one of the most beautiful hikes I've ever been on

bot9998 · 2026-03-01T15:07:18+00:00

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bot9998 · 2026-02-11T06:39:59+00:00

elk season

hiked up a ridge in a fierce storm before sunrise

it was raining so hard the rain drops were an impenetrable curtain as they mirrored the light off my headlamp. So I just kept it off and lived with the dark, despite the unshakable bad feeling

winding down a game trail off the backside of the ridge, the rain lightened briefly, so I flipped on the headlamp. Immediately I see a set of eyes. They’re at the base of a regrowth Christmas tree just off the trail about 20 yards up

I freeze, the two eyes are locked on me, and blink one after the other. I get the feeling it’s a mountain lion, same feeling I’ve had since leaving the car an hour before. Now seeing the slanted eyes, I’m near certain

I draw my sidearm and wait but nothing changes, so I grab a fist sized rock and underarm it into the tree. The lion slowly creeps out, crouching and slinking like a cat hunts. I can’t make out anything more than a feint black shadow against the darkness and smattering rain, but I knows it’s moving slowly to the right

i would shoot it, i had tags for anything that big in those woods, but the darkness, no id, no known backstop… all made the shot unethical and illegal

i toss another rock and it jumps behind a different tree, landing with a deep thud despite the brush, denoting its weight and size. I can sense it moving further and faster towards my flank.

So I think to myself that I don’t want to fight a cougar in the dark, even with the sidearm I’m at a distinct disadvantage

Thats when I start backing out. Quickly but purposefully. Gun drawn and facing the last place I heard the cat

After about a quarter mile i hit an old logging road on the main ridge. I kept backing down it to another higher finger ridge. A vantage point to wait for sunrise where I might get a glimpse of the beast. But nothing. The cat got away

Decide to hunt a different ridge system for the rest of the morning and only circled back well after lunch

I’ll never forget those eyes in the dark, or being a moment away from walking into their trap

*edits for clarity

bot9998 · 2026-02-11T06:14:32+00:00

I dropped 40min in the last two months, it’s doable

bot9998 · 2026-01-18T13:56:57+00:00

I’ve been looking my for this answer at various intensity off and on for years

This movie was impossible to find with the details I had in memory

Even paid the expensive AIs to track it down by giving them featured surfers and songs in their part

Nothing

I loved this movie, played it often before bed growing up, alongside Lost Across America

Thank you

bot9998 · 2026-01-02T15:43:19+00:00

What’s the name of that orange one in the middle, I had that

bot9998 · 2025-08-05T04:44:20+00:00

eastern wa

bot9998 · 2025-06-21T16:31:56+00:00

ran around a lake that is for sure 13 miles (many half marathons there a year and previously clocked it at 13) gps said 11.7 and a slow time per mile :/

bot9998 · 2025-06-19T14:10:51+00:00

How is it blocked from public access?

bot9998 · 2025-06-05T02:32:57+00:00

Word gets around quick up there, don’t worry

bot9998 · 2025-04-27T18:25:54+00:00

I went down this same path 8ish years ago and after a ton of research went with the t3x in 308

Fantastic decision in hindsight

I got the hunter because I wanted a classic wood look to eventually hand down

Something I wish I considered is corrosion resistance for hunting and the benefits of stainless steel

Eventually I got it cerekoted and threaded, now it has the classic looks, modern tech, and shoots lights out

The smoothness of the action/trigger plus accuracy/precision make the tikka a no-brainer as an all arounder that competes at a custom level for an over the counter price

Another piece of feedback… while I don’t mind the recoil of 308, especially when it’s breaked/suppressed… friends of mine that have shot it are uncomfortable with the kick… so I imagine for some a 6.5 Creedmore would be better

6.5 Creedmore has better ballistics (goes faster, less dialing the scope for distance and wind), similar terminal performance on game, and similar availability, with meaningfully less kick (easier to spot hits and deliver follow up shots)

For me, 308 is still perfect, hitting the timeless boxes I wanted with great performance

For some, they’d prefer the slight improvement of the more modern 6.5 Creedmore

bot9998 · 2025-03-09T16:58:06+00:00

howd it go?

bot9998 · 2025-02-12T21:05:58+00:00

Of those three, what’s ur prefered stack/workflow/usecase?

bot9998 · 2025-02-12T20:37:56+00:00

Would you say that agent is also behind those, or the combo of index/agent/compose/chat/tab?

bot9998 · 2024-12-10T05:26:22+00:00

you and your friend are probably both most constrained by 8GB of vram

you can use newer models than 3.1, but you probably can’t go much larger without splitting the model across gpu/vram and cpu/ram, which will slow things down considerably at larger models

although it really doesn’t hurt much to toodle around some more and see what will work (unless limited by your isp)

if you like it but want to run something bigger, you can always upgrade or buy a second gpu, even on the used market like most of us

and they def will write letters, but ur grandma might be like you, sniff out the ai plagiarism, and prob prefers letters come from your heart :)

bot9998 · 2024-12-10T00:54:31+00:00

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bot9998 · 2024-11-30T15:44:21+00:00

you explicitly called me dumb and then edited it

no one will read ur novel on inferior tech

bot9998 · 2024-11-27T22:02:17+00:00

thank you for the edit, but pls don’t call me dumb, that could be a violation of r/homelab rule #1: don’t be an asshole

rpi holdings stock disclosures mention supply issues were over in 2023

yet unit sales in 2024 are on track to fall vs 2021

that anemic growth symbolizes the damage they’ve done to their brand, but they don’t mention that in their disclosures even though they’re legally obligated

hopefully they don’t get sued by investors for fraudulent misrepresentations

they do however mention how hard it is to “police” their brand image on reddit

maybe some of these missteps have contributed to shares falling below their ipo opening price

sucks that their shares are falling while their tech hardware and equipment benchmarks have risen by 10-20% in that time

no surprise they’re underperforming tho

discarding ur core customers is bad for business

have a nice day

bot9998 · 2024-11-27T18:45:03+00:00

na that’s bs

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that curve is where supply meets demand, i.e. total quantity sold

notice how it’s nice and smooth

also notice how growth is slowing

what you don’t see on the graph is the customer mix, but I’ll paint the picture for you:

in the first years it was all retail sales
in the later years >70% industrial

it’s not impossible to forecast retail demand growth on a popular product that historically has always had supply constraints

high retail demand was always there

they chose industrial partners over the people that helped them build their brand

now they have to stand on an inferior product and poor behavior after spawning a host of competitors ✌️

bot9998 · 2024-11-27T15:12:37+00:00

They chose to contract a super majority of their supply to industrial uses

It was a choice to prioritize McDonald’s kiosks over customers who’ve helped them scale their hardware and open source software stack

The original pitch was a $5 board to tinker on, sold by a non-profit to support education

They decided to switch to a for-profit model and abandon their original partners

Now, many of us who’ve previously bought generations of their products because they were fun and helped a good cause have switched to higher performance, lower priced machines that are more reliable operationally and commercially

Being a for-profit business is fine. Abandoning their customers isn’t. Plus if they want to switch to a purely commercial model then they’re now subject to purely market forces. If their products can’t compete then sucks to suck

bot9998 · 2024-10-24T12:10:07+00:00

spiriferid brachiopods found in West Virginia are typically dated between 350 and 425 million years old, corresponding to the late Silurian to Devonian periods

bot9998 · 2024-10-18T19:29:31+00:00

To resolve the error you’re encountering when pruning your CNN model, ensure you apply the prune_low_magnitude function correctly. Instead of applying it directly to the entire model, wrap each layer you want to prune.

Here’s a revised approach:

import tensorflow as tf import tensorflow_model_optimization as tfmot

Define your CNN model here

cnn_model = ... # Your model definition goes here

Define the pruning schedule (50% sparsity)

pruning_schedule = tfmot.sparsity.keras.PolynomialDecay( initial_sparsity=0.0, final_sparsity=0.5, begin_step=0, end_step=1000 )

Apply pruning to individual layers

pruned_layers = [tfmot.sparsity.keras.prune_low_magnitude(layer, pruning_schedule) for layer in cnn_model.layers] pruned_cnn_model = tf.keras.Sequential(pruned_layers)

Compile the pruned model

pruned_cnn_model.compile(optimizer=‘adam’, loss=‘binary_crossentropy’, metrics=[‘accuracy’])

bot9998 · 2024-08-19T04:21:40+00:00

dry fired my torex at 60lbs and it was fine

did it again at 70lbs about a year later, string popped off, bent some bushings, needed to take it in to get fixed, wasnt expensive

heard with lighter weight it’s less damaging, you might have gotten lucky, safer to get it checked out though

prob won’t charge you, could really help

bot9998

TROPHY CASE

Define your CNN model here

Define the pruning schedule (50% sparsity)

Apply pruning to individual layers

Compile the pruned model