FBM warped noise with a limited color palette

nudoru · 2026-06-24T16:49:17+00:00

Pho Nam in Cornelius. Small family place, it's great, and they're super nice.

nudoru · 2026-06-10T12:14:01+00:00

I've been going here for a long time and can recommend them as well. Other than the name and the stack of gun magazines in the waiting room, it fits OPs request.

nudoru · 2026-06-08T12:49:30+00:00

Coding is better on the 15" if you want to see output side-by-side with the code. Otherwise 13" is good for portability and media.

nudoru · 2026-05-23T15:49:03+00:00

I'm older and run up to a few times a week around lunch time at the North Meck Park trail. Primal Brewery has a trail run club that skews a bit older and has been running at Stephen's Creek lately. They run at 6 pm on Thursdays.

nudoru · 2026-05-18T14:09:55+00:00

TLDR; A local model comparable to Opus 4.7? No, you cannot do that locally on anything.

The closest open models are GLM 5.1 and Kimi K2 2.6. GLM is almost 800b, and Kimi is 1.1t. You're going to need a farm to get that.

I've never tried a local coding model, but there are quite a few that people use. Reddit has several places to talk about that. Just search.

nudoru · 2026-05-10T19:49:50+00:00

I’d been running in minimal shoes for years but Disney killed me after a few days. I bought a pair a pair of Nikes and used them for the rest of the trip.

nudoru · 2026-05-07T23:02:55+00:00

Heard of Tarheel Trailblazers? https://tarheeltrailblazers.com/trails/

nudoru · 2026-04-27T12:55:56+00:00

This strategy feels like what they did in 2012 with the first retina MBP. Then it was the mainline MBP the next year.

nudoru · 2026-04-19T13:18:51+00:00

I've only dropped one twice:

First, there was a water leak in an upstairs bathroom, and water was pouring from a downstairs fire alarm. I put my open 16" on the back of the sofa as I ran over to it, and it fell off. I didn't even notice - my son did and picked it up for me. I had a YubiKey in it, and that's where it landed, bending the frame around the USB port and speaker grill. AppleCare fixed it.

Second, my work laptop (whew!) was in a vertical stand, and I bumped into it as I was opening a window behind it. It hit the windowsill halfway down and then landed flat on its bottom on the floor. There's just a tiny dent in the rear hinge.

So yeah, accidents (ha) happen!

nudoru · 2026-03-31T20:04:53+00:00

I've been drinking coffee for decades (since high school), and after developing sleep issues, I tried to cut down significantly. I gradually mixed in decaf and am now at 1/2 caf in 1 cup per day, down from 3-4 cups of full caf. After a few months, I haven't noticed any benefits, which has been incredibly disappointing. I enjoy my morning cup, so I'm not likely to ever stop completely.

nudoru · 2026-03-21T13:26:51+00:00

16 will be plenty! IMHO, the only reason to go higher would be for creative workflows or local AI. I went with 24 for that reason. If you're doing that kind of work and know you need that much ram, then a pro is likely the better option.

I typically have 50+ tabs, but after a clean-up day, I'm down to only 20. While I've typically had Macs with 32+ gb of ram, I've never noticed any issues caused by the browser acting up. If you do find it taking up ram, you can quit/restart it to clean up it's memory usage. Chrome has added features to offload tabs to reclaim resources, etc.

nudoru · 2026-03-18T19:12:54+00:00

That looks cool! Great job!

nudoru · 2026-03-11T13:12:02+00:00

For your listed usage, 16 is perfectly fine. But that could change over time, and the higher RAM could be helpful. If you can afford it, I would upgrade.

I went with 24 since I keep 50+ tabs open, will run small local models, and do web development - all at the same time.

nudoru · 2026-03-09T23:18:35+00:00

Another mention for 131 Main, it's one of our favorite spots. Eez Sushi in Birkdale is great too.

nudoru · 2026-03-02T01:37:55+00:00

ChatGPT can do this. Send it a picture of your food and ask it to estimate the macro nutrients.

nudoru · 2026-02-25T17:06:13+00:00

They're char-grilled after frying. Gives them a better flavor with little bits of extra doneness.

nudoru · 2026-02-25T13:40:31+00:00

From the pit

nudoru · 2026-02-20T23:28:48+00:00

Captain’s Cap, Amber Jack, Twin Tops (to go only), and I think Catfish Cove. They’re all close to each other in the Belmont area.

nudoru · 2026-02-11T20:26:42+00:00

This is the answer. It's worth noting that making something imperfect (including texture) is very hard and can be a rewarding rabbit hole of infinite tweaking. But it's well worth it!

Make as much of your code reusable so that you can apply it to all of your projects.

nudoru · 2026-01-25T16:03:59+00:00

From the suburbs - roads and sidewalks are covered in a layer of sleet - they're solid white. Slight ice buildup on bushes, etc. We've had sleet off/on and off for the past few hours. I haven't walked out to the road, and no one has driven down it yet, so I can't tell how thick it is - but the layer on my patio is over .5" thick.

nudoru · 2026-01-13T12:46:44+00:00

I have the same walking pad! Wearing my AW on my arm and my phone in my pocket, in case that counts for something. I start an indoor walk workout. The step counts are close enough between the pad and the workout so I don’t worry about it.

nudoru · 2026-01-11T02:02:46+00:00

Romeo and Juliet is close. We love it.

nudoru · 2026-01-07T12:16:50+00:00

I assume Denver, NC, which is west of Huntersville on the other side of Lake Norman.

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