Anyone have somebody they use around Minneapolis? We’ve fallen behind on the yard a bit this summer and could use some help getting it cleaned up.
Small front/back yard plus the boulevard.
I run a small business and I’m trying to find accounting and invoicing software that is easy to use and not crazy expensive. Right now I’m doing too much manually and it’s starting to waste a lot of time.
I mainly need something for invoices, expense tracking, and basic reports. It would also be nice if it connects with bank accounts and makes tax time less stressful.
There are so many options out there that I honestly can’t tell which ones are actually good for small businesses and which are just overhyped.
What are you using right now and would you recommend it?
I’m an international student at UCR trying to get my California license and honestly the studying part has been more frustrating than I expected. I’ve been doing practice tests and reading the handbook, but after a while it starts feeling like I’m just memorizing answers instead of actually understanding the rules.
sometimes I’ll get a question right and still not fully understand why it’s right, especially with signs and right of way questions.
for people here who already went through it, what actually helped things finally start making sense for you?
I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately and the more I look into it the stranger it starts to feel. At first I thought this was just another online argument about generated content but now I honestly think the bigger issue is trust around authorship itself. People are already getting accused of using generated stuff with basically no proof either way while at the same time stuff that clearly wasn’t written by a person still passes without anyone noticing.
What really keeps bothering me is that most of the current solutions seem focused on analyzing the final text after it already exists and I’m starting to think that might be the wrong way to approach the problem completely. Maybe the real issue isn’t what the text looks like in the end but whether there’s still any reliable way to verify how something was actually created in the first place.
And if that keeps getting harder I don’t think this stays limited to internet arguments for very long. Journalism education publishing and even legal systems depend pretty heavily on people trusting where written work came from.
I genuinely don’t know what the long term answer is supposed to look like. Maybe future systems end up focusing more on the creation process itself instead of only trying to analyze finished content after the fact or maybe people just slowly get used to living with a constant level of uncertainty around digital content online.
been messing around with local models for the past few weeks and at first i was pretty convinced they were just unreliable. same setup small changes and things would break in ways that didn’t really make sense
the weird part is everything feels fine in the beginning. simple stuff works. one prompt one output maybe a small chain. but once i start adding more steps or trying to connect things together it turns into fixing one thing and breaking something else. debugging feels more like guessing than actually understanding what’s going on
looking back i think most of it was how i was building things. i didn’t really define the flow just had a rough idea and started stacking things until it worked well enough. once it got a bit more complex i couldn’t even tell which part was causing issues
lately i’ve been trying to slow down and think through the steps before building anything. even just writing out what each part is supposed to do has helped a bit. it’s not perfect and things still break but at least now i’m not completely guessing
feels like a lot of the llms are unreliable takes come from messy setups more than the models themselves
curious how others handle this once things get a bit more complex. do you plan things out first or just build and adjust as you go
i keep hitting the same point where the idea feels clear in my head but actually starting gets messy fast, i end up overthinking and jumping between notes instead of moving forward, lately i’ve been trying to slow down and figure things out a bit before jumping in, came across omniflowai while doing that and it got me thinking more about structuring things early, still figuring my own way through it though, how do you usually deal with that part?