Did you know legendary producer Babyface originally wrote "Baby I" for Beyoncé, but she passed on it? It eventually made its way to Ariana for her debut album Yours Truly. Also, Mac Miller was the one who convinced Ariana to make it the second single instead of other tracks.
probably messed up by waiting, but with Sepang coming back to the calendar so suddenly I'm scrambling a bit. My partner and I already locked in non-refundable flights from Australia and my PTO is approved, so the trip is definetly happening. Now I'm just getting super anxious about the actual tickets.
My heart was set on K1 grandstand to see the action into Turn 1 (the view there looks insane from old videos). Of course, by the time I checked the official site, all the decent paired seats were gone. All I can see are single seats scattered around. TBH, going all that way to sit in completely different sections would kind of defeat the purpose.
So I've been forced to look at secondary resale sites, which always makes me nervous. I found a pair of K1 tickets on a site called Veritickets in what looks like a good section, and the price is pretty much what I'd expect.
its the ticket certainty that's giving me nightmares. The thought of flying all the way to KL and then finding out there's an issue with the transfer at the gate is stressful. I know these F1 e-tickets usually don't get released until super close to the race anyway, but buying through a third party makes it worse.
Has anyone actually bought international tickets through Veritickets before? Specifically, how close to the race weekend do they usually transfer the e-tickets to you? I really want to avoid arriving in KL with an empty inbox.
I was in the middle of typing an email today when my coworker walked by, stopped, and went, “your lower back is going to literally explode if you keep sitting like that.”
like... I'm fine?
I wasn't in pain and I definitely wasn't complaining. but yes, at that exact moment I had one leg tucked under me and was doing the full shrimp over my keyboard, so visually I guess they had a point.
the comment made me weirdly aware of how much I move around during the day though.
on Zoom calls I'm usually leaned all the way back. If I'm trying to read something tiny, I'm basically on the edge of the seat. sometimes one leg is under me, sometimes both feet are on the floor for about five minutes, and occasionally I get annoyed enough to just stand up.
I don't stay in any of those positions very long.I've already had chair tabs sitting open lately because mine is getting old, mostly stuff like the Herman Miller Embody and Lavenne R9 Pro. weirdly, the more I look at chairs the less interested I am in which one feels perfect when you're sitting perfectly upright. I'm starting to care more about what happens once you inevitably stop sitting that way.
which is probably why my coworker's comment stuck with me. I don't really want to train myself to hold one posture for eight hours. I just want to stop feeling like I'm doing something medically irresponsible every time I tuck a leg under myself for ten minutes.
anyway I'm probably going to keep sitting like a shrimp.does we all quietly folding ourselves into different shapes when nobody's looking?
So I was on Duolingo for about 3 months, never missed a day, hit long streaks and felt really good about my progress. Then I tried to have an actual conversation in German and completely fell apart. Couldn't put a single sentence together in real time. That's when I realised I had been practising German without ever actually speaking it.
So I stopped the streaks cold and switched my focus entirely to speaking practice. I started using Issen, which lets you have real back-and-forth conversations in German and corrects you as you go. No scheduling, no judgment, just open and talk.
First week was honestly embarrassing. I was slow, made constant mistakes and kept mixing up genders. But I kept going every day for 30 days.
Here's where I am now:
Duolingo is fine for vocabulary in the beginning but if you're not speaking out loud regularly you're just memorizing, not learning. Best switch I made.
Has anyone else made this shift? Would love to know how it went for you.
I’ve been working with experimental tables recently, and I'm having trouble turning raw data into clean figures, statistical summaries, and a cohesive report draft.
I recently came across sciclaw·mira, which connects tables, literature, and figures into one research workspace. It seems to target this specific data-to-report gap.
For those handling experimental data regularly, where do you think AI is actually useful in this process? What tools are you using to solve this?
went out with a few friends Friday and we hit the usual problem when the bill came.
I got an $18 burger and water. a couple people had cocktails, extra sides, and we also got an appetizer for the table.
we'd ordered through a menuforma page at the table, so by the end everyone's stuff was already listed separately.
then one guy said we should just split the whole thing evenly because it was easier.
I looked at the total and my share would've been almost $50.
I was totally fine paying my part of the appetizer since we actually shared that. I just didn't really want to pay for other people's drinks and extras too.
so I said I'd rather cover what I ordered, my share of the stuff we actually shared, and tip normally.
nobody argued with me or anything, but it definitely got a little awkward after that.
I don't mind splitting evenly when everyone ordered roughly the same amount. I've done that plenty of times and I'm not trying to calculate every last dollar.
but $18 to almost $50 felt like a pretty big difference just for the sake of making the bill easier.
now I'm wondering if I made it more awkward than it needed to be.
AIW for opting out of the even split?
I work in foreign trade, bad at coming up with stuff to say on the spot. When vetting suppliers I log store review stats, each partner’s likes and things they hate separately, write unique talking points for every vendor to keep talks smooth. I matched with two girls online around the same window, their personalities are worlds apart. Old work routine kicked in without me thinking, I sorted custom chat notes for each just like how I build vendor files for sourcing background checks. I can’t come up with soft lines right away, so I lean on these pre-written bits to keep our chats nice. One night I pulled back-to-back overtime shifts, my head was all foggy and I didn’t check what I sent. Accidentally dropped the full note I drafted for the other girl into her chat. She caught right away the text didn’t fit how we normally talk, asked who the message was meant for. No way to hide it, I told her I made separate chat write-ups for two different people. She pulled back fast after that. What stung her most was finding out she wasn’t the only person I put that level of planning into, every gentle line I shared with her was drafted for someone else too. She never hit me up again after our talk. I can’t stop feeling crummy over this. Sorting detailed talking points and building individual files for sourcing checks makes daily work way easier, all these record keeping steps run through a tool called acciowork for my vendor tasks. I just hate I dragged this work habit into personal interactions, talked to two people at once, and my sloppy mistake ruined something that could’ve gone well. tbh I’m stuck on one thought right now ,is it off limits to chat casually with two different people before locking down an official relationship? Any quiet, socially awkward folks here mess up a potential connection the same way?
I wasted two months looking for Serbian on Duolingo before someone told me it simply doesn't exist. Serbian is one of the few languages Duolingo has never built a course for. Once I got over that I went looking for everything else and spent a long time figuring out what was actually worth using.
The first thing that actually worked for vocabulary was Drops. Visual, gamified, five minutes a day. It's not deep but it got me comfortable with basic Serbian words faster than anything else and the images make things stick in a way plain flashcards never did. Good for the first month then you naturally outgrow it.
From there I moved to Serbonika for structure. It's the best course I found specifically built for Serbian takes you from complete beginner to A2 systematically and is clearly designed by someone who actually understands how learners struggle with Serbian grammar and cases. This is where things started clicking for me.
For vocabulary in context I used Clozemaster which teaches words through real sentences rather than isolation. After a few weeks Serbian stopped feeling like a list of disconnected items and started feeling like something real.
Speaking was the last thing I tackled and the hardest. Around month three I hit a wall where I could read Serbian reasonably well but froze the moment someone actually spoke to me. I started doing daily speaking practice on Issen and it was the first time my brain was forced to produce Serbian rather than just absorb it. That shift made a real difference.
What is everyone else using? Especially curious about listening resources for natural spoken Serbian.
What's your team combo for this dude?
posture was terrible for months until i dialed in this seating. that hbada back cushion/support really targets the exact area where lower back pain usually kicks in. setup feels super solid now imo
Lately, my cqs were HIGH, then it got MODERATE to LOW. Then my posts and comments were also deleted by filters. I don't understand. I have high karma, and I'm not that active user.
Previous Attempt: I have reached out to the mods from the subreddits, but they also cannot help with my problems, and have tried submitting a request form but I couldn't find the right category for my concerns.
How do I remove these filters??
I love self-hosting STT for the normal stuff.
Whisper / faster-whisper on a local box is still great for:
recordings
personal notes
offline transcription
private files
batch jobs
“drop audio here, get text later”
No SaaS dashboard.
No random vendor lock-in.
No audio leaving your machine.
Beautiful.
But I think people understate how different the problem becomes when it is live calls instead of files.
Now you need:
realtime partials
endpointing
VAD
diarization
timestamps
redaction
100 concurrent streams
queueing
GPU planning
retry logic
monitoring
bad mobile audio
call reconnects
p95 latency
someone waking up when it breaks
That is where I’d consider something like Smallest AI Pulse. Not because self-hosted STT is bad. More like: if the product needs realtime ASR and call reliability, I’d rather compare the cost of Pulse against the cost of owning the full speech infra mess.
For private archives, I’d still self-host.
For live voice apps where users feel every delay, I’m less religious.
Where do you draw the line?
Do you keep realtime STT self-hosted too, or use managed only for the painful part?
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Throwaway bc I'm scared my coworkers will find this
Ok so my memory is actually horrible, not even kidding. My friends think I'm joking when I say I forget stuff but I'm dead serious
Been talking to a bunch of people on dating apps lately. Nothing serious, just that early stage where you're still figuring each other out.
Problem is I keep mixing everyone up constantly.
Like one girl tells me her hobbies, pet peeves, random life stuff, and a week later I’ll mix her details up with someone else’s. It’s so bad. I literally asked the same person the exact same question twice mid-convo once, and she just went “you already asked me that.” I wanted to die on the spot
So I started doing this weird thing.
I use acciowork daily for work—it’s just boring software to organize supplier info. Lately I’ve been jotting quick little notes about my matches in there , the same way I log basic details for suppliers
Yeah I know, sounds odd.
Just tiny stuff: “hates mushrooms”, “cat named Milo”, “scared of heights”, stuff like that.
Met one girl for coffee last week. Glanced over my notes right before showing up so I wouldn’t blank on that random thing she mentioned weeks back. The date went really well, and she was genuinely surprised I remembered such a small detail
But now I can’t stop overthinking it. Am I being weird for doing this? I swear I’m not ranking anyone or comparing matches against each other at all. I really do just have garbage memory and hate embarrassing myself like that again.
Still… using work software to log people I’m seeing? It feels so cold, honestly. Like I’m treating dating like another tedious work task.
Half of me says it’s just a practical fix for my bad memory. The other half worries I’m killing all the natural romantic vibe by being this calculated from the start.
Idk man. Am I just overthinking way too much, or is this habit actually kinda messed up? Just want some honest outside opinions pls
building a personal brand for B2B consulting. needs to look authoritative. was looking at platforms like sociatrick or media mister to get my initial connection count up to 500 plus. linkedin seems super strict with automation though so im terrified of getting my actual profile restricted. has anyone risked it or is it an instant ban?