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by tristor 6mo ago
I'm disappointed they didn't release a 27B dense model. I've been working with Qwen3.5-27B and Qwen3.5-35B-A3B locally, both in their native weights and the versions the community distilled from Opus 4.6 (Qwopus), and I have
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by tristor 6mo ago
> 99% of people with Down syndrome were happy with their lives; I don't believe this number for a second, but let's just assume it's true. Why does that matter? We know from an abundance of research about both the Disabi
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by tristor 6mo ago
> I find that the cheaper option is often so much cheaper that buying several replacements is better than buying the better one. Ninja blenders vs Vitamix for example. Adding in the fact that I have no trusted evidence that Vitamix is ac
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by tristor 6mo ago
> The brand reputation built by decades of quality products is now being used to move cheap products to buyers who trust the logo. This is private equity in a nutshell, really. This is what every single PE leveraged buyout ultimately en
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by tristor 6mo ago
Maybe? I think the jury might still be out on whether equity compensation aligns incentives. Most equity compensation is treated same-as-cash for the perspective of taxation, and unless there are regulatory or contractual limits affecting
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by tristor 6mo ago
I think one of the interesting things here is that many senior executives make similar base pay to very senior ICs. The primary compensation difference is in their equity compensation, where executives get massive PSU/RSU packages, wh
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by tristor 6mo ago
> see things like their $3,000 gaming PC build, but if they see a chance to avoid paying $10-20 for something they will take it. A common phrase used to be "I pirate the software so I can afford the hardware". There's a t
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by tristor 6mo ago
The main reason these fraudsters do 3 people in the car is it allows them to up the payout, bodily injury claims are per-incident/per-person, which means more people is a larger payout that they then share with each other. Stuff like
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by tristor 6mo ago
The only time I would agree with that is crypto. Don't roll your own crypto. Otherwise there's minimal downside to rewriting basic things directly, and often its unnecessary if your language has a complete standard library. The
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by tristor 6mo ago
Very much true. I heard so many complaints both of the times I lived in Colorado about how everything was crowded and that was really only true in the parking lot/road in at the trailheads. Once you got a couple miles in, the only pe
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by tristor 6mo ago
> Wrong units. Starts happening at around ~250 C (~480F), not 350F. Completely depolymerizes at around 500C. Many places claim 500F is the temperature limit for normal usage of Teflon in a pan, however that's based on the temperatur
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by tristor 6mo ago
Teflon does not burn at 350F, it melts between 620F and 662F. At 350F and above, however, it starts off-gassing carbonyl fluoride, carbonyl difluoride, hydrogen fluoride, and various fluorinated alkanes and alkenes. PFAS is a broad term f
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by tristor 6mo ago
Okay, well you should probably have them enabled then. For me, Signal is for personal messaging. My work messages are mostly Slack, Webex, and Teams.
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by tristor 6mo ago
> ...which has absolutely nothing to do with the PFOA that you might reasonably be concerned about. Teflon is chemically inert. It's literally used for human body implants. Teflon-coated pans are not your enemy. Fire-fighting foam,
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by tristor 6mo ago
PTFE plumbers tape is not the cause of people getting PFAS in their bloodstream. The PRIMARY source of PFAS for most people is via the water supply [1][2] and the food supply, directly. The food supply is contaminated because the water su
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by tristor 6mo ago
I disable notifications on every app that is not on the critical path to me earning a living. Notifications are largely unnecessary. Either you are actively engaged with something, in which case you didn't need the notification, or y
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by tristor 6mo ago
I loved my 486DX2 66Mhz based IBM PS/1 (2168), which had a whopping 8MB of RAM. Not only did it really enable me to experience the fullness of PC gaming of the era, but it was the first computer I was able to install an internal mode
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by tristor 6mo ago
You don't actually need raw milk to make yogurt. I use Fairlife brand which is ultra-filtered milk, and combine it with a container of plain Fage (active culture Greek yogurt) in a pressure cooker. This is a very common way to make y
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by tristor 7mo ago
This is true, but not in the city of Chattanooga, Tennessee. Chattanooga through EPB has had 25Gbit residential fiber service since 2022. EPB is the most successful municipal fiber program in the US, and has resulted directly in the creat
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by tristor 7mo ago
It makes a good story to share with new friends in the future though. I've got one of those too, heh. I proposed to my now-wife on the bow of a sailboat at sunset on a local lake, overlooking the water. Should have been an amazing m
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by tristor 7mo ago
As someone who has done quite a few 14ers in Colorado, many of which I wasn't in the greatest shape for, most people do not get AMS especially below 12k, and therefore the numbers in this article definitely do look like somebody somewh
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by tristor 7mo ago
I think you mean continental United States, as Alaska and Hawaii are excluded, where-as Alaska is contiguous with the United States, but requires crossing through parts of Canada to reach by land. That said, yes Whitney is the highest in t
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by tristor 7mo ago
The only tricky part is the inter-region routing, and this can be managed largely within AWS using Transit Gateways (TGW), for a price, for more of a price AWS even makes it easier with Cloud WAN: https://aws.amazon.com/clou
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by tristor 7mo ago
> What criteria are you using for this assessment? We lost the moment we started because we went on a whim and without a cohesive strategy. This was a stupid stupid thing to do, and the longer it goes on the more obvious it becomes that
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by tristor 7mo ago
> Genuinely curious: is Tailscale actually providing any values to this use case beyond what you get from a raw Wiregaurd exit node with port forwarding instead of Tailscale's NAT traversal? Yes, but I guess it depends on how much o
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by tristor 7mo ago
> Sometimes i even dream of sending my europe traffic via the internal aws network via regions, but hey... It's more work, but you can definitely do this. Inter-region traffic still carries egress charges though, so be aware of tha
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by tristor 7mo ago
No, he's saying the government should get out of deciding what to build and make it legal to build so that people build more housing, of any type, period. "Just buy a house outside of an urban core" is only possible if such
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by tristor 7mo ago
This explains some of the weird performance behavior I've seen in the last 24 hours with ChatGPT, sometimes lagging my entire browser while typing. Note, I'm a paying user with a Teams account, so it's kind of annoying that t
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by tristor 7mo ago
I haven't really had a problem with thermal throttling, but my highest compute activity is inferencing. The main performance fall-off I've observed is that the cache/context size to token output rate curve is way more aggres
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by tristor 7mo ago
> spending $10k on a MacBook Pro with 128GB. As someone who just bought a completely maxed out 14" Macbook Pro with an M5 Max and 128GB of RAM and 8TB SSD, it was not $10k, it was only a bit over $7k. Where is this extra $3k going?

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