Beldrueger

Support artists. @SkullxNFT 💀 OG | Grifter 511 | #weeklywallartist | Fronk | Nyan Toad |

[Lucréce @DesLucrece]

Just 2 more days.

[Beldrueger @Beldrueger]

@1xharsh https://t.co/hUOseqIGMZ

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Update. 8 months on and no issues. Knock on wood, but this appears to be the fix.

[Beldrueger @Beldrueger]

When I first got into NFT’s in 2021, one of the first things I wanted to do was display them. I installed no less then 11 displays throughout the house including this wall of 4 BlueCanvas displays that became a theme with #weeklywallartist posts throughout 2021-2022.

They have proven NOTORIOUSLY unreliable, but today I think I finally have a permanent fix. The power supplies on these are the primary culprit, providing a steady ~60W at 24V through a USB-C power plug. Last month 3 out of 4 of them went kaput all at once as we were getting a new smart panel installed in the house. Fortunately, the screens all survived (this time, sometimes the power supply fried them).

I asked Claude for answers, and it delivered. Using a single 320W Mean Well, industrial quality brick, I am now powering all 4 screens from one source. Fingers crossed, but the wall is back in operation again! 5 years on, and still going.

[Beldrueger @Beldrueger]

@1xharsh These are MP4’s off the cargo site that Kim set up. You can download them

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@1xharsh Yep. Classics.

[Beldrueger @Beldrueger]

I was very fortunate to find @DesLucrece early in my NFT journey. Overdue for #WeeklyWallArtist. Amazing Artist. Great human. Congrats on a breakout 2021. My top pieces in the collection: The Machine, Loudspeaker, Alpha Chromo, and the Child.

[Lucréce @DesLucrece]

Grims 🔥

[Beldrueger @Beldrueger]

Art is wonder. It makes me feel. It expands my perception. I collect it and display it because it enriches every day. The best art has a depth that I can just get lost in, but I also appreciate whimsy and a novel expression of someone’s novel imagination. I guess in the end, it’s vibes.

[Beldrueger @Beldrueger]

The first 5 minutes of the new Ted Lasso show is some of the worst writing I’ve ever seen on TV. What happened?

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@justintrimble @grok House of Leaves is such a 2005 Barista book.

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I locked down a Spyder RS. Last build slot at my dealer. Absolute dream car. Would pick every day over any other p-car.

[Zerin Dube @SpeedSportLife]

And the news we've all expected thanks to @Motor1com

"In a statement to Motor1, Porsche’s Head of Corporate Communications, Matthias Rauter, clarified that the combustion-engine 718 duo was never actually confirmed for a comeback. Hence, the cars aren’t technically canceled since they weren’t even approved to begin with. Technicalities aside, the hard fact is this: The Boxster and Cayman are not getting their beloved gas engines back."

(Full article https://t.co/99r1tQQrtr)

[Beldrueger @Beldrueger]

@defnotUGAfan @mvalera @zillowgonewild You are correct. SF is an alternate universe.

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@afrocosmist https://t.co/WA3HcaI3xC

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@allodev @0xBumblebee I lost 2 weth in the ME hack. If this is for that, please DM

[Lucréce @DesLucrece]

BitMON. Thursday at 12 PM ET.

[Matt DesLauriers @mattdesl]

seeing lots of discussion lately on the impact of AI in graphics programming and interactive/coding communities.

what used to require technical expertise, years of study, arcane knowledge has now been reduced to a quick prompt. it’s a hard pill to swallow; there’s a joy and intellectual stimulation in solving complex exercises with hand-written code, but I suspect developing in that way will very soon be obsolete & automated (or already is). 😓

for what it’s worth, I still believe that “think bigger” is a good way to stay sane and a step ahead. not just working on something more technical, that a future model might beat, but working on something you find ambitious, that you might never have even considered previously.

also, it’s worth remembering:

AI is a jagged intelligence: it still sucks at making art, coming up with original ideas, writing good prose, having good aesthetics/taste, doing any kind of graphic design.

AI knowledge needs to be extracted: even if a future model can solve a hard problem, for now we still need humans to “mine” and surface these answers.

AI models today are large and inefficient: there’s a lot of value in developing smaller representations, and bringing them into constrained environments (interaction, games, web, embedded systems).

[Beldrueger @Beldrueger]

@piterpasma @mattdesl Chill. What he wrote is perfectly reasonable. You can drown under the AI wave, or you can surf it, but you can’t fight it. You’ll just be punching at the ocean. There are wonders in front of us, embrace it.

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@ZssBecker Lame take. I gather that you never go outside. Gym only? So many health tracker benefits.