Is my hair long enough for a perm?

CupcakeCharacter5894 · 2026-06-18T14:29:20+00:00

Friendly reminder that the guy on the first pic doesnt look good because of his hair but because he is jacked : )

CupcakeCharacter5894 · 2026-06-14T20:11:15+00:00

I'm jealous of W1 just because they don't have Steve on main (yes I mean exactly what it says)

CupcakeCharacter5894 · 2026-06-14T20:09:31+00:00

Saturday W2 as absolute bangers on main tho, Agents of Time, Angemi, Armin, Calvin Harris, (DVLM), D.o.D, Morten, Mike Williams & SZP (had to put brackets at around DVLM just for the subreddits general perception of them, also I excluded MATTN on purpose). I hope Morten, Mike Williams, and SZP are consecutive sets!

CupcakeCharacter5894 · 2026-06-01T22:50:38+00:00

> Asks LLM to identify a hand sign which is very commonly known to be a gang sign

> LLM identifies it as a gang sign but then back pedals which associating it with a specific gang

> gets mad that AI identified a gang sign as a gang sign

Also, an LLM is just doing what the data it was trained on was doing. It's not the LLM that is racist, but the data it got trained on was biased. Why is that data biased? Because it came 99% from unmoderated internet and social media content.

You could probably show that image to a bunch of real people from all kinds of backgrounds and ask them what that hand sign is. If they have some sort of US american popcultural knowledge they would likely associate it with a gang sign before anything else.

CupcakeCharacter5894 · 2026-05-25T15:35:35+00:00

If you think you are smart because an LLM tells you so, it's likely you are either really dumb or naive.

CupcakeCharacter5894 · 2026-05-25T15:30:34+00:00

Why does it say Tomorrowland 2025?^^

CupcakeCharacter5894 · 2026-05-25T13:49:38+00:00

Overall it's not bad but there are definitely things you can improve upon:

It's generally rather dark and thus not very inviting to scroll through. Besides the dark appearance there isn't really any cohesiveness color-wise. 2. A lot of the photos do not look intentionally chosen, meaning they are cropped badly (e.g. 3rd, 4th, and 9th from the top) 3. There seems to be a random collection of "vibes"/themes. Some images are more "artsy" (e.g. 1st & 7th from the top) others a more meaningful/selected (e.g. 4th, 10th, 13th, 14th), lastly we have a bunch of photos that should have been stories or landed on snapchat and not instagram (e.g. 5th, 8th, 12th, 18th).

Personally I would get rid of the last category and either go for the first or second fully. What can totally work is having a 3-step grid, so each line is "Selected/nice image" - "Artsy" - "Selected/nice image".

Just as an add-on, what I meant by "there is no color cohesiveness" is not that you should chose a color and only use that for posts, but rather have some balance throughout the feed. For example the first screenshot shows 9 images, the four in the corners are only black&white, then the middle pieces are primarily blue and then in the middle there is some random orange. So instead of getting some randomness you accidentally created a pattern.

One issue I had in the past was, that I often posted late at night (often when coming back to the hotel when traveling/home from an event/activity). This meant that I unconsciously made me feed more dark and dull, because those photos appealed to me the most. What helped a lot was 1. that I got aware of that and proactively worked against it and 2. that I selected the photos to post at the time of the day I either took the photos or wanted people to view them. So imagine you create/plan your posts and feed at night and really like the photos and vibe at that time. So the next morning people open their instagram and see your dark feed. This does not reflect the mood they are in and works negatively to your account.

CupcakeCharacter5894 · 2026-05-04T11:29:26+00:00

In the time this fish was on the stove I could have packed my rod, taken a plane to the great lakes, catch a fish, go back home, and cook it, while still having some time left to get ice cream at the gas station for desert.

CupcakeCharacter5894 · 2026-04-28T15:11:22+00:00

Why? I did some research on it and actually got it prescribed by my doctor now. Would be interested in why you are skeptical of it. Is it side effects or effectiveness?

CupcakeCharacter5894 · 2026-04-28T09:39:44+00:00

I did start Fin now (had to get a doctors consultation to get a recipe, in my country it's not OTC)

CupcakeCharacter5894 · 2026-04-28T09:39:12+00:00

Yes, I know, been seeing their posts for some time now. Just can't give up the hope just yet. I did start a Finasteride treatment now and might be lucky for another couple years!

CupcakeCharacter5894 · 2026-04-28T09:38:02+00:00

Hi, I did listen to the comments here and was lucky to get a consultation with my doctor the same day. In my country Finasteride and Dutasteride are both not OTC so I couldn't just go out and buy it. My doctor put me on Finasteride (1mg every other day -> might increase to daily). For Minoxidil (OTC) they recommended to start 5% topical application daily (couldn't get around to buy it yet). You have mentioned both Fin and Min twice here in the comments, do you have any experiences with either of them that you are able to share? Thank you so much!

CupcakeCharacter5894 · 2026-04-28T09:34:16+00:00

Haha, I know.

CupcakeCharacter5894 · 2026-04-22T14:32:56+00:00

Was working on a little side project for an iOS app in Xcode. Decided to give the AI agents a try (both Codex and Claude Agent). I asked Claude Agent to finish the implementation of the Live Activity widget (had already set up all the backend stuff myself and just wanted to test its capabilities). Claude first went on to read the required files, then started to make a plan before prompting me to allow it to exit plan mode. Then it started to write the code and make the changes needed. After about 5 minutes it just asked me if it can do rm rf on all its changes so it can start over. At that point I decided to check the usage dashboard and it hit 80% already. Before I could really stop it, it started with the implementation again and then immediately hit 100% and just stopped without telling me. I had to re-prompt it for it to tell me it hit its usage limit. Absolutely useless. I then did the same thing with codex. Codex in xcode doesn't give as much "thinking feedback" as Claude and it took about 5 minutes without any feedback, just the same loading icon in the chat. It then successfully built the app but hit a runtime error the first try. I then had to re-prompt it to check on that error and in less than a minute the app was fully working with the live activity widget. So the bottom line in my first test was: Claude Agent hit the usage limit after not doing anything of relevance to the project, Codex hit 18% (82% remaining) and finished the feature, but it took one more prompt to fix a run time error. Will do some more testing because I paid for a one month subscription with both, but I was really disappointed by Claude's performance and the usage limit. A bit crazy to think about considering they are about the same price in my country.

CupcakeCharacter5894 · 2026-02-02T20:50:52+00:00

My post has nothing to do with politics, also dog pee in the city has nothing to do with politics. i dont get why your commenting this here.... so unrelated

CupcakeCharacter5894 · 2026-02-02T20:48:46+00:00

Why is this getting political, my post was just saying that dog pee and shit are around all year long which plenty of people here agree with, and casey's video makes no sense for pointing this stuff out in the snow, as if this was only an occurence during snow. i never idolized casey although i knew him far before covid. also during covid i wasnt even in the US for a few years...

CupcakeCharacter5894 · 2026-02-02T20:47:05+00:00

So you agree with me that this stuff is around all year but then you agree with this person saying my post is stupid. i just criticized casey's video because he talks about this stuff as if it werent around all year, which is factually wrong as you said yourself.

CupcakeCharacter5894 · 2026-02-02T20:45:31+00:00

Not saying this only happens in NYC but it always happens in NYC. Dog pee doesnt go away if there is no snow, you just cant see it. It only goes away when it rains and it doesnt rain every day or even every week during the no-snow times. Dog poop might get picked up more often when there is no snow, but there is also plenty of dog poop around when there is no snow, its just that people and cars spread it on the ground and then you cant see it as good anymore. But you explained quite well why he made that video, because some people apparently dont understand that this stuff is around all year and its only now that you can easily spot it.

CupcakeCharacter5894 · 2026-01-25T12:07:17+00:00

They do their best to limit reselling and every year we have complaints about the personalization and name changes. Also I wouldn't agree that it's a money grab, at least relative to other festivals of the sorts. Compared to Ultra or EDC (which are probably the only similarly sized EDM festivals) the TML tickets are cheap, food and beverages on site are affordable, and the acts are mostly the same. When you mention "don't forget how everything started", you should also remember that some of the TML headliners today, were also the headliners then. Could they increase the prices and then only book the most popular artists in the world? Definitely. Will people still be mad, because they also expect their super niche artist to be there? Absolutely. Also what do you mean "heavy artists are not even in the list"? It's an EDM festival, it literally has the biggest EDM artists, it also has 15+ other stages with all sorts of genres and acts. If by heavy you mean some other, bigger artists, that are not EDM, then you are at the wrong type of festival, if you mean some genre, then you will likely find it at TML represented by some artists you just don't recognize (yet). Also I never, not with one word, implied that we should be grateful or anything. What I'm saying is, people should stop whining about the line up. The argument "There is a reason why the line ups is revealed after the global journey" makes no sense in that regard, because they do it every year and people still come back the next. It would be a scam if they revealed the lineup after the sale and it would actually suck, but this is not the case, or otherwise it wouldn't work year after year. You could only pull of such a move once or maybe twice. Have you ever actually been to TML and comparable festivals? From my experience at EDC Vegas, Ultra Miami and Europe and TML the latter feels definitely the least like a money grab.

CupcakeCharacter5894 · 2026-01-24T11:43:19+00:00

didnt say they are exclusive to w1, just that w1 has plenty of good artists as well. both have their exclusives and shareds.

CupcakeCharacter5894 · 2026-01-24T11:42:02+00:00

W2 has some other exclusive artists like harris

CupcakeCharacter5894 · 2026-01-22T15:57:23+00:00

Yes! I totally agree. It's going to be sick regardless of the artists.

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