u/Fluid_Protection_337

My fiancée just flew in from Asia to LA and it’s her first time doing both Disneyland and Universal. It’s been on her bucket list for years so I really want to make it special before our wedding.

I started planning and didn’t realize how much there is to figure out between the two parks. Seeing some combo packages but not sure if they’re actually worth it or if it’s better to just book everything separately.

If you’ve done both, how many days did you do and what worked for you?

My wife and I don’t agree on how to handle our struggling business. I want to restructure and outsource some roles, but she’s hesitant. How do you deal with situations like this? It’s causing tension. Any advice?

3rd year ML PhD. We all know compute eats into your budget but I started writing down the actual numbers since January and seeing it on paper still hit different.

Turns out GPU compute is now my 4th biggest expense after rent, food and coffee lol, around $320 in like 3 and a half months, which sounds small but thats literally more than my phone bill and subscriptions combined.

The dumb part is how it snowballed. Our lab has like 3 A100s shared between 14 people right and most of the semester its fine. I can get a slot. But the 2 weeks before ICML deadline it was totaly free for all, everyone and their advisor suddenly needed it at once. I had 4 ablation runs left and my advisor was breathing down my neck asking daily if the results table was ready.

So I panicked and threw everything on RunPod cause thats what everyone recommends. Ran my stuff, got the results, submitted the paper, but like $60-70 of that $320 was just from RunPod in those couple weeks alone which is rough on a stipend. I tried Vast after that and it was cheaper per hour but the pricing kept jumping around depending on the host. It felt like buying plane tickets where it changes every time you refresh. Been on HyperAI for the last couple months and thats where most of the savings came from honestly, the same 5090 runs for noticeably less. UI could use some work but I'm not paying for UI I'm paying for compute so whatever.

The funniest part is i told my advisor how much i spent and he just went "yeah thats how it is" like sir???? youre not the one footing the bill here

Still kinda wild to me that this is just normal now, like were out here funding our own research from our stipends and everybody just acts like its fine.

I don’t know if it’s just me but I feel like I can’t keep up with cleaning anymore. I work full-time and commute, and by the time I get home I’m already exhausted. I keep telling myself I’ll clean during the week but it never really happens, then the weekend comes and I end up spending half of it just trying to reset everything.

My place isn’t terrible but it’s definitely not as clean as I want it to be and it’s starting to stress me out a bit. Just wondering how other people deal with this. Do you just push through and clean on weekends or is it actually worth getting some kind of cleaning service every now and then?