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Cake day: July 23rd, 2025

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  • Oh, certainly. The reason I focused on speed is because an idiot using a shoddy LLM may not notice it’s hallucinations or failures as easily as they’d notice it’s sluggishness.

    However, the meaningfulness of the LLM’s responses are a necessary condition, whereas the speed and convenience is more of a sufficient condition (which contradicts my first statement). Either way, I don’t think the average users knows what hardware they need to leverage local AI.

    My point is that this “AI” hardware gives a bad experience and leaves a bad impression of running AI locally, because 98% of people saw “AI” in the CPU model and figured it should work. And thus, more compute is pushed to datatcenters.





  • I was on an SSRI and then my insurance said they actually don’t need to cover my mental health and meds. I didn’t have the energy to keep appealing the decision (hence the need for meds) so I gave up.

    I tried to wean myself off with the remaining supply I had, because that is what the doctors teach you to do when they take you off an SSRI. I only knew this because the previous did nothing good for me. It was guesswork, it was unpleasant, and I highly recommend avoiding this situation if possible. The withdrawal sucks and the effects lasted a few months.

    Imagining doing that while pregnant makes my stomach turn.