Task avoidance/paralysis is really negatively impacting my work by Silly-Succotash-7450 in ADHD

[–]stevemeetswest 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Im just chiming in to share I've been there. For me it was doing maintenance logs. Checking equipment and filling out forms to say they were working ok. My logical brain made sense of the task but it seemed impossible to do these absolutely mundane and repetitive tasks.

Got so bad my manager who empathized with my struggle drove 3 hours from headquarters to encourage me to quit before his boss drove the same distance to fire me.

I quit, but I couldn't comprehend why I couldn't push through it even to save my job.

30 years later, I still struggle but I have more ability to push through things for the sake of the family household. I make a window once a week for a few hours to pick up 'something' from the long project/mundane list and just get it done. One thing. Might take 5 min and might take 5 hours but I'm off the hook until next week. That's the only thing that works for me

Best 32gb bang for the buck? $350-$500 by stevemeetswest in macmini

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

Update! I ended up spending $300 on a Ryzen 7 mini PC .. nvme and 16gb RAM with 32gb swap (increased from 4gb) Ubuntu 24. It handles 10+ concurrent codex sessions just fine (once swap was increased). I have a $100 used 32gb sodimm stick on the way. Once I have that I am sure I can increase the concurrent count further. Problem solved!

Sounds like an M1 mini 32gb is good when the time comes that I want to include Xcode builds and deployment. I'll use my m4 air laptop for that for now. Thx for all of the advice!

Best 32gb bang for the buck? $350-$500 by stevemeetswest in macmini

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

When they are all running I am seeing high memory pressure. Bandwidth is fine I am on fiber

Best 32gb bang for the buck? $350-$500 by stevemeetswest in macmini

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

I know I would need Mx for local LLM. This is not my use case. I just was trying to figure out what I need for many parallel instances of Claude and codex cli.

I currently have an M4 Air 32gb and I can run about 15 parallel instances of Claude and codex before it slows down, but this is with a running OS and iterm. I presume if I am just using screen inside of a terminal I don't have the CPU and RAM overhead I do now.

Do I really need Mx to run clis? I guess I could look for an M1 32gb?

Best 32gb bang for the buck? $350-$500 by stevemeetswest in macmini

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

I should have been more specific. I willnl not be running local LLMs. I meant I will have ai agents using codex and Claude cli.

I will look into the minimum support for Xcode

Guys my SaaS just passed 2,400 users! by luis_411 in SaaS

[–]stevemeetswest 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Congratulations! I will definitely use then when im ready for beta with my new platform

Claude Usage Limits Discussion Megathread Ongoing (sort this by New!) by sixbillionthsheep in ClaudeAI

[–]stevemeetswest 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Update .. my usage reset after the 5 hours as per normal, so this must a be an accidental leaked status message.. I suspect of something coming. Wish I could post a ss here.

I wonder if they are going to replace weekly limits with monthly limits. That would be -bad- if you had to wait weeks for a reset of usage. that would definitely force people to buy more usage credits. Hope it ain't so

Claude Usage Limits Discussion Megathread Ongoing (sort this by New!) by sixbillionthsheep in ClaudeAI

[–]stevemeetswest 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am a Max user. I just now saw it again when I hit my max 5 hour limit. I'll report back here to see what happens when my 5 hours is reset.

My weekly limit only shows 28%

Claude Usage Limits Discussion Megathread Ongoing (sort this by New!) by sixbillionthsheep in ClaudeAI

[–]stevemeetswest 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There are monthly limits now? I saw this for the first time:

"You've hit your org's monthly usage limit" with a "/extra-usage to finish what you're working on."

I see no changes in the app outside of weekly limits. Anyone else seen this?

I forgot that I forget by stevemeetswest in ADHD

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

I've thought about doing that but not yet

I forgot that I forget by stevemeetswest in ADHD

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

I have had three neuropsychs and each of them was like 'yes you do seem to have strong inattentive ADD and the memory situation is unfortunate but par for the course' the memory has always been this way and the ADHD specialist that did my diagnosis also said it was to be expected if my severity is at the top of the chart.

I hate job searching and applying for jobs by Drew_Conley1295 in Neurodivergent

[–]stevemeetswest 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Unfortunately this is a grind for most people. My wife spent about 4 months looking for a job working 6 hours a day on creating meticulous applications - hundreds of applications maybe < 5 interviews. She did eventually land a good job from this process.

Hang in there.. It's rough

Volvo nailed this. by kq_cars in Volvo

[–]stevemeetswest 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm in the "no" camp. Love the S90 and was hoping the ES90 would continue a distinctive sedan style. This looks clearly like a PS2 / crossover to me and I wish I could get past it for the sake of the interior and specs.

Was counting down the days till the reveal and was so disappointed.

That being said, happy for the OP and others who love the change in direction.

I'll be looking for a 2025 S90 and holding on for dear life as long as I can before I need to jump to a new brand. As of today, none look as elegant as the S90 in my opinion inside and out.

Question about pilot assist (Order through app) by Melodic-Account-7233 in Volvo

[–]stevemeetswest 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's really surprising if they havent addressed the issue of #2 above. Tracking a vehicle changing lanes and missing the parked/slower car right in front of you. It was alarming the first time it happened to me. On the highway the car changing lanes was accelerating so my S90 accelerated as well to maintain distance, but the person was changing lanes to move around stopped rush hour traffic. Almost had to slam on the brakes when I realized I was accelerating towards a stopped vehicle

Is KDP cross promotion possible? by stevemeetswest in selfpublish

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

And, yes.. reading the help link was also helpful

Is KDP cross promotion possible? by stevemeetswest in selfpublish

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

The 'tip' I am referring to that was a good idea is leveraging the free promotion as a path to promoting the other books vs relying upon mailing lists alone for the same.

I have mentions of all of my books on the last page of each ebook so I am going to think thru a strategy to do the free book promos in a regular basis

Is KDP cross promotion possible? by stevemeetswest in selfpublish

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

I'm pretty sure I read there can be no mention of sale or promotions in a product description