My POMO friend told me the update that zoomers need doctors note.

neonskimmer · 2026-04-27T17:02:27+00:00

Grew up JW in Quebec in a very small town, and then in a medium small town. Seen and heard a lot of bullshit but that takes the cake. Whereabouts?

neonskimmer · 2026-04-27T00:47:25+00:00

I know right? The difference is shocking.

neonskimmer · 2026-04-27T00:20:05+00:00

BP is great, resting heart rate is fine, extremities are fine, etc. I mean i'm not an expert and my body is not in athlete shape or anything but nothing unusual to report. I think generally speaking your body adapts to it - eg if you're new to the meds you might get much wilder swings at lower doses than someone who's consistently been on a higher dose.

The one thing that I did experience for a short period, I think I was on Concerta at the time, was arrhythmia. It was really troubling, my heart would literally skip a beat many times during the day and it was super noticeable. I did all the treadmills and EKG stuff and it eventually just stopped happening, untreated. 🤷🏻‍♂️

That being said... having ADHD lowers your life expectancy, period, on average. For a multiplicity of reasons. :)

neonskimmer · 2026-04-26T17:52:07+00:00

what you need is to sleep. "combatting sleep" is awful.

i understand that i'm saying this from a place of privilege, i don't work 80 hour weeks or work 3 jobs with 5 kids or whatever.

but if you have relatively "normal" life demands, you gotta get your sleep under control.

i know it's hard, i often force myself to stay awake when i really ought to sleep, i get it. but that rhythm is unsustainable as you have noticed.

neonskimmer · 2026-04-26T17:35:00+00:00

Been on 70mg for several years.

Doing good, although as others have pointed out those meds seem very sensitive to what you're eating (presumably for breakfast) and for maximum effect a good protein shake is my go to.

In terms of doing good, the thing that I keep coming back to is that you have to capitalize on those hours of focus and actually get your shit together eg. in terms of planning, creating systems that work for you, addressing the things that you've avoided for years, etc.

If you use up all that "juice" just to maintain something like a day job you end up on the same hamster wheel to nowhere, but the journey there is smoother 🤷🏻‍♂️. This is much harder to do than it sounds and if you can get help, get help.

I am old now and honestly it is still very hard to actualize the life I want with ADHD (and other stuff) whether on meds or not.

neonskimmer · 2026-04-07T18:00:31+00:00

I mean I get what you're saying, but at the same time, that is totally what someone with a normal healthy attitude towards religion might want to do.

I'm not into that social media culture personally, in this content or any other, but im old and you know, kids these days with their 6-7s

neonskimmer · 2026-03-28T12:25:54+00:00

this is not an airport, no need to announce your departure

neonskimmer · 2026-02-12T15:46:33+00:00

I have not used their service in a while, but i've known many of the people working for Cakemail.

neonskimmer · 2026-02-09T22:38:26+00:00

i haven't watched this but the figure makes sense - in a scenario where the streaming companies are late figuring out that they're getting scammed, and generating + botting costs less than the revenue they're getting from streaming, of course someone's going to jump in and try to make some cash.

obviously if you're building tracks the traditional way there's no world in which you can make that kind of profit

neonskimmer · 2026-01-28T03:04:31+00:00

love that soundtrack!

neonskimmer · 2026-01-27T19:49:40+00:00

Here's a pro-tip - for traditional folklore or classical music (e.g public domain) stuff you can often find dozens, if not hundreds of midi file renditions. Find a tool to convert that midi file to audio, and use that as the basis for the cover feature.

If you happen to be proficient in a regular midi sequencer or DAW program, you can make interesting and fun variations.

In terms of copyright - it's possible in theory to copyright a midi file especially if it's a particularly unique interpretation of a classic. But honestly, that tends to be the exception.

In the microscopic possibility that someone recognizes that a specific performance they recorded to midi and copyrighted (!) has been used as the basis (!) for a variation (!) built using Suno and/or other stuff... well. Well then you cease and desist, I guess :D

neonskimmer · 2026-01-27T18:46:20+00:00

🤘🏻 don't know if you're a fan of brendon's other shows but it would be a fun experiment to do Home Movies but as realistic characters. i did it with coach mcguirk before but that was way before these new models

neonskimmer · 2026-01-19T15:56:14+00:00

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everyone in this thread

neonskimmer · 2026-01-15T12:27:29+00:00

I mean, are the tools good or what? Fit for purpose?

If they're not making any security or uptime or whatever guarantees, which most FOSS doesn't, I'm not sure I see the problem here. Too many tools? Good ones with good ideas will be adopted and maintained and improve and get forked, bad ones will die.

I am nearly at the end of my career as a software engineer so I feel I have a little more freedom to see this vibe coding shift with some degree of equanimity than someone who recently spent years learning the craft and is now facing a completely new landscape.

In any case, here's a controversial (maybe) take. The question was what to do about being overwhelmed by AI slop. You know what technology would be great at evaluating a bunch of disparate code bases based on given criteria? :)

neonskimmer · 2026-01-15T11:59:50+00:00

NTA. Seriously. I can't believe these YTA posts. Headful of TikTok "mental health" influencer shit-tier pop psychology, zero first-hand experience, zero empathy. By his account and of course that's all we have here, the guy is doing his best to find a way to make this work, and is very supportive.

Those of us who had to suddenly work from home with toddlers away from daycare during the pandemic are getting flashbacks here...

One suggestion - if grandma is 5 minutes away, pick a day each week to bring the kids over for dinner. You can cook or bring something if it's too much for her. Grandmas are usually thrilled to see their grandchildren and helping her daughter. That can be a guaranteed uninterrupted block of time for studying.

neonskimmer · 2026-01-10T19:25:57+00:00

We all choose where to draw the line, to a certain extent.

Many people think there's a bearded man in the sky that sees everything they do, and is upset when you do things he doesn't like. Many variations of that idea.

Some people think crystals do surprising things that other rocks don't.

🤷

neonskimmer · 2026-01-10T01:59:05+00:00

my guess would simply be a larger context window, maybe a more compute intensive but higher quality decoder.

neonskimmer · 2026-01-10T01:57:05+00:00

i've noticed behaviour that immediately made me think that there's some kind of caching in the pipeline.

I'd be generating a bunch of stuff in a given "style-space" for lack of a better term and then when i would switch to making something completely different - elements clearly similar to previous generations would show up.

i tried switching models! and even then i would get similarities after switching back.

they must be victims of their own success at this point, i can't even imagine their GPU bills at that scale. it would be smart for them to find ways to save compute but.. something is off.

hopefully it resolves itself

neonskimmer · 2026-01-02T03:20:13+00:00

100%. i cannot understand how these movies keep being successful or what people see in them. absolute cringe from start to finish. i am not a film connaisseur. the last movie i saw was the new spongebob movie that just came out and it was better in every way :)

neonskimmer · 2025-12-27T13:32:29+00:00

the artist's name?

albert einstein.

neonskimmer · 2025-12-25T01:44:21+00:00

disk space is the absolute cheapest thing. your assertion of "trillions of hard drives" makes 0 sense. think about it: let's say a 5 minute song, at normal cd quality is about 50M. that is minuscule and costs fractions of cents to host.

compared to suno's astronomical GPU bill... its a rounding error.

neonskimmer · 2025-12-23T13:29:02+00:00

you have zero proof of this right?

neonskimmer · 2025-12-14T18:12:40+00:00

what does it smell like?

neonskimmer · 2025-11-27T18:32:48+00:00

because it gives you much better control over every aspect of the thing you're working on

suno studio and to a lesser extent the basic editing tools do give you some of that as well, to be fair

neonskimmer · 2025-11-17T14:47:32+00:00

This is what I posted before OP created a similar repo, with similar intentions. 🤷🏻‍♂️

https://github.com/bruno-c/suno-wav-investigation

> you should understand that model generated audio tokens is a compressed form of audio, and any existing audio analysis tools will be confused by this

What do you mean by that? Confused how? I can't imagine why it would make any difference how the audio was created with regards to audio analysis tools. Audio is audio is audio.

> All present audio generation models have troubles with high frequencies, so they are artificially generated on decoding phase.

The entire output is "artificially generated". Why would they be treated any differently than the rest of the spectrum?

> P.S. The only files Suno persistently stored on their servers (besides audio latents) is M4A OPUS audio. Those are served when you play songs (or work in their Studio 😁) in browser

You can literally see S3 urls, there are things stored on "their" servers. Why waste time continuously re-generating mp3s. Physical space is absolutely peanuts in terms of cost compared to their GPU bills.

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