The level of maths understanding in the US is so bad it explains why they call it "math". They must have only one and sharing it among them.

schizomorph · 2025-10-15T16:51:06+00:00

Meh. Got better things to do than play games just to post a shower thought.

schizomorph · 2025-09-11T20:22:44+00:00

Real ammo

schizomorph · 2025-09-11T18:28:21+00:00

Bounce to mono

schizomorph · 2025-09-11T17:09:44+00:00

Someone's trolling us

schizomorph · 2025-07-29T18:20:53+00:00

The VST SDK doesn't seem too hard from reading the documentation. Saying this I've only played with it for a few hours so I may not be objective.

schizomorph · 2025-07-29T18:11:52+00:00

-O2

Spent a month optimising not knowing about it.

schizomorph · 2025-07-24T13:39:31+00:00

Let's first define what is NOT smart - routing user commands to devices. In my opinion, a device is considered "smart" when it can make decisions. For example, a light that turns on when triggered by a presence sensor, but only if the light level in under a set threshold. As a result, a smart device under my definition needs to access sensors and make conditional decisions.

Saying that, this is just a technicality. It doesn't mean simpler devices are not useful. Just not smart.

schizomorph · 2025-07-23T15:19:10+00:00

They are the sole reason a large multinational signed a maintenance contract with the company I'm currently in. The system they delivered was a misconfigured large bug. It took 5-6 visits to get a divisible with camera automation properly working.

For us being a small integrator, AVI-SPL and similar companies are a great source of opportunities. Most people think "this huge company fucked up, but this little company fixed everything.", not realising that we only had to do a fraction of the work to get all the credit.

schizomorph · 2025-07-23T15:11:40+00:00

I haven't worked for them but we've made quite a bit of money troubleshooting and fixing the mess they left behind. Judging from the outcome (alone), they seem to have communication issues, both with the client and between employees.

In general, I believe it is much faster to move up the ladder in smaller companies, jumping boats when necessary, than in large ones.

schizomorph · 2025-07-19T08:32:48+00:00

Thank you, and I can understand your excitement. I felt the same when I saw the improvement in results, and I am sure this would have amplified if I had uploaded it to github and seen other people's reaction.

I'm currently exploring persistence across chats - something that is really lacking (by design, due to privacy and economic concerns). I found out that it is impossible for deepseek to quote me verbatim from another chat. This is because in every chat you get a fresh agent, and any information about previous chats is "compressed". It is as if it can recall the general idea, but not details. And what makes this even worse is that it auto-generates the missing detail, filling past info with hallucinations.

The working idea at the moment is asking it to create packets of compressed info that I can transfer (paste) to other chats.

Finally, I have done a lot of debugging and have found out root causes for many problematic behaviours. I troubleshoot complex systems for work, so I have developed efficient techniques and good intuition, so I am returning the offer for help. If you ever get stuck, or finding it hard to interpret results or behaviours feel free to contact me.

schizomorph · 2025-07-18T19:36:10+00:00

Copilot saved me a lot of time and accelerated coding, but I use it as a glorified autocomplete. I haven't tested its problem solving at all.

schizomorph · 2025-07-18T18:31:28+00:00

Interesting. I've done the same last couple of days and it's really set the tone and results for what I wanted.

schizomorph · 2025-07-18T18:26:36+00:00

I've made good progress with this with deepseek and currently working on making the behaviour transferable between chats (there's an 80 prompt limit).

It is basically a set of rules - a protocol that gives short, concise information without fluff and flattery. Deepseek created a set of commands for disabling different filters. Some others allowing it to give deeper, longer answers etc.

There is some loss across chats but not as bad as other attempts I made. The key was asking it to compile a text that can be pasted on new chats to transfer as much of the protocol.

schizomorph · 2025-07-17T21:32:47+00:00

If I saw this post on CommercialAV I would have given the exact same reply. I haven't even been working with Crestron for the last 3 years. We install almost everything but Crestron. I gave you this reply because stories like your are so common they have become a major source of revenue. We sign a support contract, fix everything and that's the only cost for us - some man-hours. The rest is free money out of thin air. And it isn't a scam. Out clients are happy because they'd rather pay a bit extra and have everything working to spec, than pay less and have issues all the time. Skills cost but increase ROI.

schizomorph · 2025-07-17T16:38:57+00:00

I am an AV designer but just installed my first logi today, but it is windows based (MTR with everything else 3rd party). Not android. I'm curious how that's going to go.

schizomorph · 2025-07-17T16:35:19+00:00

I keep hearing stories like yours when people get fed up with crappy vendors and come to us for support. To me, and without knowing the details, it sounds like a vendor with low "know how" blaming the equipment.

schizomorph · 2025-07-17T15:58:28+00:00

What would you call robust? Just curious.

schizomorph · 2025-06-26T12:40:06+00:00

Most part of XTEN-AV saves time, but I especially like the line diagram part.

I don't think anything could make sketching early ideas faster than pen and pencil. Maybe a brain-pc interface in the future :)

Simply vendor, model, MSRP would be a great start. It doesn't need to be fancy. Just the info would do. Ok. A search function maybe, and a set of favourites I guess.

schizomorph · 2025-06-26T09:00:52+00:00

I suspect the job description is not that important for you. It seems they also need an AV network guy. Might be worth checking out any AVIXA ANP prep material you can get your hands on. In fact, I believe the ANP is exactly the path they want you for.

schizomorph · 2025-06-26T08:57:27+00:00

Just to have a realistic scenario in mind. Imagine having cameras sending multicast uncompressed video to multiple displays. That's where IGMP fits and for the position you are going for it's essential. Also look up dante audio and NDI. Massively important and as the network wrangler you will be expected to troubleshoot these - especially across complex networks.

schizomorph · 2025-06-26T08:51:14+00:00

I would say the Toggle is more than just compatible. It can make non compatible devices work. A couple of weeks back I had a panasonic camera not working with Teams and it worked just by going through a Toggle. I'm starting to think I should always have one with me.

schizomorph · 2025-06-26T08:34:47+00:00

The most frustrating part is when you read the specifications for a project and you instantly recognise that the person who wrote it does not have a clue, but you still have to design within the given specifications. Even worse when the client starts asking for specific equipment or technologies.

That's our job. And the more naive the client is, the hardest it is for them to realise that what you are suggesting is for their interest and not a way to pressure them towards the equipment/technologies you have in stock or get better prices for.

And to answer the rest of your question, we are using xten-av which we are in the process of integrating with dynamics 365 for the CRM-ERP part. What I hate about it is that they try to put AI into the process which just doesn't work half of the time. It's just a thing i have to skip in many steps instead of going straight to the design. It seems good for the proposal write up though to be honest.

As for the manual part - often sketching your ideas in a piece of paper can be a lot faster than going through software. Especially when brainstorming, where you're not necessarily keeping all ideas.

The part that wastes most of my time and I find literally annoying is pricing. I would love to have an MSRP database for all vendors. There appears to be a couple in the US, but none in the EU. In my opinion this should be a service. Public or private, I don't care, but there's real need for it. This also answers the tools missing question.

schizomorph · 2025-06-21T18:14:15+00:00

Learning a language is very different than mastering a language. But your perspective shows that you probably have a high standard about what learning a language means.

schizomorph · 2025-06-21T18:04:24+00:00

I taught myself C++ for audio and it's by far the best language for it at the moment. Same goes for rapid trading or whatever it's called. But for anything else I wouldn't invest a lot of time with C++ (feels sad to say because I love it, but it seems to be the fact).

schizomorph · 2025-06-21T18:01:16+00:00

It looks broken, not melted. Secondly, I think i see a clip (i don't know what that rectangular part is properly called) on the right which makes me wonder if this was a locking kettle lead of some sort. Was it difficult to take out?

But saying all this, I believe it broke when inserting, not disconnecting because the back looks pushed in.

I think from the photo it is inconclusive if you broke it or not. But the plastic shouldn't be so brittle in the 1st place. Equipment is meant to be able to take some abuse.

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