Mastodawn

The Fool: Try something bold and new today. You'll hate it, but you'll feel so smug about having tried and disliked it that won't regret having tried.

Cube Drone 9h ago

tonight on Colbert, Nathan Lane and Arsenio Hall, and I'm like "those are some great sounding locations but WHO are you interviewing"

Cube Drone 1d ago

Today's Fortune Is...1d ago

The Magician: Someone will try to sell you something that you don't need today, and also every single other day of your life.

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Cube Drone 1d ago

Someone, I swear to god, was talking to "BuyItForLife" about which VR headset was the right BIFL pick and I got pilloried for pointing out that consumer electronics, particularly trend-chasing ones- are only BIFL under _extremely_ depressing circumstances

Cube Drone 1d ago

I get the appeal of the idea of "BuyItForLife" but the concept is rife with rich chumps trying to justify needless high-end purchases to themselves and folks hawking wares. The fact that the subreddit is devoted to lists of high-end brands rather than advice for repair and maintenance is just one hint.

Cube Drone 2d ago

Today's Fortune Is...2d ago

Your lifeline is long, but your prosperity line is short, so - good news: you're going to be poor for a really long time.

Cube Drone 2d ago

I have a use-case that I'd like automated transcription for (it's D&D with my friends), but the commercial solutions I found all want $10-30 CAD/month.

But lo, I was able to get something relatively solid running with open-source tools from just my GPU in about 3 hours.

There's a lot of stuff I hate about the modern LLM craze, but I do, in fact, feel pretty okay about a useful, mostly open-source, local _thing_.

Cube Drone 3d ago

Today's Fortune Is...3d ago

Phobos and Deimos have switched places: Astrologically speaking, some things in your life are not going to be where they are supposed to be. Blame this on your co-workers.

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Cube Drone 3d ago

That's also the benefit of having proactively hired so many people who are smarter and more devoted than I am, basically any time they save my bacon I can feel like "another win for ol' Curtis and his band of merry friends"

I imagine they keep me around to rub my head for good luck periodically

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Cube Drone 3d ago

sometimes at work we'll be faced with a surprise problem that nobody saw coming INCLUDING ME and it'll turn out that 18-months-ago Curtis built an emergency protocol to fix it without even thinking about it or remembering it and the day will be saved

and that's just faerie luck right there