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Yes. It was noticeable to me through daily usage. So much so that I checked anthropic website for any issues they might have posted about. Opus limits also seemed to have been tightened.

I also feel that the responses and actions have gotten slower around the same time. It seems like there is a larger delay between messages and tool executions.


What enclosure do you use? I had trouble finding a good one.


I've had mixed luck too. The one I'm using now has been mostly ok. https://a.co/d/4AiF1Zp

It actually has been considerably more reliable than the MediaSonics than they replaced.


Can you give a little more details on how the enclosures work? Do you see each drive individually, or does each enclosure show as one "drive" which you then put into a zfs pool.

I'm looking to retire my power hungry 4790k server and go with a mini pc + external storage.


Replied to another comment with my setup - I use a QNAP JBOD enclosure (TL-D800S) connected to a mini-itx PC. (You do need at least one PCIe slot.) Shows up as 8 drives in the OS, the enclosure has no smarts.

I wouldn't do USB-connected enclosures for NAS drives - either SATA via SFF, or Thunderbolt.


In my case, each drive shows up individually. I create a new vdev encompassing all of them.


Each drive shows up as an external USB mass storage device?


I don’t know if it’s USB mass storage. It just shows up as separate devices in lsblk.


Ive seen a lot of people linking beelink mini PCs lately: https://www.bee-link.com/products/beelink-me-mini-n150

The cost is very low, but it would have to be a nvme only build.


Because Louisiana is very rich with natural gas on cheap land, has low regulation, and governor after governor that is down for being a testing ground for new wacky republican policies.


They also placed it near Grand Gulf, and there is a lot of water in that area.


Just an anecdote, but Modafinil is one of the worst stimulants I have tried. It’s great as a one-off tool for something like staying awake to drive late at night, but every time i have taken it I get intense depression and aggravation for the next 2 days. It’s really strange. Things that normally do not worry me cause great mental suffering. If it wasn’t for that and the deep sleep impact, it would be great. I read the half life is ~16 hours.


AFAIK highly depends on the person, I've given 1/4 or 1/2 doses to people and the most common reaction is that it is like a coffee. It seems the strong reactions are a minority of users. Specifically for me, I have long term dopamine dysregulation, so it hits really strong. Without the amitriptyline there is no way I could say on it.


Any dopamine booster (agonist / reuptake inhibitor) has wildly different effects on different people. Or across different times in their life. Anecdotes are good to share, because they illuminate the variety of experiences that one should be prepared for.

Even Vyvanse vs Adderall XR are reported to have markedly different effects on the same person -- and after metabolic conversion, they're supposed to be the same active ingredient with fairly similar time release duration.


You signed up to your own service?


Does anyone know of any decent newer open source models for generating sound effects?


Just use a synthesizer. Writing textual prompts is about the most inefficient way of getting what you want. When I was working in film I'd tell directors to stop describing what they had in mind (unless they were referencing something very specific) and try just making some funny mouth noises.


I think it’s based on the tools you’re using. If I’m using Cline I don't have to try very hard to hit limits. I’m on the second tier.


As a long time listener, lately to me he has become more of a republican mouthpiece. He can’t help but to consistently bring up republican talking points and whatever the democrats did that was crazy this week, while still trying to say “But I’m not democrat or republican”. It’s cringy when he has a good guest on (rare now) who doesn’t want to talk politics but he doesn’t stop. I quit listening after many years, and I tried for last few months to give it a chance.

Lets not forget how in his “comedy” special, he literally says he is like Elon’s puppy following him around believing whatever he says because he’s a “genius”. He changed.


Agreed.

Honestly, he reminds me alot of Rush. Early Rush was very conservative, but also very irreverent. At some point it flipped and turned into the angry guy issuing the talking points of the day.


This is really cool. I used to enjoy toying with thermal printers until I found out the paper is coated with a very fine dust of BPA. Still they sell thermal printer cameras on Amazon marketed for children


Look for kitchen printers. They're dot-matrix / ink ribbon receipt printers for use in restaurant kitchens, where the plate warmers and other sources of heat will turn thermal paper completely black. So, instead, they use rolls of ordinary bond paper.

The fact that they make a loud noise every time an order comes through is useful for a restaurant kitchen, too.

The Epson TM-U220 is one model to consider.


Indeed. But there are some good BPA-free alternatives on the market


Is there any way to verify that without getting a Lab to do an analysis? I'm not sure if I can trust stuff labelled BPA-Free from Amazon for example.


Even if they are, that doesn't mean they're safer

https://www.epa.gov/sciencematters/are-bpa-substitutes-any-s...


That study looked at 6 similar plasticizers.

The alternative chemicals for thermal paper are totally different. That's not to say that they are guaranteed safe, but that study is inapplicable.

E.g. one type of paper claims to use Ascorbic Acid (vitamin C). No idea what else is in it of course, but it's not a BGA-analogue plasticizer.


> E.g. one type of paper claims to use Ascorbic Acid (vitamin C). No idea what else is in it of course, but it's not a BGA-analogue plasticizer.

How would you know it doesn't, if you don't know what's in it?

Regardless, my point is that many BPA-analogue containing products advertise their BPA-free status.


My comment was that BPA is not used in thermal paper as a plasticizer, which that linked study was examining.


Yes, it's a used as a developer, but as is common in many cases when replacing chemicals with other chemicals -- similar chemicals have similar properties. And in fact, some BPA-free thermal paper use BPS for example.


Buy from a reputable seller for anything important, instead of amazon.

Or, there are apparently at-home testing chemicals that look simple to use. I haven't done it myself though.


The question is who is reputable. Even when buying from a well known store, I don’t know how they audit their suppliers, because the paper is bound to be made by some company I’ve never heard of.


Yeah I would assume that given how easy it is to start a new Amazon seller account and how impossible it is for some random seller in China to face legal repercussions from the US, the likelihood of finding an “_____-free” item to actually be made of whatever the cheapest and most readily available formulation is. (Including the _____), is pretty high.


Yeah, I've had a couple of odd looks from other people in the supermarket when my daughter's piped up about not being allowed to touch the shopping receipts, haha.

I do get the impression companies are beginning to move back to traditional printed receipts, at least a bit, here in the UK.


I can vouch for the Yoto. We make our own cards and update them with new books and music whenever we want. You can add a custom icon that displays for each track.


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