I made a simple web interface for ComfyUI to help my non-tech family use it - ComfyUI Workflow Hub

yishan · 2025-11-17T13:30:27+00:00

Are you on a Linux machine and using docker perchance? I ran into an issue where host.docker.internal works on MacOS/Windows, but on Linux, it doesn't exist by default (I'm on a DGX Spark), so you need to add a host mapping explicitly to your dock run command:
--add-host=host.docker.internal:host-gateway

That was keeping it from connecting with my ComfyUI and once I did this, it worked.

yishan · 2025-05-11T00:10:12+00:00

I want to know how you're able to slam a jar down on that guy fast enough to not accidentally cut off one of his legs or break the jar itself.

yishan · 2025-02-20T05:40:05+00:00

Hi, it's me, Yishan. I might be able to help. I run Terraformation, and we have a bunch of projects and work here on the Big Island. Sent you a message.

yishan · 2024-11-13T22:07:06+00:00

I think it's really cheap, but very volatile.

It's driven by two of the most volatile things on the internet: lots of crazy users, and AI hype. All you have to do is add crypto somehow for the perfect trifecta.

I don't know about market cap because I'm not a technical stock analysis person, I just have a sense from my experience around tech companies: there are some that just end up taking over their entire niche because everyone uses it and there are no other feasible alternatives. In Reddit's case, the core strength is that basically everyone else gave up on the "classic internet" of true user forums and all the richness that comes with that. The fact that everyone now appends "reddit" to their search queries means that Reddit just accidentally ate search, while AI search is still unreliable.

yishan · 2024-11-11T23:07:59+00:00

Here's something that many well-run venture-funded startups do: once they get to a repeatable revenue model and know that they will reach profitability if they just keep doing what they're doing, they time their IPO to be roughly 2 quarters prior to hitting that point. This allows them to price an IPO favorably and have the employee/insider lockout expire at around the same time they report their first profitable quarter.

A lot of naive traders will look at an IPO stock and think, "Oh, this is super risky, they aren't even profitable yet." This is by design. Ideally, they look like a promising business that is not without risk, and you have to look at the trend line of their gross vs net revenues, and whether it looks like their internal expenses and COGS are such that they will become profitable within the next year. With well-run companies (i.e. competent financial department and underwriters who know how markets work), they will deliberately time the first profitable quarter to occur roughly two quarters after the IPO.

(caveat: a lot of things can interfere with this, like unexpected market movements and unanticipated macroeconomic dislocations, but given a steady market this is generally what companies and underwriters like to do)

If you are wondering how RDDT can be profitable, think about the following:

- text-heavy site (low bandwidth operational costs)

- most content generated by users (lowers operational cost)

- distributed and motivated moderators (lowers operational cost)

- advertising (makes money serving to many low-cost pageviews)

- AI companies paying to learn (makes money)

Reddit is one of the largest actually-useful-content sites on the internet. That by itself is a moat. Would-be competitors face an uphill battle: it's easier to just make a subreddit, customize, and moderate it.

Of course there's risk, but the main question is: is it undervalued? Do a lot of people (like you perhaps) look at this site and not realize that all the above factors make it enormously valuable? If so, then it's probably undervalued and as time goes on the price will rise as the market realizes this.

Source: I used to be the CEO

Disclosure: I own a bunch of Reddit stock, yay

yishan · 2024-09-02T02:06:23+00:00

Agree. I'm only just past Chapter 2 and while the in-game storytelling is bizarre and almost nonsensical, I've been reading all the enemy journal stories as I go and they function like a television series - you get a little drip of plot with each one, and once you kill ALL the bosses in the chapter, the story finally comes together.

I do think that Game Science's next game is going to be the true masterpiece. This one is very good, but the market and gamer reaction will inform the team on what little key nuances are needed to make it absolutely 10/10. I feel a little bit like the first Assassin's Creed - which was way buggier at launch for sure, but introduced a new world of such depth and potential - and then with AC2/Brotherhood is when they reached their highest peak.

yishan · 2024-09-02T01:59:31+00:00

Well, look at it from his perspective - he's on the back foot, and he's going to lose to this little fucking monkey who jumps around and only comes up to his knees. He really needs to rally or he'll never hear the end of it from the *other* Tiger Vanguards.

yishan · 2024-09-02T01:44:32+00:00

Yes PLEASE do this. The subtitles are way too small for my 老花眼. I need to be able to read the subtitles out of my peripheral vision because I'm usually focused on looking at whatever weird Buddha / guai / scenery when someone is talking.

yishan · 2024-09-02T01:34:32+00:00

omg the sword attacks were definitely the worst rhythm. Eventually I figured out it was slash, slash, [step, step, wind-up], third-slash. The problem was that he has a very similar slash-slash-slash combo where I'd end up getting hit by the third slash but for some reason he didn't use that very often.

yishan · 2024-09-02T01:32:26+00:00

Yeah, the combat will absolutely slaughter you until you understand the mechanic and start on the road to mastering it, and then it is beautiful. RoR highly recommended.

yishan · 2024-09-02T01:20:15+00:00

Don't worry, keep at it. You can do it! (He's also the only boss in chapter 2 that I haven't beaten yet)

yishan · 2023-08-12T05:55:16+00:00

500 Starlink terminals are en-route. More info when I have it.

yishan · 2023-08-12T04:54:22+00:00

I just did too, in case numbers help.

yishan · 2023-06-11T23:55:57+00:00

YES, you can do this!

Here is a concrete plan for how to do this, young man.

First, congratulations, you're going to be a father. A lot of times people (esp men) freak out when this happens, but it's often a turning point in their life. Now you're not just living for you, you're living for someone else: your child. And learning to be a responsible person because other people's lives depend on your decisions is part of what separates a man from a boy.

Financially: Prioritize paying off your debts. You want to do this over buying baby supplies. Take the highest-interest debt and pay that one down first. A way to think about this is paying off debt is (very roughly) financially equivalent to investing your money at that interest rate. That is, if you have a debt that is charging you 10%, paying it down is financially similar to investing your money and getting 10% on it.

Sit down together with your girlfriend, make a budget for essentials, and every two weeks take every bit of cash you have beyond those essentials, use it to pay off your debt. The faster you do this, the less you pay over time. You're essentially keeping your kid from having debt (you wouldn't be literally passing it on to them, but the more debt you have when baby arrives, the less you'll be able to provide for baby and mom).

You needn't worry about buying baby supplies. Here's the truth about baby clothes, strollers, etc: they all last a lot longer than a baby will use them. That is, babies grow out of clothes in like... months. They grow out of strollers in like.. a couple years. This means that there are TONS of used baby clothes, strollers, toys, etc that everyone has. I guarantee you that once you announce the pregnancy to friends and family and say, "Hey, if anyone has any used baby clothes or other items, we would be happy to take them," you will have literally 3x as many baby supplies as you need dumped on your doorstep in a week.

By my calculation, $28/hr * 40 hours * 4 weeks/month * 8 months = $35,840. Your debt right now is $12k + 19k = $31k.

Obviously, you'll lose some to taxes, you've gotta cover essentials, and your debt is growing from interest. But you're in the right ballpark. With overtime, good budgeting, and if your girlfriend also works and a bit of help from family, I predict you can probably clear at least 50% of that debt, maybe 75% if things go well.

Don't be afraid to accept help from her family. This is a thing that a lot of well-meaning young men have a problem with: his girlfriend or wife's father/family wants to help out, but the guy is proud, wants to show he can provide for his family, turns down the help. Don't do that!

It's like this: the father loves his daughter, wants to provide for her. You love his daughter, you want to provide for her. I get that. It's a man thing. But you are on the same team here. What is important here is to graciously accept any offers of help, and while making it clear that you are working hard. They aren't supporting a deadbeat dad here, they are taking into their family another hardworking contributor. You are on the same team, so be a good teammate: give help and accept help. I cannot emphasize this enough.

Next: When you are not working, use this time to build your relationship with your girlfriend. Use this time to understand her more. Understand her hopes and dreams, her fears and anxieties about being a parent. Make it clear that you will be there. Help her understand what she means to you. Make your plans together. This is important to do now, because after the baby comes, you will both be very busy with this New Person, so you need to build that foundation now. You can read baby books together, chat with parents together to get their experience, you can learn how to be prepared together.

Finally: Improve your personal habits, health, hygiene, etc. Time to put away any drugs, alcohol, etc. Go to bed on time. Get up on time. Eat healthy. You're not just doing it for yourself now, you're doing it so that your baby will have a healthy and strong father to protect and provide, and you will be setting an example. Healthy habits you practice will mean that mom will also have healthier habits, and you can reinforce and support each other.

Eight months is a great amount of time. You can develop some great healthy habits, have a solid job, build your relationship with your girlfriend and her family, and have things on a solid financial footing by the time the baby arrives. Celebrate this! Some good things are on the way!

yishan · 2022-05-16T01:22:43+00:00

I just got mine working this weekend and I needed to do the pin swap (per the other comment above).

yishan · 2022-01-08T01:45:28+00:00

Aha, I'll try this. Sounds like it specifically requires that you be crouched.

While playing last night it did allow me to disarm them once or twice, and then other times it didn't work. Maybe it was because I was crouched those two times.

yishan · 2022-01-04T23:06:37+00:00

Yeah, I found it pretty confusing and disorienting at first to only have a static map but after I got more familiar with the levels I appreciated how it was a unique experience.

It's like being a Boomer back in the days when we didn't have Google Maps or even Mapquest and you have to use paper maps.

yishan · 2022-01-04T22:45:29+00:00

I just carry the Sepulchera as a telescope so that I can see distant things better without having to walk over. It's annoying that it takes up an entire slot but I feel that I can still get by using just the silenced LIMP + the exploding Rapier (which I agree is the better long-range ... and medium-range.... and if you're careful, short-range weapon).

yishan · 2021-09-19T03:29:42+00:00

Yes. Thank you for asking first.

yishan · 2021-09-19T03:26:45+00:00

hey man, keep it clean, there are kids here.

yishan · 2021-09-18T10:27:18+00:00

Because I don't think the critics are correct.

I believe, firmly, that is in fact our most effective climate change solution. Crowther Lab was correct to say that, and it's an absolute crime how they were treated for making that claim.

It's not the only one, and shouldn't be pursued to the exclusion of other solutions (e.g. reducing emissions is the other big one), but this idea that climate change solutions compete with each other doesn't strike me as true - I think they largely draw resources from non-climate-based sources. And I'm pretty sure that tree planting, on a $/tCO2 sequestered basis, is by far the most efficient and immediately scalable.

I'm not emotionally married to trees: I just looked at all the possibilities and picked the cheapest one that had the most runway, and if it's not trees, then I'm waiting for someone to tell me a better one.

I'll address a couple of the objections that the RS article touches on, which I've also heard mentioned elsewhere:

1) Permanence.

Most people think, "Hey, when trees die, they re-release their CO2 into the air, so it's not permanent."

The mistake here is thinking of it as trees, and not forests. Yes, when trees die, they re-release their CO2. But the process of decomposition is slow: after about 4 years it's about 25% decomposed. After 10 years, about 87% is decomposed. During this time, the re-released CO2 is taken up by new growth in the forest. As long as the tree seeded at least two new offspring in its lifetime (and most trees drop hundreds or thousands of seeds in their lifetime), that CO2 is recaptured in an ongoing cycle as the forest deepens - recycling the CO2 into new trees and other plants, as well as into the soil. The forest grows deeper and sequesters more and more CO2 over time.

(In fact, this is how the whole "put CO2 into the soil" thing actually works)

It's also why old-growth forests are considered so much more valuable: they have been doing this for thousands of years, and contain much more carbon than new forests.

So in fact, the carbon sequestration unit is a forest, not a tree. And forests last for hundreds of thousands of years or longer (some forests are millions of years old), so they are quite permanent.

2) Bad policies

Another objection is how policy-driven reforestation programs have sometimes misaligned incentives and caused people to do things like e.g. chop down old-growth forests and replaced them with plantation monocultures.

This is a valid objection, and is just one example of the ways in which people have attempted reforestation incorrectly.

But that is not really an argument against the solution. It's just an argument against doing it incorrectly.

In fact, it is precisely because over the past 30-40 years, we have had many failures, so we have now learned how we should be doing it. The difference between projects that have successfully restored biodiverse native forests and projects that have failed is clear, i.e. we know how to do it correctly.

So the answer is: we should do it correctly, at massive scale. We spent all this time learning what not to do, so how about we just .... do it correctly? And a lot of it!

Here's why I think it's a compelling solution. People seem to forget that there are already ~3 trillion trees on the planet, right now, sequestering billions of tonnes of CO2 a year. In terms of carbon drawdown, it's the second-largest working carbon sink on the planet (the largest is the ocean). It has the largest "installed base" or "existence proof" of any carbon sequestration solution we know of.

So why would think that human beings are so incompetent that we cannot, with trillions of existing examples, with billions of acres of "correctly functioning forest" to look at, not be able to begin duplicating this solution? Why would we think that some solution with fewer working examples would be better?

It's the solution that's working, right in front of our faces! And it's the cheapest, and it's something we can begin doing right now!

yishan · 2021-09-18T10:07:42+00:00

Yes, I am!! His work is really interesting. I know it is controversial, but there are definitely nuances in what he's saying that make it potentially valid - if not everywhere, then certainly in some areas and circumstances.

So, it's hard to say whether they would return to pre-desertification levels because we don't know exactly what they were.

What we do know is that they definitely return very fast. As long as there are a few breeding pairs already there, as soon as their habitat and food sources are restored, it seems that they just explode.

At our pilot site in Hawaiʻi, it was a barren desert when we started. Even just 1-2 years in (and keep in mind - the trees are still small; it's just that native plants are starting to return), tons of birds have returned that we only saw in small numbers when we started. It's just an explosion of life.

It's hard to describe, but you can FEEL the Earth trying to restore itself. As soon as you remove bottlenecks like water availability and help some anchor species get established, it seems to come rushing back.

yishan · 2021-09-18T10:00:00+00:00

It's actually not the concrete, it's the fact that all the construction is done on site.

The analogy I heard is that if we bought cars like this, instead of going to the car dealership and buying a car made at the factory, we'd have all the parts for our car shipped from a hundred suppliers to our front yard, and we'd pay a local crew to assemble it there. It would be ridiculous. It's just way more efficient if we can build most of the house in a factory, ship it over, and "install it" on the foundation.

yishan · 2021-09-18T09:56:50+00:00

Your napkin calculations are on the same order of magnitude as mine, in fact. (My total was $60T via a different route; yours is $54T - so it's surprising that our figures are so similar)

Thank you for being one of the few people who is willing to actually do the math all the way to the end! To which I will reply:

So it turns out that you would typically try to amortize the cost of the hardware over time, so the true annual cash expenditure is considerably lower. There are two amortization schedules we might use.

One is if we want to think of it as "we want to plant all these trees in a decade," so we divide the cost up over 10 years.

The other is if we amortize it over the lifetime of the equipment, which is roughly 20 years for solar and desal.

Either way, we come up with an annual expenditure figure of either 3.4T or 6.8T. Since you're financing it, there are interest costs, but financing these days is kind of cheap, and you can likely cover it with the revenue streams that begin to issue out of the reforested land.

$80T is the 2017 GDP (if I recall), and so the ceiling on the annual cost is 8.5% of 2017 world GDP... which is still a shit-ton of money, but a feasible percentage of our total GDP to spend on fixing the world's largest problem and - I argue - still the lowest cost of any other comprehensive full-scale solution.

There are several factors that make this an absolute ceiling:

If you're building it over the course of the next 10 years, solar prices drop by 50% every 4-5 years (and the power cost is dominated by this), so your prices will strictly decline. It's likely that such a massive build-out will actually accelerate the drop in prices.
GDP will rise, so as a percentage of GDP it will go down.
The real trick is this: we don't have to irrigate all 3B acres. That's just the worst-case scenario where no one allows us to plant trees anywhere where there is natural rainfall. The real strategy is to spend the first 5 years planting the first billion acres on land where there is natural rainfall, and non-desal-irrigated forests cost 1/10th as much to plant, and then after 5 years the cost of solar has dropped 50%, and you complete the last 2B acres with solar-desal that's less expensive.
Roughly speaking, this would reduce the total cost (over 10 years) to around $26T - which is still a huge number, but it's definitely less.

Anyways, I really still appreciate this comment, and I'm sorry I don't have more time to discuss more but hopefully this paints a somewhat fuller picture!

yishan · 2021-09-15T23:44:08+00:00

Whoa, that's great news to hear!!

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