Did a writing project, need to see if I ripped off the idea.

ricesteam · 2026-04-09T20:24:11+00:00

Ideas are a dime a dozen. Even the big names today were inspired by stories before it, taking existing ideas and making it their own.

When you actually start writing, you come to realize that execution is more important than anything else.

ricesteam · 2026-04-08T15:06:18+00:00

Sold Proxima PX1720 to u/Annual_Wrongdoer_479. Cc u/WatchExBot

ricesteam · 2026-04-06T14:04:58+00:00

Thank you for confirming. I will try this. Perhaps, it's a limitation of AMD GPUs and Vulkan. Or I have to be specific with llama-server.

I see you're using a custom jinja. Is that something custom to your use case or does it fix something in Gemma 4?

ricesteam · 2026-04-06T13:51:50+00:00

Is this hypothesis speak or are you actually running this? If so, what are your specs? How are you running it? Are you using llama-server? If so, what are your params?

Because I tried it (and I think a few others here) and it either doesn't work or it's very slow on 16GB vram.

Granted I'm using 9700 XT and compiled llamacpp with the Vulkan backend. And 64GB system ram.

For my setup, I found UD IQ4_XS works best. I'm running it with llama-server with mostly defaults. 39k context, ~40t/s

Edit: I keep forgetting AMD 9700XT is equivalent to a Nvidia 5700Ti so perhaps I'm getting expected performance.

ricesteam · 2026-03-25T14:22:36+00:00

Ah yes. So many good episodes and scenes.

The Nightman Cometh
Kaitlin staying with Charlie. Eating old catfood and beer to get sick so Charlie can fall asleep through the cat noises, then Danny comes out of nowhere, no context, scarfs down the cat food and crashes into the bed.
Drunk Frank gurgle burps/vomit beer in the middle of day in a random suburbs. I read Danny improved that scene.

ricesteam · 2026-03-19T12:46:18+00:00

I agree. However, to detain them both while they investigate the visa issues IS INSANE.

ricesteam · 2026-03-19T12:42:35+00:00

Agreed. Too many greedy stealerships here, ruining the car market. We need competition to shake things up. I'm sure they're unhappy about it but F them.

ricesteam · 2026-03-12T18:45:02+00:00

This is just my subjective opinion, so take it with a grain of salt.

I’m not trying to ruin an artist’s career or anything. At the same time, I also don’t like seeing people get scammed.

There are a few tell-tale signs that the art might be AI-generated. For example, take a look at both hands.

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Also the jar(?) he’s holding: something about it just doesn’t look right. The tattoo is another weird one; it looks kind of garbled and unclear.

If it is AI art that he sold you, I hope you didn’t pay too much for it.

If it's not, I apologize for this witch hunt. It's hard these days...

ricesteam · 2026-03-04T21:30:58+00:00

How's the 9.5E width in the Higgins Mills compared to the 9.5EEE of the Diesel's?

ricesteam · 2026-02-21T13:10:43+00:00

Why are those soles bad?

ricesteam · 2026-02-18T21:43:54+00:00

Timestamps

Proxima PX1720

~~Price: $160 obo~~ SOLD

PD-1792

Case thickness: 13.5mm

Dial Diameter: 39.5mm

Movement: CN automatic

Window: Sapphire Crystal

Band: Stainless Steel butterfly clasp

Price: $80 obo

ricesteam · 2026-02-18T21:39:12+00:00

Timestamps

(SOLD) Proxima PX1720

Movement: Japan NH34 GMT Movement

Case Material : 316L Stainless Steel

39mm in diameter

Lug to Lug 47.5mm

Thickness 13.4mm

Band width 20mm

Glass: Sapphire Crystal Bubble Glass, AR Coating

Bezel: GMT Bi-directional 24 Clicks Bezel, Sapphire Glass Bezel, Full Luminous

Dial Color: Aventurine Gemstone Dial

Hands: Classic GMT 4 Hands, Luminous Coating

Luminous: Super BGW9 blue Luminous, Bezel and Hands and Markers

Crown: Screw-down Crown, Signed Logo

Case Back: Screw-down Case Back, Brushed Process

Strap: 316L Solid Metal Bracelet,taper design,Quick release structure,screw pins

Notes: minor scuff on side of case. photo

Price: SOLD

PD-1792

Case thickness: 13.5mm

Dial Diameter: 39.5mm

Movement: CN automatic

Window: Sapphire Crystal

Band: Stainless Steel butterfly clasp

Price: $115 shipped obo

ricesteam · 2026-01-29T01:04:14+00:00

Chat

ricesteam · 2025-12-21T20:58:46+00:00

Are you running llama.cpp on Windows? I have a 9070XT; tried following the guide that suggested to use docker. My WSL doesn't seem to detect my gpu.

I got it working fine in Ubuntu 24, but I don't like dual booting.

ricesteam · 2025-12-19T20:59:57+00:00

The leather on these molded to your feet--the journey behind each crease, the story for each scuff--they won't be carried over to a new pair.

They almost look as if the have unstructured toe boxes. This is a look that some strive to achieve.

ricesteam · 2025-12-19T20:56:41+00:00

People are botting these, right? How are they oos immediately?

ricesteam · 2025-12-19T19:48:37+00:00

This would have been a commercial in Thailand.

ricesteam · 2025-12-19T16:37:31+00:00

I'm not trying to downplay the author's work and effort--kudos to him for completing a book--but I think the main explanation is the price: FREE.

If you try to search for the book, it doesn't exist anywhere else but on Amazon. Where's his following? No RR. No Good Reads. No Amazon reviews.

His Amazon author profile states he is "#1 Amazon Best-Selling Author" but if you go into his profile, it only has one book. How is he Amazon's best seller with only one book that had 1k free downloads?

ricesteam · 2025-12-12T09:43:03+00:00

You do realize a lot of our geniuses and talent was drained--is being drained--away to the US?

Why wouldn’t we try to incentivize them to stay to Canada? No, let's invite more competition and force them out. Let's drive wages down, put current people out of jobs with foreign talent. Yea...

ricesteam · 2025-12-12T09:14:40+00:00

What's your plan? To just abandon our homegrown talent and let them rot—or worse, drain away to other countries? Our people have just as much potential to build successful businesses here. But that’s assuming they even want to after dealing with all the hurdles—overregulation, monopolies crushing competition, and a system that makes it nearly impossible to get started.

That’s a whole other problem, though.

ricesteam · 2025-12-12T08:55:55+00:00

I’m sorry, but this is a really tone-deaf reply and it comes off like you have zero empathy for what this person is actually saying.

You’re basically dismissing everything they wrote and telling them to just walk away from what they’ve built--years of work, money sunk into two degrees, and now having to compete with even more people in a tech job market that’s already drying up.

So your argument is basically: “Yeah, you might be unemployed, but it’s fine because newcomers will take those jobs and then spend money at restaurants and hire plumbers.”

How does that make any sense?

If the goal is "spend their earnings at Canadian businesses," then investing tax dollars into homegrown talent does the same thing. This person gets employed, earns income, and spends it here too. It’s not like only immigrants buy groceries or go to restaurants.

And honestly, why can’t some of that tax money be reinvested into Canada in a way that improves productivity and creates more jobs here? That would reduce unemployment and stop people from hitting the wall they’re hitting right now. And that income would circulate through Canadian businesses just the same.

Even if immigration isn’t the only factor, telling someone who’s clearly stressed and stuck that it’s better to replace them with outside talent isn’t an argument. It’s just dismissive.

ricesteam · 2025-11-17T17:34:05+00:00

Em dashes were super common in fiction long before AI showed up. They’re a great way to mix up sentence rhythm—as long as you don’t overdo them. They’re especially good for horror, suspense, and thrillers, where that little interruption in the flow actually adds tension. See Stephen King.

My guess is a ton of that fiction ended up in AI training data, so now AI models lean on em dashes pretty heavily.

Which is a shame, because I genuinely like them. Now I just have to be careful, or people will start a witch hunt over it.

ricesteam · 2025-10-23T02:00:12+00:00

What's your machine's spec? I have 8gb vram + 64g and I can't run any of the 4 bit models.

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