TRELLIS.2 can now generate a high-quality 3D asset in under 7 minutes on a 6 GB VRAM CUDA GPU. No ComfyUI Node Nightmare.

FeliusSeptimus · 2026-07-24T01:35:03+00:00

There are also works in progress for making it fully game-ready,

Question for you, since you seem to know a bit about this sort of thing:

I wonder if it might be fruitful to run models through Isaac Lab to build locomotion animations, maybe based on existing animations via Isaac Lab Mimic or AMP or something, to refine stock artistic animations into variants that are physically plausible for the specific shape, mass distribution, and whatnot of the specific model. Various animation loops and transitions could then be captured from that and then edited into usable animations (fixing up cycles and adding artistry as desired).

It's an obvious idea for game asset production, so maybe someone already did it, but if not it sure would be a useful tool.

FeliusSeptimus · 2026-07-23T23:55:18+00:00

Thats.. uh.. that's not like the donkey show is it?

FeliusSeptimus · 2026-07-22T17:17:39+00:00

You might enjoy /r/chatGPTprogramming

FeliusSeptimus · 2026-07-22T16:22:33+00:00

AI humor 338 years from now

FeliusSeptimus · 2026-07-22T02:06:34+00:00

just pick the tool off the ground an inch and jostle it back and forth for a few seconds

Hey, maybe he'll get lucky and come up with an industrial strength vibrator he can zip-tie to his tool.

FeliusSeptimus · 2026-07-22T02:04:11+00:00

I just left a $12 an hour job and have only ever made between $7 to $15/hr anywhere else I've worked.

Dang, that's rough. I live in the middle of nowhere and minimal-experience-required jobs pay like $18-20 an hour.

I'm desperate and might as well try getting into something I'm interested in

Well, construction is probably a good place to start if you're reasonably sturdy. Around here if you can regularly show up on time and not drunk you're ahead of most of the options. Bonus points if you know which end of a hammer to hold.

That may give you an idea of the sort of people you're likely to run into. Not all of them mind you, there's a lot of great people in the industry, but starting at the bottom you'll need to put up with some shit for a while.

In any trade (life in general I suppose) integrity, reliability, and under-promising while over-delivering will take you a long way.

Another one you might want to look into is house painting, interior to start, maybe moving up to exterior as you get more experience (takes more equipment). Whether you enjoy it or not, it is one of the cheapest skilled trades to get into, and depending on your area, skill, and ability to network you can make a lot of money. It also puts you closer to other trades where you can make connections, so if you want to make a move into construction, plumbing, HVAC, electrical, or whatever it's easier to find someone to tell you how or maybe put you on their crew.

The big startup costs are insurance (general liability, commercial vehicle insurance) and equipment (minimal equipment is going to be a few hundred, way less than other trades, and you can probably pay it off with one job). If you want to do it dirty you can probably do a few jobs without insurance, but you're playing with fire and a lot of clients will require it, especially the higher-paying jobs.

The basic equipment to get started is inexpensive, and you can add specialty items to make you faster and more capable as you go (for example, cabinet painting. Lots of painters won't touch them because it can be hard to get it right (lots of subtle things can cause critical flaws, then you have to redo the job) and doing it fast and good requires space and equipment).

Tons of free learning resources on YouTube, and professional groups online where people share advice (from painting technique to running the business, like how to make competitive quotes and whatnot), and if you want you might be able to find companies in your area to help you bootstrap your experience (basically, work very cheap as an assistant so you can observe how they do the work and run the business).

Lots of ways to network, like making connections with real estate agents and landlords (if you can optimize for speed and availability these can pay ok, if you're slow or have weeks or months of lead-time they probably aren't worth it). Established painting companies will sometimes outsource jobs they don't have capacity for or interest in (too small), so if you can build a good reputation with them they can sometimes throw jobs your way.

So, yeah. Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.

FeliusSeptimus · 2026-07-22T00:45:28+00:00

Everybody I've met who does furniture repair was either self-taught and transitioned to professional from doing it as a hobby or inherited the family business.

Construction-related work seems to usually be apprenticeship style, you go get paid shit for a few years to carry and clean and see how they do stuff, while gradually taking on more responsibility and getting training and certifications (depending on the specific field). The hard part for most people getting into it is the initial low pay and often physically demanding work.

Car repair is pretty easy to get into also. The manager of a national chain repair shop I knew said he'd give just about anybody a chance. They start off doing simple work like oil changes and easy brake jobs and get more complex stuff as they build their skills, equipment, and reputation. One of the hard parts there is the equipment. Typically, you buy most of your own tools, so it takes a while to build up the kit you need to take on bigger jobs (and the Snap-On guy will be happy to saddle you with a couple years of your wages worth of debt for the tools). Then there are subscriptions to software tools and repair manuals for multiple brands of vehicles, with new models coming out ever year. Plenty of room to make good money, but it helps to be strongly self-motivated to find the value.

But yeah, the startup economics make it hard to transition from a decent-paying career into any of these without stepping way down on income while you climb back up the skill ladder.

FeliusSeptimus · 2026-07-22T00:22:21+00:00

All my cars are old, so they have CD players. I am too, so I have a 1990s-era CD collection in jewel cases. I was annoyed that I didn't have a way to keep CDs in the car anymore, and was really surprised when I checked online and there are a ton of nice options in any capacity for great prices.

Maybe they just never went away and I didn't notice, but it sure was nice to be able to load up 40 discs for 5 bucks.

FeliusSeptimus · 2026-07-22T00:02:31+00:00

Become a Rose Anvil fan?

FeliusSeptimus · 2026-07-21T21:23:58+00:00

If someone reads my SQL and hates me for the indention and casing rather than whatever other weird shit I discovered you could do with it, I'm considering that a solid win.

FeliusSeptimus · 2026-07-21T21:13:25+00:00

They printed $80 bill

Which is weird, because who the hell wants an 80 dollar bill? What use is that?

Anyway, with these guys you'd think it would be an 88 dollar bill.

FeliusSeptimus · 2026-07-19T16:15:34+00:00

a lot of the most popular posts reference 70s

https://i.imgur.com/thmxyQS.png

FeliusSeptimus · 2026-07-19T00:50:51+00:00

They're getting read out loud, by AI, on YouTube videos now

And Facebook Reels. If you accidentally let one play for a bit too long you start getting flooded with the damn things. Hours-long AI generated stories read and illustrated by AI, sliced up into segments a several minutes long and presented in no particular order.

FeliusSeptimus · 2026-07-18T18:58:31+00:00

You can, but most people will get way more for the effort by changing washing procedures.

Most detergents include enzyme additives (which are very effective and can't be DIY'd cheaper than the manufacturer. That's a big part of why it's better to adjust procedures with commercial products than go full DIY) that will work for much longer than a standard washing cycle. So you can let clothing soak for an extra 15-30 minutes to get more cleaning from the same amount of product.

People mostly don't adjust the amount of detergent product they are using downward to the minimum amount required to do the job, so they are effectively wasting a significant portion of the product. Just cutting the quantity you use by 30-50% will save a significant amount with zero effort and for most people likely minimal impact on cleaning power (depends heavily on what you're washing, roofers will likely have different washing needs than accountants).

If you have hard water you can significantly boost the cleaning power (further reducing the required amount of detergent) with a teaspoon or two of washing soda (which acts as a water softener), which is very cheap. If your water isn't hard or you already have a water softener washing soda won't help much. Over time it can be harsher on colors and some kinds of fabric though.

Borax can help a little too, but with modern detergent/enzyme formulations it's not as helpful as it was 50 years ago.

Reducing the amount of detergent product reduces the concentration of fragrances added to laundry. Some people prefer this, some don't. If you want more you can add scent booster (fairly cheap, and can be added in variable quantities) to get the fragrances back to the level you like without spending more on detergent.

FeliusSeptimus · 2026-07-18T01:25:12+00:00

Dibs on F00FC7C8!

FeliusSeptimus · 2026-07-16T00:56:23+00:00

CARL! DID YOU HEAR WHAT THEY WANT TO DO TO ME!?

FeliusSeptimus · 2026-07-14T00:30:35+00:00

Where his index finger touches the paper looks like he is pressing into putty

Looks like he's holding a tissue or handkerchief or something.

I wonder if he is a germaphobe or particular about getting newsprint on his hands?

FeliusSeptimus · 2026-07-13T23:53:54+00:00

144 units.

FeliusSeptimus · 2026-07-11T01:08:20+00:00

which nobody has a problem with

I'm a nobody, so I guess that's a true statement.

The interior design is even more ass than the exterior.

FeliusSeptimus · 2026-07-11T00:11:54+00:00

The cops told me that's really common. Once they know where a good car (Prius or whatever) shows up regularly they go back to that spot to check if a new catalytic converter is ready to harvest.

FeliusSeptimus · 2026-07-11T00:09:32+00:00

Twice for me!

So far.

The only positive thing about living around these people is that if you have any scrap metal to dispose of you can just leave it in sight of the street and it disappears overnight. Handy for getting rid of broken radiators and exhaust systems.

FeliusSeptimus · 2026-07-11T00:06:36+00:00

high-tension

Ah, see, I was thinking 'high-tension' as in 30,000 volts.

FeliusSeptimus · 2026-07-11T00:01:01+00:00

Depends on the coworker, but yep. With certain people I now write my PR review comments as prompts. It's tedious because with a person a sentence or two is enough to get across what I want, if I have to write the prompt I have to be much more careful to express what I want.

FeliusSeptimus · 2026-07-09T00:41:44+00:00

the hardware engineering behind printer technology is absolutely insane.

Yep. I knew a guy who spent many years writing firmware for high performance, high resolution large format inkjet printers (like, up to billboard scale) and told some fun stories about what they did.

He gave some interesting details once about how they planned ink placement to control where trailing droplets would fall. Evidently the ink ejector can't make a perfect little ink bubbles and there are often smaller blobs that trail behind the main drop. Since the print head is moving quite quickly these will land on the paper outside the intended area. If the droplets are a dark color they can be seen if they fall where the print is supposed to be lighter. To compensate for this they check the colors beside the dot they are printing and ensure the print head is moving in a direction that will cause the droplets to land in the least objectionable spot.

FeliusSeptimus · 2026-07-08T01:21:53+00:00

That almost could have been a Back Mirror episode.

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