Spent $300 on a local sim card setup in Bangkok and it saved my whole month of work

Got a call from a client in Tampa last month who wanted a full set of as-built drawings from a 1980s building, but the original blueprints were basically just coffee stains on vellum.

Warning: A guy at the Memphis in May contest told me my ribs looked 'too perfect' to be real.

He was judging the appearance round and said it like a bad thing, right in front of my tent. How can you fault a cook for being neat and getting the color just right? What's the line between competition-ready and looking fake to you guys?

A customer brought in a laptop that almost started a fire because of a cheap power jack

This guy came into my shop in Austin with a smoking laptop, and when I opened it up, the whole DC power jack was melted and charred from a knockoff charger. He just shrugged and said 'it was only fifteen bucks online, figured it was the same thing'. How do you guys explain the real safety risks of using those parts without sounding like you're just upselling?

Trying to get a local AI model to stop saying 'as an AI language model' took me 3 days

I was fine-tuning a Llama 2 model on my own PC to help write product descriptions, but it kept starting every answer with that phrase. I tried adjusting the training data, the prompts, everything. It took me about 72 hours of messing with the parameters before I finally got it to act like a normal copywriter. Has anyone else had a model get stuck on a specific phrase like that?

My cousin swore his metal detector was junk after one beach trip, but I found a 1920s silver dollar in my backyard with it.

He said it only picked up bottle caps, but I dug a solid signal near an old oak tree and pulled out a coin from 1923. Anyone else have gear that someone else gave up on that actually worked great for them?