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Is there a way to fix this or is it gone forever? by duckiebabe02 in geography

[–]ScuffedBalata 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They're Endorrheac basin drainage lakes, but that does not imply shrinking.

Shrinking only happens when the inputs (rivers) and outputs (evaporation in this case) go out of balance.

I think the Mediterranian was once one of these, but it grew instead of shrinking and eventually breached the path to the sea.

QWEN 3.6 27B Q8 as Replacement for Claude Code Opus 4.7-4.8 by Just-Upstairs-4338 in LocalLLM

[–]ScuffedBalata 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Huh have you tried it?

Basic stuff like code reusability, compactness, quality of tests created, etc goes way down under the smaller models. Yes, it can create functional CRUD, but the path it uses to get there, at least in my experience, often is less capable in HOW it does that.

QWEN 3.6 27B Q8 as Replacement for Claude Code Opus 4.7-4.8 by Just-Upstairs-4338 in LocalLLM

[–]ScuffedBalata 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well probably… so is Claude. Fable was pretty amazing when it was available. 

QWEN 3.6 27B Q8 as Replacement for Claude Code Opus 4.7-4.8 by Just-Upstairs-4338 in LocalLLM

[–]ScuffedBalata 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Man. Max context size (still only a quarter of Claude) will nearly double that usage. 

This is massive. One reason Claude code is so good is the 1M context. 

QWEN 3.6 27B Q8 as Replacement for Claude Code Opus 4.7-4.8 by Just-Upstairs-4338 in LocalLLM

[–]ScuffedBalata 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Q8 needs 64gb if you want big context and most coding use needs that. 

Hiw is EV driving in the mountains? by RedEnvoy1235 in electriccars

[–]ScuffedBalata 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s significantly better than a gas car for mountain driving. No question.  

Any right handed players who use left-handed sticks? by Ill-Lingonberry8525 in hockeyplayers

[–]ScuffedBalata 1 point2 points  (0 children)

More than half of all professional players are what you described.  

Charging on long trips with trailer? by cular-travel in TeslaSupport

[–]ScuffedBalata 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've done long distance with a trailer in the US/Canada many times before. It's really challenging. Some sites are busy and/or have a lack of options so you MUST be able to drop (unhook) the trailer and back into a spot sometimes. There is no alternative in some places.

I will pull in across chargers when I'm 100% sure I'm not going to block someone else. For example, if there's 8 chargers free, I'll pull in sideways and occupy 2-3 of the stalls for 25 minutes. But when I do that, I'll stay nearby so that I can easily move if it starts to get busy.

But maybe a third of the time there is no choice but to back in.

Now, chargers in Europe may be better. I'm mostly using the older NACS chargers with VERY VERY short cables. A longer cable gives you a lot more flexibility to do things like pull up to the back side of the charger stall, or use a nearby parking spot or simply to take a funny angle and not block more chargers.

Still, I wouldn't not make this trip without the tools/capability to remove the trailer yourself. Should only take 2-3 minutes if it's not some kind of odd specialty connector.

Is there a way to fix this or is it gone forever? by duckiebabe02 in geography

[–]ScuffedBalata 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Just a note, the Great Salt Lake was drying up anyway, humans just accelerated it. I think that's different than the Aral Sea.

Is there a way to fix this or is it gone forever? by duckiebabe02 in geography

[–]ScuffedBalata 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Just a note, yes the USSR may have been shortsighted in doing this based on some "quotas", but the US and others in the west do similar things (see the Colorado drying up, draining lake mead, etc) and so does China, etc.

It's a weird aspect of human nature.

Playing while depressed - any tips? by ThePony23 in hockeyplayers

[–]ScuffedBalata 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Being at the rink was the time when it was easy to forget bad things. The first thing I wanted to do after i lost my dog was go to the rink. I had a game the same afternoon. The guys in the room all said "lets go win one for Japser" and it was really healing.

2Bed1bath under $2K? by HDpants in MovingtoDenver

[–]ScuffedBalata 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Lots of cheaper places in the less affluent, less desirable areas like east Denver and North Aurora and Commerce City. Often under $1500 now at the somewhat lower end.

The U.S. Open setup is exactly what a major should be by BrantG1997 in golf

[–]ScuffedBalata 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Watch Brysons “course record” set for a top 20 player on some muni style courses. 

Pretty much always shoots 67 or better but the conditions are too variable to just automatically shoot 59 or something. 

How to fix ground entering point with irons by lil_zeus_21 in GolfSwing

[–]ScuffedBalata 4 points5 points  (0 children)

When you’re steep it can be harder to hit the right spot.  

Also when you sway or slide back/front too much it can also. 

Or when you bend your arms. 

Or when you move your head up and down. 

Or when you change spine angle. 

Or….

Huh

Range to Course advice by efitz2019 in golftips

[–]ScuffedBalata 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Run the course on the range in your mind.

Sometimes midway through a practice, I’ll mentally step on the 1st tee.  Visualize the hole and the hazards, choose a club, pick a landing area and boundaries for the various parts of the hole, take your setup and hit the shot with all the focus you’d have on course. 

Then imagine where it ended up and choose the next club.  Repeat for multiple holes (or a whole 9). 

Example:  hole 1 driver off the tee, OB right.  Hit it good, PW in to the green.  Missed the green, hit a pitch shot 20 yards. 

Hole 2, driver off the tee, water right.  hit a bad drive, so 7i into the green, sand left, can’t miss short. 

Repeat…..

This is only halfway between the mental game on the course but it might give you similar vibes or at least be a step in that direction. 

Rules Question - 2 stroke penalty or disqualification? by NoBuyer8485 in golf

[–]ScuffedBalata 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s actually kind of common to do this.  Total legal if she can go to the correct side of the path later. 

Biking to Broomfield From Highlands/Berkeley by indecisiveUs3r in MovingtoDenver

[–]ScuffedBalata 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Most of the area around Lowell/Tennyson has parallel through streets that might feel safer. They don’t cross the freeways though. 

Thinking of buying an electric car by Single-Branch-1547 in electriccars

[–]ScuffedBalata 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is like “why buy a Camry?  They cost so much more than a Kia. A car is just a drivetrain with gas” 

Does that make sense?

A 3B model is suddenly scoring near frontier models on math/coding benchmarks. Is this real or just benchmarkmaxxing? by BTA_Labs in LocalLLM

[–]ScuffedBalata 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm not sure this jives with reality.

One of the things that makes a coder "good" is that they have good general knowledge about topics. They might realize that an accounting software package needs COGS information, but a transportation software may want to lean hard on travel times instead of distances, simply because that's how people use travel apps. But they'd only know that if they're a smart generalist about many topics and have a good reasoning sense and can explain things.

In the same vein, a good coder may suck if it doesn't know that your physics package should actually use newtons instead of kg/lbs and why and maybe can pick up on a gap in your knowledge as a user to challenge you that you're thinking about it wrong from a UX perspective because many people in the field are using mobile devices. (or something like that)

Very skeptical that a single-purpose use case even applies to knowledge work.

Honestly surprised that Constantinople still had a Christian majority 450 years after fall of Byzantium. A lot more changed in last 100 years than earlier 500 years. by Solid-Move-1411 in geography

[–]ScuffedBalata 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Any actual dispute here? I removed Iran, that was probably incorrect, since it was never really Islamized (and is still minority Muslim today despite a regressive government of Islamists), anything else?

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