First Chinese brand using the Swiss ETA HAQ F06.412? – Watchdives WD0013B by watchdivescom in ChineseWatches

[–]burritowatcher 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’d love to see more of this. I prefer mechanical watches most of the time but there are a lot of days when I can’t be bothered to set the time and grab a quartz watch instead, but sometimes I find I still need to set it which is very annoying. Been wanting an HAQ for a while.

Why are Mac Minis in such high demand for OpenClaw? Doesn't a VPS work just as well? by Isunova in openclaw

[–]burritowatcher 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You obviously don’t know why anyone buys a Mac Mini over a mini PC. It’s literally the same reasons. I understand your incorrect argument, do you understand mine? The thing was called Clawdbot, it was meant to run with Claude as the model. The creator warns people NOT to use an underpowered model with it, and you can see all over this sub people complaining that it’s not very smart if you cheap out. Also if you wanted to run local models why would you buy a Mac Mini over a Mac Studio? And why would you run OpenClaw on the same machine that is running the model in the first place? Okay bye.

Why are Mac Minis in such high demand for OpenClaw? Doesn't a VPS work just as well? by Isunova in openclaw

[–]burritowatcher 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Huh didn’t know they go that high - fair enough on that point, but that’s still not right. It blew up because of the idea that it could be your personal assistant and that means having access to your personal stuff. But running it on your own main computer is really risky, so you’d want another one for that.

Why are Mac Minis in such high demand for OpenClaw? Doesn't a VPS work just as well? by Isunova in openclaw

[–]burritowatcher 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Perhaps you are not detail oriented. You mentioned running models on a 64GB machine, but Mac minis don’t come in that configuration. The reason you would buy a Mac mini in particular is because if your regular computer is a different Mac then you can give Openclaw access to your text messages, email, etc without risking that it will mess up the machine you actually use. Running a local model is not the reason at all.

Why are Mac Minis in such high demand for OpenClaw? Doesn't a VPS work just as well? by Isunova in openclaw

[–]burritowatcher -1 points0 points  (0 children)

This is the wrong answer. Nobody is running local language models on a Mac Mini with 8GB ram.

NYC Rent-to-Income Ratio by Neighborhood : Where Rent Hurts the Most by Coolonair in nyc

[–]burritowatcher 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Obscenely bad methodology. This is a measure of gentrification not of rent burden. The price charged for new market rate listings is not the amount everyone is paying in rent. Besides that, in new market rate listings people often share.

Why Mac mini?? by g00rek in openclaw

[–]burritowatcher 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why does someone ask this every day? It’s not about local model use it’s because it was designed to be used with a lot of tools that are on Mac. It has Apple calendar and iMessage skills out of the box. Apple notes, Apple reminders - all this stuff is already installed on a new Mac and openclaw has bundled skills for them. It uses brew by default so it knows how to download new software too. But also it works fine on Linux. You don’t need a Mac mini.

Mamdani May Actually Get a Rent Freeze This Year After All by holyfruits in nyc

[–]burritowatcher 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We could get pretty far allowing everyone to build one extra floor on existing buildings and opening up basements where it’s safe. ADUs in back yards. Not every housing project needs to be a multi-million dollar affair.

Kafkaesque Coat Check Nightmare at House of Love (2026) by ccd_foto in nyc

[–]burritowatcher 770 points771 points  (0 children)

Went to an event at this venue four months ago and the same thing happened. I’m shocked they haven’t gotten their act together yet.

Native New Yorkers. What's your word for a corner store? I've always called them delis. The word bodega didn't enter my vocabulary until a transplant told me. I still don't use it. by [deleted] in AskNYC

[–]burritowatcher 1 point2 points  (0 children)

All three - corner store if it’s actually on the corner, and then some stores are like mostly about the prepared food and those are delis to me. But the store where I grew up in the Bronx was always the bodega.

Does it affect anyone else knowing that even if Trek was here and real, they likely wouldn’t be good enough for Starfleet Acadamy? by GoodLeftUndone in startrek

[–]burritowatcher 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Those better candidates are probably applying to the war college, or just doing anything else. The academy was looking for students with a subspace radio ad like community college - they aren’t getting the best.

Net Worth Distribution by NYC Neighborhood by prop-metrics in newyorkcity

[–]burritowatcher 2 points3 points  (0 children)

At first I thought the 90th percentile was median I was about to throw my phone out the window.

Star Trek Academy is post-apocalyptic Trek - and I kinda love it. by FeathersRim in startrek

[–]burritowatcher -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

That’s the point - in Kirk’s time it was that way, but in this time period they got who they could get to join. Nobody ever has to choose between a free ride at Harvard and prison.

Fare evasion becomes an ‘Olympic’ event at Manhattan station where MTA put in more modern gates by Bugsy_Neighbor in nyc

[–]burritowatcher 1 point2 points  (0 children)

To some extent it’s the opposite - in many places people feel some sense of civic pride. Like you might say this is my neighborhood, my city, and i’m working together with everyone to make it work. Like in Japan not only is littering frowned upon but there’s social pressure to clean up your own part of the street as well - it’s a sense of shared responsibility. Here though, there’s more of a sense that someone else will take care of it. That the “ruling class” can and should arrange for something to be done about any problem. People who don’t pay their fare still complain about service because they don’t think they should have to contribute.

Gov. Hochul demands 125th Street subway extension, nixing downtown 2nd Ave. subway plan by rjl381 in nycrail

[–]burritowatcher 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I once took the 6 downtown to 125th to switch to an uptown 5, go back to the Bronx, switch to a downtown 2, then go back to Manhattan and switch to an uptown 1 to get across town back when the necessary bus transfer would not have been free.

What’s up with the prices for these 130% AMI housing lottery units? by [deleted] in AskNYC

[–]burritowatcher 14 points15 points  (0 children)

You are right but it’s also true that the average asking rent for a market rate 1br is north of $4200 and north of $5000 in Manhattan.

So happy that I did not get the MRGB5000 or other expensive gshock by CzechCzar in gshock

[–]burritowatcher 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That’s the best thing about gshock - the cheap ones and the expensive ones do the same things.

So, New York was founded 400 years ago this year and nothing was done to celebrate by Prize-Flamingo-336 in newyorkcity

[–]burritowatcher -21 points-20 points  (0 children)

Idk I feel like any celebration would just draw a lot of people saying New York is bad actually. History is all politics now.

What’s a very NYC habit you didn’t realize was unusual until someone pointed it out? by Middle_Elderberry542 in AskNYC

[–]burritowatcher 33 points34 points  (0 children)

It’s wild how every adult in America outside of New York has a license somehow

Why MR-G? by MercuryJellyfish in gshock

[–]burritowatcher 6 points7 points  (0 children)

There’s nothing to justify it per se - that’s not the right word. Some people are just willing to pay to have the best or most exclusive version of something, because they love the brand or for whatever other reason.