
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by Paul_S 2y ago
Amazing novel but this is neither a direct adaptation nor faithful to the novel's message and ideas. It's a modern walking simulator with a the most surface level veneer of what we now consider retro futurism but otherwise modern
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by Paul_S 2y ago
Base SDXL can't do it but with some Loras you can get something that after putting through Photoshop to regularise pixels and palette would pass the pixel art Touring test.
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by Paul_S 2y ago
Making pixel art is not about low resolution. AI is finally getting close to being able to do it. If you could do it with a crystal it wouldn't have taken 30 years of trying to automate pixel art creation.
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by Paul_S 2y ago
Very good, hope they realise that you need tessellation for shading. Some of those models look a bit too optimised.
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Square Enix confirms US, EU layoffs as part of restructuring(videogameschronicle.com)
3 points by Paul_S 2y ago|0 comments
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by Paul_S 3y ago
I got into woodworking so I could renovate my house. Ended up building a workshop in my garden and furniture for our house. Can't wait to retire from SWEngineering. Stereotypes reflect statistical reality pretty well - I did bouldering
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by Paul_S 3y ago
YouTube is the only platform that has sponsor block plugin which allows you skip all ads, self promotions etc.. Hard to compete with that.

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