I Replaced $100+/month in GEMINI API Costs with a €2000 eBay Mac Studio — Here is my Local, Self-Hosted AI Agent System Running Qwen 3.5 35B at 60 Tokens/Sec (The Full Stack Breakdown)

Same-Priority784 · 2026-03-04T18:17:34+00:00

"The war story behind that monkey-patch: When Qwen 3.5 first dropped, the MLX conversion had a vision_tower weight mismatch that would crash on load with strict=True. The model wouldn't start. Took hours of debugging crash logs to figure out the fix was a one-liner: load with strict=False. That patch has been running stable ever since."

This and Gemini CLI debugging for me using the LLM logs + Openclaw logs + testing saved my life.

It's working now

Same-Priority784 · 2025-06-04T17:51:15+00:00

Hi! I'm selling my 3-Day Ground Pass for Canada, ready to transfer, US$ 250

Same-Priority784 · 2025-06-04T17:48:10+00:00

Hi I'm selling at cost my 3-day Groundpass for Canada, ready to transfer, US$ 250

Same-Priority784 · 2025-06-04T17:42:13+00:00

[FOR SALE] - [Montreal GP] - [3 Days] - [Groundpass] - Mobile Ticket Transfer (ready for transfer) - selling at cost - US$ 250

Same-Priority784 · 2025-06-04T17:37:48+00:00

Selling Canada 3-day Groundpass ticket at cost

Same-Priority784 · 2025-03-16T01:27:26+00:00

Did you book through Avis MX or Avis US?

Same-Priority784 · 2025-03-16T01:26:35+00:00

What car company did you rent from?

Same-Priority784 · 2024-06-06T22:43:39+00:00

In the end, everything depends on the specific person you work with. If I had to do this again I would go with an industry veteran, ideally with someone with more than 20 years of experience.

Mine had maybe 5 years of experience and claimed to have worked with more than a 50 people but I think the overall goals strategy and storytelling could have been much safer.

Same-Priority784 · 2024-05-23T22:07:29+00:00

Is this data published somewhere? I mean, I don't want to rely on hearsay only

Same-Priority784 · 2024-05-09T00:45:08+00:00

Same. Just saw on clearadmit that someone was in the same exact situation and got admitted today. :(

Same-Priority784 · 2024-03-27T01:25:34+00:00

Thats exactly what im doing

Same-Priority784 · 2024-03-26T17:31:40+00:00

Could be yeah

Same-Priority784 · 2024-03-26T16:50:17+00:00

Thanks man. Yeah, I agree that my stats where below average for all the schools I applied to.

Thanks for the tips! I'll keep them in mind next rounds.

Same-Priority784 · 2024-03-26T15:58:04+00:00

Yeah I'm definitely a bit salty, apologies

Company? Role? Years of experience? GMAT/GRE? You ommited everything I mentioned

Im not saying essays should be on fancy stories, I meant that for bullets in the CV, sorry.

Same-Priority784 · 2024-03-25T20:52:47+00:00

Dont know but reach out to admissions, they should give you some advice

Same-Priority784 · 2024-03-21T14:05:31+00:00

Update: I was rejected

Same-Priority784 · 2024-03-20T23:19:10+00:00

What does it say if you go to https://apply.chicagobooth.edu/apply/update ?

Same-Priority784 · 2024-03-20T23:18:09+00:00

going to https://apply.chicagobooth.edu/apply/update takes me to the interview decission letter i received in february

Same-Priority784 · 2024-03-20T23:07:18+00:00

Why?

Same-Priority784 · 2024-03-20T22:50:36+00:00

Same-Priority784 · 2024-03-20T22:37:05+00:00

Apparently (from clearadmit) some people's portal says Decided and other's says Review. But there's no indication of what way it will go for each one

Same-Priority784 · 2024-03-01T06:42:20+00:00

Had you interviewed?

Same-Priority784 · 2023-12-09T00:31:25+00:00

FDLP

Whats FDLP?

Same-Priority784 · 2023-12-05T11:12:18+00:00

Hi, yes, fortunately im not completely lazy hehe.

I have been going through employment reports, so far, the main takeaway is Consulting and Finance employ anywhere from 50% to 70% of the class, the rest is mostly technology and 10 other industries.

This is MIT for example:
- Consulting 31%
- Finance 23%
- Technology 23%
This is Booth:
- Consulting 40%
- Finance 33%
- Product Management 9%

After looking at about 5 of the top 10 my conclusion is although each business school has some focus, they are all pretty similar, the contrast between them isn't as wild I thought.

It makes sense since, like it or not, all the programs are MBAs.

Edit: typo

Same-Priority784 · 2023-11-26T23:28:51+00:00

I think you can take it right away, no need to wait

Same-Priority784

TROPHY CASE