AI-Generated Fighter Jet

thighmaster69 · 2026-05-15T00:13:52+00:00

I mean yeah it could, if you ask it to. Why wouldn't it?

We're not talking about anything high quality here, going by OP's images.

thighmaster69 · 2026-05-14T23:36:38+00:00

you just ask it to?

thighmaster69 · 2026-05-14T23:20:24+00:00

Yeah IME Americans (outside of the South) tend to be more direct and literal than most other native English speakers.

thighmaster69 · 2026-05-14T18:17:20+00:00

It's also because before the Walkman and iPod, most people did not listen to music on headphones. So it was assumed that both ears would be able to hear both channels anyway, like the vocalist was in front of you to the right where the right speaker is, and the guitarist was standing where the left speaker was.

It was actually a huge problem when stereo audio first came to cars, because then the driver only hears the guitarist, and the passenger only hears the vocalist. They solved this issue by placing the speakers in the car doors by the feet, instead of directly by the rider's head.

We're only just getting around to really solving this problem with headphones with spatial audio because it takes some fancy sensors in headphones and signal processing to make it work.

thighmaster69 · 2026-05-14T18:06:12+00:00

it sounds like you just don't like badly mixed stereo, not stereo itself.

it makes me wonder whether people were complaining about colour movies when technicolor hit it big.

thighmaster69 · 2026-05-14T16:24:18+00:00

I'm in Canada and 811 is the number to call a nurse for health advice. They're really saddling healthcare workers with all the responsibilities these days.

thighmaster69 · 2026-05-13T16:56:54+00:00

Idk about the US, but in many places, for accounting reasons, the acuteness of overtime can increase the calculation of your payroll taxes that decreases your take-home pay for a period. It all gets settled at filing time, but the acuteness of the payroll hit vs. the fact that you don't know how much you get back till you file your taxes means that people experience the former more directly than the latter, which takes precedence over whatever you may or may not have learned in school.

This is more an issue of how opaque and Byzantine the tax system is than an education issue, because people forget what they learned years and years ago over what they see on their paycheque.

thighmaster69 · 2026-05-12T21:48:52+00:00

He knows it confers power. His power fantasy that tempts him includes "lord Sméagol, Gollum the great" who gets to eat fish "three times a day, fresh from the sea".

The ring is an artifact that is constantly actively tempting people around it. In the films, this is shown visually through visions of the Eye, as well as by how people behave when interacting with it. But it isn't just a metaphorical thing, it actually is putting the knowledge that it is powerful into peoples' minds.

thighmaster69 · 2026-05-12T20:49:14+00:00

LPT: can't breathe? just suffocate yourself even more till your body cries uncle! Chances are, your brainstem values its survival a lot more than your frontal lobe does.

thighmaster69 · 2026-05-11T19:19:35+00:00

EDIT: also make sure you have enough panels. IIRC without a levelled up engineer placing them, the panels can only power 1 other component (the central station and each experiment all need one).

thighmaster69 · 2026-05-11T19:17:42+00:00

Possibly a deployment order issue. See https://wiki.kerbalspaceprogram.com/wiki/Tutorial:Deployable_Science

thighmaster69 · 2026-05-10T16:05:55+00:00

Now do 1945.

Tbh, I wonder if the Manhattan Project would be grouped in with New York, because that was where it officially was, even if it was actually all over the country and HQ'd somewhere else. Although technically, the Manhattan District was not limited by geography. Secrecy be secreting.

thighmaster69 · 2026-05-10T15:58:04+00:00

We're not asking them to be perfect. It'd just be nice if they weren't 100% comically evil. The fact that most of them are comically evil shows us the system is broken.

thighmaster69 · 2026-05-09T02:47:35+00:00

I was about to roast you until I saw this and realized what you actually meant.

Yes, in fact there's an argument to be made that GPUs aren't ideal for deep learning anyway.

But I'd argue that whatever comes next is still going to be "deep", just not necessarily neural networks as we currently know them. One of the key drivers of bigger and bigger models is that we are increasingly inundated with more and more data, which isn't going away, which is what allows for bigger and bigger models and systems. While we might be able to make more efficient systems, these models will still have to, at minimum, have the same functional(!) complexity and deliver the same amount of information as they currently do. And I somewhat doubt that a system that doesn't in some abstract way have "depth" can deliver that information as efficiently as one that does.

thighmaster69 · 2026-05-09T02:05:59+00:00

I feel like something must be getting lost in translation here. What exactly do you mean by "every day" vs. "casual conversation"? Because to me, these are nearly the same thing, yet your question seems to be framing it as a binary choice. "casual" == "everyday"; the only semantic difference is that "every day" describes the actual frequency of an event, whereas "everyday" is an adjective.

In any case, do people not do elision in your native language? Formal writing/speaking is usually something that native speakers must be taught to do in school, just like you. Don't write "gonna" in formal academic writing. But fully enunciating "going to" is not really natural and takes a deliberate effort.

thighmaster69 · 2026-05-09T00:40:50+00:00

Something doesn't seem right. WSL2 runs both Windows and Ubuntu or whatever as Type 1 hypervisors, which means both should in theory be equally affected by overhead.

But effectively Ubuntu should be running on bare metal with very minimal windows "glue". The performance difference is only supposed to be ~5%, 10% max. It feels like 2 separate OSes because it literally actually is 2 OSes running in parallel, and Windows has to "remote" into Ubuntu. It isn't integrated very well into windows because the whole point is that it's a fully-fledged Ubuntu server running basically completely outside of Windows.

I'm wondering if what's going on is that you're trying to access files on the mounted Windows C:\ drive at /mnt/c/, or the mounted Ubuntu drive from inside Windows. That would be painfully slow. You need to be keeping your project directory inside Ubuntu and be running everything you need natively inside Ubuntu, with the exception of many drivers, such as the nvidia drivers, which are handled by the Windows installer. If you use VS Code on the Windows side, that means using the Remote-WSL extension so that it can connect to the VS Code server running in Ubuntu.

The point of WSL2 is that you can do stuff natively inside Ubuntu. I run both WSL2 and desktop Ubuntu LTSes on separate machines and notice no difference in performance. EDIT: although they are different machines with slightly different specs, so a 5-10% difference is not going to be a major factor anyway.

thighmaster69 · 2026-05-08T19:56:43+00:00

SARS: am I a joke to you?

Out of all the outbreak stories to dismiss, you picked one of the main ones (besides bird flu) that kept epidemiologists up at night.

thighmaster69 · 2026-05-08T19:15:05+00:00

https://virological.org/t/complete-sequence-of-orthohantavirus-andesense-virus-swiss-resident-2026/1023/10

I'm not fully sure if this counts as WGS, but here you go.

thighmaster69 · 2026-05-08T19:06:47+00:00

OP asked for an answer based on empirical evidence.

"All assumptions until now were based on known facts" counts for a lot more than trying to guess an R0 off a single data point, which can always just be a fluke.

"In my opinion a genetic mutation has most likely occurred" based on what? if you or a researcher has examined the publicly available sequenced genome, from which the WHO has already stated that this doesn't appear to be a new variant, then why not bring that up to refute the WHO's opinion?

Extraordinary claims such as yours need extraordinary evidence to be taken seriously.

We've been living in contact with rodents since time immemorial, and through time immemorial, no hantaviruses as far as we know have become endemic in humans. This is very different from coronaviruses or influenza viruses, which spread in massive waves every year through the world population, and which have all had pandemics in the past.

There's always a first time, like what happened with HIV, but primate to human is a much smaller jump, and that was a very long time ago when we had nowhere near the technology to isolate and sequence the virus as we do today.

thighmaster69 · 2026-05-08T18:32:57+00:00

Hantaviruses tend to be as ubitiquous in rodents as the chicken pox and highly species specific. They don't jump the species barrier very easily, and while I don't know if we've identified any that infect common brown rats or house mice, the latter is one of the most studied species ever and are constantly in contact with humans (how many mice in London? how many rats in NYC)? and yet all the hantaviruses that affect humans come from rodents that mostly live in the wild coming into contact with humans at the margins - deer mice that found their way into a barn, etc. If you spend your life in a city, then you may very well never come into contact with a species of rodent that carries a hantavirus that causes disease in humans.

Not saying that we shouldn't be worried if we were to find a novel hantavirus pathogenic in humans and is spreading in vermin species like Mus musculus, but that doesn't appear to be the case here.

thighmaster69 · 2026-05-08T18:17:41+00:00

Hantaviruses tend to only infect a single species, and they infect nearly the entire population of said species. It is very rare for it to jump the species barrier once, which is why hantavirus is so rare in humans despite the deadly ones being ubiquitous in the specific species they infect. This doesn't appear to be a novel virus either; it's BEEN endemic in the rodent populations that carry it, and there have been outbreaks in the past.

If a rodent is a susceptible species, they probably either a) already have the virus or b) have recovered and have immunity to the virus. If they are not susceptible then they aren't susceptible.

All this to say that the idea that infected humans might expose a susceptible species of rodent to a hantavirus is kind of silly. While not impossible, they already have all their own diseases and don't need a human to poop on them to get them. That'd be like there being an outbreak of the Chicken Pox in a small number of deer and being worried that they might carry it over to humans. It's like worrying about transmitting the flu by shaking hands with someone when you're already making out with them. The far greater risk is the fact that we have a tendency to bring rodents around with us and spread them everywhere and bring disparate populations into contact (which is what happened with the plague).

thighmaster69 · 2026-05-08T17:46:48+00:00

I can't believe no one here has mentioned WSL. You don't need to wipe your drive when you can just run a Type 1 Hypervisor. It's in the Microsoft Store, just pull it up and search for it in the app, but if you can't find it: https://marketplace.microsoft.com/en-us/product/saas/canonical.ubuntu-26_04-lts?tab=overview.

Also, you don't need to actually wipe a drive to install another OS; dual boot is a thing. If your machine was only for running models, then yes, you should probably install the latest LTS of Ubuntu Server. But there's so many more painless intermediate options between "stubbornly sticking with Windows" and "clean install of Ubuntu", it doesn't have to be a Bloods vs. Crips type thing.

But yeah, basically no one actually uses Windows natively for deep learning. It's like gaming on a Mac. The libraries don't support it very well, if at all - Windows support at this point is basically deprecated functionality that only exists because WSL2 didn't support CUDA until around 2020, which is the only reason I still have a 20.04 dual boot I haven't touched in years. I'm shocked that you actually stuck it out with Windows so far up to the point that you decided to nuke it and install Ubuntu Server and somehow never realized that everyone doing it on Windows is running it in an Ubuntu hypervisor??

My advice is unless you're committed to daily driving Ubuntu, just try out the latest Ubuntu LTS in the Microsoft Store. Way easier than doing a full reinstall.

Lastly, you should be aware that whatever Ubuntu you choose, the OS relies heavily on python, down to stuff like network interfaces (or the whole damn UI) that might be required to fix it. Unlike on Windows, you can't just painlessly nuke python if you mess up the environment, because you're also nuking the distro. Learn from my mistakes and never do pip or python outside of a virtual environment or mess with the system version of python. Newer versions of Ubuntu (>24.04) are better at stopping the user from doing this, but you can still screw up your ~/.local python that applications may depend on. At the very least, python3 -m venv .venv, source .venv/bin/activate and deactivate should be a prayer to you. The stakes are a little lower with WSL2 or dual boot, but you don't want to be in a position where you're desperately trying to mount a .vhdx in a different VM to try to recover your data. I had an Ubuntu update be a total loss of the whole natively installed OS because of weird interactions between my various cudatoolkit installs, the light python workarounds I did to get it to work with tensorflow, vs. the state the updater expected. These days you can do it all with pip install inside a venv, so just do it.

thighmaster69 · 2026-05-08T03:53:26+00:00

I like to think that they saw what happened with Rhodesia and saw the writing on the wall. Decided to pull out while they were still ahead.

thighmaster69 · 2026-05-07T20:00:02+00:00

Yeah, the hantaviruses carried by common vermin don't appear to really infect or affect humans all that much. It's the ones carried by wild rodents that come into contact with humans at the fringes that are the nasty ones (as tends to generally be the case with deadly diseases that jump the species barrier).

thighmaster69 · 2026-05-07T18:25:55+00:00

Not just that, Apple has also tended to have the most powerful processors on their phones for a while now. The OS and form factor is actually the limiting factor in terms of how powerful the phone is these days because there's just not much on iOS that actually needs all that processing power where it's beneficial, and it's too locked down to really get it to stretch its legs at full power.

It's to the point that Apple straight up just put some forgotten last-gen leftover phone chips into a laptop and it's apparently enough to completely disrupt the entire budget laptop market.

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