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8h ago
inTrying to fix a drafty window myself turned into a whole weekend project
Wait, a quarter inch gap? How did you not feel that draft before?
15h ago
inWarning: my question at a city council meeting got a very surprising answer
Yeah, the "zoning rule for a missing stop sign" thing hits home. I read about a town where they couldn't just put up a new sign at a bad corner. Because it was in a historic district, any change like that needed a full review for "visual impact" first. So the process to make things safer got stuck arguing about streetlight styles and signpost materials for months. It's wild how rules meant to protect one thing can totally block a simple fix for something else.
21h ago
inShoutout to the person who posted about fine-tuning a local model for a niche task
What kind of data did you use for the training? I tried something similar for old tool descriptions and found the base model's modern word associations are way stronger than you'd guess. It took mixing in a bunch of scanned old catalog pages with my own notes to finally get the tone right. The hard part is knowing when to stop adding more examples versus tweaking the learning rate again.
1d ago
inJust finished my 100th book repair
My last thrift store jacket looked like roadkill.
1d ago
inVent: I asked for a $5k raise after leading a big project and got offered a pizza party instead.
Cameronschmidt is right, but they're missing the bigger picture here...