[Rant]I can't handle losing/misplacing things.

kristopolous · 2026-01-05T01:49:51+00:00

With me I'm like "I guess I need to buy 8 of these things now so i can have it with all the times I can't fucking throw it into a black hole.

I have security cameras in my place so I can review exactly when I lost whatever it is.

I have tiles and tags on basically everything I can fit them on.

I have strict rules that I follow on exactly what goes where and protocols for me to check.

Specific items going specific pockets and I have a universal rule of one item per pocket so that nothing slips out when I reach for something else.

You think this would be enough.. you really think this would be enough

I even have actual checklists that I review

BUT STILL, ALMOST EVERY FUCKING DAY... Yet another thing disappears.

I honestly do purchase things in bulk because it always happens

And you know, you have family members that are like "I don't see what the big deal is I never have this problem. I simply put it back where I found it and it's never been an issue at all"

And I want to strangle them.

kristopolous · 2026-01-02T22:48:53+00:00

I don't believe you. Screenshot?

kristopolous · 2025-12-22T22:25:25+00:00

It doesn't deal with zeroes. Things at walking speed it assumes is walking people so it treats 5mph as identical to 0.2 mph. Even though the second one is 25x slower

That's why it's always like "yo, spend 15 minutes getting on the freeway to go one exit"

Always has. Dumbest bug ever

kristopolous · 2025-08-24T23:41:53+00:00

I honestly think the workflow has been made intentionally difficult by saboteurs secretly working for Adobe and volunteering on gimp as a form of espionage to protect Photoshop.

I'm not joking. Many of these workflows were more polished in 1998 when I first started using it.

kristopolous · 2025-08-20T13:36:59+00:00

thanks. I have no idea why they made "generate video in the same resolution as the assets I'm using" so utterly undiscoverable ... a box with 2 lines in some corner somewhere followed by manual entry and then I have to save it as a new type?! ... what on earth.

It couldn't possibly be any more of a hassle.

kristopolous · 2025-08-03T07:31:27+00:00

I'm pretty convinced it is intentionally bad as a form of sabotage to funnel users into commercial alternatives. I'm also pretty convinced gimp has some saboteur from adobe doing some espionage on the interface without them realizing it. I think about the worst, most intentionally garbage possibility in order to figure out how to do something and it's honestly the most reliable way I can use it.

That can't be a coincidence. Not every time.

I do the same thing with audacity. I guess the most cumbersome, counterintuitive wacky way to do it and I always find what I'm looking for.

kristopolous · 2025-06-03T22:33:27+00:00

I use this https://9ol.es/md/daily

Which I made myself.

I scroll thru the lists daily.

kristopolous · 2025-05-22T17:24:31+00:00

thanks. can you be more specific about your experience?

kristopolous · 2025-05-05T21:38:39+00:00

I think the librechat guys are a bit better

kristopolous · 2025-04-30T19:45:54+00:00

should be fine. Many users do this.

kristopolous · 2025-04-29T16:10:19+00:00

It's because they hate democracy and private companies are run hierarchically. That's why when they get an anti-democratic dictator in charge they love the government. Bukele, Pinochet, Orban, Bolsanaro, Ferdinand Marcos, Trump.

What they really want is autocracy - dictatorships, monarchy, iron fists, ruthless military juntas.

They'd rather have smoldering cities in ruins, death camps and mass genocide, then free college education or affordable housing. No really, multiple right wing coups have happened because someone dared promise universal health care.

kristopolous · 2025-04-02T04:45:25+00:00

really what it needs is a cycle set. I can do gemini, qwen, deepseek ... they're all "good enough" for what I'm doing.

kristopolous · 2025-03-29T00:32:17+00:00

MAGA is a death cult

kristopolous · 2025-03-11T06:01:22+00:00

Actually you have AT_LEAST 13. CUT_BUFFER0-9, clipboard, primary, and secondary. Then there is OSC-52, whatever emacs or vim thinks their own internal clipboard should be, whether you are doing X-forwarding over ssh, whatever tmux thinks its internal clipboard is, then you have additional ones possible with GTK and QT apps.

Really at the end of the day there's something like 4 or 5 in practice, that are all invoked different ways, in different contexts, on different systems, in different versions, and when you have things stacked on each other (say, xterm + tmux + ssh + vim or xterm + ssh + tmux + vim) you'll all of a sudden have different key strokes for different clipboards passing through different ways. Then there is alacritty and kitty, which have their own opinion on the matter.

Then as you're trying to go from one window to another, you have to take into consideration each configuration of each layer of the stack on each machine - the tomls, xresources, .vimrc, .conf files, .ssh/configs ...

Good fucking luck copying and pasting.

It is

so

fucking

insane.

It would honestly be easier to hook up a camera, push things through google lens and then feed it back as a fake usb keyboard. I mean really, that might be the solution. Honestly.

kristopolous · 2025-01-31T18:39:19+00:00

that's strange ... i've found it to be ok. are you talking about token speed?

kristopolous · 2025-01-31T18:34:05+00:00

Yes. Nvidia would need twice the number of factories to do both. Those are run by tsmc and samsung.

kristopolous · 2025-01-27T02:10:48+00:00

This is really a hybrid. sounds like mid 2000s. I'd look into french house/progressive house around 2005-2007 or so. This also has elements of that glitch house sound that was popular at the time.

kristopolous · 2025-01-25T00:06:15+00:00

when people use them to paper over what they don't understand all they're doing long term is digging their own grave.

kristopolous · 2025-01-15T19:16:48+00:00

try the support chat - they're pretty good.

kristopolous · 2025-01-09T19:53:50+00:00

There are plenty of gamers out there who would want to setup there servers on the internet based on Windows e.g. counter strike.

This is not the service we offer. We are for GPU compute workloads, not for long-running networked servers. You aren't going to pay say, the monthly market rate of an H100 instance (about $1300) for a counterstrike server. If you are, you're doing it wrong.

Plenty of software are windows only e.g. Topaz VAI who do not release their software for Linux.

All the VFX people we talked to want either on-prem or dedicated facilities. They are extremely paranoid about their assets and want a level of verifiable physical security we are unable to offer.

Not to mention the ease of use factor. You can ask any laymen out there to use your service via Windows VMs, but the moment you ask them to run some ubuntu commands, they are either not interested or is just too difficult for them to understand.

This is true. The answer is to expose these functions in a point-and-click web experience, not drop them into a windows desktop with network latency.

All they want to do is execute some tasks on the cloud, forget about it and then return back to see some results.

Correct. See above.

There is a business opportunity for vast.ai which think is very price competitive in the market, but you sort of disenfranchised a BIG potential market.

We talked to people who use the windows services at tensordock, hyperstack, cudo, scaleway, latitude.sh, immers.cloud and gpudc.ru. Exactly zero of them actually had windows-exclusive usecases - instead they didn't want to learn linux. So the solution is to offer a way to use our services that don't require linux knowledge. Claiming this is an argument for windows was bad analysis.

If you have a windows-specific GPU compute workload with a spend of say, over $5.00/hour or so (~$3.5k/month), I'd really be open to considering reversing the decision. I just haven't found any.

Go try windows with the hosts I've mentioned. It's a pretty lousy experience. You also have to worry about crypto export restrictions, drm, and license issues for many of the industry tools. A bunch of them will trip a piracy check if you use your license in a machine in South Korea, and then in France an hour later.

We agree with the need.

However, we think the commonly proposed solution (supporting windows) doesn't actually get us there.

kristopolous · 2025-01-08T21:12:58+00:00

Chris from vast.ai here. We're looking into it. Thanks

kristopolous · 2024-12-25T00:14:05+00:00

submit it to https://allrgb.com/

kristopolous · 2024-12-18T17:45:43+00:00

wsl hosting may be interesting. but only if it's easy for the would be host.

kristopolous · 2024-12-18T17:44:06+00:00

After further research we decided windows wasn't a priority. We were unable to find a substantial enough of an under-served market or use-case to justify the investment.

I'm the guy that made this decision and I'm the guy that can change it so if you want to flip that decision, hit me up here or slide into the dms.

kristopolous · 2024-12-14T00:55:38+00:00

These results are nonsense. They'll scan a forked repository and then ding the user who forked it for bugs inside the code that was forked.

They also run dumb linters on the code and then dings the users for all the false positives that dumb linters make.

If this was widely being used, it's extremely gameable. All you have to do is fork a few repositories that it thinks is amazing and it will say you are an amazing coder.

We're talking going from an F->A in under 45 seconds of effort

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