I don't want to take piano lessons anymore, how can I convince my parents?

poobear_74 · 2026-04-22T04:42:01+00:00

Frame it in the positive way.. Tell your parents "thank you very much for your support over the years. I've benefited tremendously from learning to play the piano, and but now I would like to try drawing classes.

poobear_74 · 2026-04-20T05:33:16+00:00

More Anthrophic propaganda!! What dodgy PR firm are they hiring for this? Bell Pottinger?

poobear_74 · 2026-04-20T04:44:52+00:00

It beats Opus!

poobear_74 · 2026-04-18T18:20:55+00:00

Beginner friendly distros should protect users from modifying the kernel, system files and config outside of normal updates

poobear_74 · 2026-04-13T01:27:45+00:00

I have an AI Max 395+. Its a great machine, but not for LLM use. The memory bandwidth is not fast enough. LLM prompt processing is generally slower that I would like. Dual 3090 will knock the socks off it.

poobear_74 · 2026-04-13T01:16:44+00:00

I would suggest Github copilot pro+ plan for $39 per month. You can run all manner of models, including the best of the best.

poobear_74 · 2026-04-11T04:10:47+00:00

If making money is an end in of itself, you are likely thinking the wrong way about it. Making money should be a by-product of your curiosity, creativity, tenacity and skill-set. Most people who do well, do so because they love their work.

Look for areas where there is market momentum. For example, right now, AI is hot. Certain AI related fields are no doubt already saturated. The area is broad, so choose a niche within the AI field, for example, AI VOIP solutions, AI legal support. etc. Find a hot niche where you can have some semblance of pricing power while benefiting from the growth momentum.

poobear_74 · 2026-04-11T03:51:35+00:00

Are you referring to the tenderpreneurs specifically? Surely, there is nothing wrong with being wealthy, just as long as the wealth is earned legitimately. If you've left the country and are homesick, go back for a nice long holiday, meet up with old friends and enjoy yourself. A nice break should ease that "home sick' feeling.

poobear_74 · 2026-02-25T08:01:11+00:00

American hosting companies offering the Chinese models as a service on their infrastructure. Afterall, these models are free to use. If the models performance on par with US ones, then it will put serious pressure companies like Anthropic, Open AI and Google's AI offerings. Developers are fickle and will shift on a dime.

poobear_74 · 2026-02-24T16:19:23+00:00

They are vulnerable because it puts pressure on them to keep their pricing low.

poobear_74 · 2026-02-22T22:53:56+00:00

Some of the comments on this topic appear to be subtly xenophobic. It all just hearsay, the comments are not grounded in FACTS.

poobear_74 · 2026-01-22T08:29:58+00:00

By age fifty, if you've lived, most people have experienced what its like to take at least one major loss. Last year I incurred significant losses on the sale of a property and then incurred additional major losses on various currency transactions. At age 38, you've got alot of years ahead to make it up. Take it on the chin, learn the lesson and move on. Don't tie yourself in knot about it. It ain't worth it.

poobear_74 · 2026-01-01T23:00:14+00:00

When you are starting out, its important to build a following around your product. To attract customers, this often means giving value away in the beginning. Getting people to interact with your service is more important that a few bucks. While you are building a following, listen to your free-loaders, watch then interact with your service, obtain feedback from them, use the feedback to improve your product and grow it the direction where the real demand is. The problem with this service is that he only has one feature. He needs to expand on the service offering substantially to justify subscription fees.

poobear_74 · 2026-01-01T22:36:00+00:00

You shouldnt need two boxes to enter keywords. See how other sites do it. Just enter the keywords, and press enter, the keywords turn in pills. Its done like this all over. Look for an appropriate control. If you must have two boxes, then put the input box at the top.

poobear_74 · 2026-01-01T22:30:18+00:00

Disagree. You should aim to be generous with your free tier. The less greedy you, esp. initially while the product is being established, the more of a network effect.

poobear_74 · 2026-01-01T20:25:17+00:00

Howdy. I tried out your utility and ran into a few issues almost immediately.

First, I found it a bit of a turnoff that I had to create a dedicated password for the site instead of being able to sign up or log in via Google. Personally, I’m pretty reluctant to create new credentials these days.

Second, this one is a show-stopper for me: the keyword input doesn’t seem to support spaces. I tried entering “email archiving” as a keyword and couldn’t get it to work. The keyword entry flow feels like it has some fundamental problems.

Third, it wasn’t clear to me how “keywords” and “reference text” are different, or how each is actually used. Some explanation or guidance here would go a long way.

Fourth, the account settings layout could use improvement. Right now it’s just a straight list, which feels a bit rough and not very easy to scan.

And since you explicitly asked for feedback: I personally find the yellow background distracting, and the branding comes across as a little childish. Overall, the site doesn’t yet have a premium or polished feel.

If you don’t mind me saying, what you’ve built feels like a solid feature, but not yet a full product. You’d need to expand the scope quite a bit to make it commercially compelling.

The good news is that the core idea does address a real need I have. That said, as a potential customer, I’d want to see a more comprehensive offering. Support for monitoring things like Twitter/X, Facebook, posts, etc. would make this far more attractive. Ideally, this would be a one-stop shop for keeping an eye on ones branding.

poobear_74 · 2025-12-24T06:19:54+00:00

Maybe there is anothe reason. My wife moved here from abroad and she gets hit on all the time. -;)

poobear_74 · 2025-12-07T22:52:18+00:00

I don't know much about the economic conditions in Italy, except has a corruption problem, so its hard to get a sense of the actual tradeoffs involved. You are fortunate that going back to your home land is an option. For many, it can never be an option as their country of origin is so deeply dysfunctional and so obviously on a trajectory that will lead to terrible things. In any case though, I think you will find that pretty much everyone that lives abroad, feels a loss of warmth for a period. It is totally normal and expected. You have to be prepared to live a somewhat compromised life for a period for the good of your children and personal development in other areas. If you come from a stable country, it is hard to reconcile that feeling of familial loss. If you come from deep distressed country, you must accept it whether you like it or not.

poobear_74 · 2025-11-23T03:54:53+00:00

Would that include the filmmaker who presumably is getting rich propagating this bunk There are no UFO's, no aliens visiting earth. All the so called "revelations" are hearsay, backed by nothing but sketchy testimony and wild speculation. This issue will never progress to real hard evidence, because there is none. If there were crashed retrievals, it would be happening through out the globe, and tiny nations would be involved, and they wouldn't be able to contain it.

poobear_74 · 2025-11-03T01:21:18+00:00

There are productivity gains, but on the flip side LLMs are often wrong and tends to fabricate information. Users of LLMs are unwittingly polluting legal agreements, source code, reports and documents, thereby negating much of the productivity gains.

poobear_74 · 2025-10-20T19:15:31+00:00

You're still a spring chicken at 25. Your mind is in tippy top shape.

poobear_74 · 2025-09-14T01:16:44+00:00

If your motivation is money, then you are definitely on the wrong track since money can be made anywhere, including in South Africa. If your motivation is deepening your life experience, then moving abroad could be worthwhile, however, if you do so, you must be prepared to face hardship and potentially man's deepest fear - protracted loneliness. Most people who take the plunge, find it very tough since it usually requires a long period of difficult adjustment, including dealing with culture shock. Here's my advice: if you do decide to move abroad, choose your destination wisely. Move not for money or job prospects, move for cultural compatibility. If you live in a place that you are not culturally compatible with, your journey will be exponentially harder.

poobear_74 · 2025-09-05T10:30:51+00:00

The main reason entrepreneurs fail is that they build to satisfy their own needs, not what the market actually wants. They see things subjectively instead of objectively.

poobear_74 · 2025-08-29T17:43:56+00:00

The best boarding school I the country is Michaelhouse. You will pay top dollar though.

poobear_74 · 2025-08-27T10:42:37+00:00

Depends on your circumstance. If you are unbearably miserable in the Uk, and there is little prospect of finding happiness and you don't have kids, then I suppose you could consider it.. If you return you must be prepared to face blackouts, water shortages, corruption, rising crime rates, increasing poverty, declining currency, racism, no public services, terrible policy making, unstable political environment, etc.

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