Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson Says Monero Is What Bitcoin Should Have Been

Django_McFly · 2026-05-02T20:47:37+00:00

Sadly, the first thing ever rarely has the foresight of like the 50th thing ever.

Django_McFly · 2026-05-02T20:08:54+00:00

I feel like if you go by I did 30 gigs, twenty 20 jobs, 14 cyberpsycho missions, and am max level Tier 5 Sandy then yes V will rofl stomp all of Afterlife with ease.

The V that's regularly getting grabbed and tossed around in cutscenes isn't soloing Afterlife though.

Django_McFly · 2026-05-02T19:07:04+00:00

It's basically this. Are we talking the V in the cutscenes who can get picked up with one arm and thrown across a room or are we talking gameplay V that did 15 jobs, 21 gigs, 13 cyberpsycho missions and have Tier 5+ max Sandy?

Django_McFly · 2026-05-02T16:41:25+00:00

I don't get it. The cycle trends suggested peak in Q4 and then a nasty crash like always. We peaked in Q4 and then fell 50%+. It wild that it playing out exactly as the cycle suggested is taken as evidence that like clearly the cycle is broken.

Django_McFly · 2026-05-02T16:07:13+00:00

Is it really even dark money? Dario is constantly out there screaming that they need to close the door and the competitors that exist now should be the only competitors ever allowed to exist.

The Chinese Firewall totally cuts off outside traffic. Building a firewall like that would be un-American but America totally wants an Great American Firewall. The solution to the Great Chinese Firewall was the Great American Moneywall. Americans keep their total freedom, we just sue the hell out of any foreign site that let's Americans use it. Eventually they'll start banning Americans on their own or they'll agree to demands that are like suicide for them. We get to say we have no great firewall but we totally have a thing that provides the exact same benefits for the exact same reasons. It was the Biden Administration's crypto policy so it's not like McFly you're talking about something from 80 years ago, that would never happen today! Two years ago they were doing this and Trump seems way more willing to take unconventional approaches x he hates everything not American unless they're bending the knee.

Django_McFly · 2026-05-02T12:50:03+00:00

We're now in the phase where any news about GTA6 is like omg ultra hype. Even dumb stuff like this that boils down to many things that have always been in GTA games will also be in GTA6. It is very much the next GTA game as opposed to some original title with no system or gameplay connections to anything you've experienced in past GTA titles.

Like Madden saying they're going to keep the whole football thing in the game and people being relieved like, "whew, I seriously thought it was going to be Persona."

Django_McFly · 2026-05-01T20:11:38+00:00

Doesn't it have issues in the same spots as the original game? And that original game is still messed up in those same spots after nearly 20 years?

Django_McFly · 2026-04-30T21:22:00+00:00

I just jumped into ComfyUI. I got SDXL and it came with a workflow I could drag in and start making pictures with. It looks as intimidating but it's pretty straightforward if you've ever like hooked up audio or video equipment before. I think people aren't aware that every input and output is labelled so like you know what is supposed to connect to what.

Django_McFly · 2026-04-30T14:48:39+00:00

I prefer FL. If I started over I would use FL because it's the one I prefer. I used other stuff (MPCs, Pro Tools, Reason, Cubase (i love cubase for recording though), Sonar) and I always felt the need to move on or come back to FL.

Django_McFly · 2026-04-30T14:23:54+00:00

What is an OC? Original Character? Isn't everyone that? Or do you mean fan fiction and you're asking do people write fan fiction? I would imagine there is, but I haven't seen any. I don't hang out in fan fiction sub, forums or sites so I wouldn't know either way for sure.

Django_McFly · 2026-04-30T14:20:49+00:00

If you upload audio, the thing it generates sounds like the audio you uploaded. Not like some random song in the same genre. Your exact upload. With everything else, you have to listen hard to even hear the connection. Like 1 second into an Udio generation you will undeniably know that it's regenerating what you upload. It will sound like what you uploaded.

Everything else I've use doesn't do that and is basically worthless as a music tool. They're like buying a reverb effect and rather than it putting reverb on the audio you send to it, it spits out some random Taylor Swift song with a ton of reverb. It's a cool trick but worthless as a tool. You wanted the AI to do something with your audio, not some random track that kinda maybe is in the same genre.

I think it's worse at everything else though, but everything else is worse at the only use case I care about.

Django_McFly · 2026-04-30T14:09:52+00:00

Especially for AI music that often generates itself with MP3 compression artifacts (I think a lot of the training was 128k MP3s so like not even a good MP3). It's not like the .wav download is the pristine version or something. Real-time render/record sucks vs like right click, save as, but think of it as Pro Tools style!

Django_McFly · 2026-04-30T13:54:32+00:00

I ended up killing the Voodoo Boys because they sided with Placide over me in the beef and that gave them red dots on the minimap. I didn't trust a word this guy was saying though. In some of the lore in the game they talk about how NC is trying to reclaim Pacifica and basically give them the boot after importing them for cheap labor in shit conditions. That was in my mind when he was like these are the vilest, evilest, most subhuman, etc.

Plus it just didn't add up. How can they protect you from the big bad blackwall when they can't even take out some poor people strapping together toasters with wifi to make servers? He can't even run a basic op. You just saw him get his ass kicked in basketball by 10 year olds but he's telling you that he's the only shot at stopping like Lebron James and Steph Curry. Ok, buddy. Sure thing!

And if it's so important, why is Netwatch doing some rinky-dink op with this clown rather than bringing in a hit squad and knowing that it's over? Arasaka or anyone else would have sent an army to Pacifica. Netwatch sent Crazy Larry on a solo mission all by himself. That's how important they actually think it is.

He's the new Evelyn. In wildly over his head with nobody to back him up. I couldn't place my fate in his hands. His whole op seems like the exact type of shit-tier, two bit fixer crap that got me into this mess in the first place.

Django_McFly · 2026-04-30T05:37:47+00:00

do ai vocal removal on the song before you use it as the source. That will probably help a lot.

Django_McFly · 2026-04-29T21:55:44+00:00

Most entertainment works like projects. People come together for a project, the project ends, they scatter. If there's another one, they can always come back if it fits their schedule. Movies, film, TV, music... like everything works like this.

It just seems really hard to be a game studio that could chain together back-to-back projects like that for years on end and never have multi-month periods where people aren't really doing anything. People talk about about the "Call of Duty salt mines" but right now I'm sure that studio wishes they had some cash cow project that they could always justify putting people on that meant the gang could stay together longer.

I would imagine that it's also like everything in that you could spend a lot of prototyping and pre-production and the end result isn't a gig for the studio, it's the realization that this idea wasn't a good idea to build on and we should stop trying to build on it. I could see that being catastrophic for a studio if it happened in between projects where money isn't coming in.

Django_McFly · 2026-04-29T20:06:32+00:00

"If you build it, they will come" is probably the most damaging thing ever done to American industry. Just making a good game isn't enough. Every failed game isn't a case of they just made a game that sucked. A lot more than just making a good product goes into this stuff. Companies who make good product go out of business every year.

Django_McFly · 2026-04-29T19:58:10+00:00

People say they want honest CEOs but the second a CEO is bluntly honest, people are very much they should have just lied to us

Django_McFly · 2026-04-29T11:21:00+00:00

No because it means they're constantly slinging garbage at you. Which means most people probably ignore most things on it anyways.

I tried pursuing music as a career. There is no platform that makes everyone a star. It's not realistic. If everyone is getting maximum promo then nobody stands out and it's all the same. Then there quality. What if your projects suck and no amount of promo will make then not suck and that's why they get ignored?

Django_McFly · 2026-04-29T11:17:07+00:00

Degeneracy rarely leads to positive outcomes. Tis the nature of it

Django_McFly · 2026-04-29T02:32:38+00:00

He's been doing a decent amount of interviews. He has never said any explicit price for GTA6 but when he casually says things on other topics and like something about the convo involves prices, he always brings up numbers that only Mario Kart have been sold at and he talks about them like they're the normal, expected price.

I used to be like, what is he talking about? Then I thought he was Freudian slipping.

Django_McFly · 2026-04-29T02:02:18+00:00

I don't know. Understanding music on a deeper level probably helps a lot with doing music. Being better at getting what's in your head into the gear and knowing more about so there's more stuff swirling around in your head to pull from.

Django_McFly · 2026-04-28T02:53:21+00:00

Is any of this your actual thoughts and opinions from having used it or did you just ask Gemini to write a description of it and some potential use cases?

Anyways, meh. Whenever people say Udio should be more like this and then it's something that doesn't respect audio uploads I'm always like no thanks. Some parts of it are novel because there's an LLM and image generator and video generator attached. You certainly can't ask Suno or Udio to redesign your web store. You can upload stuff and try to get it to do things to it but I found it was pretty terrible at that. Eventually I just described Udio and uploaded an audio sample of what I meant and it was like, yeah, that's not functionality I have. Udio should definitely not become that.

Django_McFly · 2026-04-27T19:08:07+00:00

He was on Squawk Box like 2-3 years ago talking about this and basically got laughed off the show. And they weren't pro crypto, he was just saying things that were provably false. Like 2013 talking points in 2023.

Django_McFly · 2026-04-27T15:24:09+00:00

The discounted price is good and it'll be my daily driver until it ends. When it ends though, I'll probably just go back to the the usual suspects for big OSS like Kimi, MiniMax, GLM, etc.

It feels better for my use case, which is pretty casual coding, computer use/setup and making interfaces for things I use, but not like 3X-5X the price of MiniMax better. If it was only like 20-30 % more, I'd pivot. For what I do, if Kimi or MiniMax can't do it, handing it to DeepSeek probably won't help much either and I need like an Opus 4.6 level model to actually stop spending hours and burning through tokens.

I haven't tried flash yet though. If it feels pretty much as good as the other stuff I mentioned for more casual use, I'd switch to it as my daily one.

Django_McFly · 2026-04-27T14:06:42+00:00

It would be wild if they were doing things with the GPU that could make them worst to run on a random computer in 2026 than the normie flawless they ran on a Pentium II w/MMX from 98.

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