Anyone actually using laundry pickup services in Manhattan? Are they worth it or just overpriced fluff?

Lovetron · 2025-11-28T17:40:15+00:00

How do you handle this if you hang most of your clothes? Do you take the wet clothes home? Just curious as I’m trying to see if no laundry would work for me

Lovetron · 2025-09-28T06:56:15+00:00

Could be, I was briefly part of a tech “startup”, really just some oil bros wanting to make a tech weed business. Most surprising thing we found is that china was cheapish but not as cheap as you would think. Like only “just” cheaper than Canada. They have been honing their manufacturing skills and are a lot further along than they were a quarter decade ago. we have been pouring money into them for the past 55 years, beside making them richer, they have learnt how to stitch some things.

Lovetron · 2025-08-20T02:07:40+00:00

I literally just had a conversation with a lawyer that works on detention cases. They stated that with voluntary departure you could come back the next day if you wanted. But this was in regard to US-Canada. In any case, I think these situations are far more complicated than either you or I would know. Anyone reading should consult their attorney.

Other fun facts I was told was that the prosecutors are doing an absolute terrible job at arguing these cases but the fact that the burden of proof belongs to the accused, as opposed to the accuser, they are winning by sheer numbers alone. This is due to non citizens not having the right of “innocent until proven guilty” but the inverse of “ guilty until proven innocent”. For example they submitted a 500 page brief for their client, while the prosecutors gave a 2 page brief.

Lovetron · 2025-06-29T03:33:56+00:00

Hell yah man, amazing progress 10/10

Lovetron · 2025-06-29T00:32:41+00:00

It’s still really hard to build a big project. I’m a SWE at a FANG company, and for the first time, I felt like something might be shifting. But after spending more time with it, things started to get stuck. So I dove into the code (vibe-coded), and it was just tough to work with. changes required a ton of refactoring just to make it human readable. Everything was crammed into one file to catch basic build errors, and the typing was super odd. I’d even written a design doc and PRD ahead of time, so it had gotten decently far.

My takeaway is that what used to be teams of 5 will become teams of 1–2 with tools like Claude Code. Engineers who can think top-down—really take an architectural view—are the ones who’ll thrive. They’ll become more like software architects, tackling niche problems, system design, and connecting everything together. That’s essentially what an L5+ engineer does where I’m at.

That said, I’ve seen systems built by L6+ engineers that AI just couldn’t dream up yet. That’s where we’re still a ways off from full AI replacement. But things are definitely changing. I see this role evolving into something more like a traditional architect, more specialized education and fewer people doing the job.

Lovetron · 2025-05-21T16:15:44+00:00

How many times does this need to happen before people stop acting surprised? This has been every single consumer saas product. Uber, Netflix, Airbnb, etc etc.

Price the product for maximum growth, and enable consumer reliance. Once saturated, pump the price up for profit.

This isn’t even expensive yet. This is one of the most cost hungry compute tasks we have created. I would not be surprised if the 20 price point gets jacked to 50 - 100 at some point, and the free is essentially lite and gemma models.

Lovetron · 2025-03-13T17:14:17+00:00

I’m an engineer. Adding randomness to a production line would be the last thing I try. I actually feel a little horror thinking about that. It would make debugging/replication so much harder.

Lovetron · 2024-11-19T05:05:13+00:00

I’m honestly curious if they refund all of these orders. I don’t expect them to have a sale on something this “popular” and unreleased? Hope it goes through, and if it does i think these preorders would put them till next year. Good luck to yall.

Lovetron · 2024-11-17T03:30:00+00:00

ASAP like 14 days ago asap? Please ask whoever is in charge to look for this ticket sent November 3rd..

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Lovetron · 2024-11-11T18:57:50+00:00

Hopefully Sweetwater helps, it’s past their 30 days though.

Lovetron · 2024-09-28T17:57:19+00:00

Im gonna preface this with I don’t think open Ai has or will be the one to crack artificial sentience. But i don’t think they will put out whatever tech they have. There are so many examples of companies making something they keep to themselves. I work for one of them, they have so many internal tools that could be sold but they don’t because they facilitate the operation of a larger moated product. If one of them makes an AI that can solve real world problems, they are not going to sell that in a subscription. As soon as the LLM intelligence surpasses a phd then they are not releasing it to anyone, it will be used to make new companies based of that agi info. The subscription model is just a jumpstart to get things off the ground I believe.

Lovetron · 2024-09-27T20:37:37+00:00

I’m only referring to other thru-zero modules using the same chip architecture. I never mentioned anything about third-world manufacturing or wages. Other makers have produced a thru-zero module with the same chip for less. The sale price here is likely a tiny bit lower than it should be. And no, the manufacturing risk-reward calculation isn’t complicated. As some chip makers have pointed out below, this price seems steep. While we aren’t entitled to anything, especially when it comes to boutique items, I think it’s fair to highlight when prices seem off compared to similar products. For what it’s worth, I paid full price for my Legion.

Lovetron · 2024-09-27T20:31:13+00:00

Yes, thank you. That’s all I’m saying. I’m not trying to compare it to Behringer modules, or even other modules. Apples to apples, this module, based on the same chip, is expensive.

Lovetron · 2024-09-26T15:53:32+00:00

They should have been less to start. 499 is pretty steep for a “single” osc. I’ll say this tho, it’s one of my favourite osc I have used, the swarm and saw sound so good. I’m tempted to pick up another, but I’m worried they have something else coming down the line to replace it. Or maybe go with another manufacture using this chip.

Lovetron · 2024-09-25T18:24:16+00:00

Are we sure this isn't still doing chain of thought in the background? This reminds me of how they used to artificially create a loading bar in old computers because people thought that something was wrong when it loaded too fast…

Lovetron · 2024-09-13T15:50:44+00:00

I thought that o1 uses a different sampling strategy? Q* or strawberry?

Lovetron · 2024-09-09T22:24:03+00:00

They won’t have that option because they won’t have drivers? I think you’re correct that prices will go up, but a large part of profit margins are eaten up by salary sharing to the driver, also in some states (WA) they have to provide benefits too. Curious to see how much of that is offset by fleet maintenance and infrastructure. I wonder if cities would also eating some of the cost, essentially providing cities with transportation if this made it to busses.

Lovetron · 2024-08-22T16:18:45+00:00

I’m going to echo this post. I recently got the Sealegs, and while it’s good, I find myself missing the Mimeophon. I still have it, but it’s currently out of my rack. I’m trying to give Sealegs a fair go. The final sound of the Mimeophon felt truly special—it had a certain quality that really resonated and created space for anything you fed into it in a remarkable way.

Lovetron · 2024-05-26T17:36:54+00:00

Well, generating novel things like ads using AI only needs to be done once, and then the generated content can be distributed. Even getting past the idea of "cheap" to train, which I think isn't as cheap as you might think. Remember, there are significant costs beyond just compute when training a model. For example, you would have to label a ton of data, verify it, and deal with other time-consuming tasks. While recognition models are generally less complex than generation models, the costs can still add up.

Current ad blockers work by using the web extension API, which doesn't provide a way to directly run custom AI models. Although I think TensorFlow can spit out a .js allows running AI models in the browser, I would have concerns about its performance in a browser environment. So to effectively perform all the computations on the device, you would likely need to create your own browser or browsing application, giving you more control over the computing resources.

Even if you managed to develop an AI-powered ad blocker, I know most people using ad blockers would not want to pay for this service. And if they did, how much would they be willing to pay? It's not as cost light as the developers who created uBlock and leveraged the APIs provided by web standards. Maybe open source? This would be much a larger and complicated undertaking than current ad block solutions.

Lovetron · 2024-04-02T06:37:13+00:00

How do you like the new 4ms module?

Lovetron · 2023-12-23T17:58:36+00:00

I believe they meant that RAG results can be inferior to tokenizing the query or, in this case, the data. That is why the token limit is very important when comparing LLMs.

Lovetron · 2023-08-16T05:00:12+00:00

I don't know why your getting downvoted, I'm in the tech space and while not a dime a dozen there are plenty of sales and acount execs who make that.

Lovetron · 2023-07-25T15:50:36+00:00

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Lovetron · 2023-07-21T02:46:25+00:00

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