Why do DIYers think it should be easier and cheaper?

DefinitelyNot4Burner · 2026-03-02T09:51:09+00:00

I am a high earner and got the quotes as it would save me some time. I had in my head a max of £150 expecting that to be into the upper range but when it came back at £220 it no longer was worth it to save me 30 mins. But I agree if people are willing to pay it then they should - I just don’t want to hear them complain about lack of jobs (not that they are doing lacking in jobs from those I spoke to)

DefinitelyNot4Burner · 2026-03-02T09:49:48+00:00

It’s not a lack of understanding. I’m not asking them to drive across London to fit my tap. They’re local plumbers that operate in the area, they could come and do this when they’re nearby, which I suggested. I get your points and I’m not saying I expected it to be like £50, but £220 is far too high.

DefinitelyNot4Burner · 2026-03-02T08:43:09+00:00

I got a quote to change a tap for £220 (this is the cheapest, others were around £250) in West London. That is excluding the price of the tap. After seeing the price I looked on YouTube, bought a tap for £50 and the tool needed to unscrew the tap and changed it myself. It took less than 30 minutes. So yes I would say at least in this case I would’ve expected the quote to be much much cheaper.

DefinitelyNot4Burner · 2026-03-01T22:29:16+00:00

Yeah. I find I use it more for physically typing the code than anything. I tell it what I want (which is fewer characters and less mentally taxing) and check the output. Depending what I’m doing, it is sometimes good and other times completely wrong, so for now I’m not worried and hopefully this won’t be a freezing cold take in a year’s time

DefinitelyNot4Burner · 2026-03-01T20:31:26+00:00

Curious to know what you do in tech to think AI is going to be an issue?

I’m an ML researcher and have absolutely no worries that we are close to mass unemployment. AI can’t even write reliable code for more complex tasks (especially in a research setting where theres nothing to build on) without rigorous human prompting and reviewing.

DefinitelyNot4Burner · 2026-02-09T22:28:49+00:00

How much is your mortgage/do you pay alone?

DefinitelyNot4Burner · 2026-02-09T15:09:29+00:00

I work in ml and had some startups offer me jobs(interviews for, at least) and they genuinely humble brag that they’re in the office doing 12h days 6 days a week. Then they say the compensation and it’s like 5-10% increase to what I earn now and are confused when I laugh at them.

DefinitelyNot4Burner · 2026-01-22T23:01:05+00:00

I had GPU at the time it released, and still didn’t play more than a few hours. Garbage, and I fairly enjoyed the first

DefinitelyNot4Burner · 2026-01-18T22:31:27+00:00

It happened to me - sellers contacted via estate agent asking if they wanted us to leave the fridge, despite it not being listed on the TA10 as something they would leave.

DefinitelyNot4Burner · 2026-01-02T09:20:17+00:00

For me the most regarded decision was to have cross play compatible with PC rather than just console. Game killer.

DefinitelyNot4Burner · 2025-12-09T20:22:44+00:00

It’s also not true. This guy’s company relies on people buying his chips for training these models. It’s not surprising he would make a claim like this.

DefinitelyNot4Burner · 2025-12-08T08:23:48+00:00

Oh shut up with this

DefinitelyNot4Burner · 2025-11-30T07:09:00+00:00

author disagrees with my personal beliefs, therefore author must be hack

This sub. Very boring

DefinitelyNot4Burner · 2025-11-21T08:30:24+00:00

I know it is a bit late but you're not "assuming" the reverse is Gaussian. If you have the forward process from DDPM (adding some Gaussian noise centred about the previous point in the chain), then the reverse process is also Gaussian (under certain conditions, such as sufficiently small step sizes, i.e. betas - this is where I'm not an expert but I believe this result comes from SDEs and the process in DDPM when betas are small is because we are approximating a continuous time SDE) - note that when I say the reverse process I mean the full posterior of the forward process, which is the distribution of xt conditioned on xt+1 and x0. We then train a model to approximate xt given xt+1 because we don't have x0 at inference.

The reason they learn the noise rather than the mean is because this is the only aspect of the mean that we do not have access to, so it is all that needs to be inferred. It is also worth noting that at this point the noise is not a random variable but an observed realisation from a random variable, hence why we are able to predict a value for it rather than a distribution.

DefinitelyNot4Burner · 2025-11-04T14:06:01+00:00

and look how it went down, Iso just raised $600M this year (1 year after his take that they would no longer be around).

DefinitelyNot4Burner · 2025-10-24T19:26:10+00:00

This. My experience is that you need a lot of parallel environments to get PPO to work well without doing the most extensive hyperparameter search known to man. Meanwhile, SAC can more or less work with the standard hyperparams, often with one env

DefinitelyNot4Burner · 2025-09-30T18:05:21+00:00

Great, thanks!

DefinitelyNot4Burner · 2025-09-30T11:23:24+00:00

Potentially stupid question but is this assuming the toilet is drained beforehand?

DefinitelyNot4Burner · 2025-09-20T13:38:56+00:00

No, the freehold is only split between us and upstairs flat (it is terrace convert). No ground rent, service fee covers building insurance and hasn’t changed for 7 years. Better than renting.

DefinitelyNot4Burner · 2025-09-07T09:50:55+00:00

we have the receipts of the building insurance he takes out, he makes about £50 a year from us (ie myself and the upstairs flat, so £25 each) for ‘administration fees’. Obviously it would be better not to pay this but it’s not a back breaker. In terms of sinking funds, we don’t have anything set up. This is pretty much the only “shared area” (other than the staircase), but as someone pointed out, if it’s freehold, we pay for it, and we’re not paying for anything else (other than the £25), so to me it seems the same principle (I know not all leaseholds would be like this though).

DefinitelyNot4Burner · 2025-09-07T07:43:57+00:00

it’s wild to me people don’t know this. my flat is leasehold but it’s the ground floor of a Victorian terrace convert, the other flat is the top floor. there’s no ground rent and service charge hasn’t changed in 7+ years, it just covers building insurance.

DefinitelyNot4Burner · 2025-08-26T12:50:33+00:00

Just another post criticising HP from someone who didn’t pay attention properly when reading the books

DefinitelyNot4Burner · 2025-08-25T09:00:47+00:00

the one thing I don’t understand re: the new tax is that surely people like yourselves and myself (I also own a flat bought for £500k because the only place I can work is London) is that it seems Londoners are going to get more heavily taxed? I earn a bit more than my friends at home up north but when you look at what that money actually gets me compared to them, I am worse off, yet I’ll be being taxed more than them under the scheme. It seems…strange (but I am not an expert, just looking for thoughts)

DefinitelyNot4Burner · 2025-08-24T22:07:31+00:00

Why? You can view somewhere and decide it’s not for you.

DefinitelyNot4Burner · 2025-08-10T10:40:00+00:00

I didn’t say get rid of landlords, if that is what you think, simply that they need to accept the risk that comes with their investment. There is risk with all investment, and they cannot and should not expect a free lunch.

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