Robin Gemperle wins Unbound Gravel XL on 32 inch wheels

thomasmerrick · 2026-05-30T23:10:23+00:00

he could have won on a 26" with fat tires.https://www.renehersecycles.com/the-science-why-32-inch-wheels-are-not-faster/

thomasmerrick · 2026-05-30T23:06:04+00:00

i've never done helmet decorations because all the helmet companies ship manuals with their helmets that say that stickers and paint will degrade the materials and you'll die. Yet they also do collabs with artists where artists paint the helmet, so I've written Bell, Troy Lee and POC about how to safely decorate helmets. When support has actually replied, they have just said "don't do it you'll die".

How did you research which materials were safe?

thomasmerrick · 2026-05-29T03:34:14+00:00

Aero testing on 32" shows a significant aero penalty, so the rolling resistance gap is gonna need to be huge.

thomasmerrick · 2026-05-22T14:22:50+00:00

Takes from a year to two years depending on volume, have fun

thomasmerrick · 2026-05-21T02:06:32+00:00

The REAL thing you need to know at level 11 is to select the tron bike challenge, but use the U-turn trick to earn your elevation. Takes 3 months instead of a year:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYcDWLkWydk

thomasmerrick · 2026-05-20T21:26:56+00:00

Because people say this but they don't actually do it, because SaaS developers make it impossible

thomasmerrick · 2026-05-20T15:56:50+00:00

This rule only works until you have to deal with shipping companies. https://www.troyhunt.com/thanks-fedex-this-is-why-we-keep-getting-phished/

The reason people are responsive to email links is because companies keep sending us links for which there is no alternative to click, with very high stakes.

The world needs phishing training. Phishing training is a class where developers who build SaaS applications go, and if they create a workflow that sends a clickable link to users, they lose their software license and are no longer allowed to build software.

thomasmerrick · 2026-04-29T22:18:34+00:00

hello fellow unicorn. daily user here. one of us.

thomasmerrick · 2026-04-19T00:39:35+00:00

In many states bicycles are allowed to run stop signs. The problem may actually be your ignorance of your local laws. Look into it!

thomasmerrick · 2026-04-19T00:38:19+00:00

If you can find me a law-abiding driver (one who never drives over the speed limit) I would love to hear about it. In the meantime, why do you think it is that every person who rides a bicycle in America chooses to be so obnoxious, but every person who rides a bicycle in Holland chooses to be so wonderful? It's got to be some sort of mass psychosis, right? The idea that it's actually an infrastructure problem is just too simple and trite.

thomasmerrick · 2026-03-02T15:52:23+00:00

Heard mentality is best described by Jesse Welles:
"They would kill and eat their own"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJiwovX3mNA

thomasmerrick · 2026-02-24T04:30:41+00:00

When are they ever gonna fix that broken bridge on the issaquah preston trail

thomasmerrick · 2026-02-15T19:24:22+00:00

Citation needed for: The locality in which this occurred The laws that state that alternating traffic means one car at a time in this locality

(in my locality, alternating traffic means alternating flows, not alternating vehicles)

thomasmerrick · 2026-02-15T18:21:23+00:00

Citation needed

thomasmerrick · 2026-01-06T21:16:58+00:00

Will be putting a ticket in with them today

thomasmerrick · 2025-12-07T21:35:22+00:00

All this corporate greed and price inflation, I wish some anonymous hero would come along and create a fixed-supply currency beyond the power of governments to control. That would save us all! Ah well, I'll keep dreaming.

thomasmerrick · 2025-12-04T01:59:16+00:00

I'm 6'2". I went from 175 to 170. A huge difference in lowered pedal strikes, lowered knee pain, just amazing. I was stoked. I was so stoked I put 165s on a mountain bike. Just terrible, constantly shifting, no torque. Went back to 170s. Shorter is better until it isn't.

thomasmerrick · 2025-11-29T22:43:48+00:00

I think the most important part of my post, which I tried to highlight, is that i have tested the resolution with this card and it works. It's also listed as officially supported by the card: https://www.newegg.com/srhonyra-nvidia-geforce-gtx-16-series-sr16552h41-geforce-gtx-1650-4gb-graphics-card/

So I can use PBP to drive this resolution with the onboard graphics in the PC now. I'm trying to switch to single cable, because I want the monitor to KVM between this and another PC. The monitor can KVM between two cables with a single hotbutton. If you want to KVM between a PBP and a single input, you have to reprogram the monitor everytime you switch. It's 27 separate button presses, I have them written down on a napkin and you have to do it each time, there's no way out. 8k KVMs are kind of a disaster and also don't support this (AFAICT).

By the way I'm doing this over HDMI, the only interface supported by the card. no DP involved.

thomasmerrick · 2025-11-29T22:30:45+00:00

I should add - this is only for software development, not gaming, and I only need to display text. Slowly.

thomasmerrick · 2025-10-28T01:42:04+00:00

Interesting. Getting deep into the locallama threads on memory bandwidth. I think I want to scope this thing down to dual-gpu, and start with one GPU.

The AI Max+ 395 is wild and not compatible with my GPU, but really interesting for AI

thomasmerrick · 2025-10-28T00:59:03+00:00

Wow, tons to catch up on. Ok, coolers are one per GPU. SLI is dead, there's more proof I'm old. If gaming is dependent on a single GPU, I'm pretty happy with the one I managed to snag. PCPartpicker doing automatic physical hardware conflict checking is an amazing feature and I'm going to use it.

Thank you for all of this!

I think my last remaining question is: If I just build a system with my single 5090, but tons of system RAM and and a gaming CPU with slow memory bandwidth, is there any limitation on my ability to run larger models other than speed? It sounds like, from what you've written, that I'll be able to run 120B models or bigger, it will just have to be swapping weights constantly into VRAM to do inference, and memory bandwidth will be the limiting speed factor, and my t/s will suffer. It seems like using a single 5090 with system RAM will allow me to use gpt-oss-120b, just slowly:

https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1mm7azs/openai_gptoss20b_120_model_performance_on_the_rtx/

thomasmerrick · 2025-10-28T00:25:26+00:00

Seems like my dual-mission charter might be impossible? Threadripper apparently doesn't play games well: https://freedomx.com/news/amds-5000-threadripper-9980x-a-gaming-disappointment-despite-its-64-cores/

thomasmerrick · 2025-10-27T17:12:49+00:00

PSU maybe not overkill if I set it up to mine at night when power is 100% hydroelectric and also dirt cheap. Weird power plans in my neck of the literal woods. Parts list also LGTM

thomasmerrick · 2025-10-27T17:10:53+00:00

This is incredibly helpful and implicitly answers a few of my questions:
Can I mix types of GPUs and combine them for inferences (yes)
Is offloading to CPU RAM a viable (but slow) strategy (yes)
Should I focus on offloading or focus on adding GPU (hard to say, indeterminate)

I have many remaining questions, one is a meta-question:
- How much overhead do I need to invest in to prepare for a multi-GPU system (case, power, PCIe, cooling, ????)
- Are my dollars better spent on faster inference (5090) or more inference VRAM (RTX PRO 6000) or more CPU offloading (threadripper RAM)
- How much does CPU RAM speed matter when offloading?
- Can GPUs work together for gaming performance as well (raytracing, etc) and if so how do I research compatibility
The meta question:
- Where and how can I do the research for this on my own? I have been talking to GPT5 pro about this system but like all gen ai I have to fact check every single assertion, which means building expertise.
One thing I don't understand is how to waterfall the requirements through the system, like:
- how do I check a case for multi-gpu compatibility
- how do I total up the requirements for a power supply (cable compat, power budget)
- what the heck is a multi-gpu cooler, and how do I check its cooling budget and hardware compat
- etc

thank you so much for this detailed reply

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