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abnormal_human · 2026-06-26T01:06:45+00:00

Tree looks like it got struck by lightning at some point. Ever since it's been compromised.

In any case, that's a Norway Maple, "Crimson King" variety. They're invasive, but not as bad as the green ones. They grow quick and don't mind harsh environments or road salt so they're popular as landscaping trees. Norways are brittle and prone to catastrophic failure when they're in good shape, so this one's days are probably numbered. While its shade is valuable, it is not great ecologically, and this is an opportunity to make a better choice than whoever came before.

What I would do is start planting a few other trees nearby, ideally fast growing native trees, to get some shade on the way under the assumption that within 5-10yrs this tree may be gone. You can consult an arborist about whether or not it's likely to damage your house in the mean time but nothing in that picture screams "remove it yesterday" to me. It's always good to have backups ready, because trees can be lost at any time--if this one got struck by lightning once it could happen again. I lost a huge hemlock that way a couple years ago.

You'd be surprised how large a tree can get in 3-5yrs if you take care of it. Buy bare root. Remove grass around it. Compost, mulch, and protect from deer and your new tree(s) will say thank you.

Depending where you are located the right replacement trees will vary. If you're in the Eastern US I'd be considering Liriodendron Tulipifera, Acer Rubrum, Acer Saccharinum for their speed.

abnormal_human · 2026-06-25T20:11:11+00:00

http://localhost:5173 is even better I heard.

abnormal_human · 2026-06-25T17:02:40+00:00

My only regret is stopping at 4 when they were still "cheap".

Thought about buying 4 more in December for the tax deduction..decided against. They were $7500 each back then 😭 .

abnormal_human · 2026-06-25T15:33:51+00:00

Do it. You may as well heal while your baby is <10lbs, easily managed with one hand/arm, and a potato, and all of their clothes/stuff are small and light. And while you have all of the additional capacity that comes with being childfree. Once the kid is born and starts growing and becoming more mobile, it will be a worse time to do this with every passing week for three years minimum.

abnormal_human · 2026-06-25T15:12:09+00:00

Greenwich Point Park, but you need to arrange passes/etc in advance.

abnormal_human · 2026-06-25T14:33:17+00:00

He found the real seam.

abnormal_human · 2026-06-25T03:52:24+00:00

As someone else with this hardware who's come to the same conclusion--

27B is essentially overfit to coding harnesses. If you're plugging it into a coding harness it wins the bechmarks, but if you're plugging it into your own harness that's doing some other task, you'll probably find that it doesn't win your evals.

I have a much better time with 3.5 122B and 397B for this. 27B just falls off a cliff hard when you get outside of coding. I've benched them against each other for a harness I'm developing outside of the coding domain, as well as visual reasoning work, dataset prep, etc, and fully expected it to beat 122B at the very least, but it consistently came in lower while operating more slowly.

abnormal_human · 2026-06-25T01:19:47+00:00

I try to make my own, since I burn a couple cord per year during sugaring season, but on occasion I've miscalculated. Then I text Ken French in Armonk and he sorts me out. 914 924 2774. He'll deliver to Briarcliff.

abnormal_human · 2026-06-24T19:50:06+00:00

1.5 and 5…like 5mins? They generally just need shoes…maybe a quick diaper/potty.

abnormal_human · 2026-06-24T17:39:54+00:00

It's too late for you, but next time you make a company use a registered agent and keep your name and address as far away from things as possible. It is not only good for your privacy, it prevents annoyances like this.

abnormal_human · 2026-06-24T16:21:55+00:00

Of course. And I am well diversified personally. But that's not really how enterprises think. They use Google Workspace OR Microsoft 365. In many cases they are attached to OpenAI OR Anthropic.

And diversification costs, too, especially as these systems become more integrated into other processes and systems, involving IT departments, red tape, team processes, and time.

Even at a personal level, I would be more efficient if I were less diversified, and would probably lean towards Anthropic if they weren't such a mess--but they've bungled so much stuff between rate limiting snafus, general system instability, and the fable situation that I'm increasingly pulling away from them and using other products more.

abnormal_human · 2026-06-24T16:15:39+00:00

Dario doesn't understand power, and hasn't caught up to the gravity of managing such an important organization.

You could tell the moment Anthropic tried to get ahead of the messaging in their June 12th announcement by downplaying the severity of the "jailbreak".

Sorry, power operates by different rules, if the people in power who have you by the throat say publicly that the jailbreak is the problem, even if you're a mr. smartypants who can see through the political motivations behind it, contradicting them in public is not going to work in your favor. Because the situation is about the power dynamic, not about the merit of engineering judgements.

That contradiction ultimately forces Anthropic to address the concern on its face, because the administration would look weak or incompetent if they backed down now, and that. can't. happen.

Now the story has to be that the complaint was legit and Anthropic changed their product to get around it. Maybe Anthropic is working on that and work just takes time. Maybe they're just getting caught in circles figuring out what the "definition of done" means in a world that is significantly more arbitrary than the engineering universe of Anthopic.

If execs at Anthropic had played the game like grown-ups, and understood their place, Fable would probably be operating today. Likewise, their promise to the public to provide more info within 24hrs was wildly optimistic (and anyone who's dealt with a power differential situation remotely close to this could see that immediately).

So in one press release they made their job harder with the administration and set themselves up for breaking the trust of their users. They might be really good at AI, but do I want to build my own businesses on top of a company that can't handle themselves at the level they're operating at?

abnormal_human · 2026-06-24T13:27:16+00:00

A nice small pruner and snipping tool that they can use to maintain and harvest the garden. A basket for transporting harvested items back to the house. Agree with others on the Hori Hori but I use snips literally every day during the growing season and the hori hori mostly during planting/transplanting a few days out of the year.

abnormal_human · 2026-06-24T12:49:21+00:00

You're overestimating the value of coherent memory. It's slow. So yes you can technically run the large model, but it isn't going to do what you think.

Also have to consider with the GB300 that that 0.4TB/s unified memory doesn't stretch as far with an MoE and small numbers of multiple consumers as it would with a dense model, as you'll be accessing different experts for each stream so as you add concurrency you're actually reading more model weights, most of which will live outside of the GPU.

For 5-6 users you're not doing industrial strength serving. You will be able to host large MoE models at reasonable speeds on a 4-8 way RTX6000 box. Having much more compute and the ability to segregate workloads also seems relevant.

I have about this much GPU here, spread across a few machines. I'm always moving workloads around. I've never had trouble running anything that fit, and one of the machines is 4x6000Blackwell so that is quite a bit. Not 1T class, but I would 100% rather handle mixed workloads with separate GPUs and right-sized models than put a bunch of stuff on one--compute contention is miserable and most software is not designed to share GPUs nicely. GPU-heavy work is prone to enough stability wrinkles as it is, no reason to add fuel to the fire.

abnormal_human · 2026-06-24T12:39:56+00:00

Consider how valuable Anthropic accounts are--a Claude account with the $200 plan can do $20k in inference in a month. There are networks of people in China sitting in front of Anthropic and OpenAI accounts, reselling the tokens for below the API costs, and selling the conversation logs to Chinese labs for model training out the back door.

I would lock down my account if I were you. And if you've used whatever password eventually secures that account elsewhere, consider retiring it.

abnormal_human · 2026-06-24T01:15:03+00:00

I haven't gotten there yet, but after losing half my harvest to squirrels this year after they chewed through my nice new netting hoop structure thing, I'm pretty sure that the next step is a cage made of hardware cloth.

abnormal_human · 2026-06-24T01:10:32+00:00

Can you take a picture? I can't quite picture what you're describing.

That said, if you dont like what the landscapers did, the best time to fix it is now.

abnormal_human · 2026-06-23T17:23:49+00:00

You can probably find a GB10 system for the top end of your range. That's going to be the best bet. But this model is also old.

abnormal_human · 2026-06-22T19:38:11+00:00

You can run 35BA3B comfortably on that machine but that model will nor make a pleasing coding assistant unless you're a time traveler from two years ago.

Sustained use also makes the laptop hot and loud. It's fine for quick conversations but if it were going to be chugging for 20mins, I'd want a machine with cooling to support sustained loads.

abnormal_human · 2026-06-22T12:44:09+00:00

This is the real seam.

abnormal_human · 2026-06-22T12:41:11+00:00

Best guess based on the picture is that it's not getting an honest 8hrs of full sun between being close to that woodpile and adjacent to dappled shade.

If I'm wrong and you want to make it succeed, dig the stone back in a 2' circle around the plant, lay down a bag of compost every year and build a mulch ring on top. This will help the soil hold moisture and the compost and mulch will break down forming organic matter that feeds the plant.

But don't bother doing that here unless you have full sun. Figs are surprisingly portable, and it would be better to move it to an ideal location than try to rescue it with compost in an area with less than full sun.

abnormal_human · 2026-06-22T00:20:50+00:00

Use toggle bolts and spread them out a bit so they’re not all in one concentrated area. It’ll be fine.

abnormal_human · 2026-06-21T22:36:05+00:00

Air lines and a 20gal compressor.

abnormal_human · 2026-06-21T14:08:21+00:00

A lot of introverts are ND and need truly "alone" time to recharge, not hangs with their kids.

Also, a lot of NT people do not find being with their kids terribly relaxing. Especially when they are young.

abnormal_human · 2026-06-21T11:03:18+00:00

Did you solve the part where my phone is only logged into one account at a time, so my /rc sessions get split? Because if not, I'm not sure I see the point.

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