Hey. Yeah you. No don’t look over your shoulder. I’m not talking to the guy behind you. Look, we’ve been meaning to tell you that you’re doing a pretty good job out there. Proud of you. Keep up the good work.
Ooof it can get pretty techy. Once you get it set up you likely won’t have to mess with it again though.
I’ve done that set up many times, so if you want help I’m happy to answer questions.
I use a pipewire w/ qjackctl to connect Ardour to my speakers and midi keyboard. I do this on fedora Linux.
Definitely watch some gameplay. The super early game is quite self explanatory, but noita quickly escalates to puzzles so hard a community needs to get together to solve them.
Playing Noita with all the knowledge of the wider community has made so many cool bosses actually beatable, and made the whole game a lot more fun for me.
Its great! It will not hesitate to kill you until you learn it.
Binding of Isaac has a bit of invincibility after every hit, and that works for the game really well. You need to be able to recover and not die immediately.
Noita has no invincibility frames like that. You need to be able to die immediately. An instant death is essential for the game tone and balance.
Surge XT can do 98% of everything I need. It has a ton of waveforms, filter types, and modulation options. It’s a great synth.
In the rare case that SurgeXT can’t do what I want, I turn to zynaddsubfx. It is complicated, but really one of the wildest synths out there.
Last resort is this open source fork of VCV rack I found. So at the end of the day if you need to you can just build the synth you need.
Noita!: I agree with many in dubbing it my favorite single player game.
It is a pixel art alechemy and magic roguelike where every pixel is physically simulated and destroyable. Find spells and wands and combine them in programmer like ways to multiply their power. Many tricks in the game are so strong they feel like cheating, but the game has been built with challenges that surpass every trick.
It is the epitome of endlessly repayable. Especially switching between the few mods that drastically change the map.
I can easily have a god run last me 5-10 hours. But I still have a lot of fun with the more common 30min-2hr runs.
Here is my software set up for open source music making (I often use midi and audio input):
Core software:
For SFZ instruments:
Raw samples:
For effects:
Ardour is supposed to have a midi related update for its next big release, so stay tuned.
From my perspective, the simplest set up would be Ardour and SFZ instruments. Mainly because I’m quite used to those two.
For set up you’d just open Ardour, make a new midi track, place liquidsfz as the first plugin on the track, then open liquidsfz and browse to the SFZ file you want to use.
Then you just draw in the midi notes you want using either the edit or draw tool.
Self defense can apply to systems. Insurance for example. From what I understand United Health Care did change some policies because of Luigi.
Yeah I thought it was going to be an article
Thats a good one
Yes with llamacpp its easy to put just the experts on the CPU. Since only some of the experts are used every time, the GB moved to RAM slows things down way less than moving parts of the model that are used every time. And now parts that are used every time get to stay on the GPU. I was able to get llama4 scout running at around 15 T/s on 96GB RAM and 24GB VRAM with a large context. The whole GGUF was about 80GB.
Also they actually are a Chinese company. I am pretty sure it is the company that makes RedNote (Chinese tiktok) and thats why they had access to so much non-synthetic data. I tried the demo on huggingface and never got any Chinese characters.
I also really enjoyed it’s prose. I think this will be a winner for creative writing.
I’ve not heard anyone ever complain about it other than in media.
Maybe you need to be more upper class to relate.
Well they get to use my friends social inertia against me. Hard to move off of snap even if I wanted to and so they can just change the TOS and get my data.
But they don’t have to do it that way.
It could be a pretty bomb model though.
(I get this has gone on a while, of ya wanna stop just tell me. That way I’m not waiting on your reply.)
I lean pretty consequentialist, if that’s relevant.
Yeah that’s pretty helpful. It’s nice to be able to look into that without taking up too much of your time.
I guess I should say I don’t really believe in judging people either, per se.
Noted! This lines up with your last paragraph on not being able to use info you don’t have. That sort of reasoning drives a lot of my non-judgement as well.
I wouldn’t distinguish in any sense between a bad pair of shoes and a bad person.
This sort of dryness speaks to me. I disagree, but I like the energy it’s putting out there. I don’t put extra moral weight into humans. I’m no human exceptionalist.
So this all leads me to two questions that have a lot to do with practical application:
Both are obstacles to the world being how I (and most people) think the world should be.
Does this imply that human consensus drives the goodness / badness of an action and therefore the goodness / badness of the actor that brought about that action?
If so, what happens when there isn’t consensus? Sometimes a non-consesus still has intense emotions behind it (abortion for example). Also does that mean minority opinions are morally less good?
If not, what defines an action’s good/badness?
2/3 are not off the hook,
Off what hook? What would being on the hook be for someone?
I would toss bad shoes. But also I know shoes don’t think about being tossed. I guess I could extend an earlier thought and say we do whatever the consensus is to that actor. That way we maximize goodness. Though I think leaving it at that would allow us to justify some radical things.
Yo thanks for the resources! I never even considered doing it myself. Kinda scared it would reflect me too well yk lol.
I may give this a shot.
Yeah we’d need much bigger brains.
You’re doing the lords work.
Thank you SO much for that photo
I always wonder where those random downvotes come from. I can’t fathom a reason to downvote your cat! She’s adorable
I agree with the other commenter, thanks for this!
Awesome sounds good!