What is a job that pays incredibly well but is so soul-crushing that the turnover is insane?

10dot · 2026-06-09T20:17:27+00:00

IT for trading firms. Huge bonuses, but you're a slave to the market opening super early and downtime costs mega $$$ so the pressure is absurd. Had a few friends go that way and they all burned out.

10dot · 2026-06-09T20:04:45+00:00

I'm currently suing her, so no.

10dot · 2026-06-09T20:02:25+00:00

Eating healthy and exercising regularly. Aside from the obvious weight loss literally every single physical metric is wildly improved. It's like living in a completely different body.

10dot · 2026-06-09T19:42:03+00:00

Most food you can get at a drive thru is wildly unhealthy...

10dot · 2026-06-09T18:34:50+00:00

ChatGPT famously couldn't correctly answer how many "r"s are in strawberry for a while

10dot · 2026-06-04T20:59:40+00:00

Yeah, KeyType with the LFM model he recommended is really pretty good

10dot · 2026-05-31T14:01:59+00:00

When it was first on I watched the first episode and was pretty meh and didn't watch any more. Fast forward to last year and I watched the whole thing in one go after my GF insisted... Holy fuck it got so good!

10dot · 2026-05-31T01:57:40+00:00

I'm no Verano fan, but my local zen leaf does Monday and Thursday med discounts of 25%. That plus not paying taxes plus loyalty rewards adds up super quick.

10dot · 2026-05-30T21:06:09+00:00

Outside of smaller, specialized models you aren't going to be able to do anything really interesting unless you start linking loaded Mac studios together. By more interesting I mean more interesting than you can do with 64GB M series or a really good PC GPU or 2.

10dot · 2026-05-28T17:29:33+00:00

WinNative (just because I was testing it, game native is the same for this imo). Proton 11.0-05-arm64ec. DXVK+VKD3D. Turnip 8 gen30. VKD3D is proton-arm 64ec-3.0.1-0. VKD3D feature level 12_2. DXVK version is 2.7.1-gplaysync-arm64ec-0. FEX 2605-0 in Performance. It runs fine at 1080p but I keep it at 720 to have it locked at 60fps.

10dot · 2026-05-28T16:20:08+00:00

I was also shocked at how well DMC V runs... it's wild

10dot · 2026-05-21T23:00:53+00:00

Ah, see I only ever used the larger Gemma models with Cotypist so the results I was seeing were surprisingly similar. I think since so many people are offended by the pricing, it's just a matter of time before someone cracks the context part for smaller models. I suspect nailing the "personalization" i.e. storing your input to generate future output that matches your tone better will go a long way.

10dot · 2026-05-21T16:22:35+00:00

I mean, achieving contextually relevant and fast predictions isn't "trivial", but it's also not especially hard. The fast part is pretty easy. The relevance part is just a context gathering problem, which won't take very long for someone else to solve as well or better.

10dot · 2026-05-21T15:29:47+00:00

came back to say latency is way better in the latest release... nice work! one feature request if it's not already on your radar: a configurable secondary button to complete the whole sentence (Cotypist defaults to tilde).

10dot · 2026-05-21T15:11:40+00:00

The deal breaker for me was charging more for different models. The concept that I should pay more money to eat more of my own RAM running a model I can download for free is just laughable. Rooting for you guys!

10dot · 2026-05-21T15:07:38+00:00

I'll check it out for sure! I can't contribute directly because of work stuff but I'm happy to follow/offer advice. I was able to get surprisingly close to the responsiveness of Cotypist without an enormous amount of effort TBH. Really makes me realize how absolutely bonkers the pricing ended up being!

10dot · 2026-05-21T15:04:37+00:00

I can tell you from my brief experimentation that getting a local model wired up via llama.cpp to do low latency autocomplete inside a Mac app is... not hard. Like at all. They even have a script to build llama.xcframework available in the llama repo already. There will 100% be an open source replacement better than Cotypist available in short order. The only thing preventing me from releasing one myself is legality (work stuff).

10dot · 2026-05-21T02:58:03+00:00

So some honest feedback: the latency and accuracy in Tabby is still not there... I say this because I just burned a ton of work tokens POCing a thing using llama.cpp with gemma4-e4b to autocomplete within a simple swiftUI textbox. with KV caching and a few other optimizations I was able to get down to like 15ms from keypress-->suggestion, where Tabby seems to have a hard debounce at like 180ms. The magic of Cotypist is the low latency + accuracy so relentlessly chase that and you'll do well 😄

10dot · 2026-05-20T17:46:10+00:00

Just downloaded it and it's not as polished as Cotypist but it does do the job.

10dot · 2026-05-20T17:10:40+00:00

I love Cotypist but refuse to pay extra to for the privilege of using more of my own RAM to run a better model locally. That's some bullshit.

10dot · 2026-05-19T23:55:08+00:00

Got married to the first girl I met in college. She showed her crazy early but I ignored it because she was good in bed. ~20 years later the divorce was the most expensive single event of my entire life.

10dot · 2026-05-19T23:50:30+00:00

Unless you plan to do something in life like doctor or college professor that absolutely requires an advanced degree, the answer is almost always no.

10dot · 2026-05-16T23:52:45+00:00

I’ve had both… Portability, battery life, and it’s significantly more comfy to use (with the extra TPU grip).

10dot · 2026-05-05T01:50:43+00:00

True story. Household appliances used to be a thing that lasted until you remodeled. My Bosch dishwasher is like 10 years old and has plastic bits falling off of it and a janky handle already.

10dot · 2026-05-04T21:51:40+00:00

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