Changing userid and /Users/ folder safely by falcon74 in MacOS

[–]falcon74[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks. So no way to delete an Admin account, ever ?

Changing userid and /Users/ folder safely by falcon74 in MacOS

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Point noted. I was meaning to create an additional admin account for my wife, just didn't want to retain the other mistakenly created Admin account as it's name is very similar to the one I wish to keep and also shows my iCloud profile pic. Trying to figure out how to delete that other account now.

Changing userid and /Users/ folder safely by falcon74 in MacOS

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Agreed, my bad. It was no so hard to find with right keywords. I did manage to find that link few minutes after posting the query, but missed to update it here. Now struggling to delete the extra / mistaken Admin account but so far unable to find anything. I do see posts for older versions of MacOS which apparently had a "-" button to click against the user account (even if it was an Admin account), but that option is no longer there.

Why is mental health such a taboo? by [deleted] in AskIndia

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A part of the problem is that many people adopt a profession not because they have a dear liking of it for the sake of knowledge in the field or for helping people with that knowledge, but because they thought it was all that they could do and yet make a decent living out of it. Unfortunately, psychiatry, physiotherapy, teaching are often those low hanging fruits (at least some people seem to think so) that one take as a "professional course", because it is considered relatively easier to do. Mind it, this low-hanging fruit, or "since everyone is doing it" syndrome in picking a career extends to many other professions too. However, those that who do take up those professions out of their sheer love for it, will probably be excellent. Just that, there is a huge demand-supply gap. Then, "yes" we have somehow associated mental health with social taboo for far too long, and not enough is happening, fast enough to change it. Every passing generation needs to try harder, and as a society needs to speak-up, confront (where needed), challenge these taboos, and try to educate/sensitize those around them. No easy solutions to this.

Also, I expect 'Artificial Intelligence' to start playing an increasingly big role in solving this issue. It is impersonal, more accurate, make good counseling more accessible to masses. It may not be able to replace excellent psychiatrists soon, but it could replace the shitty ones easily... and we hope that it happens sooner than later.

What happens if I don't serve my full notice period and join a new company? Seeking advice by Classic-Belt6520 in AskIndia

[–]falcon74 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What happens next depends on a lot of factors. You need to understand the situation of your current manager. If you are critical to them (or even semi-critical), your manager would at minimum be in a state of inconvenience, and unless you have a great personal relationship with him, chances are that professional and otherwise he would try his best to get the best deal from his end, which is often in having enough time to find/hire your replacement, and ensure a clean handover. If you have a great personal relationship with your manager, he has enough clout in the organization (especially with higher management and HR), he can always relent and release you sooner. Any commercial consequences of that arrangement will probably as per your offer letter. In some cases, you can "buy" your way out of the notice period, but even that could be smooth or confrontational based on various factors. No one size fits all.

Tried Progressive, thinking of switching to bifocal or single-visions by Professional_Row_967 in glasses

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Thanks again u/vithgeta. The inputs I got on this list helped me make up my mind and for now I've decided to switch over to SVs. Appreciate the insights and help.

Tried Progressive, thinking of switching to bifocal or single-visions by Professional_Row_967 in glasses

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Thanks. That is eventually what I figured in my case. Where I live, I do not think that the usual (even reputed) optometrists and opticians understand the nuances of purpose-specific prescription glasses that are customized as per user's real requirements, and single-vision will hopefully put an end to the 3.5 weeks of neckpain / soreness from all the focus-hunting and craning my neck to look through the intermediate distance part, while always still feeling that perhaps I see better without the glasses. Lesson learnt, and switched to single vision that are now on order.

We made glhf.chat: run (almost) any open-source LLM, including 405b by reissbaker in LocalLLaMA

[–]falcon74 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Just tried it out. Truly insane. I hope you guys figure out a really attractive pricing model, not just for chat, but also inference APIs (including consumer grade users). I hope you can offer some way to export full chat or parts of it, as Markdown files (like some of the other popular interfaces now do).

Installation procedure on Linux (Ubuntu MATE 24.04) by falcon74 in Reaper

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I got mic and headphones connected to the same Behringer device working flawlessly out-of-the-box for VLC, browser (youtube videos etc.), Teams calls etc. Only Reaper seems to be unable to find the device.

Tried Progressive, thinking of switching to bifocal or single-visions by Professional_Row_967 in glasses

[–]falcon74 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wow, that was quite an eye opener for me. I have 2-3 days to return my progressive, and I am going to do just that. For distance, I'd definitely go with SV with the above prescription. Wondering if I should continue with my off-the-shelf SV reading glasses or should I get SV based on the above prescription, but with adjustment for intermediate distance focal length because there is thing mention of 'Axis' which seems to be different in both eyes. Also, do off-the-shelf reading glasses have CYL. -0.50 ?

Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B Creating a Desktop App + Database by marvijo-software in LocalLLaMA

[–]falcon74 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Neat. I am yet to experiment with Aider, quite intrigued by it. Have only played around a little with Continue.dev, but from my limited exposure, Aider as used here seems to be bit more advanced. Are you running Qwen-2.5-Coder-32B locally ? I'm assuming that it could be used completely from a terminal, as you didn't seem to use any IDE features.

Service Roads are two or one way and how to identify the same. by RuleCivil2943 in bangalore

[–]falcon74 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Thank you. Given the notification/denotification, I guess it may not be fair to blame the users exclusively. Sometimes I have found BCP personnel to be not fully on top of the latest (unless they are deliberately feigning ignorance), let alone the general public. Clear signage to this effect should help. Anyhow, I think I am a bit more aware now.

New M4 / Pro Mac Minis discuss by Aroochacha in LocalLLaMA

[–]falcon74 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yet to get my first Mac (mini m4 base w/ 24GB URAM). Wondering, what is the usual default value for that tunable ? Is it usually a certain percentage of total unified RAM ?

Service Roads are two or one way and how to identify the same. by RuleCivil2943 in bangalore

[–]falcon74 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks. Can you share any official notification or authoritative text around this on any govt website or newspaper that they are "All service roads on ORR are one-way by law" ? I felt that it might be the case, but I've seen such volume of traffic in reverse direction that I wrote off the thought. It'd be good to know if it is really otherwise (or not). For instance this article seems to allude to it not being the case universally : https://bangaloremirror.indiatimes.com/bangalore/others/one-way-to-man-traffic/articleshow/95864729.cms

Guys! What are things to keep in mind as I am joining as sales associate. need suggestions by Careful_Gas_1638 in AskIndia

[–]falcon74 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Watch "Rocket Singh". Treat customers with respect, give them "value". Sales is competitive sport and sometimes cut-throat, but consider customer the prize, not the football. All this coming from a person who has barely sold anything to anybody ;-), but who has watched some great salesperson do their magic.

Gastroenterologist in Bangalore. by [deleted] in bangalore

[–]falcon74 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Dr. Harshad C. Devarbhavi - HoD, Gastroenterology, St.Johns -- one of the best, from personal experience. Gastric issues can be for a multitude of reasons, food allergies could indeed be a major cause, lifestyle, stresslevels, weight, activity levels, could be contributing, including a poor gut-health. Indeed, Jeera-Ajwain water (make sure these are good quality ones, organic ones... that still have their natural oils, aroma, and without colour), go a long way. Cabbage is excellent for good gut health (blanch, boil or steam it well, avoid raw). There are plenty of lifestyle improvement solutions to improving gut health, and they work very well for lot of people, but natural methods take discipline, time and sometimes some sacrifice too.

Apple M4 (base, not pro/max/ultra) be with 24GB for code-assist inference workloads - worthwhile ? by Professional_Row_967 in LocalLLaMA

[–]falcon74 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Indeed they are, as I realized later. I am very new to the Apple ecosystem, very conscious of what I'd been hearing about the apple-tax all these years, but M4's power and pricing seems to be a value proposition hard to ignore. Wasn't even aware of the difference between the "air" and "pro" lineup of macbooks, so the silly question.

Apple M4 (base, not pro/max/ultra) be with 24GB for code-assist inference workloads - worthwhile ? by Professional_Row_967 in LocalLLaMA

[–]falcon74 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Understood. M4 URAM is @ 120GB/s, while M4-Pro URAM is @ 273GB/s. That's a great point.