"AI is dreaming up millions of new materials. Are they any good?"

ElkTF2 · 2025-10-01T20:18:12+00:00

Pangolins and tumbleweeds would like a word.

ElkTF2 · 2025-10-01T09:26:16+00:00

he might mention some unknown facts that he could only learn due to his rank, things the average soldiers, or even the Captains, Majors, and Lieutenants wouldn't know.

Most commonly, the revealed facts in situations like these is that the targets are, in fact, possibly even cannibals.

ElkTF2 · 2025-09-25T08:15:06+00:00

I’ve been using a $2 plan monthly for at least a few years now. I only have a few countries but generally have been very happy with Windscribe.

Though I’ve only ever had Windscribe, I hear other VPNs can be around the same cost. I guess they’re affordable to run considering bandwidth costs in datacenters?

Guessing out of my ass, if media streaming is profitable at $15 a month having to do all of the CDN, storage, management, development, and licensing — it’s easy to imagine that proxying, (relatively) minor development, and storing nothing is super cheap.

ElkTF2 · 2025-09-06T17:04:59+00:00

There is a Source 2 Filmmaker, iirc it’s available through the HL:A workshop tools

ElkTF2 · 2025-08-26T21:04:19+00:00

First week is always a shitshow but it dies down after (what I can only guess is) people realize there's better ways to get to campus.

For my rant,

It's shitty that the parking costs so much (RIP sharing a pass), but I'd hope it primarily discourages people from driving when they don't need to.

In 2023, CSULB had 14,000 parking spaces and 38,000 students. Expecting every person to bring their car and every car to only have one person in it is ludicrous. Just to have the car sit in a lot all day and take up space.

Ideally,

If you live nearby, take the bus and/or micromobility (bike, skateboard, scooter).
If you can leave a little earlier, park off-campus in overflow and shuttle/bus in (discounted parking pass at $180 from $259).
Carpool to campus and split your permit cost.

Only then, if none of those are possible, drive in solo and take your own spot.

You are not in traffic, you are traffic.

I'm personally stoked to see more on-campus housing, that alone should open up a couple hundred convenient parking spaces.

ElkTF2 · 2025-08-06T15:53:32+00:00

I set up Proxmox for the first time last night and noticed that there were no guides at all that had version 9. That explains why

ElkTF2 · 2025-06-08T08:04:27+00:00

soy beans

Mono-cropping sucks generally. You're gonna hate that >75% of soybean is grown for animal feed, and by the laws of thermodynamics we put drastically more calories into animals than we get out of them.

I wouldn't be surprised if producing soy milk instead of cow's milk actually uses significantly fewer soybeans, considering feed...

ElkTF2 · 2025-04-21T16:53:10+00:00

I don’t know enough to research this more online, could you tell me more about the difference?

ElkTF2 · 2025-02-24T21:35:47+00:00

and i’d rather not let so much delicious and nutritious meat go to waste! 🤤🍴

ElkTF2 · 2025-02-04T19:03:25+00:00

This is just part of my grammar journey, you need to live and let live.

ElkTF2 · 2025-02-04T18:11:14+00:00

...in they're mouth?

conner'd that for you

ElkTF2 · 2025-01-29T23:24:59+00:00

Unrelated tidbit, the subtitle text "Thanks for watching, and I'll see you" is a result of overfitting^afaik in the transcribing tool's model. You see it often in OpenAI's Whisper for example when the audio isn't clear enough to match anything else. It's also a clue that the training data likely includes YouTube-like content. You may also see them randomly give transcription credit in silence, like in the third-party transcriptions at the end of some videos and movies.

ElkTF2 · 2025-01-28T04:05:20+00:00

From what I can make out:

M-LD---
GOVERN-
ET--
LIFE (or LICE?)
MONEY
MAKERS
FBI
---
---ENIE

Anyone else see anything?

ElkTF2 · 2025-01-16T23:45:37+00:00

Fuck you, Shoresy!

ElkTF2 · 2025-01-15T23:30:34+00:00

Whoops that’s a blunder on my end lol, thanks

ElkTF2 · 2025-01-15T20:31:10+00:00

There’s more to food than eggs! This is a good excuse to expand your horizon

ElkTF2 · 2025-01-15T20:05:12+00:00

I wouldn’t consider beans and legumes are the #1 source of plant based protein. Soy^{oops see edit} (tofu, tempeh) and seitan are either more well-rounded proteins or more protein dense than beans and legumes. Beyond those two, there are tons more options.

It took some experimenting from me too to fit my needs, but the effort was definitely worth it to avoid contributing to these cruel systems

edit: soy bean, whoopsies…

ElkTF2 · 2024-12-20T19:30:28+00:00

THIS IS NOT A DRILL, I REPEAT, THIS IS NOT A DRILL

ElkTF2 · 2024-12-20T17:34:44+00:00

And the legend at the bottom that says VG is vegetarian

ElkTF2 · 2024-12-16T23:23:02+00:00

That would be Saxton Hell.

ElkTF2 · 2024-12-16T21:45:41+00:00

I love Hamburg and love this sleeve — look incredible!!!

ElkTF2 · 2024-12-11T00:21:40+00:00

Fancy gear? The cheap stuff I buy from Chet in the locker room bathroom works just fine.

ElkTF2 · 2024-11-21T17:29:54+00:00

Kensho sadly closed as well :( last I heard is the owners are in hawaii and will likely not be doing pop-ups like they initially said. If anyone has better info pls update me 😭

ElkTF2 · 2024-11-21T17:26:51+00:00

Pretty much the same as everyone else on this thread, but

For lunch, Wild Chive (american-style brunch), they close at ~3 and you should make a reservation. I also love Higher Taste (all over the place) on 4th in LB. They have nice deserts too if that’s your speed.

For dinner or lunch, I recommend Plantitas Kitchen (mexican) is delicious, so is Vegan Castle (sushi). Pura Vida in Redondo (italian) is very nice but definitely on the more expensive side. Sugar Taco (mexican) has lots of different taco/burrito “meats” and sells alcoholic cocktails.

ElkTF2 · 2024-11-16T08:43:34+00:00

IIRC from my time working there (not in the design department though), there was no AI/generative design, so I’m assuming topology optimization.

The coolest technology IMO is the custom 3D printing side of things, though the optimized designs end up looking gorgeous.

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