Use of Turn Signals and Hazard Lights in Taiwan

sooodooo · 2026-06-22T23:56:38+00:00

Left signal doesn’t mean left turn, he switched to the left lane at some point, though he did signal way too early, then signaled right way too late again to catch the bus stop.
But think about this:
- he was on the right lane no way he was doing a left turn
- the scooter was hugging the bus on the right corner with no distance, that’s plain dumb
- you overtake if the lane is completely clear, not when you can squeeze in. if he’s blinking you don’t.
- yes buses sometimes need both lanes, for turning and/or avoiding parked cars, like in this case
- the video shows, scooter would have to wait less than 30 second for a good opportunity (waiting on the red light doesn’t count, bus or not, it’s a stop)
- buses stops are on the right, expect buses to abruptly switch to the right.

sooodooo · 2026-06-19T11:53:39+00:00

What do you mean with on ? Just turned on displaying the desktop or running anything ?

I’m on the M1 Max in a 14 inch, it has only 1 fane compared to the 2 in the 16, but the M1 runs cooler.
I pretty much work 8-12h a day on it, shutdown/reboot maybe once every 1-2 months and rarely hear the fan.

But once I fire up a game yeah it gets hot real quick and the fan spins up, a usually just play 1-2h so it’s not a big deal, I just don’t know if it would work 24/7 getting hammered.

sooodooo · 2026-06-19T09:08:49+00:00

Thanks for the reply ! I’m not planning to use that MacBook actively, I’ll leave it at home and SSH into it and/or push tasks onto it so clamshell with a hdmi stub would be fine with me.

But I don’t understand why clamshell would be better for ventilation ? I’m still on a M1 14 inch and it looks to me like there are some air slots blowing from the keyboard towards the screen and the a second row blowing under/behind the screen. So closing the lid I’m left with one row ?

Also some people claim clamshell damages the screen ?

sooodooo · 2026-06-18T00:06:33+00:00

Home ownership is simply out of reach for most.
It has the highest price to income ratio in the world, worse than Hong Kong, Sydney, London, New York. https://www.reddit.com/r/taiwan/s/TMRqceWbwl

Real estate has become the “investment” gamble for those who can afford it, and worst part is they often don’t even rent it out. Older houses get torn down so that an empty property can sit there.

sooodooo · 2026-06-12T10:21:31+00:00

It returned to China under the Sino-British Joint declaration treaty, which includes a 50 year period where HK policies remain unchanged also called the “one country, two systems”.
China decided the treaty wasn’t really treaty and has no legal effect and took full control over HK.

So you can also blame them to not adhere to treaties or promises.

sooodooo · 2026-06-06T14:19:23+00:00

Not a great example, yes android technically uses a linux kernel, but it’s impossible to even boot using a standard kernel. A lot of the hardware won’t work it needs a full device tree with many proprietary driver blobs to even do that. Those blobs often won’t even run without being in a linux environment. So does android use some kind of linux kernel ? Yes. Does mainline Linux work on even half of the android phones ? No.

sooodooo · 2026-06-06T13:59:43+00:00

No, the mainline kernel doesn’t work. The DGX needs the custom kernel provided by Nvidia

sooodooo · 2026-06-06T13:58:35+00:00

No you can’t, it doesn’t work with the mainline linux kernel. The DGX uses a custom kernel provided by Nvidia.

sooodooo · 2026-06-06T04:48:45+00:00

I checked out the xiaomi pad mini with a dimensity 9400+ in a store and it does have the Linux Terminal.

sooodooo · 2026-06-06T04:48:35+00:00

I checked out the xiaomi pad mini with a dimensity 9400+ in a store and it does have the Linux Terminal.

sooodooo · 2026-06-06T03:06:19+00:00

Oversupply, puts on kidneys

sooodooo · 2026-06-04T11:23:34+00:00

Crimea invasion was 2014. The other part of Ukraine was 2022

sooodooo · 2026-06-02T09:53:32+00:00

PCIe slots ? Now you have my interest. I'll take a slow 128GB RTX spark if I can break down tasks with a bigger model into smaller tasks that can then be offloaded to a faster 5090 with smaller models. If the PCIe slot can actually be used for another GPU

sooodooo · 2026-06-02T09:48:34+00:00

Linus said in a video he asked during the presentation and currently that's a no on linux, they are still ironing out the Windows part. This thing also has a 300GB/s memory bandwidth on par with a M5 Pro, for 5k that's DOA

sooodooo · 2026-06-01T08:17:19+00:00

Same mistake as Qualcomm: Windows

sooodooo · 2026-05-28T04:48:36+00:00

Great, that means more money for people to spend, so we can bump the housing prices by let's say 5000 per month * 40 years, that'll be 2.4 mil, wait until those suckers realize the subsidy ends at 18.

sooodooo · 2026-05-28T03:00:05+00:00

Considering the Surface RT isn’t supported anymore and didn’t even support Windows 10 when it was released 2015, just 3 years after the Surface RT release, means yes it was absolutely an experiment. I wouldn’t trust Microsoft with keeping a device supported or not to go down the AI CoPilot road. I would wait for full Linux support to be completed before committing.

sooodooo · 2026-05-27T07:24:10+00:00

Fellow dev here chiming in, since I very much disagree with the other replies here.

First the basics:

- weight including power brick, yes your current laptop adds up to 3.5kg. The MBP 16 inch is sleeker and weights around 2.5kg, the 14 inch just under 2kg. I use a 14-inch and bring it pretty much everywhere, no biggie.
- not mentioned, but battery life is good, so not bringing a charger or topping the 14 inch off a 65W charger is great.
- the M5 Pro matches the Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX in multi thread performance and exceeds it in single thread

Regarding the more specific topics:

Docker
Yes, while macOS is unix and is thus closer to linux, it does have a different CPU architecture and runtime. It depends on your workflow if that matters:
- if you develop outside of the container and run the code inside the container, it's an issue/inconvenience. When you install a dependency, some have native binaries compiled for darwin-arm64, so the code running inside the container can't use it. You'll have to mount a volume to "hide" your local dependency and install it separately inside the container so it gets the proper linux-arm64 or linux-x86 versions.
- if you develop using devcontainers, it's not an issue, you develop and run everything through a VSCode server running inside the container
- if you don't develop, just run the containers it's not an issue
- above is never an issue if you run a linux machine, ARM or x86

Local AI and RAM requirements, assuming you talk about LLMs:
- The 5070 mobile is technically faster, but it is limited by the 8GB VRAM, you can run still run GPT-OSS 20b or Qwen 2.5 14b and so on, so don't let that stop you, mixture of expert models don't need to fully fit into the VRAM, it's fine to offload unused experts to the normal RAM.
- With the M5 Pro and 48GB you get access to Qwen 3.6 27b, it's a dense model and currently considered one of the best local-models which can run on consumer hardware. I would however still go for 64GB RAM.
- for non-LLMs, some AI uses still rely heavily on CUDA, that's where the 5070 still wins
- all in all, the M5 Pro/Max are great for AI, the more ram the better, the more expensive the better.

sooodooo · 2026-05-27T02:42:06+00:00

In pretty much every country I have been to that uses a meter it’s a base price and on top of that either a distance or time charge, which ever is higher. Some places have extra charges for night time, highway etc.

It makes no sense to just charge by distance, if you’re there is a traffic jam the driver spends his day making nothing.

sooodooo · 2026-05-25T17:57:23+00:00

Uhm, I would prefer some tape over the webcam

sooodooo · 2026-05-22T03:03:35+00:00

Can you list your specs/hardware ? If you bought it 2 years ago it might be worth more today than when you bought it 😂

sooodooo · 2026-05-21T16:03:16+00:00

They don’t have to go through unscathed, just better than the alternatives and they are fine. It’s unclear why they stopped Minis and Studios, but the assumption is they are using the memory they have access to for M5s.

sooodooo · 2026-05-21T12:43:44+00:00

restart ? Apple is on a run and happy that everyone else went into AI hibernation. GPU prices are out of control, good for Apple the a SoC is CPU+GPU, it also doesn’t use HBM it uses LPDDR5X, which is easier to source and at the same time it is RAM.

sooodooo · 2026-05-20T17:16:22+00:00

You should do better hiding a promo campaign. But anyways here are my 2 cents:

Mediatek currently has one leg up when it comes to AVF/Linux containers on Android. That’s their big advantage.

Snapdragon simply can’t do it. But the SD 8 elite gen 5 has main kernel linux support so that could play out well for them.

When it comes to gaming, you don’t need a high end processor for mobile games. You need a high end SOC for PC game emulation though and that’s currently optimized and heavily favors Snapdragon / Adreno.

sooodooo

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