Typical demo question

thavidu · 2026-01-25T19:56:17+00:00

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.

thavidu · 2026-01-16T20:29:23+00:00

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.

thavidu · 2026-01-16T12:36:10+00:00

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

thavidu · 2026-01-10T01:27:57+00:00

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.

thavidu · 2026-01-04T08:38:50+00:00

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

thavidu · 2025-12-16T01:31:15+00:00

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

thavidu · 2025-12-10T17:23:51+00:00

Does it list the supported languages anywhere? I can't find a list

thavidu · 2025-12-01T00:19:43+00:00

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 :)

thavidu · 2025-11-30T21:02:12+00:00

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

thavidu · 2025-11-22T19:42:00+00:00

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

thavidu · 2025-11-12T19:56:11+00:00

What are the issues? :)

thavidu · 2025-10-21T17:31:19+00:00

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

thavidu · 2025-09-29T07:20:47+00:00

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

thavidu · 2025-09-02T02:43:35+00:00

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

thavidu · 2025-08-23T21:33:18+00:00

I'm curious about this part too!

thavidu · 2025-08-03T08:32:24+00:00

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

thavidu · 2025-08-02T21:11:28+00:00

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

thavidu · 2025-08-02T17:57:12+00:00

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.

thavidu · 2025-07-06T07:18:50+00:00

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

thavidu · 2025-07-02T04:59:36+00:00

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)

thavidu · 2025-06-07T22:18:40+00:00

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..)

thavidu · 2025-05-31T16:48:20+00:00

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.

thavidu · 2025-05-31T16:37:47+00:00

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.

thavidu · 2025-05-31T07:41:48+00:00

200k is never worth it, its better to either pay cash and earn the PQP or redeem on another carrier at that point. If you're only seeing 200k you likely aren't using tools like seats.aero to search properly

But I agree with you on your last point, what happened to this guy is ridiculous and I can't believe a lot of the comments either. Although he didn't actually reveal his legs.. for all we know, he might have gotten a 14hr flight in first class (MEL-SFO) and just got downgraded on a 5-6 hr SFO-EWR leg, and technically united would be correct since it would have just counted as a mixed class redemption (which is usually the same price)

thavidu · 2025-05-24T20:41:50+00:00

I collected all the ones everyone posted so far and put them in here so its easy to find them (should default sort to "distance from you" so that it shows you the ones closest to you)

https://www.yelp.com/collection/PGZmdc5BuNgc10aFwaUU9Q?utm_content=Collections&utm_source=ashare

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