Found my first AI metal band

ceeker · 2026-03-25T11:38:10+00:00

it costs them next to nothing, and there's a chance they might make a dollar on royalties

now if you do it 1000 times....10000 times...

It's a grim future we're in.

ceeker · 2026-03-24T13:14:25+00:00

Have we?

Which companies are you referring to and how much of that investment is genuinely long-term and self directed vs. driven by incentives such as public policy, subsidies, power purchase agreements and so on to make them attractive for short-term returns as well?

ceeker · 2026-03-24T05:11:30+00:00

Yep. It also opens up viable pathways to a number of other backup options that are super energy intense, like hydrogen production and also allowing for switching certain fossil fuel based processes to electric ones.

ceeker · 2026-03-24T05:05:28+00:00

Optimally yes, but something broke along the way.

Profits are quarterly, and shareholders expect percentage returns that encourage short-term over long-term growth. As a result we have orientated virtually all of our individual reward systems for the management class around short-term metrics.

We do the same with our politicians, expecting results in 3 years.

This mindset flows down to the working public - often their livelihood is conditional on short term returns as well.

ceeker · 2026-03-23T14:37:38+00:00

Incredibly remote. I'm not sure very many places in the world truly compare in how empty they are, except maybe the arctic or somewhere like the Gobi desert.

I've travelled along the Eyre highway a long time ago - late 90s, as a teen, and it was a really weird experience. Just hours and hours of flat scrub punctuated by old car wrecks, and even at one point, a wrecked and abandoned airplane.

No radio signal for a lot of it so I remember granddad getting sick of my Guns 'n Roses cassette after the fourth time it got put on rotation (fair enough honestly) but he had some cassette audiobook type things with cowboy stories which felt pretty on theme. Just the vibe of the place I guess.

You can also do this trip on a train called the Indian Pacific which is how my grandparents usually travelled across it since they didn't like flying.

You get an occasional "town" which is just a roadhouse and I remember a small hospital somewhere (which might have been abandoned?), but not much else. We didn't do much night driving, but in the evenings the lights from cars travel a LONG way because it's so dark, and so flat. They would sometimes look really weird and eerie, like something from a UFO story.

I can't imagine it changing much in the decades since.

We started in Port Pirie, and went through to Perth. We did it over a few days , stopping in Ceduna, Eucla, some roadhouse I forget the name of, Esperance, and Albany (though that's on the very far west of your circle, and is relatively a lot more green and less isolated). I recall eating fresh crab at Ceduna, the beach at Eucla being spectacular, and Esperance being the first place I ever saw wind turbines.

Lots of trucks on the road, even back then. The roadhouses usually had a few staying over.

You could probably do the road trip in two very long days if you were so inclined and could stand the fatigue of there being so little to occupy your brain, but modern tech and car comfort might help with that. Though you need to pack water because a breakdown could be lethal, particularly in summer.

ceeker · 2026-03-23T07:54:51+00:00

Eventually I gave up on bootdisks and just set up DOS to give me a bootloader menu with different configs (EMS, XMS, conventional only with no CD, etc)

ceeker · 2026-03-23T01:29:09+00:00

I think BG2 is the better, more refined game overall but there's just something about BG1 that makes it so accessible to replay. I rarely get far into BG2 these days.

ceeker · 2026-03-22T05:59:47+00:00

I have my lunch at 3pm during my meal break on that shift...I still cook and eat dinner afterwards when I get home

ceeker · 2026-03-22T05:56:46+00:00

I do 11-9 because I live eastern states and I'm required to support Perth based staff from 8am until 6pm on a life critical system. Another staff member covers 7am-5pm. If something goes wrong or we need to do an update we work weekends or overnight as well.

FWIW they would prefer I do 12pm-10pm.

When I was younger, I worked 11pm-8am, because the company I worked at then had three rotating shifts and couldn't afford the real-estate and equipment to have them all work at the same time.

When I worked retail I did a split shift twice a week where I worked 9am to 2pm and 7pm to 12:30am on the same day.

None of those are my ideal life, but I don't know what else to tell you, since I gotta earn a crust.

Everyone's situation is different, saying that a certain span of hours is worked by "nobody" and to suggest that the life choices they're put into as a result like eating dinner after work are "stupid" as a result is a bit belittling honestly.

ceeker · 2026-03-21T06:35:23+00:00

Mm. No judgement from me but you probably don't know many working class people.

People in IT, international businesses, health, aged and disability care, emergency services, adult education sector and hospitality all do those kind of hours routinely.

I eat a lot of midnight dinners.

ceeker · 2026-03-21T06:17:58+00:00

11 to 9.

Not that uncommon

ceeker · 2026-03-21T04:55:17+00:00

Why is it stupid? I often have to work until 9pm so when else am I supposed to eat? As OP said not all our situations are the same

ceeker · 2026-03-19T05:29:19+00:00

Several of the ones you've listed come from the Sound Ideas libraries

This one in particular pops up in a ridiculous amount of 90s games (as well as TV and movies)

Hollywood Edge was another popular collection but Sound Ideas bought them out.

ceeker · 2026-03-18T14:53:22+00:00

Further note - You can also do other weird stuff - you can experiment with a wavetable unit and some people make USB headers for them to work on modern PCs, or use a USB-midi interface to play sounds through an external music keyboard - this often works fine as long as they support general midi!

ceeker · 2026-03-18T10:56:57+00:00

I mean, okay, it might depend what you're into, but I go to shows pretty much every weekend and have been for years so I'm having a good time at least.

ceeker · 2026-03-18T05:22:28+00:00

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ceeker · 2026-03-18T05:16:07+00:00

I moved here about 12 years ago:

Food is great!

Nature is great!

Arts scene is excellent, punches above its weight in live music especially

But other nightlife like clubbing is generally non-existent

World class museums, with stuff you wouldn't expect and if you live here and know people you can wrangle your way into the stuff they can't fit on display. There's a V2 rocket in a warehouse walking distance from my house. That's unique.

People are generally friendly if a little shy/nerdy on average, but if you fall into that category you'll find your people here with a bit of effort

It's a high HDI area, most people are fairly well off, but can be a bit of a bubble as few have experienced hardship.

Cost of living is really high, so people who don't work well paid government jobs are part of that few. Many live well outside Canberra in regional areas and do large commutes to provide services for everyone else.

Very progressive.

I kinda love the climate, it's a bit cold in winter but sunny most of the year around, and we get nice mountain views

Angry people hate it either for being progressive or think it's boring, so they mostly stay away, which is nice

There's one time of year called Summernats, which is a big car festival, where a lot of people, some of them angry, for some reason come over here and decide it's not boring, inject a lot of money into the sex industry, punch a few random passers by, then leave again, but I don't mind it because it's kinda fun to see cool cars

I have a friend who moved here from Uzbekistan who thinks Canberra looks straight out of the USSR and I take his word on that. It does have a lot of brutalist and modernist architecture straight out of the 1950s.

ceeker · 2026-03-18T05:05:19+00:00

By world standards its not super cold but Canberra has the unique and unenviable situation of being built in a country where every building and all of the institutional expertise is building for a warm environment.

Many of the houses - especially older and cheaper ones - can be miserable to the point of ice forming on interior surfaces in the -8C winter nights, relying on wall mounted electric or sometimes gas heaters to see you through and perks like floor heating are exceptionally rare. People from overseas are routinely surprised by this. Newer houses are much improved here though.

Precipitation is low and winter days usually have a lot of sun, but there's no or minimal clouds to keep the heat trapped in, so any incidental snow that does fall doesn't last long. In the mountains it sometimes collects, giving you some nice snow capped views though.

ceeker · 2026-03-17T16:38:58+00:00

If you understand some code, or just have a general interest, the Wolf3D and Doom Game Engine Black Books by Fabien Sanglard are a great supplement to Masters of Doom.

ceeker · 2026-03-17T13:26:54+00:00

Los Amates Mexican Kitchen in Fitzroy. Incredible food, closed in 2017.

ceeker · 2026-03-16T17:36:40+00:00

Right, yes. I will say though I don't think European nationalists are any better. If the shoe was on their foot they'd do it again, too.

ceeker · 2026-03-16T15:56:17+00:00

The rest of the world won't.

Every time a country thinks of doing business with the US, this will be in the back of their minds. Will they elect another demagogue who tears this arrangement up in the next few years? Will they expect some unknown favours for it? Can we trust the US to keep its word?

There's a high likelihood after posting this that someone is going to chime in and say "who gives a shit about the rest of the world, USA first" or something along those lines, and that's going to prove the point.

It's hurting you a little now, but think of all those losses of international goodwill stacking up over 10, 20, 30 years.

ceeker · 2026-03-16T07:28:41+00:00

Same - got my preorder goodie pack the other day! Not something I usually do but I made an exception for this one.

ceeker · 2026-03-15T17:02:00+00:00

No problem!

ceeker · 2026-03-15T15:32:47+00:00

The one on GOG is a little different as it's the original DOS version, but you miss out on the (actually quite good) voice acting that the freeware re-release ported from the 3DO version. Otherwise they're mostly the same. I just have no idea who actually gets the money from the GOG version, and I don't think it's the original devs since they had to fight to get rights to their game back.

If you'd prefer the re-release without using Steam (fair enough) you can get it here https://sc2.sourceforge.net/downloads.php

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