I don’t use them but I follow the news about them loosely. The reason for this is epistemic humility. Claude has a pretty good idea of what its capabilities are and where the ceiling is. Chatgpt has no clue what its limits are so it believes it can do everything. Basically chatgpt has a lot of info and no idea where the gaps live and Claude has a fair idea when to search or use some external function to handle something. Gemini has less than Claude but more than chatgpt. Grok has little to no epistemic humility, but it did manage to accurately portray Musk as a world champion piss drinker, something none of the others were able to do.

I say that, but it’s been a few months since I looked. That could have changed because shit moves fast. By the looks of what it’s trying to do with the timer chatgpt has less than it used to. Possibly because of the way the model is trained to be helpful and confident.

This is pretty accurate. When I came up I worked in an MSP. So I had to deal with customers. It taught me a lot about being able to say anything to people. You can break any news to anyone, it’s all in how you present it. So I gained people skills.

After I passed through that gauntlet and gained a breadth of knowledge, I went internal and gained a depth of knowledge. And I started out breaking the news in a way that I would break news to a customer.

Later after I proved my depth of knowledge I started being able to be blunt to any CIO or CTO I came across. And most of the time they’d send me reqs or tell me something was happening that required my skill set then would leave me the hell alone to handle it without kibitzing or bumping my fucking elbow.

When I started my own one man consulting shop I stopped giving shits at all. I found a good client and we have a good contract and most of the C levels like having someone on staff who just says what they’re thinking instead of sanitizing it. The CIO doesn’t necessarily like it but he’s outnumbered.

All this really only worked because I did go through a few years of soft skill hell though. Price you pay and all that. Well, price I paid for this path.

I get what you’re saying and acknowledge that that’s the best environment for some people, but for me there’s a different feel in being in your office and being on the back porch or out in the garage with the door open.

The fresh air, mild distractions on an easy day, and more natural light make me feel good. I think the beach would be a fucking nightmare for me. Same for things like a coffee shop. But if I’m in at least a semi private space and it’s not a balls to the wall day, I’ll take not being chained to the desk every time it’s practical.

No. I barely talk to people I know and like. I think it’s great for those who do (as long as they take a moment to read the room and see if the person they’re approaching isn’t obviously signaling they do not want people approaching them, such as having on headphones). I do not like to chat face to face.

Trump is a deep cover leftist. He’s trying to get people and the system as a whole to stand up and tighten the system and show why right wing policies and authoritarian policies are bad. But no one is stepping up!

I really want to start planting this idea in conservative spaces.

And they’d get extra copaganda out of it! Look, we’re just fun loving guys playing with kids!

Subscription fees plus the double dip into selling bulk licensing of your thin client to companies who make computers.

I’m drunk. I live in Texas. So it was very difficult to choose my username.

Man, I hope not. I don’t wish that shit on anyone.

We got a peanut butter sandwich and a lecture to bring money in the future.

Every kid should be fed. Use my taxes and feed them little goblins for free at school.

My sex talk and cooking talk both came too late and were both variations of “you probably know as much as I do”.

I learned to cook the same way I learned to have sex. Trial and error, usually by myself, sometimes with a partner, and I read some publications about it that had plenty of pictures.

Others have already pointed out this is the tape in and that’s the headphone jack. To the left is an effects send and return which is after the preamp but before the power amp (it’s an in and an out where you’d plug in certain effects pedals). Far to the left is the instrument input. Depending on the specific signal you could probably route it through the effects return which bypasses the distortion of the preamp. I’d have to see exactly what the fuck they thought they were trying to accomplish.

The color of it makes me think of the old Peavey Rage 158 amps but they didn’t have an effects loop or tape in. So I’m not exactly sure which amp this is. The far right knob is the master volume and the one left of the effects loop is reverb. That’s not important but it’s interesting to me.

Partially correct. They’ll step in because they signed contracts and have moved AI under the umbrella of National Security. Brockman donated $25m back in September. Trump signed Project Genesis in November. So all these hardware companies feel pretty good because it’ll be backed by taxpayers.

“Did you bring home the gold?”

“I brought home something”

Same, bud. My drum stuff is super basic. My bass stuff is too busy. And I’m a mediocre guitarist. But I’m having a blast doing it!

I also use Superior Drummer with an electronic kit as well. That Tama is cool!

But! A lot of times I’ll use my edrum kit but mic up a real snare. I’ve got a Mapex tomahawk snare that I’m in love with. I put a contact on it so I can get something for the SD overheads, but I record it dry as shit with a 57 then pop it in Sound City Studios and goddamn it sounds amazing. Like that is what a snare is supposed to sound like to me.

I know the tomahawk isn’t what people think of when they’re recording drums unless that’s all they have, but there’s something about it reamped in Sound City with another steel shell in the OH is just what it’s supposed to be to my ears.

I mean we’re (we as in local taxpayers, not me personally in this case) already paying for the infrastructure they use in increased bills. We’re paying for their tax holidays while they’re talking about all the new jobs they’ll bring (lots of short term construction, 25-50 long term employees once the tax holiday runs out, so very little money in the local economy). We (all of us) are paying the price for the mothballed coal plants that are coming back online to support them. We are paying for federal government contracts on them.

It’s corporate welfare all the way down.

Like all the incredibly salacious but unsubstantiated docs from when he was running for or already president that were included in this dump. Poison the well so none of it gets taken for truth.

Hell, iZotope was the standard for so many years. I use RX on my field recording to clean them up before making them into samples a lot of times.

Private equity kills everything, I swear. It doesn’t help that UA went native mostly and Waves prices so aggressively, Arturia and Akai are innovating, and Spitfire and OT cut Kontakt out of the loop. However, I’m fucking sure it’s like 90% on Francisco Partners getting rid of the support teams for outsourcing, deleting the highest paid engineers, stopped fixing bugs, and whatever the fuck they were doing with Soundwide instead of doing things for customers.