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I've tried using HA a couple years ago and gave up. It was too complicated to run it in a Pi4 - I'm an experienced software engineer, familiar with containers and Linux. I was tryi…

I agree with your statement on quality control issues. Also fake cigars are a huge problem. I've heard about many cases of cigars made in Cuba by "freelancers" and then sold in rep…

I've been smoking cigars for the past 15 years. I was lucky enough to have smoked only cuban cigars (which are legal where I'm from), so I know them very well. Nicaragua and Domini…

Beautiful indeed. It still baffles me how some people have a such gift with words. They can tell stories and make you have feelings, just magical. I know it's a lot of hard work to…

I see with completely different eyes here. This is a sort of manifesto that tells me where the heart of the founders is. It also inspired me to do better and look at my own company…

All of a sudden the saying "eat your own dog food" takes a twist and is no longer fun.

I can't really disagree with you. Although I want to believe this problem is more exacerbated with LLMs than with human-tutors. I have no evidence other than hundreds of hours usin…

I absolutely have the same overall feeling, when the task at hand is related to text processing (including understanding and spinning off new takes or ideas from it). But when the …

It's actually worse than that because although LLMs are capable of a lot, they still hallucinate quite frequently and sometimes are just plain stupid. Recently I was trying to mani…

"These galaxies are so old, they are likely still in the process of being formed." This makes no sense to me. Older galaxies should be formed long time ago, no?

Then suddenly you buy a car that has several kg of equipment that are not yours, but theirs, just so you could activate it with a subscription at a later point in time. Great! But …

I've been following this "good example" for both my kids who are 10 and 2 years old and I can say it works very well. At least for the addictive behavior. We still allow them to wa…

I watched a movie today and ended up ordering pop corn + soda + water. 1 pop corn, 1 soda, 1 water freaking bottle (250ml). They charged me $30 + tips. I think National Geographic …

I definitely relate to that. I only started saving money seriously (with proper planning) after reading about FIRE (financial independence retire early) in a blog. Reading about th…

I have to say that improving the battery by 11% is not nearly enough. I have a Framework Intel 12th Gen running Mint and I can't use it for more than 3h without having to plug it i…

I relate to your current state of mind. I wasn't sure either before I had my first child. I didn't particularly like kids, but wondered what would it be like. Then I had my first c…

In my experience this isn't true at all. Having kids really is a blank slate and it's up to you to decide how you want to raise yours. I do a lot of things different than my parent…

There's a similar interesting solution here: https://forum.moddevices.com/t/ai-research-at-mod/8368

I have at least one example of Airbnb ignoring a bad review. I had a pretty bad experience in Washington DC once and left a review to warn future guests. To my surprise such review…

Which location are you seeing those rates?

MOD Devices has filed for insolvency in Germany and instead of playing games it opens up the door giving full transparency about what's happening and the possible outcomes.

I don't want to deposit fear into your dreams. You should follow what your heart tells you. But not going all in was probably the smartest decision you've made. Good luck!

The future is still bright. I was lucky enough to have two business going and the second one is a thriving consulting software company. Sorry if it looked like I was in a dire situ…

I appreciate the sympathy, really. The thing that I probably regret the most is really the time invested. That's the only thing I can't make up for. Even if I try to look back fond…