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I think you are the flip side of what you mentioned about the article. I don't see the article as saying withdrawal is catastrophic, in fact I see it being well balanced when stating numbers. But you just said many or most people don't experience that.

If I were to take your approach, and make generalized statements based on my own experiences, I would say many if not most actually do experience significant withdrawal symptoms for an extended period of time.

You need to take into account: dosage, age, health, life circumstances, and I would think even more before you can suggest even the slightest correlation or "average" experience.

I get what you're saying and I'm very glad it was easier for you than others, clearly. I think though, it's dangerous to others to make claims based on one person's experience.


For sure. That’s all I wanted to provide: an alternative anecdote from the article which led with an anecdote of perhaps the worst case for withdrawals. If I’d read an article like this five years ago, I might not have gotten the help I needed.


Is there a reason not to use built in macOS transcribing? Genuinely curious what the goal is here, though points given for coolness factor.


The first goal was just to have fun with it. I wanted to learn more about audio streaming and chunking. I was talking with a friend and said it's "super easy" and so that's how I got here.

The issue I have with the macOS transcribing is that it can never do things like learn slang, change the punctuation based on the input box, filter filler words, etc... It does work and it's primarily what I use on mobile but I just wanted to go a different direction here.

One thing I wanted to do with this project (which I likely won't do) is make it so you can tell it a set of instructions like "Go to Slack and send Tom a Direct message saying that I am going to be 5 minutes late" and it would be able to do that. That's really close to the behavior of Siri but I thought that might be neat.


As many have discussed earlier, if you have an accent, macOS transcribing is not so accurate; on top of that, Apple's transcribing also don't work well if you have a lot of technical terms (for example, if you are transcribing a thesis in physics)


This is a great point as well. I have no accent and I get stuck w/ macOS transcribing.


I've been a fan of Orbstack for make 2 years or so. Worth the cost for me because it's so well integrated and fast and docker command compatible.

I'll give this a try though.


I’m guessing the OrbStack team will probably support MacOS native containers soon enough, with all their management goodness on top.


It appears macOS native containers runs a separate Linux VM per container.

OrbStack's claim to fame is that all containers run in a single Linux VM, with lots of optimizations on both sides of the VM boundary (including use of a sparse image file for disk storage, which saves a lot of space on the macOS side).

If you run more than 4-5 containers on macOS, the performance and resource usage savings of OrbStack really starts to add up quickly.


While I like the article there are way too many telltale signs of AI writing. I'm sure the author expresses his direction but I'm just so tired of reading articles where AI has done most of the work. I want to hear from humans, grammar and spelling and punctuation mistakes and all.


The productivity gains are well worth any nits I have about responding to the LLM.

LLM: "I've just refactored your code base. Would you like me to also fully document it?"

op: "you're so needy!!!"


And here I thought engineers were mostly logical and objective. This thread is very entertaining.


I just used Claude to convert my app to a serverless architecture and migrated to Cloudflare and their generous tiers. Not every app fits that model, but it's more than you'd think. Now I only pay when the app is used, not a penny more.


I just tested it with a max subscription. On Ultracode mode, Fable 5 ate up 10% of my weekly allowance in 30 minutes. Granted, won't be using UC mode frequently, but still.


They said they would release it back into subscriptions as capacity allows in the future. If they don't, people are going to point back at it and rake them over the coals.


And why do the numbers sound impressive but the words are verrrry specific (authenticating a new ... what?! What does that even f'ing mean?!)


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