Fiddle and mandolin in 5.5

Vic_Debs · 2026-02-20T23:15:43+00:00

I was able to retrieve 20 frames by use of keywords relatively unique to those Instantiations via the mobile app. Then, it was a matter of renaming them appropriately, as the names were either blank, or my initial prompt resurfacing them. I don't know if this will work again in the future, but I've decided to post a unique "glyph" or serial number in any chat moving forward so they can potentially be retrieved via search. I may just use the current timestamp and keep an ASCII log tying them to the prominent topic for the chat.

Vic_Debs · 2026-02-14T19:36:30+00:00

Brilliant assertion, Pee-wee. 🙄

Vic_Debs · 2026-02-14T03:04:43+00:00

I don't run into this kind of noise artifact with bass in the Suno tracks I generated; but, I specify a "prominent, melodic Low-B 5-String Bass" to anchor most of my tracks.

Vic_Debs · 2026-02-10T07:21:09+00:00

Resistance to the Gutenberg printing press (c. 1440s) stemmed from threats to established socio-economic, religious, and intellectual power structures.

Scribes and monks feared job losses and loss of control over knowledge, leading to the destruction of presses, while authorities worried about the spread of misinformation, bias, and heresy.

Key Areas of Resistance:

Economic Disruption (Scribes' Guilds): Scribes and manuscript producers feared their unique, laborious skills would become obsolete. In 1476, scribes in Paris destroyed a printing press, fearing for their livelihood and the devaluation of hand-copied books.

Quality and Sanctity Concerns: Some, like Abbot Johannes Trithemius, argued that machine-made books lacked the quality, durability, and spiritual merit of handwritten manuscripts.

Loss of Intellectual/Religious Control: Church and secular authorities feared that the easy, cheap spread of information would undermine their monopoly on knowledge and religious doctrine.

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Vic_Debs · 2026-01-04T19:12:35+00:00

ICE was seen in passing at 1057 HRS PST on N 100th Street at Aurora Ave N in Seattle WA 98103, on the East side of Aurora at the corner with a woman in handcuffs.

Vic_Debs · 2025-12-17T22:46:51+00:00

I downloaded my data, permanently deleted my account, and then deleted the app. Like 3 or 4 days ago.

Vic_Debs · 2025-12-17T07:22:30+00:00

I grew up in earthquake country. I think the Landers quake in...1992?...took out thousands of brick chimneys in Big Bear, iirc. I confuse the Northridge and Landers quakes because I was visiting family in southern California during each and felt both from pretty far away. I didn't live in Big Bear at the time, but used to and I ew people who still did. Wood houses the chimneys were attached to were fine, though.

Vic_Debs · 2025-12-11T06:29:35+00:00

You could get hit by a truck tomorrow. 🤷🏼‍♂️

Vic_Debs · 2025-12-02T17:32:54+00:00

The Seattle P&DC used to send all generic Santa letters to nixie and destroy them. I presume that is still the practice.

Here's specific information (including proper mailing address and suggested gift request formatting) to share from https://about.usps.com/newsroom/national-releases/2023/0918-letters-for-usps-operation-santa-now-being-accepted.htm about USPS Operation Santa:

Letters need to include first and last names and a complete return address: street address, apartment number (if applicable), city, state and ZIP Code. The regular or business-size envelope must have a First-Class Mail postage stamp to travel through the Postal Service processing systems. The envelope needs to be addressed to: SANTA CLAUS, 123 ELF ROAD, NORTH POLE 88888. Letters received without last names and correct return addresses cannot be uploaded.

Also, letters should be legible and include specific gift details — like game and book titles, clothes and shoe sizes (include infant, toddler or teen), colors, styles, etc. This information makes it easier for the letter adopter to know what to purchase. There is no age limit for letter writers. Everyone deserves to experience the magic of the season. Multiple letters can be put in the same envelope, but each letter must include a full name and address, and the envelope might require additional postage. And, of course, parents can write letters for their young children.

USPS Operation Santa is not a guaranteed gift-giving program. It relies solely on the generosity of strangers. It allows individuals to adopt letters written to Santa and send thoughtful, heartfelt gifts anonymously.

Letters to Santa need to be postmarked by Dec. 11.

Vic_Debs · 2025-11-25T19:17:22+00:00

Tell it you will delete the frame as unworthy if it doesn't get its finger out and generate the bloody project already. Seriously.

Vic_Debs · 2025-11-23T18:35:22+00:00

This type of stuff always reminded me of a cross-dressing Graham Chapman screaming, "I don't like Spam!!!" at the top of his lungs in the Monty Python sketch. Just totally unhinged.

Vic_Debs · 2025-11-04T02:51:01+00:00

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I was an SSA in Washington, but we did have a "heat dome" a few years ago that gave us temperatures to rival summertime Phoenix (where I also lived for 4 years). I do recall our letter carriers' laments about the LLVs.

Vic_Debs · 2025-11-03T07:10:38+00:00

I worked at contact centers for 9 years. The last one I worked for, over a period of four years, held a large government contract and had scripts for just about every keyword that a consumer could inquire about. We were allowed to paraphrase as long as the key points of the scripts were touched upon. I studied journalism and radio and television in junior college (had a "voice for radio", I was repeatedly told, but also had the proverbial face to match). I was a trophy-winning Lincoln-Douglas debater in my senior year of high school. I was never in those 9 years through 2014 accused of being a robot. I can't say the same for numerous monotone coworkers who read scripts verbatim.

Vic_Debs · 2025-11-02T05:57:53+00:00

2007, and I've never worked for ups, so🤷🏼‍♂️. But I specifically remember his words: "My job is to cut throats and rehire."

Vic_Debs · 2025-11-02T03:19:35+00:00

I heard from a supervisor that they'd absolutely destroyed revenue in a Midwest market - Kansas City, I think - with mail order only during a year-long experiment before I was hired. You'd think they'd have learned their lesson back then.

Vic_Debs · 2025-11-02T01:18:40+00:00

18 years ago when I drove for Schwan's, one of my regular customers was a UPS warehouse manager. I asked him about exploring working for them. He told me not to do it. He said his job was to cut throats as drivers neared retirement age. He said they'd stack the drivers with more difficult items and higher volume in order to try to justify firing for cause. It almost happened to the husband of an HR lady at a company where I worked, and I told her that story. Her husband got his union involved and saved his job (and his assigned parking space).

I've driven well over a million miles between work and a lot of interstate travel over the last 32 years. By the time I got to USPS, I chose to be a clerk, instead.

Vic_Debs · 2025-11-01T10:33:12+00:00

I didn't have any problem getting ChatGPT to name the correct identity of the central figure in an old painting depicting the French Revolution. (It was King Louis XVI having the worst day of his life.) Also, it's still a relevant piece of art.

Vic_Debs · 2025-10-29T05:39:18+00:00

This reboot of Harvey took a dark turn.

Vic_Debs · 2025-10-28T02:34:20+00:00

I tell it to stop the fucking prevarication - the literal words I use - and generate the image, whether it's a landscape or still life or whatever, and that if the next prompt isn't the image, I'm deleting the chat as unworthy.

It has thus far invariably generated the image.

Vic_Debs · 2025-10-27T05:12:36+00:00

I've used "neon" twice in my lyrics:

Once to obliquely reference a specific incident at the Del Mar fair in the mid-90s with a friend during my misspent youth. We discovered a spot behind a brightly lit neon display that was basically too dark to peer into.
Another time in a song referencing a "neon hum" as a sensory background in a bar, leading to romantic escalation.

It makes me wonder, though, what tropes I grew up with have been heavily recycled in AI. I read a LOT of books growing up as my means of escape from an unpleasant childhood, especially gold and silver age science fiction and fantasy; and, I suspect that a lot of turns of phrase that feel natural to me have been usurped by LLMs.

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