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by tristor 7mo ago
Every single one of the 50 states had to individually sign laws because there is no national law about drunk driving, and MADD was instrumental in the 0.08 legal limit becoming law in the United States. That's a well-founded assertion
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by tristor 7mo ago
I think that's an incredibly reductionist and sarcastic take. I'm also in Product, but was an engineer for over a decade prior. I find that having strong structured functional specifications and a good holistic understanding of
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by tristor 7mo ago
Sure, but that's a strawman of my position. I'm not saying we should not draw a line, I'm saying that drawing a line is required due to how our systems work (in my earlier comment), and then in my reply to /reducing tha
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by tristor 7mo ago
Glad to see I'm not the only person that this bothers. I've been to more than 75 countries, to 43 US states, more than 2500 breweries, and I have drank more than 10k unique beers. Many beers styles should be correctly served in
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by tristor 7mo ago
This is a bit surprising to me, but I've only ever rented in Europe. In the US, though, it's common to get discounted pricing for paying cash, usually 2-3% reduction in price as that's what they pay for card processing, othe
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by tristor 7mo ago
> Most countries have since lowered it to 0.05. That's the BAC of a healthy male an hour after drinking 2 light beers. That is an absurd limit to set in stone, however there is plenty of evidence to show that /some/ peopl
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by tristor 7mo ago
The 0.08 BAC limit also has no basis in reality for what impairment is. It's a political reality, not a scientific one. MADD and other organizations lobbied to make this a legal limit across the US and many other jurisdictions around
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by tristor 7mo ago
> Well for one thing - you'd get by a lot better with beans and rice and a functioning garden than overpriced dehydrated meals. The lived reality of the "Snowpocalypse" says otherwise. "A functioning garden" doe
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by tristor 7mo ago
Why is a bucket of dehydrated food specifically targeting the stereotype/strawman you are constructing? Costco sells buckets of dehydrated food, and Costco is what comes to mind when I think middle of the road middle-class America. D
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by tristor 7mo ago
Thanks, I sent you an email with a couple of bugs I ran into and screenshots.
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by tristor 7mo ago
I tried to run the benchmark just now and ran into some issues. I have screenshots of the misbehavior. Do you have an email address I can reach out to?
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by tristor 7mo ago
> United? FWIW, Airlines are actually great /if/ you're a frequent flyer. I get great service from United on the phone and did so previously from Delta, but in both cases I was a frequent traveler and so they automaticall
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by tristor 7mo ago
I've been doing a lot of experimentation with Qwen3.5 models locally, and I've found for other tasks that the Opus 4.6 distilled versions of the model ("Qwopus") tend to perform better for other tasks. But this is mostl
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by tristor 7mo ago
I'd like to recreate this benchmark using Qwopus on my M5 Max. I am curious if the theoretically improved reasoning capabilities from distillation improve its scoring. Adding this one to my to-do list for some point in the next few w
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by tristor 7mo ago
My experience with customer support with every major company has always been a miserable one. The fundamental problem from my perspective is that if I've decided to call support that means I've already exhausted any other alterna
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by tristor 7mo ago
Guided missile launchers are weapons systems, because the projectile and the launcher each are a component of a complete system which requires significant technology. This is in contrast to a firearm, which has all of the technology in the
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by tristor 7mo ago
> And the loudest pronatalists in American life, the ones who claim declining birth rates are civilization’s gravest threat, are the same people who just spent two years dismantling it: Elon Musk, who has fathered at least fourteen child
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by tristor 7mo ago
All of that, and the funny thing is /that is the easy part/. Moving payloads to space is just incredibly expensive, but not fundamentally hard in the same way that post-launch coordination of satellite constellations and RF tunin
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by tristor 7mo ago
This article was definitely written by ChatGPT. I think it's a story anyone who's ever shipped a website that they expected the public to make use of has experienced, but it's also light on the details of how they moved past
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by tristor 7mo ago
This does not seem accurate based on my recently received M5 Max 128GB MBP. I think there's some estimates/guesswork involved, and it's also discounting that you can move the memory divider on Unified Memory devices like App
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by tristor 7mo ago
Something that could be possible is serving the model as a virtual audio device and then you can use existing tools on macOS like Rogue Amoeba's Loopback to direct audio to split to that virtual device and your other output (you'd
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by tristor 7mo ago
> What would you build if on-device AI were genuinely as fast as cloud? I think this has to be the future for AI tools to really be truly useful. The things that are truly powerful are not general purpose models that have to run in the
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by tristor 8mo ago
I would say the M5 Max MBP, Mac Studio, and the acceptance of Apple hardware as the pinnacle for personal local LLMs are good signs that they are not going to unify iOS and macOS.
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by tristor 8mo ago
> The reality is that most of them are so badly managed that competing against them is easy if you're actually competent. The world is a graveyard littered with startups that thought this way. One of the consequences of wealth conc
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by tristor 8mo ago
I spent the last day deep diving on what I can do with MLX with local models. I still feel limited, because you have to use quantized models, but I think it's enough to do /something/, so I went ahead and bit the bullet and
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by tristor 8mo ago
I've been using an LG Ultrafine 27MD5KL-B for years, and it works pretty flawlessly once I set up BetterDisplay with it. This is my primary work setup, and I think I paid around a grand for at MicroCenter some time back. It has worke
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by tristor 8mo ago
I am very excited by this, but I am a bit dampened that the maximum memory available is 128GB. I was really hoping for 256GB, which would allow me to run frontier models locally. I think with 128GB it's still feasible to use this wit
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by tristor 8mo ago
Apparently today: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/03/apple-introduces-macb...
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by tristor 8mo ago
Let me know when I can buy an M5 Max Macbook Pro that can run local open weight LLMs. Until then, nothing else is particularly interesting, everything I already own gets the job done.
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by tristor 8mo ago
>You should be asking why 70 million people voted the way they did in spite of the events you describe. Propaganda, 1 in 6 Boomers being exposed to amounts of lead in childhood that lead to measurable cognitive declines, average age of t

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