epiccoleman

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by epiccoleman 1y ago
half the time when i try to use nano banana, AI Studio fails, telling me it can't generate for some unspecified reason. these aren't cases where I'm trying to do something that skirts the edge of copyright, either (like &quot
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by epiccoleman 1y ago
You're welcome! Hope you have fun.
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by epiccoleman 1y ago
I had a blast with this. I got Claude to write a function for encoding a string to Morse and sending it, and then a patch that displays a 10-character rolling display next to the name of other users. From what I can tell with zero Morse cod
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by epiccoleman 1y ago
You can _definitely_ learn enough garage band to make a simple loop! It's very easy to set up, actually - at least on desktop, and I'm sure it's similar enough on the mobile app. You can mark a section on the timeline to loop
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by epiccoleman 1y ago
It's seriously so good, in fact it's so good that every other Jackbox game is vaguely disappointing because nothing is half as fun as Tee Fury lol.
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by epiccoleman 1y ago
I'm vaguely reminded of the excellent Jackbox game Tee Fury, in which players submit slogans for T shirts and "art" separately. Players then get to choose from a few options for slogans and designs to make T shirts which are
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by epiccoleman 1y ago
By "put on a loop" I mean "play a sequence of known chords in a loop" - so that you can practice playing and singing notes in context (i.e. in context of a song, jam, etc). There are tons of backing tracks available on Y
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by epiccoleman 1y ago
I think we're largely advocating for the same thing, though your method is more formalized. Either way, my bigger point is: connect "ear training" to your practice on the instrument, and don't neglect the speaking port
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by epiccoleman 1y ago
Agreed, and I slightly hesitated to use that phrase, but I do think the "sing and play" exercise is a uniquely good thing to practice, practice, practice. It just seems to really work to connect the part of your brain that comes
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by epiccoleman 1y ago
My experience with ear training is that you really need to connect it to your instrument. If you're on the train where you can't play, obviously it can't hurt to train interval recognition and chord quality - but the ultimate
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by epiccoleman 1y ago
The first thing that came to mind the first time I saw Skibidi Toilet was this kind of TF2 SFM memery, which I love. The expressions in the second verse and the Spy's slow turn to look to heaven still really amuse me: https:/&#x2
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by epiccoleman 1y ago
squidbillies, i think, is a good example of something that appears on the surface to be completely stupid, but actually has a pretty clever core. South Park is kind of similar, I think I'd have a difficult time convincing my parents ge
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by epiccoleman 1y ago
> Idk, I wouldn't consider adult swim and friends brain rot. I tend to agree, there's a pretty big difference between writing and animating a full-on show and the weird tiktok/roblox/youtube slop I see. Then again - S
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by epiccoleman 1y ago
the 6-7 thing has been a source of constant amusement for me. my kid told me that one of their teachers had (with good humor) banned saying "6 7" and we immediately went down a rabbit hole of how he could "side-channel"
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by epiccoleman 1y ago
Growing up, the Catholic church which my family attended, and to which our grade school was attached, held the following masses: * Wednesday evening mass * Thursday morning mass (this was attended by the school kids, as well as a collection
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by epiccoleman 1y ago
> And so it became institutionalized world wide. So they would send a bloke to Ballykissangel, pay him to sit there, listen to the villagers’ woes on Sundays, and spend the rest of the week in the pub providing cultural enrichment. Good
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by epiccoleman 1y ago
Your art is awesome! I can definitely see the influence from Dean.
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by epiccoleman 1y ago
My trick with my previous dog was to just always have two toys for the fetch session. She'd usually drop the one she was holding when I wound up to throw the next one. Kinda like juggling.
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by epiccoleman 1y ago
Dude, this is so cool! I've had something like this floating around my cluttered headspace for ages, and it always sort of floats to the surface during the rare times when I do some light sysadmin work via Termux on my phone. Another t
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by epiccoleman 1y ago
This led me down a pleasing rabbit hole: * flipping through the pages I stopped with some interest on section for the "Optical Department" (page 84) * I noticed the pince-nez glasses, and wondered "does pince-nez just mean &#
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by epiccoleman 1y ago
I wish I could find the original source on this, but I remember reading a tweet or blog that I thought had a really good metaphor for this kind of "male friend ribbing." The metaphor went something like this: men making fun of eac
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by epiccoleman 1y ago
That was my first thought too - but this is subtly different, and rewinds the context too. Actually highly useful, because I have often felt like a bad first pass at a solution poisoned my context with Claude.
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by epiccoleman 1y ago
I can't decide if I like this change or not, tbh. I almost always delete the comments Claude adds, to be sure - but at the same time they seem to provide a sort of utility for me as I read through the generated code. They also act, in
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by epiccoleman 1y ago
I really didn't need the cognitohazard thought that I could play Factorio and still somehow get things done
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by epiccoleman 1y ago
I'm using a "memory" MCP server which basically just stores facts to a big json file and makes a search available. There's a directive in my system prompt that tells the LLM to store facts and search for them when it sta
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by epiccoleman 1y ago
It's a pretty big departure from traditional keyboards, but there are a bunch of dactyl variants which have a trackball in the thumb cluster. I'm not sure how practical this really is, having never used one, but it's conceptu
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by epiccoleman 1y ago
whoooa. that looks like ... Better Than Wolves 2. I'm going to have to give that a whirl.
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by epiccoleman 1y ago
ha. weird.
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by epiccoleman 1y ago
yeah, i think that's pretty clearly nsfw
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by epiccoleman 1y ago
oh man, thanks for the pointer to that guy. my oldest son will absolutely love him.

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