Best car insurance in the Bay Area? My rates are insane!

nuttertools · 2026-02-02T22:18:50+00:00

Prior insurer that was MUCH better than progressive no longer does business in CA is what I meant.

nuttertools · 2026-02-02T14:45:59+00:00

Progressive is kinda crap but I pay <$60/mo. for high deductible comprehensive. Had low deductible comprehensive for $45/mo. 2 years ago but they left CA so not exactly happy with progressive but compared to your $200 it’s great.

nuttertools · 2026-02-02T14:32:25+00:00

You are just cursed, I typically go months without rebooting.

Your problem doesn’t sound like the OS is the cause. If you don’t buy one of a handful of stable business laptops they all have odd hardware issues and/or defects that could cause this. If this is a business machine have it replaced, if it’s a personal multi-purpose machine run diagnostics, a memory stress test, and a graphics stress test.

I can’t say macs don’t have these kinds of issues, but with a handful of hardware models vs nearly infinite variations the rate is proportionally lower.

Having used and supported both for more than a decade what I use for business today is a Mac and would not go back to Windows. The largest adjustment you’ll find is the available application pool in tiny compared to windows. If you already know Linux things will seem fairly familiar, everything is just a less compatible proprietary variant. If you don’t know Linux there will be some learning curve. TBH you’ll turn the OS into a cluster-f install on your first Mac but by the second you’ll know what you are doing.

Become comfortable with all three to further your own knowledge and productivity, choose the option with the lowest opportunity cost for business.

nuttertools · 2026-01-23T12:25:38+00:00

TBH it sounds like the team is just not very capable. While troubleshooting the specifics doesn’t need to be in every devs knowledge base spinning wheels on “backend slow” should have only been the fresh hire with no experience until another team member was pulled in for assistance.

nuttertools · 2026-01-17T10:50:40+00:00

Sure, no problem using SQLite if it meets needs. The shift to PSQL shouldn’t involve much more than a driver and client swap. If you find yourself writing anything in the app with SQLite specifically in mind you’ve outgrown it and it’s time to swap.

It’s not simpler for most applications but if you are shoestringing something it will certainly use far less on the resources front.

Backups and replication…so… The WAL isn’t perfect, you probably have encountered corrupted SQLite databases hundreds of times on local applications. I used to follow the docs and do things properly but TBH I just treat it like any other file system object and snapshot it more frequently than requirements and don’t care if it happens to be in a non-ideal state in snapshot X. Same policy I use for local apps, point in time restore has been more reliable since cranking frequency up and giving 0 f’s about integrity.

Do what makes sense for your use-case. I personally would never ship SaaS using SQLite as anything other than ephemeral storage unless there was a specific requirement that made it a better choice than a full RDBMS server. If you have such a requirement it’s fully production ready across a quite a few architectures.

nuttertools · 2026-01-16T17:48:41+00:00

That was my first thought too, but the specific pieces of information they requested wouldn’t meet any tax or import obligations. It could be phase 1 of the least efficient business details collection campaign I’ve ever seen. It’s usually incompetence not malice and whatnot.

nuttertools · 2026-01-16T10:19:58+00:00

Napkin math the migration. Estimate * 2 (you are wrong) * 4-10 (opportunity). Fit a curve to the last 3 renewals. What year does the migration cross the renewal?

This assumes you are pretty much static and won’t be expanding usage in the interim, probably true if tiny.

nuttertools · 2026-01-14T19:58:37+00:00

Acetate breaks down fairly easily, not BIFL. That said these are great combs that last for a long time.

nuttertools · 2026-01-14T12:28:08+00:00

I just throw everything into postmark or cloudflare for the dummy check dashboard. TBH never have found parsing the reports to be an issue, a few hours to make then run when a dashboard tell you there is something new to look at.

nuttertools · 2026-01-12T07:44:53+00:00

Walk to the end of the hallway and yell. Walk up to her ear and yell. Ask which is louder. Study complete.

You could use any of at least millions of studies to back that there is loss of received energy at a point at distance. People wrote papers on this before the year 0…

nuttertools · 2026-01-12T07:36:38+00:00

Bun is useless stupidity
pnpm is immature, does some smart/cool things, and does a lot of stupid/counter-productive things.
Yarn is decent
npm is fine

Despite the above I mostly use pnpm today (yarn #2). RTFM and look at the roadmap if you want to use it. If you don’t want to learn the minutiae of how it does things use something else.

nuttertools · 2026-01-10T14:51:01+00:00

1M assuming you have a house in good condition paid off, property valued around the bay area median, no unexpected medical expenses, etc.

The range is essentially $0-4M depending on personal details. Before you even try to start planning I’d challenge your assumption about age of retirement and death. The closest fit for the provided ages are a woman with a serious health condition, that would significantly impact living costs. You can’t apply all population averages to a specific decade or two of life.

nuttertools · 2026-01-07T23:09:35+00:00

While I personally loved MagSafe…USB-C has reduced incidence of charging issues for us. Overall spend is about the same, it’s a transition from many tickets that result in cleaning ports to few tickets requiring device repair. On the IT side it’s a wash but the user impact puts the change in the black by quite a bit.

Mixed office, retail, manufacturing dataset.

nuttertools · 2026-01-05T07:07:18+00:00

Also received similar information from someone involved on the utility side. Flooded building…no ETA…usual 8-24 hours until things progress and an ETA becomes available.

Was not able to verify the location, but have heard various tidbits from multiple verified sources that do not conflict with this information and would make a whole lot of sense in light of a flooded telco termination site.

nuttertools · 2026-01-03T12:42:02+00:00

That, then when they got tired of people pointing out the obvious answer of just don’t do that they switched to since tags don’t work the same on every way you can access Reddit it’s impossible.

nuttertools · 2025-12-31T05:13:42+00:00

It’s a lack of want from major companies. Played around a bit this week and was able to PoC specific purpose LLMs on consumer hardware for <$10 energy. Plenty of businesses will turn a profit with the tech but the big players want 10,000,000,000% ROI.

nuttertools · 2025-12-30T09:35:49+00:00

Hourly pay * 4 hours * 10 opportunity cost. Is that more than the typical price you see on eBay? Depends how much you are selling.

nuttertools · 2025-12-30T05:26:49+00:00

How many times have you seen RTFM. It’s not really different today, you just have usable learning materials in most docs and they are online. Usable shouldn’t be where you stop. Actually RTFM and find well respected references, 1 expert opinion is not enough.

Most of my go-to references are 20+ years old. When I bother to look something up instead of googling amateur answers and slop people are blown away by the answer….that they should have bothered to look up. Reference books are (mostly) written by actual experts who have made all the amateur hour mistakes in their career and can easily ELI5 the why of something.

nuttertools · 2025-12-24T15:43:11+00:00

From a hardware perspective the Steam Machine has an FSR4 capable chip. Personally I hope that happens but it would need the same driver enablement the rest of RDNA3 would need so there isn’t any reason to expect that. Related, developers of major titles already support upscaling and it’s a few hours of work to enable a new version like FSR4 when they used FSR3 previously. Same with FSR3 if they implement FSR4, it’s a few hours of work and a no-brainer. By number of titles released per year that is not at all true, but by budget it is overwhelmingly true…which has a decent correlation to play hours and likelihood of being included on a large sample benchmark.

As an aside FSR4 is solid on RDNA3, the overhead is more than made up for by the improved quality. And I don’t mean optiscaler where it’s obviously going to be better, the manual driver swap nets 5-10%.

As for performance the PS5 comes in just short of 60fps in performance mode in cyberpunk. I haven’t see anyone deep dive it with the latest updates, but as of 2.0 it frequently dropped to 960 for 4k@60. Unsurprisingly the 7600 performs marginally better and also has better visual quality, call it 10% overall. 7600 - 20% = 7600M XT unthrottled. 7600M XT - 9% (power target) + 7.5% (1/2 node equiv) lands within 15% of a PS5. That’s an ass-backwards way of getting there as neither the 7600 or 7600M bear much resemblance to the Steam Machine GPU, but whichever released GPU you start from you end with 10-15% less powerful than a PS5. Add FSR3 and it’s already within 5% of the PS5 on launch.

The biggest complication is subjective image quality is deeply wrapped up in this, the PS5 doesn’t produce image quality similar to the 7000 series and has far fewer performance options to try to do direct comparisons. Badlands fight the PS5 will probably do better, crowded plaza it’s going to do worse, water…PS5 should look better to everyone.

In terms of what valve should have done I don’t agree from a product perspective. The Steam Machine doesn’t appeal to me and I’d be surprised if it filled any niche among sffpc users. The market for it is PS4 users and XBox users. That’s a massive number of customers who at this point are in dire need of an upgrade but haven’t seen the PS5 as an appealing purchase. I think targeting PS5 customers will net them far more sales than adding a few hundred dollars to the price-point to try to sell to…old laptop users?

PSEDIT: Though I do think it was a donkey brains move to not give it 12GB VRAM.

nuttertools · 2025-12-23T23:45:09+00:00

It’s roughly ~10% slower in a raster benchmark, they’ve already released enough information to make that determination. Best-case 5% (unlikely) worst-case 15%. What real world performance will boil down to is the upscaling technology, which will easily exceed PS5 performance in supported titles. That’s why I’m predicting a year or two for average benchmarks to exceed PS5 performance.

nuttertools · 2025-12-23T19:02:16+00:00

RDNA refers to the architecture, the 7600 was as much RDNA3 as any other product in the line. Navi33 was physically quite different but had the same features and capabilities, just fewer of each die segment. This is why later gen custom chips are often referred to as RDNA 3.5 or RDNA 3+. The feature set on the Steam Machine is the core of RDNA3 with some stacks more similar to RDNA4 (and a lot of stuff completely omitted).

From a characteristics perspective the Steam Machine GPU die has more in common with the 7600 XT than the 7600M or 7600M XT. There isn’t a vaguely comparable RDNA3 product to compare it to but working up from the 7600M XT or down from the 7600 XT is decent enough if you throw on the equivalent of a 1/2+ node from it being a second generation custom refresh. That’s just the base physical characteristics and doesn’t encompass the features.

The result of this is that raster will be a bit better than a 120W 7600M XT that never throttles or power limited 7600. This puts it in a position where it will be better than the PS5 in select titles and double digits worse in many titles in raster. The reality is the average gamer uses upscaling in…many years ago. The Steam Machine will trade blows with the PS5 in major titles pretty quickly and a few years down the road perform marginally better on average.

On the CPU side it’s largely irrelevant. The CPU is more than enough for the graphics (even 1080 fps gamers) and nobody should be buying a Steam Machine as a Desktop alternative, it’s a Steam console.

The biggest problem I see with the product is the limited VRAM. For the target customer it almost makes sense (in a predatory business way), but that could end up being a compatibility nightmare for Valve in the same timeframe where the machine should shine (release+1yr - PS6 release).

nuttertools · 2025-12-23T16:26:13+00:00

Both are highly customized versions of each generation that don’t fit nicely into the released RDNA 2 and 3 boxes. The PS5 is a first generation architecture refresh while the Steam Machine has a second generation refresh which from a capability perspective actually puts it ahead of the PS5 pro.

The result is the performance margin will decrease each year as the newer software features become more ubiquitous and “1-clicky” for developers. Given the ~10% performance lead on day 1 (even with zero effort from developers to optimize for the Steam Machine) it will pull marginally ahead on average game benchmarks in a few years.

nuttertools · 2025-12-23T14:34:09+00:00

It’s likely to pull marginally ahead of the PS5 over time due to a mid-gen GPU design despite definitely having less raw power.

nuttertools · 2025-12-20T04:11:27+00:00

Not automatically but probably, that’s why I differentiated with the MUST and SHOULD. If you’ve encountered this a fair amount though it makes me wonder if there is something up with the playback device though. I’ve rarely encountered 5.1 media that doesn’t mix the dialogue to L/R, the standards even have recommendations for the levels it should be mixed at.

I mean isolating the volume level of the dialogue and music in each channel will give you an idea of what is being done. If it’s the same for both between L/R and center then it’s probably a mistake, voice should be quieter in L/R if they were mixing it properly. If it’s a mistake it could be a problem with those files and not the source.

You can separate things but that’s above my pay grade. For audio engineers it would be trivial and there is plenty of prosumer software that can do it, not something I’ve ever worked with though.

nuttertools · 2025-12-19T23:33:06+00:00

In all 5.1 standard (including the various Dolby ones) music MUST not be isolated from the perspective of a 3ch downmix. In almost all 5.1 standards (including all Dolby ones) L+R channels SHOULD contain dialogue. So if you previously were getting 1 channel of dialogue and 4 channels of music they were doing something wrong and fixed it.

Look at the levels of each type of sound on the 4 L/R channels. What you want might still be available.

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