DradisPing
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DradisPing
3d ago
I made a video showing my minecraft mcp in voice mode: https://rumble.com/v7guxr6-minecraft-mcp-in-voice-mode.html
It's kind of fun. The topographic maps are new.
DradisPing
4d ago
So both parties have been facing an uprising by voters who distrust the establishment candidates.
A blue dog Democrat running in the senate primary would have been painted as racist for not stepping aside for Jasmine Crockett.
Talarico got the nomination because he's clearly progressive enough for the DSA to expect him to be loyal. Someone more centrist would not have. They wouldn't have been able to get the establishment support or the progressive vote.
Similarly Ken Paxton got the nomination because he's won statewide office before and establishment Rs absolutely hate him. His voters trust him not to prop up the power of the R senate leadership clique.
DradisPing
8d ago
So the US abolished a lot of British traditions seen as too aristocratic, while Canada kept them.
I think the US really missed the mark by not having "Chains of Office".
Canadian mayors regularly show up at formal events with bling typical of Mr T or Flavor Flav.
DradisPing
8d ago
A big problem is there are a lot of people who are just assholes. They'll order the highest spice level to try to show off in front of their friends, then they'll throw a fit if it's too hot.
DradisPing
11d ago
So new project. I'm a big fan of popcorn sci-fi audiobooks. But I frequently have issues with them. Long sections devoted to bad romance subplots. Infantry fights that are more tedious than exciting. Chapter breaks that aren't where they would be convenient.
But m4b files are a series of aac audio frames with additional information about chapters, etc. And we are in the vibecoding era.
So I used Codex to put together a PyQt app to do linear edits to the audio without needing to recompress.
I've been having a lot of fun creating more autistic versions of audiobooks. Either removed or by adding chapter markers placed for easy skipping.
DradisPing
20d ago
The generous take is that Holmes tried to apply the silicon valley "fake it till you make it" strategy and got in way over her head. Then she just stubbornly kept pushing forward hoping everything would work out.
DradisPing
21d ago
First off, that's just a teaser. The full trailer dropped: https://youtube.com/watch?v=HvW_N5p1q44
Wealthy Boomer men have been very effectively trained to feel guilty about the opportunities they had that women didn't.
Holmes was very good at making them feel like she's the genius daughter / granddaughter they never had who just needs a chance.
More than that, she's from a well connected family and was born in DC. Her mom was a DC staffer. Her dad worked at USAID and ENRON.
There's a class of DC people who viewed her as "one of our own" getting rich and kicking ass in Silicon Valley.
You can see that when you look at the people who were on her board: Henry Kissinger, George Shultz, James Mattis, and Betsy DeVos.
I don't quite understand how her schtick as a hypnotic alien helped but somehow it did.
DradisPing
22d ago
I have no idea. People on X are giving me the impression that it's pretty quick which suggests it doesn't burn too many tokens.
DradisPing
22d ago
I know with Astra it was an announced feature. People have been using it to make things with Blender.
https://developers.openai.com/blog/architectural-visualization-with-astra
https://x.com/walterzhu8/status/2100255999365964113
https://x.com/tomkrcha/status/2095756085890310311
They both just do functional interiors for buildings now. Previously I had to do a lot of hand holding because they would generate ladders that end at the celling, staircases without holes in the floor, that sort of thing.
The results I get now are impressive. Previously they were interesting but kind of garbage. I really didn't fix anything, so it's the models.
One of the examples is a waterfront city and it decided to put legs going down to the seafloor beneath the platform. Older models would just have a floating platform. The terrain height map function was always there, they just didn't do much with it.
DradisPing
23d ago
I think it's more that people are older when they get their first house. You aren't allowed to do much work in rental places.
So DIY home repair skills are completely useless for your early life and by the time you need them you're financially established enough that you can just hire someone.
Also illegal immigration has collapsed the price of minor handyman tasks, so it's not a huge deal to hire someone.
DradisPing
23d ago
So the new models (Astra and Claude 5.5) have dramatically improved 3d reasoning.
Naturally this has big implications for my Minecraft project.
The results I'm getting are a lot better now.
https://rumble.com/v7f416s-playing-gpt-6-astra-and-minecraft-mcp.html
The downside is that I'm stuck on how to move forward with it.
DradisPing
28d ago
Tech has probably reached the point where someone could make a full size map of Israel & West Bank & Gaza.
Then use it to launch the most controversial territory control multiplayer game ever.
I'm going to disagree with you on this one. Developing a stand up act is extremely humbling. It involves years of going to crappy bars to perform for unsophisticated drunk people for terrible money.
There's no glamour until you have a high level of success.
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