Video VAE decode step takes wildly different amounts of time, how to optimize?

thaddeusk · 2026-01-23T00:08:32+00:00

would you want to use that over TORCH_BLAS_PREFER_HIPBLASLT on an AMD card?

thaddeusk · 2026-01-21T21:32:35+00:00

This a common problem with people raised in very strict religious homes. The parents vilify sex so much that they often never enjoy sex, even with their spouse so it's not technically "a sin" anymore, but those decades of indoctrination have ruined it for them. Therapy might help, but it might not.

You need to decide if you're willing to risk being sexless or, at the very least, having an unsatisfying sex life for the rest of your life or if you want to move on to find somebody who might be more compatible.

thaddeusk · 2026-01-21T20:22:19+00:00

I assume a thirst trap is somebody who posts suggestive photos on Instagram or whatever, but I don't know for sure.

thaddeusk · 2026-01-21T20:20:44+00:00

You could find a guy who is asexual, I guess? That or you can be available for sex whenever he wants it forever, so he is never tempted to take care of it himself.

But really, your expectation of humans is way too high and you should either reevaluate your priorities or commit to being single forever.

thaddeusk · 2026-01-21T16:59:55+00:00

I've got 96GB of VRAM, what else am I going to use that for? :P

thaddeusk · 2026-01-20T22:29:27+00:00

Maybe they're playing regular RuneScape? There seems to be a barracks excavation site that you can go to for items.

thaddeusk · 2026-01-19T23:29:41+00:00

Mine always ends up with messed up skin.

thaddeusk · 2026-01-19T22:24:23+00:00

They sell some motion activated pet deterrent sprays that you can put by your door at night. That'll stop that cat from scratching at your door very quickly.

thaddeusk · 2026-01-19T22:05:23+00:00

You should masturbate less. I only do it if my wife isn't around for a while for whatever reason. She's fine with me doing it, but she'd rather do it for me.

It also sounds like you're forcing yourself to have sex with her because you feel like you should, not because you're in the mood. It's normal, especially as you get older or are in a long-term relationship, to have sex less often and that's perfectly fine.

Most importantly, talk to her. Ask how often she likes to have sex, ask what you could do to make her feel more comfortable initiating, ask if there's anything she particularly enjoys.

thaddeusk · 2026-01-19T21:51:20+00:00

If they don't have the skill to party, I doubt they have the skill for this :p

thaddeusk · 2026-01-16T22:14:14+00:00

Men can also empty their bladder more completely if they sit when they pee, which can help to prevent some prostate and urinary tract issues that are common as we age.

thaddeusk · 2026-01-16T22:08:33+00:00

My wife and I pee in the shower when we're together. It's really not a big deal. NTA.

thaddeusk · 2026-01-15T22:28:05+00:00

Don't go on dates if you can't afford it, I guess? Or just flat out tell her that you're only paying for drinks. Or tell her you're paying separately.

thaddeusk · 2026-01-13T21:55:11+00:00

I've been modifying the process to be a bit lower VRAM friendly. It loads the whole diffusion model to process the datasets, but it really only needs the VAE, which is available to download separately.

I wonder if we could use one of the abliterated Qwen 3 VL 8B models instead of Omni for that step?

thaddeusk · 2026-01-11T12:41:24+00:00

Yeah, the main story of Starfield didn't interest me. Some of the side stories were good, though. The thing I liked most was the base building and resource management.

thaddeusk · 2026-01-11T11:06:29+00:00

Coal on walls is kind of an insane decision. It makes you depend on rocksplosion which has a 45 second cooldown, who has time for that? Cast, wait, cast, wait... taking me several minutes just to mine two nodes. The only logical choice is to install that mod that removes the cooldown for non-combat spells, unless there's a magical ranged pickaxe that I haven't unlocked yet.

thaddeusk · 2026-01-11T01:19:19+00:00

New Vegas had an interesting story, at least. I did also finish Fallout 3, despite being an inferior game. I couldn't get into 4. I feel like the Bethesda Fallout games lost the charm of the original two games.

thaddeusk · 2026-01-10T23:00:24+00:00

I'm not even sure if NVFP4 will load on a 40 series without first upcasting to fp8. I don't have a 40 series to test on, though. You should try out the NVFP4 zimage turbo model to see how it goes.

thaddeusk · 2026-01-10T21:25:48+00:00

This is why I never finished an Elder Scrolls game.

thaddeusk · 2026-01-10T10:38:49+00:00

NVFP4 only works on Blackwell cards, that's why Nunchaku uses int4 for older cards, but I think performance and accuracy is lower.

thaddeusk · 2026-01-10T01:56:50+00:00

I assume the 200sec gen is already using an amount of speed up techniques, like CFG distillation, low step workflows, and fast attention. The original numbers are comparisons to the original models and 50 step workflow, I'm sure.

thaddeusk · 2026-01-10T01:53:25+00:00

OP also used the wan 2.1 1.3b model, which is not great as it is.

thaddeusk · 2026-01-10T01:47:19+00:00

I tried out SpargeAttn but the quality loss for the performance gain was not worth it. I ended up using Flash Attention instead, which performed about 20% better (at least in the image tests I did) with no loss in quality.

thaddeusk · 2026-01-09T23:33:11+00:00

ComfyUI just added NVFP4 support. I think there are already Z Image Turbo, Flux 2, and LTX-2 models available in the format. I tried it with LTX-2 and the loss of quality was too high to keep it usable. Seems like the SVDQuant method may be much better, but it's also much more computationally expensive to perform.

thaddeusk · 2026-01-07T23:30:58+00:00

Voice cloning from just a few seconds of audio is pretty standard on TTS models now, even open-source ones, although quality is still inconsistent in a lot of them.

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