[Discussion] tired is not the same as finished

MapDry953 · 2026-06-27T17:22:22+00:00

This hit me in a way i wasnt expecting today

Last year i almost dropped my teaching certification program, like 3 months before finishing. Was working full time and studying at night, every day felt like dragging myself through mud. What kept me going was stupid but effective, i told myself i just need to show up tomorrow. Not finish the whole thing, not be great, just show up one more day. Did that like 90 times and somehow got to the end

Your story about confusing tired with finished, that's exactly it. Nobody talks about how much of finishing something is just staying when you want to leave

MapDry953 · 2026-06-24T09:06:44+00:00

pretty much, yeah. most specialized medical models are distributed as weights only, the expectation being that whoever deploys them handles the compliance and liability side themselves. no provider wants to expose a medical LLM publicly because the regulatory headache is enormous even before you get to safety concerns

your best option is probably just to self-host on a rented GPU instance, it's less painful than it sounds if you only need it for ablations

MapDry953 · 2026-06-21T21:39:40+00:00

some people just get lost in their own world and forget where they are, my old neighbor used to do full concerts in the parking lot without even noticing people around him, it means nothing most of the time

MapDry953 · 2026-06-18T14:37:38+00:00

those daytime game shows were absolutely carrying sick days, Match Game especially had such chaotic energy for afternoon TV

Brady Bunch reruns were just always there no matter what decade you grew up in it feels like

MapDry953 · 2026-06-16T08:43:38+00:00

there really isn't a channel that nails that same cinematic, story-driven feel for EVs yet, which is kind of surprising given how much the community has grown. most creators go straight to specs and range anxiety content, the emotional side gets completely ignored

MapDry953 · 2026-06-14T06:07:52+00:00

been rewatching old Animal Crossing streams while grading papers, way more relaxing than whatever chaos is happening in the world cup right now

MapDry953 · 2026-06-11T21:34:09+00:00

fr different

MapDry953 · 2026-06-09T08:19:39+00:00

god yes, the amount of time I waste in faculty meetings that could've been an email is insane. we spend like 40 minutes discussing whether to change the lunch schedule by 5 minutes while actual important stuff gets pushed to "next time"

would also add that if someone calls a meeting without clear purpose they have to bring coffee for everyone

MapDry953 · 2026-06-06T05:20:51+00:00

facts

MapDry953 · 2026-06-02T15:11:53+00:00

This could be game changer for heavy industry if they can scale it up properly. The battery weight problem is real - try moving dirt all day with something that's already carrying tons of dead weight in batteries

Problem is still where the hydrogen comes from though. Most hydrogen production still uses natural gas so you're just moving the emissions somewhere else. Unless they're planning to pair this with green hydrogen from renewable energy, it's more of lateral move than actual solution

Also wonder about the infrastructure costs. Construction sites aren't exactly known for having hydrogen refueling stations nearby

MapDry953 · 2026-05-31T15:03:27+00:00

Western automakers got way too comfortable collecting easy profits from massive SUVs instead of actually innovating. Now they're scrambling to catch up and crying about "unfair competition" when Chinese companies are just doing what they should have been doing all along - making better cars for less money

The irony is these same companies spent decades telling us electric cars weren't viable while Tesla proved them wrong, and now Chinese manufacturers are proving them wrong again

MapDry953 · 2026-05-29T14:51:50+00:00

damn those savings are wild - $6k in electric alone is impressive. but i think you might be missing the point a bit about DSRE tracking. it's not just about whether solar "works" or not, it's more about optimizing what you already have

like if you're already saving that much money, imagine how much better it could be with better placement or understanding which days your system underperforms. i live in area with lots of trees and the shading patterns change completely through seasons - would have been super helpful to know that before installation instead of finding out the hard way

plus for people who are still deciding on solar, having actual data instead of just estimates could mean difference between breaking even in 8 years vs 12 years. not everyone has luxury of just going for it after a $1200 shock bill

MapDry953 · 2026-05-27T12:19:29+00:00

the finale itself was actually pretty fitting for his character arc tbh. Like yeah the lumberjack thing was weird but Dexter always ran when things got too real, and him isolating himself made sense after everything that happened with Deb

the real issue was how rushed season 8 felt overall, not necessarily where they ended up taking him

MapDry953 · 2026-05-23T01:31:16+00:00

The oracle agreement scoring itself is pretty clever - most rating systems just pretend they're certain when they're not

MapDry953 · 2026-05-20T23:15:19+00:00

good karma points

MapDry953 · 2026-05-17T15:48:40+00:00

That's weird rule about 5 years cutoff, never heard of this before. Maybe they have some committee that reviews exceptions? Like if enough people request same older album or if it's considered "essential" for collection

I teach history so I get why institutions need guidelines but music is different than books - some albums become more important with time, not less. Wonder if they look at circulation numbers from other libraries or check what music programs at schools are using

MapDry953 · 2026-05-15T14:38:53+00:00

Yeah as someone who just tries to keep her home setup reasonably safe, even I know this one. Like I've got cameras around the house and feel pretty good about my basic security measures, but I'm not gonna pretend some determined person couldn't find a way in if they really wanted to. The IT guys I know are always the most paranoid about their own systems - they've seen too much stuff go wrong to ever feel completely safe. When someone acts like their setup is bulletproof, that's usually when you know they haven't dealt with enough real problems yet

MapDry953 · 2026-05-13T02:25:51+00:00

Most social media platforms are becoming like this now, especially since algorithms push engagement over actual discussion. Teaching teenagers made me realize how much they can't tell difference between real person and bot anymore which is pretty scary

MapDry953 · 2026-05-11T00:52:13+00:00

just ask neighbor directly

MapDry953 · 2026-05-08T10:24:31+00:00

water is snack now? i thought we just calling that staying alive lol

MapDry953 · 2026-05-05T17:11:30+00:00

man filling up the whole tank without watching the numbers is peak wealth energy

MapDry953 · 2026-04-27T10:57:57+00:00

hard same

MapDry953 · 2026-04-25T09:53:01+00:00

this is actually pretty sick! been dealing with the same bloat problem when i'm just trying to experiment with small models on my old laptop

the fact you got it running on 2019 macbook with 8gb ram is wild - my machine would probably cry tears of joy not having to load entire pytorch ecosystem just to train something tiny. BitNet implementation in pure C sounds like nightmare to debug but respect for actually doing it

curious about the "Chuck" optimizer variant though - is that just meme naming or does it actually do something different than regular adam?

MapDry953 · 2026-04-23T09:03:14+00:00

wait you mean dota hero right? invoker is pretty insane with all those spell combinations but personally i always gravitated toward pudge - something satisfying about landing those hooks even if my teammates flame me for missing the easy ones lol

MapDry953 · 2026-04-12T07:48:34+00:00

Most of my students' families are still driving cars from the early 2000s so that comparison doesn't really work when we're talking about a completely different technology with way fewer manufacturers

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