u/abnormal_human

I've run enough evals where the humans agreed with an expensive SOTA AI grader <30% of the time to be wary.

If you don't square stuff like this against human preference samples, it's basically meaningless.

Been using induction daily with both S-ICD and then TV-ICD going back seven years. No issues, not even a device report. I would not lay directly on top of the element, but you are fine using the cooktop. Also, induction is great to use, and worlds nicer than electric.

The manufacturer recommendations have a significant safety margin, and they'd be measured to the element, not to the edge of the appliance. I absolutely just use it like a normal person without a second thought, as do two other ICD-owners in my family.

Yes, got my first ICD while asymptomatic. It saved my life 14mos later.

ICDs are larger than pacemakers, twice the volume or more in some cases. I have no problems sleeping on whatever side I want. My shoulder is fine. I sleep fine. I'm not super aware of the device from a physical standpoint. Maybe notice it while showering or a few times a day if I touch that area. I didn't struggle accepting that I needed it because I put in time reading the research and evidence and it left very little doubt.

Pregnancy is difficult on your heart as you get further along, your exercise tolerance / responsiveness will matter, as will your heart's ability to deliver oxygen to you and the baby. You need to get through labor too. All of this will potentially be more difficult or dangerous while you are in complete heart block.

And I don't have to say that juggling recovery with three kids, one of whom is glued to you, will be more difficult than with two that are more mobile and able to be supported by your partner.

The nice thing about your condition is that a pacemaker cleanly treats it. You'll probably feel better after even if you don't feel "bad" right now. Very few reasons not to get the care you need.

H3 put it to shame.

Kids sleep, kids go to school.

Foldables will always be more fragile than slab phones. Some will fail. They will replace them under warranty. Life will go on.

Had a horrible experience with them.

Why are you so fixated on 10M? CPUs can easily run 1B-4B models that can actually sing and dance a little bit.

His preference is irrelevant. It's your body. Be more forceful or consult a patient advocate at your center.

It's the "free for beta testers right now" language that's making it feel like there's a catch coming later. If it's really going to be free forever stop saying stuff like that :)

As for stimma I could go on for a long time but it's one of the only frontends I've seen that seems headed towards bringing the "claude code" style productivity increase to visual work in the free/oss/local space while also eating most Higgfield use cases in a much less insane nascar-esque way.

It does all of the asset mgmt stuff you're talking about but ties it in with generation tools, an agent, remote access, etc. it's diminished ComfyUI to being just an inference engine for me.

Cardiac psych is a thing. Ask your cardiologist for a referral if you're not already hooked up. Panic attacks flood your body with catecholamines which are pro arrhythmic. Worth getting under control if it's happening with any frequency.

30mins each way is 2 hours on the road for someone every day. While I know families who've done that, it doesn't feel sustainable to me in a family with two working parents. Couldn't you use that time for something more useful than the negligible delta between the day care 30mins away and one near your home?

It also means you're not getting there quickly if something happens and he needs to be picked up, or if something is forgotten at home or school. Which will happen, especially as they get older and you start trusting them with keeping track of things during ages 4-5.

I have a 5yo in a private school that's 20-45mins away depending on traffic. If there wasn't bussing, we would have had to hire someone to drive him every day, but it's still super annoying every time we need to do a pickup or dropoff since it ends up being an hour or more end-to-end, and sometimes traffic makes that much worse. Can't imagine signing up to do that twice a day.

Obviously you want to be aware of your shock zones. At 36 that's likely set to 200BPM+ and you're not going to reach that number by accident.

In general, it takes a lot of trying to get me (at 41) past the 160s due to the meds I'm on. I've been advised by my cardiologist to stay under 150 because of my underlying heart condition. So I try my best to respect that.

In terms of taking a minute, that depends more on how I feel than a number. 105-107 isn't that much though. Lots of people will reach that number just doing daily activities like yard work, climbing stairs, walking in a hilly area, etc.

If there's any chance that monitoring your HR with a smart watch is causing you anxiety, I recommend stopping. I don't do it anymore because it causes me to dwell on a number that is not actually that important. There's a subset of people who need to strictly limit heart rate, and if you're one of them your doctor should advise on that. Many people with heart conditions will get "keep it under 80% of max HR most of the time" kind of advice like mine. But limiting to 105-107 at 36 is likely to do you more harm than good in the long run.

I'm not sure why someone would pay for this product when apps like Stimma do so much more for free.

Rent a 5090 on vast or runpod.

Honest question: why did you post this thing? I get it , you're learning but you spent an insane amount of money to get lame results out of an obsolete model using one of the worst possible GPU providers for this. What is anyone else going to get out of this post?

I feel like when people make such a string of weak decisions it's because they are blindly following a coding agent's advice without thinking critically or verifying the answers. And this post was probably written by the same agent and is just slopping up the internet.

The people who say stuff like this also think that a single-species turfgrass monoculture is a good use of land. Sounds like you're doing great.

Agreed. I use GPT via Stimma for professional work with ComfyUI as the generation engine. Generally gets me better results than Claude->ComfyUI direct, because it has a bunch of built-in media editing capabilities + skills out of the box instead of having to walk Claude through all of that yourself. Totally agreed on the irrelevance of higgsfield. You don't need a thousand confusing mini apps when you can just ask an agent for what you want. I haven't rawdogged ComfyUI in months.

My orchard has 12" tall raised beds and grass in between for fruiting perrenials.

My garden has 3.5" tall planting beds with pathways that use coarse wood chips and landscape fabric.

Both work well when maintained.

I'd be concerned with grass 1.5" away from the soil depth as pictured that the grass could move into your beds.

For basil, like other mint-family plants, you want to cut just above a node. That's a place where two big leaves and 2 baby leaves are sitting at one level on a stem. After you cut, the stem will split and you'll get double-basil. You can continue this process for months, just don't remove more than about 1/3 of the foliage at one time. Also, if it starts to form flowers, make sure to cut them off in the same way. Once it goes to seed the flavor changes.

I usually get into a rhythm by late June where I'm harvesting once a week and it's replacing what I took by the time I come back.

The main thing with Basil is that you should start this process early to promote a bushier structure even before you're getting useful harvests out of it. Don't wait till you have a single tall stalk to start the process. Basil is robust and wlll recover.

Rosemary is pretty vigorous. I just take the branches I want and let the plant figure it out.

My son used to call any asian woman mama.

Non-sustained VT episodes are fairly common for people with ICD indications. The ICD won't shock until a bunch of criteria--including time spent in the bad rhythm and still being in the bad rhythm after the capacitor charges (10+ seconds in many cases)--are met.

As for whether it's a concern, it depends on his baseline. If he's had short runs of NSVT for 20 years and only a couple sustained episodes in that time it might not be a huge concern. If his device is generally not reporting any events and this is a new thing, that might be a sign that a more severe episode is approaching. If you only have a short period of data, the EP is going to do their best to inference based on the information they have. For example if in that year he had 9mos with nothing and the NSVT is new, they might be more likely to treat that or investigate further for other causes--inflammation, electrolytes, etc.

For me, since I'm generally stable in this regard, and have only seen NSVT within minutes of sustained VT episodes. I'd be concerned about a single NSVT on the device report, but everyone is different.

Another element to consider is the rate of the NSVT and if it's actually VF--which would be much more alarming. One thing to be aware of is that some devices will report fast VT as VF in the event log, but when you look at it on EKG it's obviously just VT.

The statement you quoted from the cousin is accurate.

Pacemaker surgeries are extremely routine and low risk compared to many other procedures.

There's always additional risk having surgery as an 85 year old, that's part of being 85.

The watchman procedure is even lower risk because it's delivered via a catheter so there's no incision or pocket to form, just a puncture for access.

She seems to be getting hung up on the relative differences and ignoring the absolute magnitudes of risk which are all relatively low.

Her doctor has assessed the risks, including taking into account her age, and the calculation still came out in favor of the procedure.

If she wants to continue experiencing those symptoms more than she wants the pacemaker, it's her choice to do so. No-one can make her do this.

No-one can or will promise her that nothing will go wrong. But this stuff is very routine and I would not be too worried about it. Many of us have gone through experiences 10-100x riskier than a simple pacemaker implantation and lived to tell the tale.

It's a mainstream capability in the ChatGPT and Claude desktop apps--"computer use".

Both apps include an embedded browser. You log into your bank account and do the 2FA/passkey/whatever stuff that's hard for the robot. Once you log it in, the agent can click around, read the screen, etc. It works on any website.

Cardiologists are very conservative. If they say it's ok it's ok.