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by wincy 8mo ago
I asked ChatGPT about how shipping works at post offices and it gave a very detailed response, mentioning “gaylords” which was a term I’d never heard before, then it absolutely freaked out when I asked it to tell me more about them (apparen
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by wincy 8mo ago
Anecdotal, but since I’ve started Zepbound, I’ve lost 110 pounds. In that same time period, I’ve paid off and cancelled all my credit cards (except for one, which I pay off every month), filed taxes for the last five years, got a CPA on ret
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by wincy 8mo ago
I’ve been amazed that while it absolutely uses a ton of battery, so has to be plugged in, my kid is able to play 3D online games with me using my old M1 MacBook Air. Not top of the line stuff (and had to change the resolution to 1440x900),
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by wincy 8mo ago
Also important to note there is a time eventually that something is no longer a dupe, and people will still add previous discussions about it (often dang himself), because the previous conversations about the topic may be of interest. But u
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by wincy 8mo ago
I tried using the Microsoft azure devops MCP and it immediately filled up 160k of my context window with what I can only assume was listing out an absurd number of projects. Now I just instruct it to make direct API calls for the specific r
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by wincy 9mo ago
If you want to actually run models on a computer at home? The RTX 6000 Blackwell Pro Workstation, hands down. 96GB of VRAM, fits into a standard case (I mean, it’s big, as it’s essentially the same form factor as an RTX 5090 just with a lot
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by wincy 9mo ago
Haha running OSS-120B on my 5090 with most of the layers in video memory, some in RAM with LM Studio, I was hard pressed to get it to actually use anywhere near the full 600W. Gaming in 4K playing a modern game generates substantially more
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by wincy 9mo ago
Sounds like a great reason to never start a company in Spain, ever.
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by wincy 9mo ago
Hah, I had a 2am conversation with a woman from Argentina about Javier Milei which is one of my Uber riding highlights. But then another time a guy warned me not to open his glove box because his Glock was in there and he sounded deranged a
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by wincy 9mo ago
The Uber Driver who told me all about his Glock in the glove box was pretty off putting. Also the Jeep that picked me up in August with broken air conditioning, although that was an annoyance vs “what is happening right now am I going to di
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by wincy 9mo ago
Someone in another comment said they got to see it in an exhibition 20 years ago. So it sounds like even if it’s in some billionaire’s collection it’s taken care of and the public does get an opportunity to see it, at least sometimes.
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by wincy 9mo ago
Hahah in a moment of desperation I put “unicorn” which its response made me laugh out loud.
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by wincy 9mo ago
I only watch movies that are a series of randomly seeded intervals of tones at various pitches, random colors, with static added in. This ensures I never watch anything formulaic or predictable. More seriously, it is interesting when a movi
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by wincy 9mo ago
How have we underestimated them? We’ve absolutely dominated every single ecosystem that we push in to. We’ve long ago destroyed all of the minds that could have possibly challenged us, all the other members of the Homo family. The reason hu
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by wincy 9mo ago
The last time I smoked marijuana more than a decade ago, I experienced severe paranoia where I began weeping and told my girlfriend (now wife) that she was a four dimensional time worm trying to burrow into my time stream. She shrugged and
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by wincy 9mo ago
I remember that Turkish guy and the Korean woman who looked like total badasses in the shooting competition in the Olympics, the Turkish guy because he wasn’t using all the fancy gear, and the woman because she looked like someone out of a
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by wincy 9mo ago
Really? I drove from Kansas to the Florida Keys in November, stayed at an ocean front hotel where it was a blissful 83°F, and it felt like our own slice of heaven. We stayed a few extra days over Thanksgiving just to laze in the pool while
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by wincy 9mo ago
I keep my brand new LG C5 totally disconnected from the internet and use my Apple TV for movie watching. I’m not going to trust a company like LG to secure their devices.
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by wincy 9mo ago
Question for someone who is very far away from this kind of development - why does CAD software need a kernel that’s wholly separate from the UI? Why aren’t they the same thing? I just don’t understand the abstraction that necessitates writ
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by wincy 9mo ago
At the time I was unemployed and didn’t have a car, not much the psychiatrist could do about my “dirt pooritis” symptoms.
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by wincy 9mo ago
I largely ride on paved bike trails that are wholly separate from the roads, or suburban residential roads that have a Swiss cheese of bike trails interconnecting via parks. It’s never the fastest way, but there’s almost always a “safe way”
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by wincy 9mo ago
My grandfather retired and realized he had no hobbies to speak of, and no desire to travel. So he went back to doing what he enjoyed, he worked part time for the city doing sewer inspections. He’d use a bar and open a manhole, and do whatev
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by wincy 9mo ago
I bought an E-Bike two years ago and it’s changed my life. I want to ride my bike all the time, and am counting down the days to spring. During the warmer months I run all the errands I possibly can with my bike instead of driving, and ride
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by wincy 9mo ago
I just spent $300 on LED light bulbs. Especially if you have an older house the sockets are all wired up for incandescents so you can just split the socket and run 7 bulbs per socket, I have 30 light bulbs, including two 200W corn bulbs and
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by wincy 9mo ago
Have you tried more light? Like, a lot more light? Like, getting a light meter and aiming for 10-20,000 lux in your room? This blog was a good start for me. https://www.benkuhn.net/lux/
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by wincy 9mo ago
Whatever the word, getting off of them is not fun. It took 6 months after getting of Paxil to stop feeling like I was being dropped down an elevator shaft at random times day and night.
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by wincy 9mo ago
I spent $300 on high lumen output light bulbs. 28 200W equivalent LED bulbs and 2 LED corn bulbs. Just a TON of light. Depending on severity either run it all day (late January and February tend to be the worst months), but even 10 minutes
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by wincy 9mo ago
Lexapro made me feel like I was randomly being dropped down an elevator shaft for 6 months after I stopped taking it. I’m glad it worked for you, and am not minimizing that, but these medications have a side effects profile a mile long and
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by wincy 9mo ago
I had severe SAD to the point of having a mental break where I told my wife I was flying that very day to Miami to get away from the cold. I didn’t end up flying to Miami, which is likely why I’m still married… So I ended up spending $300 o
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by wincy 9mo ago
Sounds like it’s time to become a Michelin Star chef. Or a plumber.

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