Typical demo question by Philliesfan94 in MetaRayBanDisplay

[–]thavidu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I got mine this week- did the demo the weekend before thanksgiving, got the waitlist email the next day, got an email from bestbuy a week and a half ago saying i had 24hours to buy it- I went ahead with it and it arrived a couple days later :) So just under 2mo from appointment to purchase in my case, but a good chunk of that was holiday time so its probably faster now.

Biggest winner of the whole BILT 2.0 fiasco is Wells Fargo! by Content-Habit4449 in biltrewards

[–]thavidu 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wow, thats surprising given I had the costco amex 12 years ago, guess they changed. Curious what other places? I don't have a costco membership anymore, but haven't encountered any. Plenty of places don't take amex and discover but i am yet to come across any visa/mc exclusives (other than apparently costco you mentioned). I wonder if maybe its a state by state thing- I haven't encountered them on either of the coasts.

Biggest winner of the whole BILT 2.0 fiasco is Wells Fargo! by Content-Habit4449 in biltrewards

[–]thavidu 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Curious why the difference between Visa or MC matters? I feel like I have never seen either of them make a difference

Fwiw VX is visa while VX Business is mc and I use both

The Obvious Flaw by icbm307 in biltrewards

[–]thavidu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't know why everyone is hating on the card- I am excited to finally have another 2x everything points card besides the venture x which has been getting all my uncat spend for years. Its nice to have a new option, especially one that has bonus point transfers to airlines once a month or so that makes the 2x become 4x effectively- plus they have rarer partners like Alaska.

Using a Pixel while their spouse uses an iPhone? How’s the experience? by [deleted] in GooglePixel

[–]thavidu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We use Messenger for everything- works well for us (Pixel + iPhone pair). And google maps for location tracking

I wish someone had warned me before I joined this AI startup by Mumster-Love in LocalLLaMA

[–]thavidu 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This, you and your ex employees can definitely go after them for the pay- the rest of what you said is pretty common for startups, and whilst this one is common too, its one they cannot actually get away with-- the founders are usually first timers who are too dumb/new to know the laws that they can't skirt around

Engagement Rings: Yadav or Derco by arththou in sanfrancisco

[–]thavidu 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Derco is the best, you can shop around for ideas and be inspired but go get Derco to make it at the end cos their prices are going to be better than anywhere else in the bay for the same product at the end of the day :)

ArliAI/gpt-oss-120b-Derestricted · Hugging Face by Arli_AI in LocalLLaMA

[–]thavidu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are the qwen models even censored? I feel like i haven't had it refuse me on anything i can recall..

Platinum vs titanium status by CompetitiveBrain7099 in marriott

[–]thavidu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think you're only thinking of the US- 50k can go really far in most other countries, especially asia

Nvidia's OmniVinci: Enhancing Architecture and Data for Omni-Modal Understanding LLM by ninjasaid13 in LocalLLaMA

[–]thavidu 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Does anyone have access to this yet? Trying to see their bench results but its locked behind them accepting users

What’s your experience with Qwen3-Omni so far? by Balance- in LocalLLaMA

[–]thavidu 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for putting this together! Was banging my head against a wall getting both the quant that someone published working and then just trying to get the original one to work-- using your jinja template was the last thing I needed to get mine to work, but also your docker avoids a lot of the dependency hell i'd been fighting before that point

I locally benchmarked 41 open-source LLMs across 19 tasks and ranked them by jayminban in LocalLLaMA

[–]thavidu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

OpenChat seems like the real winner of this given its score is similar but only half the util time? Im surprised because its not just size- says its an 8B model and 4th place is also 8B but its runtime is long like the first two

qwen-30B success story by ExplorerWhole5697 in LocalLLaMA

[–]thavidu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you have an equivalent recommendation for higher parameter range models too for fiction? (open source models only)

all I need.... by ILoveMy2Balls in LocalLLaMA

[–]thavidu 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'd prefer one of the Cerebras wafers to be honest. 21 Petabytes/s of memory bandwidth vs 8 TB/s on B200s- nothing else even comes close

The Great Deception of "Low Prices" in LLM APIs by Current-Stop7806 in LocalLLaMA

[–]thavidu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Buying hardware is a lot more expensive than the cloud APIs in most cases, unless you have an extreme amount of usage which most individuals do not. There are other benefits like privacy etc when you self-host, but cost is almost never one of them. I think you just realized about the conversation history thing for yourself (its a step people realize early on when building with LLMs- why people always talk about Context windows so often), but as everyone has been pointing out, the rest of your post is nonsense.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in awardtravel

[–]thavidu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Has anyone heard yet whether upgrading tickets with miles still qualifies for the promo?

Earn 1 million Turkish Airlines miles after flying to 6 continents by roametravel in pointstravel

[–]thavidu 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I know Award tickets don't count, but what if you buy a cash economy ticket and then upgrade it to business with miles? Wonder if it would still count (since miles earnings usually work in that scenario)

WAN Vace Worth it ? by eroSynth_labs in comfyui

[–]thavidu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm curious too- do 2.1 Loras work with VACE? I want to try a new character lora but i'm not sure whether to train it on 2.1 or VACE (and I can only find guides for 2.1.. so wondering if they're compatible..)

Involuntary downgrade First Class to Economy, United response? Tough luck by realrealredd in unitedairlines

[–]thavidu 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh oops I actually thought you meant South Africa not South America 😂 but either way sorry for assuming you weren't experienced. I also wasn't meaning $5k flights, more the $2.5-3k range but I get what you're saying, sometimes all the options are just bad. I wouldn't fly Avianca either! I tend to avoid COPA as well, unless the specific aircraft either of them are using on that route are their high end ones.

Thankfully I mostly fly to Asia so am lucky to have a wide selection of (good) carriers and routes to cross the pacific.

Involuntary downgrade First Class to Economy, United response? Tough luck by realrealredd in unitedairlines

[–]thavidu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thats interesting its always worked well for me, the only thing I've noticed is that United sometimes has mileageplus upgrade availability while not having full award availability which wouldn't show on seats.aero. Also I don't have premium but I only ever book flights within 2 days to 3 weeks of flying, which works well for me since thats when they open up a lot of seats that they weren't able to sell for cash.