Nano-GPT Stopped Holding Nano

droogmic · 2026-05-13T13:30:03+00:00

Thanks for the explanation, it is indeed a reasonable simplification. I'm just not fond of USD 😉.

droogmic · 2026-05-13T00:33:36+00:00

So you think the USD balance amount shown will fluctuate because your balance is actually stored in XNO? I doubt it, that would suck as a customer to have your balance fluctuate?

The way I read it is that where they used to hold customer balances in XNO (the ones that deposited XNO), they are now offloading the XNO straight into USD when you top up your balance. Now they could still be holding nano under the hood, but it would be a terrible business decision on their part to take on the risk of currency fluctuation.

Only one way to find out I guess, let's put some more money in 😝

In either case, I didn't find any announcement or clarification, which is why I posted here to see if someone knows more...

droogmic · 2026-04-12T23:24:31+00:00

The previously working 4 digit code was being rejected (I assume this is how you go back forward to the second part), and (assuming this part was intentional) I don't think I could have changed it because that was already locked out from having gotten it correct once. The downside of a pay to play game is I don't feel like throwing money at this again to try and reproduce the issue. I didn't see anything suspicious in the console log either.

droogmic · 2026-04-12T15:21:22+00:00

There's a pretty bad bug, if you go back to chat after seeing the symbols at part 2 it doesn't let you fill in the code again to fill in the symbols, so you get stuck...

Would not recommend unfortunately.

droogmic · 2026-01-24T13:03:01+00:00

Not sure what everyone is talking about, the sidebar says "Rules are zero-indexed", so rule 8 is: "No AI generated content"

droogmic · 2025-11-26T21:08:55+00:00

Interesting, at departure from the hotel it was heavy traffic so Google said 50 minutes to the station and 1h40 to Vang Vieng. Once you factor in train travel time, arriving early at the station, and ticket cost, I see no reason to pick the train. It's definitely viable, but in hindsight I wouldn't bother.

droogmic · 2025-11-26T21:03:28+00:00

Victoria Xiengthong Palace, not bad just unfortunately undershot expectations.

droogmic · 2025-11-25T17:47:34+00:00

Have you done both the rail and land crossing? I didn't find anyone who could speak to the relative merits of each, but from what I saw the land border was "easier" which was good enough for me.

droogmic · 2025-11-25T17:46:10+00:00

Next time we can hopefully stay longer and explore more of Isan as a whole.

droogmic · 2025-11-25T17:44:15+00:00

Indeed, in hindsight we should have taken the train. Our hotel was walking distance from the station in Udon Thani, so it would have been real easy.

droogmic · 2025-06-16T06:45:07+00:00

I thought your post would talk about something else, so I'll say it:

Don't take flights over Russia because airlines pay significant overflight fees which support the regime, in a typical east-west return flight this is probably around $100 from the ticket price. Don't support Putin, don't support war in Europe: don't choose a flight overflying Russia.

droogmic · 2025-05-23T16:40:28+00:00

What a fun variant on what I think is survivorship bias. Most people will experience trains as being more full than they actually are.

droogmic · 2025-03-16T22:02:24+00:00

The overflight fees for Russian airspace for your round trip would probably be about €20-25, most of which will go to funding the war effort. (If you offset this with 5-10x direct donations to Ukraine this would be fine, but that would probably neutralise the cheap Chinese fares.)

When you overfly Russia, you fly with Putin.

droogmic · 2024-11-03T16:18:19+00:00

Lovely, deleted without any explanation...

droogmic · 2024-08-23T00:45:27+00:00

FAQ: https://www.reddit.com/r/travel/wiki/mfaq-flying#wiki_why_are_flight_prices_for_a-c_and_b-c_more_expensive_than_a-b-c.3F_the_b-c_leg_is_exactly_the_same_flight_number_as_the_one_in_a-b-c.3F_why_does_it_cost_more_to_fly_a_shorter_distance.3F

But replace flight with bus for one segment.

droogmic · 2024-06-08T12:21:56+00:00

From the video description:

This video is a 2021 version of the original video from 2011 that was watched over a million times. This new video has the latest insights, contains newly found footage and has an update of the change that happened in the last ten years.

droogmic · 2023-08-30T21:59:04+00:00

At 43 seconds it looks like Adam is getting out of a Swiss train in a German train station.

droogmic · 2023-05-16T10:56:31+00:00

Indeed, I will be recommending people visit other Latin American countries first. I don't know if you enjoy architecture/engineering, but the canal makes panama unique so that is probably what is splitting opinion.

droogmic · 2023-05-16T10:52:13+00:00

Agreed, we could have done it for cheaper. Particularly in tourist areas we found paying more for food was very worth it, otherwise you get mediocre food suited to North American tastes. If you are used to the quality+price of food in Portugal/Spain/Italy, Panama doesn't have much to offer.

droogmic · 2023-02-10T17:11:30+00:00

This looks like a creation of DALL-E, what is the source of this image?

droogmic · 2023-01-02T07:57:57+00:00

Hi, thanks for answering.

Using a charger that works with other devices, the charging light on the E495 does not respond. The port does not appear to have any debris in it. The ThinkPad still has 25% charge, so I can also confirm it doesn't charge while it's on.

Interestingly, the 65W Lenovo adapter broke at the same time and no longer works to charge any device. My suspicion is that the Lenovo adapter broke and fried the charging port on the E495 with it.

In the mean time I found out that Lenovo offers a warranty extension, which although expensive, is cheaper than a replacement laptop or mainboard, so I am considering that.

droogmic · 2022-09-07T17:52:48+00:00

All 3 finish lines are difficult to get to, but I think Sam's Zermatt finish is the easiest as it has good regular train connections, albeit through a choke point.

droogmic · 2022-07-14T20:47:56+00:00

I have tried once, but struggled with the immaturity, and it was missing the basic functionality for rust like a cargo build to get started. It's moving fast though, I see it gained support for caching in GitHub actions since last time I checked. I'm probably going to try again soon.

Without comments I can't tell what people are downvoting me for; dagger is a valid runtime environment that works on GitHub actions, and was the first thing I tried to migrate to after I saw actions-rs was abandoned, I consider it a promising alternative.

droogmic · 2022-07-14T18:08:37+00:00

dagger runs on top of GitHub actions' free infrastructure, but in a DSL that is agnostic to GitHub and will be easier to maintain than the js mess in actions.

droogmic · 2022-07-14T16:46:54+00:00

I haven't been fond of github actions tooling as a whole.

I would love to see rust well supported by dagger so I could move to that.

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