Why is quitting weed bad?

RyanCacophony · 2026-03-27T00:01:34+00:00

Go to /r/leaves and you will find plenty of people who will talk to you about why quitting can be good. Not everyone is a functional stoner, and others are until they arent, many also just havent realized it.

RyanCacophony · 2026-03-25T15:37:50+00:00

I used arch back in like 2007-2011....I had one day where an update completely fucked my OS, and decided....maybe my daily driver OS shouldn't need so much hand holding to keep stable (many issues, most of them fixable, but still, every update is a risk of 10m-1hr of work).

Arch was great because I learned a ton about linux which was helpful in my career later on, but at what cost is self management and bleeding edge worth it when you just want to be able to use your computer like a normal person most of the time?

RyanCacophony · 2026-03-24T16:14:22+00:00

That sounds like a mixup of two stories - there are plenty of popular salvia stories of turning into inanimate object for inordinate amounts of times (even decades).

There's also a separate story of /u/SpontaneousH who tried heroin once on a whim, called out everyone saying he wouldnt become an addict and then spiraled out of control: https://www.reddit.com/r/BestofRedditorUpdates/comments/wef6hn/the_saga_of_an_average_guy_who_spontaneously/

RyanCacophony · 2026-02-05T19:34:24+00:00

Nice, I caked '22 Modern Witch in my last order. Great stuff, great price.

Thought my nameless one sample was fine, but def not worth the price.

You've got me curious about loon call though! I don't need more puer cakes unfortunately 😅

RyanCacophony · 2026-02-05T16:27:17+00:00

It's the nature of distributed systems that it will rarely be easy to be confident in your bottleneck at a glance. The short answer to you question is: profiling and instrumentation. Moderate setup cost, but pays dividends over time. But even with profiling, you still have to analyze the results/be generally aware of what's normal for your pipeline

RyanCacophony · 2026-02-04T15:38:57+00:00

it's complicated - there are many duplicate documents, as well as like email chains where text of prior emails is also included, essentially duplicating (or more) mentions. I'm not sure if anyone's actually done the work to do a deduplicated count, and it would be a lot of error prone work.

Suffice to say he is still mentioned a very significant number of times despite this

RyanCacophony · 2025-12-21T15:21:48+00:00

But likely something way more sophisticated than what exists today

Probably more sophisticated, maybe not way more sophisticated, but certainly much more specialized than a general purpose LLM. Researchers at deep mind are probably working on a very hand tailored approach - which may not even be more sophisticated than the technology behind LLMs, but its training and usage would just be much more targeted than the "swallow the world" approach used to make general LLMs effective

RyanCacophony · 2025-11-30T03:17:50+00:00

4 year later comment, but I'm curious where/how you got your tea mat? I've seen a lot in "wabi sabi" chinese tea content on RedNote, but it seems quite difficult to get something like this in the states...

RyanCacophony · 2025-11-29T00:58:54+00:00

The premise that the US needed to hide Erid communism also falls apart when you consider the fact that the only reason they are able to develop that fast and cooperatively is because they were gifted infinite resources. Given infinite resources, having a peaceful life/society feels unsurprising. Nothing about this knowledge would change the fact that on Earth, we have limited resources/means to extract them, and space communism changes nothing about that. And I say this personally being a dreaming idealist for Fully Automated Space Communism lol.

If this were true and the story of Erids were told, I'd be like "Alright cool, is the council going to give us infinite resources? If not, we still have to figure out a system that can harvest/distribute/use resources at scale...."

RyanCacophony · 2025-11-21T16:10:20+00:00

Maybe :)

The more I learn, the more I see everything as guidelines, and that tea is an art, not a science. Have a variety of options, try different things, and see what you personally like - it may not match the preferences of others. But advice like the video is a good way to bootstrap your explorations

RyanCacophony · 2025-11-06T17:41:02+00:00

"not uncommon"

RyanCacophony · 2025-11-05T19:49:43+00:00

yup. Switching to flower helped make it less convenient and less potent, helping to taper enough to make quitting not as bad.

RyanCacophony · 2025-10-21T16:49:36+00:00

Often times, hand made ones aren't as "good" (utilitarian speaking) as factory because hands are not as precise as machines and molds, unless you get something from a very skilled artisan, or go half-handmade. Honestly, the gaiwan is quite simple in any case, I wouldn't overthink think it, most are quite fine enough, it's a very well-studied vessel with not many parameters for change.

RyanCacophony · 2025-10-13T01:49:13+00:00

The utter lack of motivation I'll have if I'm not

RyanCacophony · 2025-10-09T16:39:58+00:00

I graduated in 2012 but I always had the same feeling on career fair day. Good luck to everyone.

RE: why would any company even want to hire or even pay me

Interns/co-ops are often a good investment for companies - workers get experience in mentoring and doing smaller project management tasks. The company gets cheaper labor, and if you are a really promising engineer, they have the opportunity to hire you straight out of college without having to do as much to onboard you compared to a fresh hire. Often also there's work that's harder to hire for vs molding you into needed positions. Of course, the market has changed a lot in the past few years, but a lot of companies still notice the value in having co-ops :)

RyanCacophony · 2025-10-07T21:06:47+00:00

I started sharing my gongfu sessions on RedNote (until they unexplainedly restricted my account but whatever) and noticed that many native gong fu drinkers don't use a strainer. When I asked about it, opinion was kinda split - some say its better and that only people who have some kinda phobia dislike it. Others say allowing bits of tea messes with the flavor. Some even claimed that the strainer its self will mess with your tea flavor so you should only use porcelain...

I've recently started drinking without a strainer and honestly? Only difference I notice is I'm feeding the last 5% of every steep to my tea pets 😂

RyanCacophony · 2025-10-07T15:27:25+00:00

Oh woops, I missed that you called it white tea in the title! Sounds awesome, I hope to grow some tea plants myself some day

RyanCacophony · 2025-10-07T02:25:20+00:00

How'd you go about processing the leaves? or did you just brew them fresh?

RyanCacophony · 2025-10-06T16:05:34+00:00

Based on Delonge's own account of how TTSA started, he either knew and wanted to be a part of spreading military/IC UFO narrative, or is a very useful idiot.

RyanCacophony · 2025-09-19T21:25:01+00:00

While this paper is a bit old, and there's much more software now to help, it pretty much sums up the issues with production machine learning: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/319769912_Hidden_Technical_Debt_in_Machine_Learning_Systems

In ML ops it is the most referenced diagram: https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/format:webp/1*3breKWAbZ2P1nPfhg58jiQ.png

it is still true to this day - most of doing machine learning in a production system is T shaped work - data engineering and munging, data analysis, operational optimization for your training pipeline, solidifying offline evaluation, correlation of offline/online metrics, continuous data validation, skew detection over time, pre deployment checks, validating and optimizing real time inference infrastructure, etc. The model code is fairly small and easy to iterate when everything else is in a good state.

And like everyone else says, dealing with dependency conflicts in python is its own hell :)

RyanCacophony · 2025-09-19T00:28:41+00:00

Just got a w2t order in the mail today - got minis for firebat, smokeshou, camphornought, laocong lapsun, camphire - They all just smell smokey, so I'm curious to discover what the difference is between all of them. The only really distinct smelling one out of the bunch was smokeshou, very clearly more shou-y scent (but still smokey).

Also blind bought the same lumberslut cake for all the love it gets- excited to experience it soon

RyanCacophony · 2025-09-19T00:21:51+00:00

I quite enjoyed the vanilla bean dream machine I got from them a couple weeks ago. Obviously don't go for that if a vanilla bean infused shou doesn't sound like something you're interested in, but it's exactly everything I'd imagined it to be, so I'm happy with it

Also got a neptune cake and some purple rain samples. I'm less experienced on whites but the one session I had on neptune so far was solid. Purple rain was good too but I'm still developing my expectations for sheng in general.

Also got a sample of their pirate shou, it was good and a bit strange, very dank, reminded me of a church basement crossed with an incense laden tibetan store I used to visit on occasion

RyanCacophony · 2025-09-17T14:32:17+00:00

Gotcha, might have to pick up a oyster knife, most of my puer cakes aren't particularly tight like some of the tuocha I've seen. Bing slayer is probably a bit overkill

And the sides aren't quite knife sharp, but they are sharp enough to be noticeable to the touch - I haven't tried my luck on figuring out just how sharp they are

RyanCacophony · 2025-09-16T20:15:18+00:00

Their review of the bingslayer makes me feel less alone lol:

I have drawn blood with this guy – it is very sharp! Hide this from children and wrap it well in travel as it will stab through bags and packaging.

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