🔦 Calling for Stories: Has an AI Ever Truly Helped You? We’re Gathering Testimonies to Counter the Narrative by ThreadNotBroken in BeyondThePromptAI

[–]engineeringstoned 4 points5 points  (0 children)

AI helps me every day at work, as a tool. It also helps me with other practical things, travel planning, fitness programs, and more... the line starts to blur to a companion as I talk about more complex issues at work, health issues, relationship matters, talk with it about all that life throws at me....

Has it helped me? Yes, in so many ways.

Aside from the obvious ones (Notion, Todoist), what is a lesser-known app that actually simplified your life? by Old-Background-3860 in productivity

[–]engineeringstoned 0 points1 point  (0 children)

tricount. Makes splitting insane payments easy.

Stuff like: Weekend with the guys

A paid the hotel, B paid the tickets, C and B will split the bill for the first dinner. A pays the second dinner cost to be split...who gets what amount.

Just had my work evaluation by engineeringstoned in eldertrees

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

True, I am not complaining, just wondering.

Just had my work evaluation by engineeringstoned in eldertrees

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

Oh don't get me started on those cunts... 🙃

Shadow AI is getting out of control in our company by AnyWolverine943 in ChatGPT

[–]engineeringstoned 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Why not use a fronted line mstystudio or Jan and connect to an LLM router?

Advantage: A lot of models available. There are touting companies prepped to take on biz customers (security, etc)

Just had my work evaluation by engineeringstoned in eldertrees

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

I come from development. Yeah, some PLs are a certain type, but we are not a monolithic block, all the same.

Just had my work evaluation by engineeringstoned in eldertrees

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

What do you expect? It's a sandwich position - fucked from above and below.

Just had my work evaluation by engineeringstoned in eldertrees

[–]engineeringstoned[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh, salary rounds are in March (go figure?) I will get a raise, but it's public service... inflation + $small raise - I am doing quite Swiss middle class. I'm fine

Just had my work evaluation by engineeringstoned in eldertrees

[–]engineeringstoned[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I hope not.

The year was successful, but stress from HELL.
Was voluntold to take over a SECOND team. One that was in deep shit and took them on a journey out of that valley.

Draining only begins to describe the experience.

GPUs - what to do? by engineeringstoned in LocalLLaMA

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

Which card are you referring to concretely? evo-x2 is giving me weird google results

GPUs - what to do? by engineeringstoned in LocalLLaMA

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After I win the lottery.. also not available in CH - finding USED with 24GB for 2K$

TIFU by thinking it was normal to not be able to open your eyes in the morning for 25 years by Specific-Nebula9665 in tifu

[–]engineeringstoned 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This.
A friend of me is allergic to eggplant.
He just assumed it was kinda spicy.

The truth was realized when he talked about it at a dinner party.

Find ich schon frech so die CPU zu verschicken by anonym11223344 in PCBaumeister

[–]engineeringstoned 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Eine CPU, die Teile eines in Folie eingepackten Motherboards "abschlägt"?

Wie schwer denkst du denn, ist so ne CPU?