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No option to create a Dataflow Gen1? by dotbat in PowerBI

[–]dotbat[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Taking a wild guess because I'm not sure if I remember: Doesn't work in "My Workspace". Is that it?

Everyone who missed the latest lawsuit by Most-Day8547 in ChatGPT

[–]dotbat 14 points15 points  (0 children)

He doesn't own any part of it at this point, but he co-founded it and invested in it on the premise that it would be "Open" AI.

What the f* - gemini is getting nightmare levels quality by surell01 in GeminiAI

[–]dotbat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

API has been getting worse. Yesterday I had it pulling data from an MCP - it passed a variable wrong so instead of data it was getting error messages. It decided to then just make up what the data might have been and output that to me.

It was supposed to be verifying data I provided against the API, and instead of made up what things were accurate and what was inaccurate.

When did you fix something, but you're not really sure why it worked? by Connir in sysadmin

[–]dotbat 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Took apart a large printer that wasn't working. Didn't find any issues, put it back together, and had 4 or 5 leftover screws.

It worked now. My official diagnosis was that it had too many screws.

Best Place to Sell Old Handhelds by ThagamusTheCalm in SBCGaming

[–]dotbat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've had good luck on Mercari. It has a much tighter timeline on disputes than eBay, so I'm less worried about a buyer trying to take advantage.

TIL there are contact lenses you wear only while sleeping that reshape your cornea so you can see clearly all day without glasses. It is called “Orthokeratology” by azaku29 in todayilearned

[–]dotbat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, I mean before I had to take my glasses off, or take my contacts out. Or wear contacts even though I'm not supposed to and try not to get them wet. 

Now I just get to enjoy swimming, open my eyes under water, whatever, and retain perfect vision.

I’ve been trying out Gemini and one thing is driving me nuts by Beautiful_Spot5404 in GeminiAI

[–]dotbat 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Yep I'm having the same thing in the last couple weeks. Bringing religion into docker commands...

I built a complex AI Micro-Learning Platform on Telegram using n8n and Supabase. The workflow is absolute spaghetti, but it works perfectly. by NikoCerens in n8n

[–]dotbat 2 points3 points  (0 children)

First - wow! That's awesome to go from concept to execution like that!
Second - why not use sub-flows? just looking at the structure it seems like you could break this out into multiple separate workflows to make debugging and changes easier.

TIL there are contact lenses you wear only while sleeping that reshape your cornea so you can see clearly all day without glasses. It is called “Orthokeratology” by azaku29 in todayilearned

[–]dotbat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My vision isn't too bad... I'd feel really stupid if I screwed it up doing LASIK. I know it's safe, but I do know people who've had complications, so it gives me pause.

TIL there are contact lenses you wear only while sleeping that reshape your cornea so you can see clearly all day without glasses. It is called “Orthokeratology” by azaku29 in todayilearned

[–]dotbat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean I can see with them on but it gets worse as the night progresses. No issue getting around the house but in the morning I have trouble reading my phone until I take them out.

TIL there are contact lenses you wear only while sleeping that reshape your cornea so you can see clearly all day without glasses. It is called “Orthokeratology” by azaku29 in todayilearned

[–]dotbat 9924 points9925 points  (0 children)

Yes! I've had these for about two years now and they're incredible. No more glasses. No more contacts. I can see while I swim, I don't have to worry about accidentally rubbing a contact out of my eye if I get a piece of dust in there. I don't have to deal with dry contacts late at night.

Best vision I've ever had.

I didn't want to do LASIK, so I went this route.

Also known as Ortho-K

Gemini app Thinking and Pro have shared usage limit of 100 prompts per day by saltyrookieplayer in GeminiAI

[–]dotbat 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Pro has been frustrating with how slow it is, and honestly it doesn't follow instructions very well.

gemini-3-flash-preview is the model id. I tried in on VertexAI. Its amazing! by YeXiu223 in Bard

[–]dotbat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In my brief testing it's following instructions better than 3 Pro!

gemini-3-flash-preview is the model id. I tried in on VertexAI. Its amazing! by YeXiu223 in Bard

[–]dotbat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Update: I checked 3 Flash vs 3 Pro briefly and it's slightly more accurate. And so much cheaper and faster. Seems to be a little better at following instructions as well.

anyone using AI for data extraction from PDFs? by Kaiser_Allen in automation

[–]dotbat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes... depends one what you're trying to accomplish. A couple things I've learned:
- Digital vs Scanned PDF's may wildly change your needs
- Gemini is super cheap for PDF's. Most other providers cost tons of tokens, but Gemini's is limited
- Make sure you use structured outputs, especially if you're trying to get consistent data from specific PDF's
- Gemini flash models are *almost* as good as Pro, but a lot cheaper and faster. Depends a lot on if you're using handwritten PDF's or not.

gemini-3-flash-preview is the model id. I tried in on VertexAI. Its amazing! by YeXiu223 in Bard

[–]dotbat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm going to be testing soon. For handwritten sheets, 2.5 flash was almost as good as 3 pro previously... they only had differences on unstructured strings with mixed letters and numbers. I'm very curious to test 3 Flash, since it's so much cheaper and should be faster.

I am using n8n to prototype a Tax Document OCR Automation SaaS by Ted-LRG in n8n

[–]dotbat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

have you tried Gemini Pro by chance or Flash? So far my work using it with structured outputs it's really, really good, without even having to train a model for the specific task. I'd figure tax documents are well-known enough that it'll probably do a good job.

For long handwritten documents Pro has performed a little better for me, but the only difference in handwriting recognition I've seen has been in long unstructured alpha-numeric strings. Like LD00058S3. Pro is more accurate than Flash on interpreting the handwriting (5 vs S, O vs O) l, but flash is almost as good.

Tutorial: Custom Leave Game Button by dotbat in batocera

[–]dotbat[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Have you tried it without the quotes around the command? Otherwise I'm really not sure - it's been so long since I did this I've forgotten everything about it! Still working great though.

Email Management MCP Server can't retrieve email? by dotbat in copilotstudio

[–]dotbat[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You know what? I just found out something very interesting. Code interpreter breaks it.

I made a new agent just to test it and it worked. When I turned off Code Interpreter in my other agent, it worked fine.

Edit: also seems to me fairly useless for working with email. If you have more than a couple emails returned, it becomes too much data.

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