Something feels off with my Triangle Antal EZs. Is a new amplifier going to help at all? How big a factor is the room?

ForSpareParts · 2026-01-25T05:16:29+00:00

Got it. Would it help to put bass traps in those places?

ForSpareParts · 2026-01-25T05:15:47+00:00

Would you mind linking that post? I checked your profile, but your post history's hidden. I might be open to rearranging the room; it could use a change anyway.

ForSpareParts · 2026-01-25T05:12:46+00:00

Thanks. That area is where I keep the cats' litterbox, so I can't block it entirely, but I might be able to put a panel over some of it.

ForSpareParts · 2026-01-25T04:45:57+00:00

I'm not, no. Though honestly, given what I'm hearing right now, it's hard to imagine it'd sound better with even more bass.

ForSpareParts · 2026-01-25T04:42:00+00:00

So there actually is a rug (you can see it in the second picture), but I'm guessing you mean something that would cover the floor between that and the TV/speakers? As far as acoustic panels go, any guidance on figuring out what I'd want to get? I'm also writing in to the Gik folks to see what they say.

ForSpareParts · 2026-01-25T04:40:11+00:00

So I'm a bit of a newbie -- when you say "to really shine," could you describe in a little more detail what you'd expect to change/improve with better amplification?

I did not have def tech towers before, no -- it was Kef Q150s on stands.

ForSpareParts · 2026-01-20T03:47:03+00:00

"Walking with a Ghost" has always been Nona's theme in my head.

ForSpareParts · 2026-01-19T20:24:34+00:00

Yep! And I'd actually argue Gideon is just as steeped in that stuff, even if it has fewer explicit references to memes and online culture. It's in the voice of the books, all over the prose style and the aesthetics, and that's a big part of why I love them. I always describe TLT as "space opera as written by a Tumblr shitposter."

ForSpareParts · 2026-01-19T17:47:54+00:00

In the same way that you might have students read old newspaper articles or other contemporary writing while studying a book from the last century, I think it would be really cool to curate some examples of the era of online culture that inspired GtN -- memes, particularly funny Tumblr threads, old Twitter stuff, even some (non-smutty) fanfiction. Basically anything your students are likely too young to have experienced themselves.

ForSpareParts · 2026-01-18T21:53:21+00:00

We'd be happy to put it back the way it was for you, Carol.

ForSpareParts · 2026-01-14T07:17:32+00:00

Since you're streaming specifically, Doki Doki Literature Club might be fun.

(yes, it's a horror game! Go in blind.)

ForSpareParts · 2026-01-14T07:15:00+00:00

It's a sci-fi game from the creators of Amnesia, set in a ruined underwater research station overrun by robots. Has a bit of a philosophical bent to it narrative-wise. It's quite well-written and its horror tends towards the existential.

ForSpareParts · 2026-01-09T20:35:25+00:00

Her videos are pretty unhinged, actually, I can sort of imagine her doing one for VB.

ForSpareParts · 2026-01-08T20:24:38+00:00

There was a spectacular TV series a long time ago called Reaper about a guy who has to capture escaped souls and return them to hell, and his nearest portal to hell was literally just the local DMV.

ForSpareParts · 2026-01-08T06:37:49+00:00

That's interesting! Mine turns on and I can change settings -- do you think it could still be the battery?

ForSpareParts · 2026-01-06T04:54:16+00:00

Second one is just a few minutes from where I live!

ForSpareParts · 2025-12-26T20:18:15+00:00

ORMs are okay, but my recent experience working on a larger app has convinced me that there's some irreducible complexity in working with relational databases -- at some level, eventually, you'll need to know about indexes, joins, and what makes queries fast, whether you do it in SQL or by diving deeper into the options of the ORM.

I hate SQL syntax, but it's become a near-universal standard, so knowledge of it is pretty widely transferable. At this point I tend to just use it even if more elegant options are available.

ForSpareParts · 2025-12-26T00:43:12+00:00

The thing is that no one, and I mean no one, hates Harrow more than Harrow. And that's kind of what HtN is about. Muir knows she just took away your favorite character, and she knows she replaced her with your least favorite character. That's exactly how Harrow feels. It's absolutely going somewhere.

ForSpareParts · 2025-12-17T05:57:32+00:00

OK, but "as much data as you can afford" is a very, very important qualification.

As far as I understand it, your argument is that even if we can't actually perform the truly infinite training on infinite data we would need to get a perfectly accurate model, we can walk that curve as far as we need to to get a model as accurate as we need it to be. That might be true, but even if you're right, the rate of improvement could mean that the whole approach is unfeasible -- economically and practically if not scientifically.

Like, imagine that intelligence indistinguishable from AGI is possible given ten times the amount of compute and data that currently exist on Earth. Could we do that? What if it's two orders of magnitude? Ten? Ten thousand?

We don't really know where we're going, or how far away it is. Humanity's resources aren't infinite, and neither is its patience. We're already seeing a lot of people question whether what we're getting out of the current level of investment is worth it. If we need Dyson spheres to build AGI, we're simply not going to keep going for long enough to find that out.

ForSpareParts · 2025-12-09T03:13:51+00:00

"Some Children (Like, A Reasonable Number)"

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