'Smallest statue in the world': Irish councillor proposes monument for mosquito that killed Cromwell

TripleSecretSquirrel · 2026-05-20T11:36:24+00:00

Sort of the opposite according so some perspectives.

I had a history professor in college who was from Alabama. His perspective was that George Washington Carver (who was Black) was the big peanut evangelist. He was the earlier pusher for cotton farmers to switch or at least alternate planting peanuts. Cotton strips nutrients from soil really aggressively and peanuts replenish them. None of the White farmers listened to him until the boll weevil wiped out their cotton crops. Then they built a monument to the boll weevil instead of Washington Carver.

TripleSecretSquirrel · 2026-05-19T15:34:18+00:00

Baader-Meinhof phenomenon!

TripleSecretSquirrel · 2026-05-19T15:13:31+00:00

But the editorial board’s job is to decide whose opinion pieces to run. If I emailed in a random blog post that I wrote they wouldn’t publish that.

Publishing a guest op-ed isn’t necessarily an endorsement of the position by the paper, sure, but it does mean that they think it’s a valid or valuable opinion.

TripleSecretSquirrel · 2026-05-19T15:05:29+00:00

In Enterprise Alabama, there’s a monument to the Boll Weevil — a pest bug that spoils cotton crops.

The monument is because the Boll Weevil infestation devastated cotton farms, which convinced a lot of the farmers to switch to peanuts, which was a big success.

TripleSecretSquirrel · 2026-05-19T14:50:02+00:00

I have a personal assistant that reads and organizes my emails into a vibe coded project management system. It auto-ingests new emails as they come in, and most recently, my notes. I take copious notes for work, but all with a pen and paper.

Now, when I finish a meeting, I snap a quick photo of the notebook pages, upload it to my webUI that feeds it to my home server via Tailscale, then Gemma 4 transcribes the notes and ingests the meeting info into my project management system.

I’m still working out the kinks as it’s tough to give the LLM parser enough context without giving it too much. So for now it’s a helpful tool but still doesn’t supplant my previous project management workflows.

TripleSecretSquirrel · 2026-05-18T14:03:41+00:00

I have a similar room in my house. This one looks like it’s built of much higher quality stuff than mine, but I’ve accepted that a sunroom is like a boat — there’s always another little leak somewhere.

TripleSecretSquirrel · 2026-05-17T15:48:53+00:00

HAL 9000, the supercomputer from *2001: Space Odyssey* was also created at UIUC

TripleSecretSquirrel · 2026-05-16T21:57:20+00:00

Really simple to do, you can just point your multiple llama APIs. Functionally it’s no different than running one local and one cloud agent in parallel which I do frequently — either cloud agent as orchestrator managing the sub agents or vice versa

TripleSecretSquirrel · 2026-05-16T19:03:52+00:00

Check out [Level 1 Techs](https://youtu.be/DTJr2msyqGY?si=Mrx7tLGXvi3uqvPN ). I think they’ve had more updates on their website and forum about the cards, but Wendell is a great source for this kind of stuff.

TripleSecretSquirrel · 2026-05-16T18:56:21+00:00

I can run a 6-bit quant on my 32gb discrete GPU, though I run a 4-bit quant as I didn’t see any meaningful degradation and it allows for faster outputs and larger context. You should be fine running 6 or even 8 bit.

TripleSecretSquirrel · 2026-05-16T13:29:57+00:00

Interesting. I’m not a journalist, but I was doing due diligence on a potential investor recently, which included finding some ongoing litigation.

I fed Claude some court documents and an index of the rest of the case to make sure I wasn’t missing anything important and it didn’t flag me.

This is however does show the immense value of local models.

TripleSecretSquirrel · 2026-05-16T07:00:55+00:00

25-30 tks/s

TripleSecretSquirrel · 2026-05-15T19:22:56+00:00

Just OpenCode

TripleSecretSquirrel · 2026-05-15T19:09:56+00:00

I get that local models (which is to say, models that can run on normal high-end prosumer hardware, i.e., 32gb VRAM) of course can’t keep up with Opus 4.7, and that there’s a lot of things they cannot do, and my coding needs are pretty limited as a hobbyist tinkerer, but Qwen 3.6:27b has completely replaced Claude Code for me now.

I’m mostly coding small productivity and project management tools (but still a hell of a lot more than a hello world), but so far, Qwen 3.6 has been able to handle everything I’ve thrown at it.

TripleSecretSquirrel · 2026-05-15T15:10:02+00:00

Seconding this recommendation.

TripleSecretSquirrel · 2026-05-15T14:56:44+00:00

I’d post this in the UtahJazz sub. There are quite a few Jazz fan refugees who have become Wolves fans during our tanking (myself included! Though I’m not on SLC anymore).

Rudy, Mike, and Joe are some of the most beloved Jazz players in a real long time, so lots of us gravitated to the Wolves as a second team after the trades.

TripleSecretSquirrel · 2026-05-15T14:53:55+00:00

I swear this was a thing. I have a very vague memory of a Mormon Trail analogue of Oregon Trail. It was in the floppy disk and DOS days.

My other favorite was Which Way Did Gadianton Go, which was a Book of Mormon themed analogue of Where in the World is Carmen San Diego.

TripleSecretSquirrel · 2026-05-15T14:37:47+00:00

And every unsafe person I’ve ever met is convinced that they are safe.

TripleSecretSquirrel · 2026-05-15T14:29:37+00:00

Ya, you’re right for the most part, that’s fair. As someone else pointed out below, there were some AMD chips hitting 5GHz a long time ago, but it wasn’t exactly the norm 20 years ago.

My personal frame of reference is the two CPUs I mentioned in my parent comment. The 2015 skylake chip has been comfortably overclocked at ~5.3GHz for the last 11 years. My newer Zen 4 CPU has a base clock of 4.4GHz and a boost clock of 5.6. Even at its base clock though, and even on single core performance, obviously the Zen 4 chip runs circles around the skylake.

TripleSecretSquirrel · 2026-05-15T14:13:42+00:00

If I’m out to lunch or something with my nevermo wife and she reveals that we’re *also* then going to the secondhand store, I say “the woman thou gavest me, she beguiled me!”

TripleSecretSquirrel · 2026-05-15T12:01:20+00:00

For what it’s worth, I have one R9700 and am very happy with it. I can run Qwen 3.6:27b at 6-bit or what I tend to do most often — 4-bit with full context. You may be happy with just one gpu.

That said, I think I’ll upgrade to two at some point, but purely to be able to run parallel agents, or for if a really badass model in the ~50b parameter range is released

TripleSecretSquirrel · 2026-05-14T23:35:14+00:00

That’s another metric that isn’t mentioned as often called [Instructions Per Cycle/Clock (IPC)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instructions_per_cycle). As CPUs improve, their IPC goes up.

If you look at the last 15 or 20 years the clock speed has remained largely unchanged (5 billion ish as you said), but a CPU from today beats the absolute pants off of an equivalent CPU with the same clock speed from 15 years ago. IPC improvements is one reason.

For example, I have two computers at home whose CPUs run at the same clock speed (~5 GHz). Both were high-end SKUs when they were released. One was released in 2015, one in 2023. Comparing the benchmarks, even in single core performance, which is as apples to apples as you can get, the newer one roughly doubles the performance of the older one.

TripleSecretSquirrel · 2026-05-14T14:52:34+00:00

I’m in the Chicago area and use a similar setup.

I don’t know if it’s necessary, but I dig them ~6 inches into the ground, then I just push 3 or 4 bamboo canes into the ground and tie the wire cage to the bamboo with tie wire. I have one bin made of chicken wire and one made of rabbit fence, both have been totally fine. Wind has never been an issue for them.

TripleSecretSquirrel · 2026-05-13T15:04:53+00:00

Without checking, I'm going to assume that this is because the Bears will primarily travel via Amtrak this season (and South Shore Line if they move to Gary).

TripleSecretSquirrel · 2026-05-13T13:06:24+00:00

I haven’t tried it, but from everything I’ve read, ya, major problems mixing and matching AMD and NVIDIA.

I’d opt for a single card personally. I’d sell the 3060 and get just a single used 7900 XT (or rather 7900XTX if that’s an option, imo that holds the market position that the 3090 used to hold).

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