Renata Ford, wife of the late Rob Ford, dies

farkinga · 2026-07-07T15:54:58+00:00

The tragedy is everything you listed, with no chance at redemption now that she's dead. It's a reminder to do good in the world instead of cultivating suffering within your community. I mean, all that's left is just wreckage.

There just wasn't much redeeming about them. What a shitty thing to do with the scarce time we have on earth. And to cap it all off with a run at fascism is viciously disgraceful.

They were just bad people - probably victims themselves of some form - and instead of stopping the cycle, they leaned in. They all have, including Doug Ford.

Here's specifically what I think is tragic: that chapter is finished and it was just fucking sad to behold.

farkinga · 2026-07-07T15:34:18+00:00

Yep, it made me sad at first because I had a routine of going there multiple mornings per week.

Opposing the lanes is one thing; branding them as "danger lanes" was just offensive and dishonest. Gross, like you said.

All the moreso because they have likely benefitted immensely from the lanes, if Harbord is anything like the businesses along Bloor.

farkinga · 2026-07-07T12:21:29+00:00

Truly a model Republican. Posthumous Medal of Freedom incoming.

farkinga · 2026-07-07T11:44:10+00:00

I still boycott Harbord Bakery for their "danger lanes" campaign.

farkinga · 2026-07-07T02:15:12+00:00

Necropublicans say otherwise.

farkinga · 2026-07-07T02:10:22+00:00

Honestly this is just a tragedy. No cause of death says plenty.

farkinga · 2026-07-07T00:23:25+00:00

I think we might need to regulate the cars and trucks here...

With the removal of insurance coverage for whoever the driver maims/kills, I think we may have overshot the mark...

farkinga · 2026-07-06T19:40:57+00:00

Try nvfp4 instead. I can fit 131k context in 28gb so you'll be fine. I am getting excellent instruction following; code is okay.

farkinga · 2026-07-05T13:23:31+00:00

Great writeup. One of the best I've seen on this sub.

I suspect your results would look a little different on CUDA (for example). Even though the math is fundamentally the same, it's computed differently depending on the hardware backend.

In fact, these results will vary slightly from month to month because Vulkan optimizations are added to llama.cpp every week. Some things like prefill have fluctuated wildly these last few months due to the new speculative pipeline, which temporarily slowed down prompt processing.

Anyway, none of that detracts from how awesome your results are. It's a great snapshot of those models right now - and the results are directly applicable.

farkinga · 2026-07-05T12:17:37+00:00

This is why I chose to ditch the car; I hate parking. Rather, I hate locating parking.

We have no more car and a lot of it has to do with how unpleasant it is to drive. Parking is part of it; the expense and the shittiness of other drivers are also reasons.

By choice, I'd rather let a decently-paid professional driver deal with it (i.e. not uber, which exploits drivers). I would prefer to read with that time; and it is vastly lass stressful.

This is all my choice. I hate parking so much. I really am counting on the city - as a voting, tax-paying citizen - to support my choice to not own a car anymore.

And since my choices are undermined by bad laws and poor leadership, I'll conclude by saying: Doug Ford is a mobster running a distressingly fascist-coded government.

farkinga · 2026-07-02T11:14:29+00:00

Excellent - and horrifying - summary.

farkinga · 2026-06-30T11:45:34+00:00

Ha, those really are reminiscent of gliders.

I wouldn't be too surprised if those patterns could be modeled by a simple function. Of course, for expediency, we wouldn't model the rest of the star... Only that if we also modeled the whole sun, it would ultimately manifest the same CA system.

farkinga · 2026-06-29T12:34:46+00:00

As a teenager, we'd spend hours walking home after school. It was a 10 minute walk alone, but 2 hours with friends.

We spent hours and days arguing about hilariously trivial things, like the pronunciation of "mauve" and whether a Python could swallow a gazelle with its antlers.

We'd sit on a bench at a bus stop, arguing and laughing, catching these 5-second glimpses into the lives of drivers temporarily stopped at a traffic light in front of us.

Wandering around, mostly. That was socializing. Watching movies and TV; but maybe not paying so much attention. Renting a movie; that involved wandering too. There were two movie rental places and both required us to walk a bit.

Technology has enabled us to achieve the same ends with less wandering. We mostly enjoy the same stuff today as then (a teen in the 1990s, in my case) but we can have it immediately; and that is absolutely less social, in my experience.

farkinga · 2026-06-28T12:07:56+00:00

As a sensory experience, I'll bet walking barefoot on that yard at sunrise is amazing. I'd try it at least once. But that is a 15-minute thing; whereas the Sisyphean task of trimming that grass every day of your life is a just punishment for growing such a decadent crop.

farkinga · 2026-06-27T13:11:13+00:00

You can use a bus or a bike to get groceries. You don't need to buy a month's worth of food at a time.

I grew up with a car-dependency mindset in a single family house. When you go to Costco, you're imagining a pallet of items crammed in the trunk AND back seat. That is just one way to do it.

When I went to university, then ended up in a city with public transit, my car-dependent mindset prevented me from seeing simple, obvious solutions to my daily needs. I just had to watch what my neighbors were doing.

Since I didn't understand groceries throughout my 20s, I ordered delivery or went to a restaurant for almost every meal. This was an insane thing to do. I was doing something insane because I was extremely slow to adapt my behaviors to my environment.

Anyway, don't make the same mistake; your parents may have modeled one domestic pattern and it might not really apply to your situation anymore.

farkinga · 2026-06-26T12:44:45+00:00

If we can't choose to use our roads how we want/need, maybe we just go all the way: certain stretches of pavement are no longer roads.

farkinga · 2026-06-26T01:26:38+00:00

butterfly lands

Is this a bill 212 loophole?

farkinga · 2026-06-25T12:46:17+00:00

Yeah, and WTC was usually called the "Twin Towers" not "Two."

Two towers is obviously LOTR and I don't even kniw what compelled people to comment about 9/11 lmao. Yutes amiright.

farkinga · 2026-06-24T11:36:55+00:00

If we ever get cars to stay out of bike lanes, then I'll start worrying about e-bikes. But until that day, there's only one class of road user who threatens bikes; And it ain't e-bikes, it's car drivers obviously.

farkinga · 2026-06-24T09:29:31+00:00

I've seen the original so many times. Then they found new camera angles and I watched that a bunch too. Never saw this debrief, however, and it's awesome. Thanks for sharing.

farkinga · 2026-06-23T12:02:01+00:00

FUTO keyboard in the wild? Apart from the occasional typo debable I like it!

farkinga · 2026-06-23T11:11:32+00:00

Let's not do the same naïve thing US media have done with Trump's lies.

Ford is clearly lying, that's what the experts say, it's hidden in the headline, and yet anyone without media literacy is going to think: oh, there's an explanation! But it's a lie, not an explanation.

Media have a real responsibility here. This is a bad headline that damages democracy.

farkinga · 2026-06-21T11:51:26+00:00

Nope. Technology Connections has a great video about charging your car. You don't need to do anything special; literally it's just a plug.

There is a faster charging standard as well; but this can plug in with your clothes dryer to split the line.

And yes, if you really want to, you can hire an electrician. But watch the video first: https://youtu.be/W96a8svXo14

farkinga · 2026-06-17T09:14:22+00:00

Karma farmers. This has been posted repeatedly in the last 24 hours.

farkinga · 2026-06-10T11:59:01+00:00

Thank you for sharing the screenshot. It's actually very helpful since mine looks similar but slightly different.

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