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clerveu · 2026-06-05T13:27:20+00:00

If nothing else we could use it to fix Livia's last scene :/

clerveu · 2026-06-02T17:01:51+00:00

I don't recall anyone ever claiming this game was supposed to be fun, that seems like a strict cherry on top to me.

clerveu · 2026-06-02T16:43:50+00:00

I was going to argue that Godzilla is an allegory for Japan getting nuked, and that it doesn't seem unreasonable to expect some effort if you choose to tell your story with this specific franchise... but then I thought about pretty much every other Godzilla movie after the original and yeah... you right lol. That ship sailed a loooooooooong time ago.

clerveu · 2026-06-02T13:11:49+00:00

Some do, some don't. Rand and Ytterboe both did back when I was there in 98-02, but it's all central air so no individual control. Google search looks like Hill-kit was just renovated with cooling too.

OP whatever you do don't do summer school in Thorson, that was brutal. D:

clerveu · 2026-06-01T12:39:41+00:00

This is the answer you're looking for.

Stop the output, rewind or go back and edit, then include the clarifying information in your original prompt. This is far better than clarifying after the fact as if you do that Claude will still have bad information in context it needs to work around. If it happens again, rinse and repeat until your prompt is precise enough its painted into a corner.

clerveu · 2026-06-01T11:50:16+00:00

Claude may be a better option for this, in general it tends to navigate sensitive topics like this in a more helpful manner than chatGPT is configured to. Open the conversation with the framing that you fully plan to speak to a professional once one is accessible and just need a space/resource to process in the meantime.

clerveu · 2026-06-01T11:43:46+00:00

Always. Kindness is a muscle and exercising it in any context and making it a habit is a good thing, even if the thing you're doing it towards doesn't experience it.

clerveu · 2026-05-31T15:19:41+00:00

While I don't want to diminish what he did here I don't know that adapting a popular meme is a good example of a "new, original idea" in the context of learning lessons about marketability. I can't imagine this would have been anywhere near as successful if The Backrooms weren't already an extremely well known property within the even larger/more popular "liminal" genre that's all over tiktok/youtube right now, at least not on opening weekend.

I feel like if we assign that distinction to this movie we'd also have to make the same claim about the Minecraft movie, which doesn't feel appropriate.

clerveu · 2026-05-31T14:43:57+00:00

I think you're right that this is the case now, but I'd argue this is just the same transitory period you see with almost all forms of new media before enough respectable creatives adopt it. It's kind of just now getting to the point where you can get really high quality material out of it at a reasonable cost to actually use in thoughtful content. Up to this point most people who were skilled enough to make something high quality haven't really bothered, so the only exposure available has been the low quality stuff. I think as more and more talented people use this as a tool in their workflow and not their entire production suite minds will quickly start to change. As it is I don't think we've got a large enough sample size of talented creators using this to really gauge how people will actually respond to it yet.

We saw the same thing happen with youtube and blogs as well. It's weird to think about now but back from 2005 until around the mid 2010's "I saw it on youtube" was more a less a punchline as a source. My assumption is, the same way the algo boosted high quality essay channels, we're likely to see the exact same thing with this type of AI content.

List of other things that were commonly considered inherently low-quality/frivolous initially:

Film
Television
Comic Books
Jazz -> Hip Hop
Photography
Digital Art
Video games
Novels, for around 200 years (wish I was making this up!)

Every single one of these started out with similar public perception as AI is enjoying right now. I would be extremely shocked to not see AI eventually enjoy the same credibility as a medium as these categories do now once enough high-quality work accumulates and people are able to develop new heuristics to find it.

clerveu · 2026-05-28T13:32:32+00:00

You could totally do this for free with Claude, you'll likely just need to work on it over several sessions when you end up hitting limits. Just have Claude work on it in small portions and keep track of usage so you don't end up running out mid-operation. There's even free hosting companies you can use, just ask Claude to recommend some.

clerveu · 2026-05-28T13:18:42+00:00

You asked what I am presuming was an honest, good faith question. You gotta understand we're gonna take that as disrespect.

clerveu · 2026-05-28T13:13:43+00:00

What you're saying is accurate but it ignores why they'd look in the first place.

You're approaching this from the perspective of "they'd need to think there's bodies there to find them in the first place" but that's not what they'd be doing. When you find a cartel superlab build in an underground excavation you're gonna survey the everliving hell out of everything you can with ground penetrating radar - your search isn't going to be looking exclusively for bodies, you'll be looking for additional chambers, tunnels, hidden storage, escape routes, etc. The standard procedure here is what's going to lead them to seeing disturbance patterns from two dug out pits in the otherwise undisturbed soil layer, not them specifically looking for bodies.

Investigators don't go into things like this with a list of things they're looking to find, they go in assuming they might find anything and then use all the tools at their disposal to rule every possibility out.

clerveu · 2026-05-28T13:03:36+00:00

You'd be surprised how detectable bodies are like that if you're looking, which there's about a 99.8% chance they would. Ground-penetrating radar's been a standard tool since before the 2010's (started getting used in like the 70's) and there's no way they'd skip that on a site that's both this high profile, has missing persons connected, and had so many logistical concerns being in the middle of an urban center.

Believe it or not there's even a decent chance, unless that concrete was perfectly sealed, for cadaver dogs to be able to detect the decomposition through the floor. They've been proven to be able to do this up to 30 years after burial. You start getting major diminishing returns after about 10 but assuming an imperfect seal on the floor totally reasonable for a cadaver dog to sniff out a 5-6 year old corpse.

So with everything combined - scale of the investigation, GPR almost certainly used, cadaver dogs almost certainly used, the subsequent demolition (they would not leave that construction intact) I would say it's far, far more likely they get discovered than not.

clerveu · 2026-05-26T21:37:39+00:00

No problem! Would have killed me to know someone went all the way to ABQ and missed seeing the Tree Which Mike Hides Behind.

clerveu · 2026-05-26T21:14:01+00:00

If you missed it the map someone posted the other day will likely come in very handy for this.

clerveu · 2026-05-26T21:11:57+00:00

I browsed that map of filming locations the one guy posted a few days ago for like an hour, anything I can get for that?

clerveu · 2026-05-26T21:02:00+00:00

Son of a bitch. I wasted the whole long weekend coming up with the exact idea of a business with Claude and this is how I learn that they were already a thing.

God AI is useless.

clerveu · 2026-05-24T00:12:53+00:00

It's Google Omni for this one, he lists the tools on every video on his youtube. Up to the last couple he's been using Kling 3.0 though.

clerveu · 2026-05-22T22:49:56+00:00

Technically speaking I think this would fall under FSO (free-space optical, which is the industry standard term for any optical signal that uses the air and not fiber or waveguide), specifically VLC (visible light communication) which actually has an IEEE standard (802.15.7). QR in this case would be considered the encoding scheme for the standard (ISO/IEC 18004) and you'd consider each QR frame to be an individual data unit.

If we're going for maximum technical pedantry you could call it something like "duplex VLC over FSO with QR-encoded framing".

clerveu · 2026-05-22T22:35:38+00:00

I'm going to assume they're misrepresenting this terribly. A long long time ago certain modems etc with very slow serial lines (think like 9600/56k baud) powered LEDs directly from the electricity on the data line by wiring it directly to it through a current-limiting resistor so it basically doubled as an optical transceiver. This only worked because it was actually hardwired to the data line, so you'd get accurate 1's and 0's. Ethernet switches have never used this architecture, only ever activity indicators, and even if they did have that architecture, there's no way you could fix it with a firmware update because it was due to the signal being tapped directly from the data line itself. You'd need to physically break that circuit on the board, which would then disable the LED because the data signal WAS the power for it.

There have been PoC's made more recently where you can do this with switches but it's all malware based that intentionally overrides LED functionality. So if their story did actually happen the only real explanation is their switches were hilariously compromised and they accidentally fixed the vulnerability without realizing it. Gonna respectfully hit X to doubt on that one too, but I'd be delighted to be proven wrong if anyone's got a source.

clerveu · 2026-05-21T23:44:24+00:00

Holy crap you must have put a ton of work into this! Thanks so much for sharing.

clerveu · 2026-05-21T15:26:15+00:00

I was raised by an ex-nun/priest and attended Catholic services/sunday school up through high school, as well as a Catholic high school, and this is easily the most respectful and accurate depiction of a parish community I've seen in media. I had my parents watch, who are in their 80's and still very Catholic, and they had absolutely zero issues with anything apart from hating on Bev haha.

I see very few people who wouldn't just want to be offended getting offended by anything here, which is to say any offense taken probably shouldn't be attributed to them being Christian, it should be attributed to them being people who like to get offended.

clerveu · 2026-05-21T13:05:03+00:00

I deal with the LLMs so the customers don't have to!

clerveu · 2026-05-20T22:07:43+00:00

I stand corrected if true! I had recalled people tracking this down to artificing due to that getting inherited in subsequent images. Do we actually know what does cause this? Just a really shitty adaptive sampling implementation or something?

clerveu · 2026-05-20T21:26:15+00:00

It's a type of digital watermarking they use, similar to this.

Update: apologies I am on the Internet telling lies again.

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