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[Colif]

There was a Superman movie when I was a kid where he traveled backwards in time by doing this. If I remember correctly, Lois Lane had been killed, so he flew around the earth as fast as he could and ended up right before the murder. Even as a child I was annoying and explained to someone why that wouldn't work.

He was reversing an Earthquake., from memory... looks. Think Lex wanted to nuke the fault in California and she was a victim of quake.

it was probably the last Superman movie I saw.

 

[Zed Clampet]

He was reversing an Earthquake., from memory... looks. Think Lex wanted to nuke the fault in California and she was a victim of quake.

it was probably the last Superman movie I saw.

It's definitely the last Superman movie I saw, and I saw it in the theater, so it's been awhile. It makes me laugh now.

 

[BeardyHat]

I used to like philosophy when I was younger because I mistakenly believed there were answers. There are no answers. Every philosophical school can, and is, argued against with the same level of authority that its adherents use to argue in its favor. Even ethics, which one would might casually assume to be immutable, has many different schools of thought ranging from idealism to pragmatism, neo-pragmatism, meta-ethical relativism, romanticism, and on and on.

I find this funny. Not because it's untrue, but because it is.

Honestly, that's the fun part. Picking it all apart and trying to get to the core of something. Guess I'm just a fan of taking things apart, whether that's cars, computers or ideologies.

Think I mentioned (my memory is awful and I'm lazy) I setup a new PC for my oldest and I've been watching him play on it. He thinks I'm actually watching his game, but I'm actually neurotic and watching the performance metrics and trying to think about how I can squeeze a little more out of it, especially for stuff like Teardown which can drop to the mid-high 20's for FPS when lot's of stuff is happening.

I'm kind of thinking I might drop a little money on it. Upgrade to an i7-3770 (k or non-k?) from the 2500k and to a GTX 1080 8gb from RX 570 4Gb. I think both together would give it a massive performance boost and be less than $200, possibly less than $150 if I don't bother the unlocked processor.

 

[BeardyHat]

Alright, maybe scrub that.

I ordered some new DDR3 RAM for $20. I have 16Gb in there already, but it's mismatched, so I can't OC and can't enable XMP. So I'll see if I can wring out the extra CPU performance via OC and go from there.

Still may pick-up a 1080 though.

 

[Colif]

if you lived closer I would give you my old 2015 PC. I was giving to a friend but things happened that make me think he won't want it. Its specs were:

1. 16gb ddr3 (2x8)
2. Asus Z97 Motherboard
3. I5 4690K with intel cooler
4. No GPU as I killed it (GTX 980 still works, runs hot. still in case)
5. 256gb ssd + hdd (can't remember its size)
6. Seasonic PSU
7. Silverstone FT02 Case (main reason I still have PC)

But well, you not even in the same hemisphere.

Think I just take it all apart and dispose of the parts but keep storage/ram. I don't really need the data on them and no one else gets whatever it is anyway. I never turned it on again once I got my last PC.
Mum wants the space anyway...
might keep case in garage.

Not this weekend, but one day. Busy enough this weekend.

Need to find a better spot for all my spare parts. But then all my drawers would be empty

See if a friend knows how I can sell the parts I don't need.

 

[Zed Clampet]

Honestly, that's the fun part. Picking it all apart and trying to get to the core of something. Guess I'm just a fan of taking things apart, whether that's cars, computers or ideologies.

What my version of philosophy is missing is an appreciation of logical ideas that can't be proven but may still be useful. This is because I'm a "can't see the trees for the forest" type of person. To me it's kind of like this: let's say that every year you get a single Christmas present. The first time that you open it and find that it's an empty box, you are very disappointed. For years you look forward to receiving your Christmas present and hope that this time there will be something in the box. For me, this culminated in my eventually losing all interest in getting the present at all. I experienced existential anxiety from a very young age, and I looked to philosophy as a potential cure for my nausea (thanks, Sartre). Unfortunately that doesn't exist.

None of this means that I'm completely uninterested in philosophy or that I wouldn't happily debate it with someone for hours. It just means that I'm old and tired and cynical.

 

[BeardyHat]

Hey, I've been cynical for a great many years, also since I was a kid.

My own Philosophy can be summed up as, "No meaning but what you make." Ultimately, I will die and be forgotten about in two generations or so and that's that. Actually been thinking about death a lot lately; being in my 40's now, I'm seeing more of it in my peers and relations, so there's now the real realization that yeah, that's gonna happen to me at some point and it scares the hell out of me.

So, in making my own meaning:

Here's my engine yesterday:

And today:

Good progress and makes me feel like I'm accomplishing something. I do think I'll have to remove my power steering pump again so I can fit the coolant return tube in the water pump, but that's only 3 bolts, so shouldn't take much effort.

I'll probably do that tomorrow and then start working on hooking up my wiring harness and battery cables. Fuel lines next and then maybe put the radiator and fan back in, add some oil and see if it starts.

Still lots to do after that, need to put the transmission, transfer case, rebuild the driveshafts and put them back in and then...I think I'm done? 6 years of my life.

 

[BeardyHat]

if you lived closer I would give you my old 2015 PC. I was giving to a friend but things happened that make me think he won't want it. Its specs were:

1. 16gb ddr3 (2x8)
2. Asus Z97 Motherboard
3. I5 4690K with intel cooler
4. No GPU as I killed it (GTX 980 still works, runs hot. still in case)
5. 256gb ssd + hdd (can't remember its size)
6. Seasonic PSU
7. Silverstone FT02 Case (main reason I still have PC)

But well, you not even in the same hemisphere.

Think I just take it all apart and dispose of the parts but keep storage/ram. I don't really need the data on them and no one else gets whatever it is anyway. I never turned it on again once I got my last PC.
Mum wants the space anyway...
might keep case in garage.

Not this weekend, but one day. Busy enough this weekend.

Need to find a better spot for all my spare parts. But then all my drawers would be empty

See if a friend knows how I can sell the parts I don't need.

Oh yeah, that 4690 would be a solid upgrade.

You could always keep it and turn it into a server of sorts. I actually happened across "Immich" the other day, a self-hosted replacement for Google Photos. I think I might actually throw my 4tb drive back into my main PC and use that as a cloud photos storage drive so my wife and I can get off Google owning that portion of our data.

You could build something like that or a PiHole to block ads in your house. I love mine.

 

[Zed Clampet]

...gonna happen to me at some point and it scares the hell out of me.

Despite the fact that everyone I know thinks I'm crazy when I tell them, I am paid up at Alcor. It's a longshot but the odds aren't 0.

 

[Colif]

You could always keep it and turn it into a server of sorts. I actually happened across "Immich" the other day, a self-hosted replacement for Google Photos. I think I might actually throw my 4tb drive back into my main PC and use that as a cloud photos storage drive so my wife and I can get off Google owning that portion of our data.

if I had space I would.

I will ask my friend if he still wants it tomorrow.
Already asked another one where I could sell parts locally

I keep half the PC, only sell off CPU, MB, Ram & maybe case.
I don't sell storage and its unfair to sell the PSU without all its cables.
still attached to the case.

I could just as easily use my last PC as a server if I really wanted to. All of it still works. Just needs to be logged onto again and updated.
If mum keeps stalling I might. But I don't really have anywhere to set it up now.

Its already got a 4tb ssd in it, since I have two of them.
slightly overkill for a server

• Ryzen 7 5800x3d with a Deepcool Assassin 4 air cooler
• Aorus X570 Elite Wifi
• 32gb (2 x 16) DDR 4 Corsair Vengence RGB Pro 3200
• Samsung 970 Evo Plus 1tb nvme
• Samsung 870 Evo 4tb ssd
• Western Digital 3tb HDD
• Asus RTX 2070 Super
• Corsair RMx 1000
• Fractal Design Meshify S2
• 3 x Noctua Chromax Black 140mm fans

I don't intend to sell it, its my spare in case this one decides to play up. Fingers crossed.

In both my PC I have an essentially empty drive. In the above its the hdd as I replaced it mostly with the 4tb ssd, whereas in current one its a 4tb ssd that is extra... only used 56gb of it so far.
I don't use space though, I have 10tb in here and 7.65tb free still - most of mine is on the cloud though.

The PC I am selling parts of originally had a Asus GTX 960, if I compare it to my current GPU its only 780% less powerful

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 Specs

NVIDIA GM206, 1178 MHz, 1024 Cores, 64 TMUs, 32 ROPs, 2048 MB GDDR5, 1753 MHz, 128 bit

www.techpowerup.com

it was so bad I had to replace it with a 980 due to a surprise monitor gift

 

[Zed Clampet]

The Internet is obsessed with who was found in the Epstein files. I've even seen it mentioned, seemingly at random, in gaming videos. The Gamer's Nexus guy has mentioned it on several occasions. Asmongold, or whatever his name is, is obsessed with it.

It doesn't matter who was found in the Epstein files because he wasn't running some pedo business. That was just for him and Maxwell. This is verified by interviews with victims. It would also seem to be proven as nonsense by well established numbers provided by numerous studies.

*large section covering facts and statistics that further proved my point was removed because it just didn't seem right to post it here given how averse to controversial subjects the admins are, but I did a lot of research and it was very enlightening on how many people are this way or that, how they ended up that way, what percentage actually act on this (almost none of them ever commit abuse), and what the real thing is that drives this (it isn't an actual interest in the victims but in humiliating themselves). The point of these statistics were to show how unlikely it was that Epstein even knew anyone other than Maxwell who was interested in what he was doing, and the only reason Maxwell was interested likely involves things about female sexuality that, while I found it fascinating, I will also not repeat here.

 

[Zed Clampet]

if I had space I would.

I will ask my friend if he still wants it tomorrow.
Already asked another one where I could sell parts locally

I keep half the PC, only sell off CPU, MB, Ram & maybe case.
I don't sell storage and its unfair to sell the PSU without all its cables.
still attached to the case.

I could just as easily use my last PC as a server if I really wanted to. All of it still works. Just needs to be logged onto again and updated.
If mum keeps stalling I might. But I don't really have anywhere to set it up now.

Its already got a 4tb ssd in it, since I have two of them.
slightly overkill for a server

• Ryzen 7 5800x3d with a Deepcool Assassin 4 air cooler
• Aorus X570 Elite Wifi
• 32gb (2 x 16) DDR 4 Corsair Vengence RGB Pro 3200
• Samsung 970 Evo Plus 1tb nvme
• Samsung 870 Evo 4tb ssd
• Western Digital 3tb HDD
• Asus RTX 2070 Super
• Corsair RMx 1000
• Fractal Design Meshify S2
• 3 x Noctua Chromax Black 140mm fans

I don't intend to sell it, its my spare in case this one decides to play up. Fingers crossed.

In both my PC I have an essentially empty drive. In the above its the hdd as I replaced it mostly with the 4tb ssd, whereas in current one its a 4tb ssd that is extra... only used 56gb of it so far.
I don't use space though, I have 10tb in here and 7.65tb free still - most of mine is on the cloud though.

The PC I am selling parts of originally had a Asus GTX 960, if I compare it to my current GPU its only 780% less powerful

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 Specs

NVIDIA GM206, 1178 MHz, 1024 Cores, 64 TMUs, 32 ROPs, 2048 MB GDDR5, 1753 MHz, 128 bit

www.techpowerup.com

it was so bad I had to replace it with a 980 due to a surprise monitor gift

The main thing I get from this chart is that AMD's naming conventions need to be improved.

 

[Colif]

I suspect both their CPU & GPU numbering systems may change soon, but only as Intel/Nvidia & AMD seem to always restart around 10

 

[BeardyHat]

if I had space I would.

I will ask my friend if he still wants it tomorrow.
Already asked another one where I could sell parts locally

I keep half the PC, only sell off CPU, MB, Ram & maybe case.
I don't sell storage and its unfair to sell the PSU without all its cables.
still attached to the case.

I could just as easily use my last PC as a server if I really wanted to. All of it still works. Just needs to be logged onto again and updated.
If mum keeps stalling I might. But I don't really have anywhere to set it up now.

Its already got a 4tb ssd in it, since I have two of them.
slightly overkill for a server

• Ryzen 7 5800x3d with a Deepcool Assassin 4 air cooler
• Aorus X570 Elite Wifi
• 32gb (2 x 16) DDR 4 Corsair Vengence RGB Pro 3200
• Samsung 970 Evo Plus 1tb nvme
• Samsung 870 Evo 4tb ssd
• Western Digital 3tb HDD
• Asus RTX 2070 Super
• Corsair RMx 1000
• Fractal Design Meshify S2
• 3 x Noctua Chromax Black 140mm fans

I don't intend to sell it, its my spare in case this one decides to play up. Fingers crossed.

In both my PC I have an essentially empty drive. In the above its the hdd as I replaced it mostly with the 4tb ssd, whereas in current one its a 4tb ssd that is extra... only used 56gb of it so far.
I don't use space though, I have 10tb in here and 7.65tb free still - most of mine is on the cloud though.

The PC I am selling parts of originally had a Asus GTX 960, if I compare it to my current GPU its only 780% less powerful

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 Specs

NVIDIA GM206, 1178 MHz, 1024 Cores, 64 TMUs, 32 ROPs, 2048 MB GDDR5, 1753 MHz, 128 bit

www.techpowerup.com

it was so bad I had to replace it with a 980 due to a surprise monitor gift

Honestly better than my best desktop system! Really wish I'd grabbed a 5800x3d back when they were "cheap", but instead I had upgraded to the 5600. Honestly, it's plenty for my needs, but it would be nice to have the best AM4 processor I could afford. Someday when RAM comes back down and people stop building AM4 systems again, maybe I'll upgrade. Though if that'll even make sense at that point, who knows.

 

[Zed Clampet]

Please tell me this is just a crazy coincidence.

I had 6 characters I drew and was using AI to make them realistic. The final step involved using Codeformer and GFPGAN for final cleanup, but I couldn't get the settings right and they kept changing the faces too much so that they were no longer identifiable as my characters. And, just for what's coming up, there are half-a-dozen other programs that do exactly what these two programs do.

I got frustrated and decided to come back to it later and decided to figure out what one of the bundled programs did. Installing AI is painful, so I decided to ask CoPilot what it did. CoPilot said that it was primarily a depth mapper that could rotate photographs. But then, out of nowhere, it said (paraphrasing) "It's good for characters, but like Codeformer and GFPGAN, it can sometimes alter the faces if you don't get the settings just right."

 

[Pifanjr]

Please tell me this is just a crazy coincidence.

I had 6 characters I drew and was using AI to make them realistic. The final step involved using Codeformer and GFPGAN for final cleanup, but I couldn't get the settings right and they kept changing the faces too much so that they were no longer identifiable as my characters. And, just for what's coming up, there are half-a-dozen other programs that do exactly what these two programs do.

I got frustrated and decided to come back to it later and decided to figure out what one of the bundled programs did. Installing AI is painful, so I decided to ask CoPilot what it did. CoPilot said that it was primarily a depth mapper that could rotate photographs. But then, out of nowhere, it said (paraphrasing) "It's good for characters, but like Codeformer and GFPGAN, it can sometimes alter the faces if you don't get the settings just right."

Perhaps not that crazy of a coincidence, I assume other people would be having the same kind of issues and complaining about them to CoPilot.

 

[Zed Clampet]

Perhaps not that crazy of a coincidence, I assume other people would be having the same kind of issues and complaining about them to CoPilot.

Sort of, but it doesn't learn from conversations, so it has to be getting it from somewhere else. Obviously it had the information, the question is why it mentioned it when it did because there really isn't any correlation between the depth program and Codeformer. They don't work together, they don't do similar things and it would be detrimental to use them one after another because each one changes the face at least a little. It would be like playing the phone game with AI. But in retrospect, that's probably the correlation. They both screw up faces.

 

[Colif]

Getting foam injected into the cavity between inner walls and brick on Monday, they also installing blow in insulation in the roof

We thought we have to be out of house for two days but it turns out they do most of it first day, we can sleep in house that night, and next day they just come back to remove the scaffolding they put up this morning

I was trying to sleep this morning but hard to do with people walking on roof and using power tools. Only put scaffolding on the parts of roof reachable from ground. Only there to stop people falling off I guess.

 

[Zloth]

Sometimes philosophy can be fun!