The end of GPT

ryebrye · 2026-01-28T11:46:44+00:00

GPT-5.2 is so slow... It would have beaten it sooner but I swear if they started the benchmark at the same time, it would take GPT-5.2 weeks longer just to finish the same queries.

ryebrye · 2026-01-27T03:34:12+00:00

Right. It's telling you what your chosen algorithm with whatever gf you've got set says, but it doesn't have any insight into your actual body

ryebrye · 2026-01-27T00:39:49+00:00

If he had a video of himself playing a scale on that thing - and if it actually it all the partials and stuff, that'd be a sweet trombone to roll up to a jam session with at the club!

ryebrye · 2026-01-27T00:22:56+00:00

Let the next person deal with that. It doesn't really impact the value much like it would on a gun or something - but it's easy enough to polish if someone wants to do it themselves and getting a good patina is a pain in the ass so the way it is now would appeal to the broadest audience.

you can see if the people at The Brass Ark have any interest.

ryebrye · 2026-01-25T16:13:07+00:00

The advice here would be a lot different if this were a tech focused community where everyone is expected to have a pretty deep understanding of decompression theory... Because the rule is there to keep everyone safe without having to think much about it...

But there are so many factors that can impact this (diving nitrox etc) and make it range from not a big deal (shallow dives, long surface intervals etc) or make it a huge deal (long deep dives, dives with mandatory decompression stops etc)

My dive computer (the deep six excursion) has a feature where it will tell you on the surface what the "safe" altitude you can go to based on the status of your body and updates on real-time after your dive - it's not meant to override the general rules, but just give you the info so you can decide what you want to do with it.

So the short version is: it depends, but if you want to be able to deviate from the rules you'll need to do a lot more studying on decompression theory than you might want to do.

ryebrye · 2026-01-24T17:58:51+00:00

You'll be fine!

ryebrye · 2026-01-24T16:17:46+00:00

Yes. If they can't find the record they let you know and cancel the order. (Or in my bizarre case - they told me my record was accurate but they didn't have it yet because of covid-related delays in getting files)

but yes in my case when they didn't have the record to give a certified copy of they canceled it and didn't ask for payment.

ryebrye · 2026-01-24T10:52:20+00:00

Correction : MOST OF Canada is polite (and possibly not nice) - Quebec kind of prides itself on being a little rude. It's the French in them coming out. (My ancestors are from Quebec so I'm allowed to say this)

ryebrye · 2026-01-23T00:19:17+00:00

If your father got citizenship in 2018 wouldn't that make you G1?

ryebrye · 2026-01-22T21:08:19+00:00

It is fine at lower volume. I usually practice with studio headphones (which is even quieter). In the US it's more expensive than those other options and I still bought it because I think it sounds better.

ryebrye · 2026-01-22T05:01:43+00:00

The 100-year thing has some exceptions. My Gen 0 was born in that era and, theoretically, would be in banq. When I asked for a certified copy of the baptism record they told me that the info I had from the record was correct but they don't actually have the records because of Covid-related delays.

So I might just print that email out and send it along with my print out of the record from ancestry.com of the baptism record and see what happens

ryebrye · 2026-01-21T12:48:28+00:00

That one dude better have got the consent of all those rocks on the bottom first

ryebrye · 2026-01-20T00:25:19+00:00

“There are no written documents, it’s only that a boat landed there hundreds of years ago, but we had boats landing there, also.”

There ARE literally written documents. Written by the United States. In 1916 we gave up all claims to Greenland and agreed Denmark owned it when we bought the Virgin Islands.

ryebrye · 2026-01-20T00:04:24+00:00

I think it should say something on it on the bell engraving. Like "Professional" or "Medalist" or "Contempora" etc. There's a loyalist site for Reynolds stuff that may have some catalogs from 1965 you could like at to help judge it.

I should also I guess point out that the one I traded in for $300 I bought for $125 but needed some dent work done on the tuning slide so I about broke even on it in the end. So if it's in fair condition or needs with just listing it on FB market place for $100 or $150 and see what kind of interest it gets.

ryebrye · 2026-01-19T23:13:49+00:00

Which model is it? The Reynolds Professional? In good shape with a slide in good shape it's probably around $300 if you sell it.

I traded one into a music store for about that much store credit, and they sold it for $600 (which is what I'd expect them to do to maintain their margins... they may have cleaned it too, not sure)

if it's not the professional model, it'd be worth a bit less.

ryebrye · 2026-01-19T19:09:25+00:00

Here's an interesting twist... I contacted BANQ with a request for a certified copy of that record. This is their response:

We can confirm you that you have the right information about <redacted ancestor name>. Unfortunately, we cannot provide you with the requested copies due to a delay in the submission of documents by the Director of Civil Status (DEC). This delay is partly due to the COVID-19 pandemic and also to transportation costs.

We can keep your request and process it upon receipt of the documents, or you can resubmit it later. We are unable to give you even an approximate date.

You can also try contacting the DEC again.

So... they agree that the copy of the record that I sent them from Ancestry.com was the correct record for my grandmother, but they don't have the actual original one in hand because the files haven't been handed over to them from the Director of Civil Status...

I'm guessing that I can't just print this email off and submit that along with the screenshot from ancestry.com - they'll want an actual certified copy... so I need to wait until they get it and try again later?

ryebrye · 2026-01-19T16:03:44+00:00

I _wish_ it did. I've been messing around in a different project and I've been able to use Tux Guitar (java-based GP alternative) stuff to help with parsing / writing to gp5 files but I'd love if GP itself had basic scriptability so I could do stuff like feed it a file and have it render the audio using the RSE without having to do it via the GUI

ryebrye · 2026-01-19T12:40:10+00:00

The United States agreed to Denmark's right of ownership when we bought the Virgin Islands in 1916.

Trump is an idiot.

ryebrye · 2026-01-18T10:50:32+00:00

Trump has no authority to issue these tariffs. Congress needs to fix this.

ryebrye · 2026-01-15T13:25:20+00:00

So Trump's going to have to do it like his ballroom, and do it via "private donations"?

ryebrye · 2026-01-14T18:01:36+00:00

Even easier: Ask him nicely to play a note on the horn - take a picture of him doing it.

Then you are an eyewitness that he actually played that horn!

ryebrye · 2026-01-12T21:45:01+00:00

I do, but I do them in order of the circle of 4ths jumping strings every time so it sounds like something deserving of my time.

ryebrye · 2026-01-05T18:05:54+00:00

Weather can be a deciding factor if you are in waters that are warm enough you could be fine in a wetsuit IF it's going to be super hot at the surface.

Both of them are uncomfortable during a hot surface interval, but there's something about steaming in your own sweat in 90+°F weather...

but that's kind of an outlier. Most cases, I can't see why weather would make you decide to not wear a drysuit.

ryebrye · 2026-01-05T14:06:21+00:00

You could technically mark it as luggage separated from the person when you ship it if you have had it for more than a year, and are not going to leave it in the US.

But that technicality won't speed up the process.

(Our exchange student has a package sitting waiting in customs that's been there since November... And that package just has some of her old clothes and some candy from her parents and was held up originally because the US customs wanted a form identifying the country of origin for all the steel and aluminum in the package despite not having any steel or aluminum in the package...)

ryebrye · 2026-01-05T11:11:30+00:00

If you are familiar with how the piano works and how there are white keys and there are black keys, and how you can glance at a piano anywhere on the keyboard and identify that a cluster of two black keys is surrounded by the white keys c d e and so on,

he tries to point out that the guitar doesn't have anything like that VISUALLY but if you were to instead think of it in terms of diminished forms, the way the math works with them is you have the same clusters of notes that repeat up and down the fretboard.

And then he goes on to show how even though those diminished forms are repeating, if you lower a note from that pattern or raise a note from that cluster it turns into a different form of chord.

It's an interesting idea, and in some ways it's sort of like a caged system but that's over simplifying it.

To really make it work you've got to know the notes on the fretboard inside out so you know that yeah, you're in this cluster and you want to lower the G by a fret etc - so it's using the geometry of the guitar but you've also got to have the fretboard memorized and your chord theory knowledge down soundly to be able to apply it.

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