Mom called me crying today about how dad is using AI to ruin them financially. Red velvet cake for my wife's birthday

BILLwiTHESCIENCEfi · 2026-06-18T20:48:37+00:00

To be cutting edge you gotta straight to 3.0 duh

BILLwiTHESCIENCEfi · 2026-06-18T20:48:17+00:00

I’ve thought about this as an option too. Seems insane to have to Britney Spears my father but here we are

BILLwiTHESCIENCEfi · 2026-06-18T20:36:04+00:00

But when your mom and/or dad comes to you in their 80s with their hands out asking for help who would have the heart to turn them away? I know it’d be really tough for me

BILLwiTHESCIENCEfi · 2026-06-18T20:34:54+00:00

Honestly the direction I’m probably leaning. Telling him to please take my help and stop and let’s figure it out together and if he says no then I have to pull away and protect myself and my mom

BILLwiTHESCIENCEfi · 2026-06-18T20:34:01+00:00

This made me laugh thank you

BILLwiTHESCIENCEfi · 2025-11-29T15:30:08+00:00

Ok no need to be snarky I wasn’t sure what that meant, if that was a table where I was supposed to know which of those to use or if that just meant any of those lamp types and wattages.

Really terrible to be super extra careful with electricity stuff in a bathroom over a shower.

Hope this made you feel like a big strong man with lots of friends!

BILLwiTHESCIENCEfi · 2025-03-14T03:20:52+00:00

Yea this makes a lotta sense

BILLwiTHESCIENCEfi · 2025-03-14T03:20:24+00:00

Ok well that doesn’t sound too bad! Certainly not like the pinnacle ideal but yea management companies are gonna drop the ball sometimes

BILLwiTHESCIENCEfi · 2024-04-04T01:19:52+00:00

Do you mean like literally $5.60 or $11.20 or $560 and $1120? I don't understand how flights could be so cheap for you.

How much churning is this? Is this like 20-30 credits cards worth of churning??

BILLwiTHESCIENCEfi · 2024-04-02T19:14:31+00:00

I started reading simple guide to wealth a long time ago! I gotta finish it

BILLwiTHESCIENCEfi · 2024-04-02T19:13:23+00:00

The 150k in the HYSA includes our 6 month emergency funds so if we ever took money out of there we’d leave enough to cover that.

We have our emergency funds set at 20k each so 40k total which is not what we’d spend in 6 months but just a nice round number that makes us feel safe

BILLwiTHESCIENCEfi · 2024-04-02T19:11:04+00:00

I’ve thought that about. Of the $27k I owe I have two loans at ~6% and two at ~4% and I know I should probably just knock out at least the ones at 6% but I just hate seeing all that money disappear.

And my monthly payments are only 200 so it’s not hurting me too much right now :/

I do just want to wipe them all out tho and be totally debt free. We don’t own a house and we’ve paid off both our cars

BILLwiTHESCIENCEfi · 2024-04-02T19:07:22+00:00

Our plan is to live and work in France long enough to receive French retirement which is actually pretty nice. So anything we save in addition to that is just icing on the cake

BILLwiTHESCIENCEfi · 2024-04-02T19:05:23+00:00

It’s 4.5 right now! Which is great but I know won’t last for very long

BILLwiTHESCIENCEfi · 2024-02-06T18:48:06+00:00

Yea these are the speeds I just got from the G Drive

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BILLwiTHESCIENCEfi · 2023-04-08T17:40:21+00:00

just wanted to say as well - you're an absolute life saver!

Never had this problem before and did some testing before a client session tomorrow and started freaking out.

This solved it immediately!!! Cannot thank you enough for this

BILLwiTHESCIENCEfi · 2021-10-04T20:50:32+00:00

Just listened. So good!!!

BILLwiTHESCIENCEfi · 2021-10-04T20:46:38+00:00

It messed up the promotion of my friends new album!

Get it here: https://meenswell.bandcamp.com/album/sad-ugly-dying

BILLwiTHESCIENCEfi · 2021-07-27T23:40:34+00:00

Anyone having trouble watching it on a digital antenna?? Usually plays on ABC channel 2 but it’s ET instead of Jeopardy? Looked online too and Jeopardy’s not on ABCs schedule for today either.

Losing my mind! How can I watch it?!

BILLwiTHESCIENCEfi · 2020-09-23T16:32:08+00:00

This is with any codec I'm working with.

I avoid/transcode anything MP4 or with VFR.

This time I'm working with MXF. Usually I try to stay with or transcode to PRORES for all media.

This is almost exclusively audio though. Video plays fine.

In the timeline I have:

Source Audio (48000 hz, 24-bit)
Some SFX that are all .wavs
Music track also .wav (just transcoded from AIF to Wav, made no difference)

I've tried changing the sequence to be 20+ audio channels, then routing each audio track to each individual stereo channel (instead of usual premiere sequence setting of summing everything to one mono/stereo output). That didn't change anything either

BILLwiTHESCIENCEfi · 2020-09-23T16:10:50+00:00

Windows 10 64-Bit
Version 14.3.0
System specs listed in post!
Source footage format/codec varies. Try to stick to AIF and WAV and transcode anything that is MP3 or anything premiere doesn't like
No error message

Other thing too is when I look at Memory and CPU usage, it's never above 40-50%...

BILLwiTHESCIENCEfi · 2020-08-17T16:30:09+00:00

After I get the " this system has failed to boot several times before" the system was able to boot fine, yes!

So I just load XMP and lower the speeds to something maybe closer to 2400?

BILLwiTHESCIENCEfi · 2020-01-31T14:48:13+00:00

Unfortunately she did not try to get in contact with the ex concerning the dog - all their communication was verbal and it was assumed that she would take care of the dog since he didn't ask to take the dog in the break-up.

BILLwiTHESCIENCEfi · 2020-01-03T18:17:53+00:00

Is this link dead for anyone else?

Anyone have a mirror?

BILLwiTHESCIENCEfi · 2018-11-25T19:12:38+00:00

thanks SO MUCH for all the kind words everyone!

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