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Cake day: November 27th, 2023

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  • I have nuanced opinions about AI and, personally, I don’t really care how you make your memes if they’re interesting – though I will strongly discourage you from paying anyone for AI as a service to do it…

    The “in 10 seconds” bit makes it really easy to flood communities with slop though, and that’s one of a number of reasons why people push back on it. There is a lot of boring AI generated stuff out there. Repetitive, same-y content is not fun – novelty is fun. If you can figure out how to push AI to do something unusual or amusing, I say have at it… but the haters are going to hate here regardless.

    We had a subculture here for a while back in 2023 or so that played with AI memes. Someone would come up with an amusing idea – like Sailor Moon as a giant insect – post an AI generated picture of it, and then people would riff off it with variations of the idea until it became stale. I think those comms are basically dead at this point – and if you tried to revive them back you might get shouted off the platform given the amount of toxicity around AI now 😔️ – but there was some genuinely entertaining stuff in there occasionally!


  • RTX 3080-Ti Laptop AMD Ryzen 9 6900 HX

    If I understand correctly, does that mean you had two GPUs in the system? (Integrated GPU in the AMD chip + a separate NVIDIA GPU?) If so, were you maybe running on the wrong GPU? Also, did you install the NVIDIA proprietary drivers or just use the out-of-the-box open stuff? For NVIDIA usually you want the proprietary ones, and for AMD open is fine, but the kernel you’re running really matters in my experience…











  • I usually make quick sauces with my pasta and use whole canned peeled tomatoes. To alter for fresh, I’d score the tomatoes with a knife, then blanch and peel the skin off as the first step.

    My default tomato-based sauce is:

    • olive oil
    • a few whole tomatoes (peeled) – maybe about ~3 decently sized ones?
    • garlic (either fresh minced or garlic powder)
    • dried basil
    • salt
    • 1/4 tsp or so of capers
    • a few kalamata olives
    • pinch of MSG
    • pinch of cayenne pepper

    When using fresh garlic, I add it to the pan first – with garlic powder I add it with the other seasonings. I basically just combine everything, break up the tomatoes with a spatula, and let it cook down on medium heat (stirring occasionally) while I boil my spaghetti – then finish the spaghetti in the sauce.

    I usually make this just for myself and eyeball the ingredients – so unfortunately, I don’t have exact measurements for most of it.

    This is basically a variant of spaghetti puttanesca without anchovies – feel free to add those instead of (or in addition to) the MSG if you’d prefer.







  • OK. I think I see what you’re getting at. If you can figure out how to get it to the point of an outline, there are triangulation libraries that can fill in the mesh for you (I think I’ve mentioned one to you before a long time ago) if you want flat end caps on the extrusion. I’m not sure off the top of my head how you’d get to an outline from that star example though – a few ideas come to mind, but they’re very much half-baked ideas… :p

    Best of luck!

    Edit: the triangulation library I was thinking of: https://github.com/mapbox/earcut


  • I’m not sure I quite get it, but if I’m following correctly, you’re using the numbers to indicate a sequence of vertices for a triangle fan here (with @ indicating the central vertex), right? If so, the vertices are used in more than one triangle; (0, 1, 2) and (0, 2, 3) are triangles that reuse vertex 0 (@) and vertex 2.

    If that’s what’s going on then it should be fairly straightforward to turn shapes defined like this into extrusions; for the simplest case you duplicate and offset the triangle fan for the other end and then generate quads/pairs of triangles for the extruded faces of the prism – and for more complicated cases you can repeat that (with planar alignment if needed) following a curve in small increments.

    I might not be following though since I don’t know what you mean by color index face hints.