I mean now it doesn’t matter anymore when you’re satisfied, but before buying these overpriced fragile plastic stuff, I would at least test it against other fans. And surprise - almost all other fans work better and are cheaper, especially similar priced ones…

Any similar priced fan likely works better. Especially the fans seem to be garbage IME…

The dyson we use in the office is worse than the other fairly standard fan for a fraction of the price (airflow and loudness…)

I have the opposite experience, have ypu tested competition at the same price level? IMO they’re overpriced fragile plastic products with a very good marketing…

Yeah don’t understand the hype for dyson, for (almost?) every category they have a product for there’s a higher quality product for a lot less money.

They really seem to have perfected their marketing…

The products are not even high quality, thin fragile plastic everywhere…

Speaking of the dyson. IMO one of the worst fans out there: extremely weak (see measurements on YouTube), extremely loud and very fragile… Have one in the office, and I hate it…

A classic fan, fraction of the price performs better in all relevant categories…

Btw. They also create a “bigger” airflow around them so in that regard not better…

Then out of an environmentalist point, USA is one of the worst of all states on earth, probably THE worst…

China acts at least smart, I already feel embarassed as European about what USA has become. China seems to act the smartest in regards of progress currently (i.e. massively electrifying shit…).

I know we’re fucked. But I refuse to believe that we cannot change. It will still get significantly worse, that I’m fairly sure of. But I also think that at some point for one renewables lobby is bigger than fossil and will actively fight fossilized lobby and that humans will see on a broader scale that we need to change. All of this is already in progress. I doubt doomerism does us any good. I’d agree that global collaboration would help significantly (and to a part this is happening already). Also keep in mind we’re prone to talk about extremes, like capitalism, communism, socialism etc. While a mix of those is more accurate for most states (social market economy). USA is probably much closer to capitalism, but I doubt their system will work much longer it’s too polarized to be “stable” much longer.

So while it will get ugly (and let’s hope that climate scientists weren’t too optimistic) I think we at least may be able too avoid a runway hothouse earth and stabilize the climate to at least human survivability (which is still sad…)

I actually think it might even be worse to not have kids at this point, someone needs to fix all the issues previous generations have created. I’m pretty sure we need human intervention, some kind of Geo-engineering/Terraforming to avoid a runway hot house earth (something like effective carbon capture)… So I don’t think antinatalism helps…

Sad that every image has to go through the slopmachine nowadays. There’s almost nostalgia for jpeg artifacts…

If you want to save money while still drinking “prepping-my-4000-dollar-espresso-machine” Espresso (or depending on skill sometimes even better), I can absolutely recommend the Cafélat Robot.

But if he has success, well, I can go to the lawyer and show him that success (because I’m in the same boat right now), maybe it just needs more cases…

I had the same case when the prices weren’t as absurd then, so I just paid 20 Euros extra, not that bad, but now… I will likely this issue again (like he has), because the SSD in question is defective again, I really hope he has success, it’s still within guaranty for some time so I wait how this turns out (until short before guaranty is gone).

But I’m just another off-the-shelf engineer now. I have no domain expertise that another Sr. engineer steering an LLM cannot match.

Funny because I think this is more important than ever. You can produce (ugly) code at remarkable pace now, being able to detect where it goes wrong is a very important skill nowadays.

I still can’t let it loose too much because of all the garbage it still produces when given too much freedom. I’m honestly annoyed that my colleagues use it that much on production code, because it’s so much meh code with hidden (on the surface) inefficiencies and a lot of avoidable boilerplate and duplication.

Then on the other hand I enjoy that it can create scripts (that are tedious to write) and prototypes at impressive speed. Generally prototyping and research has gotten quite enjoyable because you can stay most of the time on the theoretical side of things, quickly try things out or quickly get info to stuff you don’t yet understand enough.

QWEN 3.6 27B can run fine on a 16GB video card and if you give it more time it’ll be as ‘smart’ as bigger models.

As much as I’d like this to be true (don’t believe all the benchmarks), in reality, using e.g. gpt 5.5 is still a lot less pain in the ass, mostly has to do with more reprompting (gpt is just smarter, oneshots stuff more often) + a lot slower (on an RTX 3090 for reference).

I’ve tried using it for some time, but I think I’m faster writing (better, although that’s also true for gpt-5.5) code by hand, than using this (+ I need the valuable VRAM for other stuff, as I’m a graphics/shader programmer most of the time).

That said, it’s already fairly impressive how much progress these smaller models have made the last year, it’s usable, you can “vibe-code” at least simple stuff.

Right now it just makes more sense to not use the API directly, but the subscriptions, they seem to be better priced. Also, Anthropic seems to be more expensive…

How that will look in the future, I don’t know, I’m fairly sure they’re progressively increasing the price, or rather reduce the amount of tokens you can use in the subscription (as they did with gpt 5.5 and claude opus 4.7). The chinese competitors are getting increasingly more interesting. It’s also quite impressive how well small models like qwen 3.6 27B run already on a (not so affordable) 24+GB GPU, unfortunately still far from the quality of say gpt 5.5, but probably comparable to o4 or something like that, certainly usable.

Right… But in the age of AI, data-harvesting the right data (i.e. the human/non-AI-slop) becomes very interesting to a lot of companies, “age-verification” is an easy argument (for policy-makers) of e.g. social-media companies to know whether the user is an actual human, thus the verified data is a lot more valuable.

Around 15 kCal/kg daily, maybe not very high indeed, but it’s significant, say I have 10-15kg more muscles than the average untrained person, that would be 150-225 more calories at rest, also you’re not always resting as you say already, the number will likely be higher, when considering daily activities, also since there’s more strength, it’s likely that the muscles are more used when doing sports (faster running/cycling, more weights, etc.), which is also relevant.

(For my case, I have a very inefficient metabolism likely (rather results in heat than fat-increase), I eat a lot even when I’m not trained, but right now, as I’m a little bit more packed I eat absurd amounts of food (due to a lot of drumming mostly btw. wouldn’t have thought it results in that much extra muscle/calories-burning))

Actually the more I have read into what is a healthy active routine (more on the athletic side of things, because I have overloading issues) Cycling to work, is like the perfect active rhythm for the body.

Especially when you do it fast (VO2 max).

The body needs time to recover and needs just little stimulus for growth/maintenance (so marathon is not good for your body, it’s just wear and tear), and after ~6-8 hours, needs stimulus for further growth again (so cycling back from work).

I have always wondered why I was comparatively muscular to others (for some part it’s likely genetics), I think it was/is because I cycle like a complete madman to work (well… VO2 max), because I’m an adrenaline junkie.

I just recently discovered that this is actually quite healthy (well not in the casualty sense obviously, but for cardio and general health).

If you’re interested I can recommend this talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anB-UMXIDQA

I think that just means, that you have changed your microbiota to like more healthy stuff (I too just don’t like unhealthy food anymore, but that took years…).

Carbs though are something that you really crave while being active, the muscles want to be fed, whether that happens via Oreos or say more healthy fruits or something like that is a different story.

Yeah and don’t forget that the newly built muscle needs more energy as well just to maintain.

I have to eat painfully much… (I’m quite active, and even when not I eat a looot more than others…)