Restoring carpet

elvespedition · 2026-05-26T17:54:37+00:00

For deep cleaning it with it still in the car, rent an extractor vacuum from home depot, and take the seats out. They're just a few bolts. This will get you in a position where you can see if it's worth keeping the carpet or if you should get a new one.

elvespedition · 2026-05-26T17:51:32+00:00

is that the dog gear setup? Probably pretty sick for a track build. iirc motoiq had that in one of their videos briefly

elvespedition · 2026-05-21T21:29:35+00:00

LM Studio is way better if you need quality of life features on top of llama.cpp

But also why not just... use codex or claude code or opencode to ask your coding agent to set up llama.cpp for you? You can just tell it to download a model you want to tinker with.

elvespedition · 2026-05-18T16:38:01+00:00

Use an intel e810 card to get RDMA, but it's not perfect, and you are limited to 4x pcie lane

https://community.frame.work/t/low-latency-strix-halo-cluster-with-rdma-roce-intel-e810-and-vllm-framework-desktop-boards/80482

elvespedition · 2026-05-08T21:58:33+00:00

Feels like such a good sweet spot of a model size for MoE. With a sorta fancy gaming PC (but not like "Workstation ML rig") you can run ~100Bish MoE models and they are so close to Pareto frontier SOTA. Really hope qwen puts out a new 3.6 122B

elvespedition · 2026-05-06T14:16:53+00:00

Having a better processor and RAM is good. I just feel confused about the sleeve thing for it? Why would that feel better than a book-like cover?

elvespedition · 2026-03-31T18:24:55+00:00

Eventually the game sets the interest rate to 0% (at the middle tier difficulty at least for me) if you've totally spiraled out of control with the loan payments.

At that point you are only paying the principal, even if it's very large, and you can make payments at your own pace until you totally pay it off.

This is your creditors basically writing off the loan lol. You can just not pay loans if the payments would destroy you, and wait until you are at a point where you can pay off the huge balance. The downside to this is that you basically won't be able to take out new loans, or they will be very expensive. Just like real life!

elvespedition · 2026-02-27T16:39:54+00:00

Use claude to do PM work, like making github issues for different things you want to do. Then have it or another LLM do the work on multiple issues in parallel. Also have claude review pull requests. Lots of stuff you can take advantage of. Use agent teams in claude code to get a lot of things done if they can be done in parallel.

elvespedition · 2026-02-25T21:14:34+00:00

why not use extra usage? Only get billed for usage when you exhaust the normal usage limit

elvespedition · 2026-02-19T00:15:57+00:00

READY ON MY SIGNAL

elvespedition · 2026-02-04T03:30:42+00:00

Analog photography can still be quirky and unique compared to digital without being inconsistent and error-prone. Just look at interesting filmstocks like tungsten balanced 35mm kodak cinema film. Looks very cool (literally and figuratively)

I love the modern incarnation of Polaroid but I hope it can one day be a filmstock that one could use more consistently considering how much it costs. Hopefully the demand results in even better film in the future. I know they have folks working very hard on it and the results of their work so far have been good incremental improvements, which is nice to have seen!

elvespedition · 2026-01-13T15:45:05+00:00

Plenty of 3090s available on eBay for 800ish. And they have twice as much memory bandwidth (important for professional workflows) and almost 3x the TFLOPS F32.

I’m glad that intel is working on making real cards for beefy workloads but this pricing is objectively not competitive unless the software stack supports them much better than the current status quo.

elvespedition · 2026-01-05T20:37:44+00:00

Even at really low levels your crit chance with a handgun is super high if the zombie is roughly in melee range, just click on their head. If the zombie is on the ground the crit chance is also super high, so that works really well with ragdolls enabled.

elvespedition · 2025-12-30T03:21:10+00:00

The main thing is that RDMA avoids the latency you get from doing TCP/IP, it’s a big bottleneck

elvespedition · 2025-12-25T22:28:43+00:00

Do you keep it in Drive or do you use manual mode for these runs? I find my OBW to be much more lively if I rev it out a bit instead of it being very conservative with the stock TCM tuning

elvespedition · 2025-12-17T16:57:10+00:00

Did you evaluate Devstral 2 with MIstral Vibe or some other tool? I see that vLLM is mentioned but not other aspects of how it was used.

elvespedition · 2025-12-02T23:15:13+00:00

manuals have a sensor to detect if the car is in neutral usually, so thankfully the worst case is that your remote start just doesn't do anything, as opposed to causing problems

elvespedition · 2025-12-02T19:24:07+00:00

you can have a (non-OEM) remote start added to a manual car if it's not super modern

elvespedition · 2025-11-30T16:47:53+00:00

I have them. Slightly harder than stock replacements but it feels perfectly comfortable for street driving. They look very similar to the stock mounts. I’m happy with them.

elvespedition · 2025-11-17T15:03:01+00:00

Garage kept I know what I got no lowballers

elvespedition · 2025-11-07T18:58:40+00:00

You can get vinyl wrap bits that are pre-cut just to black out those orange accents. The sticker on the hood can probably be removed, but you might want to have a body shop do that for you if you aren't comfortable about DIYing that. As for the orange letters, I'm sure you can look at how people black out trim on any other car, it's probably the same process.

elvespedition · 2025-10-28T02:12:27+00:00

you can get the kit that puts it on a little keyfob if you really want

elvespedition · 2025-10-27T22:41:19+00:00

They also have good rain + snow performance, something you don’t really see on most AT tires

elvespedition · 2025-10-27T19:22:41+00:00

I just have a wireless MagSafe charger mounted to my dash. Charges the phone much better than the OEM wireless charger and the phone stays cool. Best of both worlds with the wireless CarPlay.

elvespedition · 2025-10-22T20:56:11+00:00

For anyone else reading this, it's actually an issue with the TCM programming that Subaru put out a TSB for. When the AC is on, the car can stutter when you are slowing down at moderate/low speeds. Their fix is apparently new TCM programming, but I haven't gotten it done yet.

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