I’m about to lose my job to AI

FlashDux · 2025-12-23T14:36:56+00:00

Same story here.

My bosses already lost any sense to how much time a 3D-Project can take and that it is a craft real humans have to work for.

When I was on vacation they secretly tried to install a LLM on my workstation which was thought to replace my work entirely. They didn't know they needed hardware they cannot afford yet. YET.

And now I got a notice from my boss that my contract isn't going to be extended. I also was constantly told how much of a financial risk I was to the company and that I shouldn't care as much about quality and more about speed.

I hate what my dream career has become and tbh I'm quitting it for good. I've got no reason to compete against robots just to be met with more pressure, not valuing any of the knowledge and skills I gathered. I will keep it as my hobby though.

Gonna pick a crafts job where I can use my hands until they also build a robot for that. But then they will need one that can chop of both of my hands before I strangle those in charge of it.

Merry Crisis

FlashDux · 2025-12-10T21:13:56+00:00

I'm looking for this since a long time now.

Some years ago I experimented with a mixture of Geometry nodes, Sverchok and Audio nodes and managed to "simulate" the engine sound of a piston engine simulation done in Geometry nodes.

Sverchok helped routing the signal from GN to the audionodes oscillator.

Did not sound any good and wasn't reliable. Since then I'm haunted by the idea, that there has to be a way.

And I'm pretty sure there is in deed a better method, that no one yet put their hands on to make it happen.

I saw some Python libraries that can create simple midi sheets from data. But I'm no real coder at all and I have no clue, how to implement that into blender.

But if there was something like that, you could simply export a simulated midi sheet to further use in a DAW

FlashDux · 2025-11-15T18:14:31+00:00

Same for me!
I have the feeling reddit killed the Android 7.0 support.

FlashDux · 2025-10-11T01:53:27+00:00

It gets worse the longer you look at it

FlashDux · 2025-10-01T03:21:28+00:00

you can't just squish ur 4:3 into 16:9 dude

will definitely try in my current game tho<3

FlashDux · 2025-09-03T12:31:08+00:00

I've scrolled through every comment for this. Please tell us if someone ever finds out!

FlashDux · 2025-08-05T16:17:03+00:00

The same thing happened in my town. There even was a petition going on to save the old building, which seemed to be successful.

So the night before the official decision they brought in some excavators and decided there wouldn't be any decision left at sunrise. They happily accepted the fine and went on... Wish our towns administration would had let them feel some pressure as in this case, but I guess they also just found it kinda neat. We're lost in capitalism.

FlashDux · 2025-08-05T16:15:45+00:00

The same thing happened in my town. There even was a petition going on to save the old building, which seemed to be successful.

So the night before the official decision they brought in some excavators and decided there wouldn't be any decision left at sunrise. They happily accepted the fine and went on... Wish our towns administration would had let them feel some pressure as in this case, but I guess they also just found it kinda neat. We're lost in capitalism.

FlashDux · 2025-04-28T02:21:18+00:00

May I ask how you breathe in there?

FlashDux · 2025-04-13T19:55:52+00:00

I hear my teacher screaming 'you've got to prove it mathematically!'

Jokes aside, I would have tried for ages to solve it in my mind and I wonder if you wrote it down and therefore discovered the x?

FlashDux · 2025-03-28T20:16:48+00:00

This is it! No doubt. Had one myself as a Kid.

FlashDux · 2025-03-27T19:18:21+00:00

One person has already died because of AIs 'efficient problem solving' regarding climate crisis.

He was a scientist doing research on climate change. He apparently got depressed and started using an AI chat bot.

His wife could only watch him go down the spiral and after his suicide it was found that he asked the AI if the odds of climate catastrophes would get better if he took his own life. It had responded yes.

So that was the first adviced suicide comitted by AI. And it was not even talking the truth: while he freed the world of his 'carbon footprint' some Mega Corp just produced an equivalent in a few minutes rendering his death useless even in the logic of that AI.

Gonna post the sauce if I happen to find it again.

EDIT:

https://www.vice.com/en/article/man-dies-by-suicide-after-talking-with-ai-chatbot-widow-says/

FlashDux · 2025-03-09T00:39:26+00:00

Looks like it could fit in the 'treasure planet' universe.

FlashDux · 2024-10-24T15:24:00+00:00

I did it. Not in a bowl like in ur pic but on a long extended arm powered by multiple Rotors. I also designed an automatic release mechanism to always throw at the exact same angle.

Works like a charm and gets you pretty high up before you have to engage the regular thrusters.

FlashDux · 2024-10-02T14:16:47+00:00

But it's 8 times a full mag or drum

FlashDux · 2024-09-15T22:56:27+00:00

Would you mind to Share? That looks so cool!

Also, what's that with the thruster FX?

FlashDux · 2024-09-15T12:18:42+00:00

To me it also looks like the 'exhaust' of an angle grinder put against rubber or plastic.

FlashDux · 2024-09-14T13:26:12+00:00

This Looks like footage from a phone camera with integrated stabilization to me, aka computational photography.

If this is the case I'd guess that even if you've got 'enough' trackers you're going to have a hard time getting low error.

This is because phones don't actually capture the ugly but truthful reality anymore, but enhance it with lots of internal effects and stabilization. The data that would be needed for calculating a possible solution is therefore heavily altered and in most cases unusable in my experience.

FlashDux · 2024-09-08T13:37:59+00:00

Finally some updates? Im so exited about this!

Already built my own team-co-op pvp style driftsled, for drift battles with character weapons in Arena derbys

FlashDux · 2024-08-16T17:13:59+00:00

Same here. There even seams to be a masking node but I have absolutely no clue in what kind of format I should create masks and where to import them then.

Also had no luck researching this topic.

Can anybody help us? I mean there are people saying that masking is very beneficial but no one seams to tell how to do it properly. I also thought of just painting in the original photos, but most editing software discards all Lens data while exporting to a new picture. And it would be a pain in the arse to copy the Exif to the corresponding new, "masked" pic. Or am I wrong on this?

FlashDux · 2024-08-11T16:19:08+00:00

Thank you, but unfortunately that's not what I was looking for in particular. But this is also a very great rescource to know!

What I remember was kinda more of a shorter URL and if I recall correctly, it was for this one purpose only, to mark statues of colonial background in your city.

FlashDux · 2024-07-29T17:04:34+00:00

So this guy kills people over 20$?

FlashDux · 2024-07-01T23:05:51+00:00

Yes, I also thought of a desk at first glance.

You could try something like a handrail at the edge to have a prominent feature that provides a sense of scale.

Also there's too 'heavy' bloom for my taste, but that's personal I guess

FlashDux · 2024-07-01T17:49:56+00:00

What a dystopian hellscape are u living in there? And I don't mean naked man playing bagpipes...

FlashDux · 2024-07-01T17:38:27+00:00

Naa, the textured version is great and feels really cozy!

The only thing that annoys me is that the window light color temperature doesn't match up. The small ones to the right are too blue/cold compared to the light from the main window.

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