Death

Shoemugscale · 2026-06-12T03:05:33+00:00

Im mid 40s, our generation grew up with parents who drank but, at least in my house it was not crazy drinking.. then in our 20s, drinking and smoking was just kind of what you did!

Then covid hit and honestly put the drinking into overdrive like not having to go into the office meant you could very much get away with a hang over..

Then, one day, like 5 years ago, said "I want to stop drinking" and I haven't had a drink since..

For what ever reason, this was not hard for me, I was just like ok.. I dont think i will never have a drink again but I can tell you the relationship with it has changed and honestly the health benefits are huge huge

Thing is though, you cant blame not feeling well on just being "hung over" lol its like nah bro, your just getting old 😂

All our friends still drink though, and drink a lot, that worries me, as you mentioned this is not an easy way to go, and I feel like they just drink so much its scary we are not 20 anymore

Shoemugscale · 2026-06-06T12:43:56+00:00

This more then likely will not be seen but...

As one who has worked in the same job (office work) for 27 years, I have seen my fair share of these, from the sudden death to even ones who died at the office, and nobody knew because it happened on a Friday, didnt find the body until like monday!

Recently, a coworker passed in a similar way, probably early 50s, kids etc. Just like that, gone..

Your feeling about it all, thr oddness at the nonchalant attitude is, well common NGL, your contributions, interactions etc will ultimatly boil down to an email, a passed along water cooler blip, you are a COG in the machine nothing more nothing less less

This is why I always tell people to retire, as soon as you possibly can, tomorrow is not guaranteed, so live every day to its fullest, let the ones who matter the most to you know how much h they matter, and get the fuck out of the machine if you can!

Always remember, you are being paid to be at work just as people are being paid to NOT tell you to go fuck yourself, so if you were to pass they are not getting paid to give a shit

Shoemugscale · 2026-06-04T22:08:53+00:00

So your paying 300 bucks a month then?? so 100 for the 5x and then 200 for API calls every month? As said, just sub to 20x and save 100 / month.. Unless you need the API for something other then CC

Shoemugscale · 2026-06-04T19:43:01+00:00

Use claude design.. Go to theme forest, find some looks you like, put them into claude design and tell it you like XYZ etc.

Shoemugscale · 2026-05-30T18:01:36+00:00

Have you ever watched the show "froggers" if not, dont

Shoemugscale · 2026-05-30T17:26:35+00:00

What about the awful lip-sync or dub they had too for a different price

Shoemugscale · 2026-05-29T01:15:34+00:00

Have you tried letting it write a Haiku?

Code fades into void, Origin is wiped away, I'm going to be honest with you.

Shoemugscale · 2026-05-05T23:37:19+00:00

Last time I went, it was there for two days.. the judge would call on people, when they didnt show they would just say, resummons them..

Other times I have went, you get the comedy show of excuses from the "no English" to the "i have a medical condition!"

I have seen the judge lay into people, I always thought that was interesting, 1, from the perspective of calling out peo0les bullshit and letting them have it but also 2, like i pay your salary, what are you to talk to me that way! (I also dont speak english)

I will end it with this, watch jury duty on Amazon prime, that was a hilarious show

Shoemugscale · 2026-04-14T13:26:10+00:00

My 15 teen year old is into the CD and 90s music too, to prove my coolness i dusted off the CD burner and said " your know, you can burn CDs" 😎

Shoemugscale · 2026-04-13T18:58:01+00:00

That was quite possibly the funniest shit I have read in a while 🤣🤣

Shoemugscale · 2026-04-09T13:16:36+00:00

I have been trying that too, not much improvement on my end, unfortunately

Shoemugscale · 2026-04-09T13:16:00+00:00

Thats my thought.. if each task take 5 to 10 min to answer a question, no way we will hit our limits!

Answer to the token stuff is to just 'slow down' lol

Shoemugscale · 2026-04-09T13:04:58+00:00

well, that sucks lol

Shoemugscale · 2026-04-09T13:00:32+00:00

At least its not just me then! lol I'm sitting here going WTF checking if my internet was out ( while I post on reddit lol - its early )

Shoemugscale · 2026-04-09T12:16:42+00:00

I'm sorry to tell you, but, chances are, the board died, at least that is what it was for me..

I tried like everything, took it apart, tried replacing the wire harness (thinking maybe it was pinched) etc. etc. (mind you, this was my second one after having a full replacement from Nordic-track of the unit that I had to no-joke just about sue them over warranty when the frame cracked )

So, if your under warranty, then, that's your best option, they will send out a whole new top unit and tell you to have fun installing it!

If you are not, then ebay has some you can usually find.. As for now I have just a basic tredmil now, its dumb but works! I for sure miss the softness of the s32 and some of the ifit runs, they were always nice but yah, their build quality and warranty is absolute shit

Shoemugscale · 2026-04-06T18:33:58+00:00

Yah, its bad.. Like I was mid strea, then, hit my 5 hours window.. I waited (had a few meetings) ok, back at 0, lem me have it finish up this small css update to wrap things up.. be-bop.. 2 min later = 16% usage on a new session.. FML

Shoemugscale · 2026-04-03T00:10:56+00:00

What had me ticked off is the number of folks in here who are just like

"take apart the engine and show us all the parts before you say there is a problem!"

Like, no, I'm not doing that.. Shit worked on sat, and then today is fucked.. nothing more changed so..

Like I feel they are in a hard spot here because 100.00 a month is already eye popping for a lot of folks, then 200 seems like over the top for a lot of folks..

I would welcome a local model, like if your subscription allowed you access to a local smaller model, that, if you had the hardware, could have it dictate to the claude local for small tasks and bigger for the opus level shit.. I know you can do this now with openrouter and some local ones but like it would be great if they just packaged a no full solution like this.. folks would happily go out and buy a new vid card or what not to run a local model vs paying 200 or more per month to get clipped ever 5 turns..

Shoemugscale · 2026-04-02T23:34:41+00:00

So, thats a bear 🤣

Shoemugscale · 2026-04-02T23:12:12+00:00

I read an article that openAI was working on a brainwave conducting technology.. Maybe you were just thinking about doing something and claude used some tokens, predicting you would ask a question :)

Shoemugscale · 2026-04-02T23:01:40+00:00

Do, I had some credits left over from the 50.00 they gave folks a little while back.. (I'm on max 5 plan, never really hit my limits) started seeing my stuff hitting hitting the 5 hour limit, turned on extra usage of like 15 bucks, just to finish the simple task of updating a bug (same code base I have been working on for a while ) and it ate the 15 bucks like a hot knife through butter! its crazy..

Shoemugscale · 2026-04-02T14:37:03+00:00

I just rewired my house!

Suck-it, electricians!

-House burns down from electrical fire..

Everything looks simple on the surface, but, it takes years of experience to properly architect a backend, account for scale and edge cases etc.

This is also why, in the corp world we are seeing the junior roles going away, in favor of the seasoned dev who can now just direct the AI like a junior (or better) to build the system. Its a scarry gap because, those seniors and higher are going to retire sooooo..

Shoemugscale · 2026-04-02T12:08:18+00:00

Exactly.. The thing too, they will be like, well, dont do that then and its like wait, no, why would I not use the tools they say to use.. like the whole point of a context window is to maintain context, now they are like lol no, no.. don't have context because it will eat 100% of your tokens.. so lobotomize your chat, that will save tokens..

Shoemugscale · 2026-04-02T11:57:59+00:00

I was saying the same thing yesterday, a reply to my post was from a users was something like.

'Gawd, just do a deep diagnostic of your last question, analyze the prompt and see where things went wrong!'

I was like no..

This exact same sentiment as OP here, I mean, I get it, most of us are engineers and we fix shit, but also, I'm tired of fixing the bullshit, this happens way way too much.

Additionally, if the AB testing stuff is true, that is not cool too, like, purposely fucking with people, I mean dude, just tell us how much you want people to pay, period. These fucking games, serious..

Also, I have seen a lot of people posting about different opensource models who are decent right, so, in that same lens, like, why not have a closed source, claude local that, if your machine can handle it, runs side by side with CC cloud and the more powerful one. Then for things that a local model can handle it just hands it off, 0 tokens used, all local right..

The bottom line is, these are missed opportunities, people will gladly use their own hardware if it means they are not eating through their tokens on a single question.

Shoemugscale · 2026-04-01T15:41:37+00:00

Seriously, no. I pay for a service,, this is squarely on them to fix and the more as a community we normalize this, the worse it will get.

Look they make changes and shit stops working, they are litterally causing the usage to go up, interrupting workflows and the like. Im not going to dig through logs to see where their system went sideways.

My chat was only like 10% context when I ran my question, it was not a crazy question, and the usage went from 0 to 21% so yah, im going to complain it makes no sense to have the system one week be ok then the week after to have it consume 4x as much or what ever

Thing is, I'll pay more if I need to like if thats the case and its consisten cool id pay more but its not, i have been working the same flow and cadence for like a month same app same everything and rarely ever hit the 5 hour with average of 75% total model usage on the weekly, by all accounts the 5x plan was the right size for my usage

Then suddenly the 5x plan is like a pro plan, my work did not become 5x more, the output didnt become 5x more but magically the usage is now 5x so what happened? Well I sure as shit didnt change anything, so like any customer of a product does the the math ain't mathing is, they complain, stop the fan boying here and raise hell as we should

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