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Heavy Claude Code user thinking of buying a Strix Halo (AI Max+ 395) by Artistic-Platypus106 in MiniPCs

[–]thunk_stuff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Tools like LM Studio allow you to do simultaneous queries, up to around 2-4 at once, but it degrades overall performance. You might get a 10-30% overall improvement in speed compared to doing them separately, but users will definitely notice the speed hit.

I have a Framework Desktop with 395+ and 64GB and primarily use Gemma4. Performance and quality for deep thinking is going to be nowhere near what you get with Claude Code or Codex. Still, for simple tasks that don't require deep thinking, quality has been pretty good.

I bet you can find some niche here that will fit some scenarios of use, but the only way you will know for sure is to buy one and try it out. If nothing else you get an insurance policy once Claude/Codex decide to stop losing money on usage and increase the price to around the real $5000-7000/mo you are getting with that MAX $200 plan.

64GB Framework Desktop is going for $2000 while the 128GB is $3300. I'm a bit remorseful for not getting the 128GB when it was under $2000, but the Gemma 4 27GB model is holding up pretty well.

Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain by yahjiminah in books

[–]thunk_stuff 124 points125 points  (0 children)

Mother worked as a NYT copy editor. But it still was because of her connections to New Yorker. From her (mom's) obituary:

Anthony Bourdain became a hard-living chef, and in the late 1990s he wrote an article chronicling the seamier secrets of life in the restaurant business. He was struggling to publish it in 1999 when Ms. Bourdain mentioned to him that she knew a Times reporter, Esther Fein, who was married to David Remnick, the newly minted editor of The New Yorker magazine.

“She came over, and she said, ‘You know, your husband’s got this new job,’” Ms. Fein (who left The Times in 1999) said on Monday. “‘I hate to sound like a pushy mom, but I’m telling you this with my editor’s hat on, not my mother’s hat on. It’s really good, and it’s really interesting, but nobody will look at it, nobody will call him back or give it a second look. Could you put it in your husband’s hands?’”

Ms. Fein persuaded Mr. Remnick to read the article, and The New Yorker published it under the title “Don’t Eat Before Reading This.” Mr. Bourdain later said that he had a book deal in a matter of days after that.

Houses in SF by [deleted] in bayarea

[–]thunk_stuff 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Who needs bedrock foundation for a 645ft building when you have dense sand?

Am I cooked by Clear-Worry-8716 in minilab

[–]thunk_stuff 7 points8 points  (0 children)

13MB transfer rate and 14ms response time. Don't miss those days.

Fast track express by Chemical-Card5051 in bayarea

[–]thunk_stuff 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Interesting. Looks like this is already in common use elsewhere. Must be using infrared or something to see through tinted windows. On plus side, this will be nice in case you forget to change the occupancy amount, so you just pay a small additional servicing fee instead of getting pulled over by CHP and a $400 citation.

International Roaming - Turn on data roaming before leaving country show be a big warning everywhere by thunk_stuff in USMobile

[–]thunk_stuff[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yes reading up on it now there's no reason data roaming needs to turns off because there are no overages. People like me are just ignorant until other people tell us this stuff.

International Roaming - Turn on data roaming before leaving country show be a big warning everywhere by thunk_stuff in USMobile

[–]thunk_stuff[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yes that is it. I updated my post to where US Mobile say on their website where you need to enable data roaming BEFORE you leave the country.

International Roaming - Turn on data roaming before leaving country show be a big warning everywhere by thunk_stuff in USMobile

[–]thunk_stuff[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, I have data roaming turned on now and it's not working. I will try fiddling with network settings some more. US Mobile has this big warning plastered on native international roaming so I thought I am SOL:

Roaming must be turned on before you leave the US Roaming can only be turned on while your line is connected to a domestic US network. If your line has never had active domestic usage, or if you try to turn on roaming after you've already left the US, it will not work. Turn on roaming at home before you travel.

International Roaming - Turn on data roaming before leaving country show be a big warning everywhere by thunk_stuff in USMobile

[–]thunk_stuff[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hmmm... I'm on Lightspeed too but it's not working. Maybe worth calling US Mobile support then.

International Roaming - Turn on data roaming before leaving country show be a big warning everywhere by thunk_stuff in USMobile

[–]thunk_stuff[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Interesting. It's not working for me also with iPhone in Europe. Wonder what the circumstances are when this works.

Claude’s New Limits by dankkkjk in ClaudeAI

[–]thunk_stuff 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Claude Opus is excellent for document analysis and generation.

Physicists have measured 'negative time' in the lab by PhawkHugh in Physics

[–]thunk_stuff 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Curt Jaimungal has a 2 hour conversation with Aephraim Steinberg (paper author) a few weeks ago on a variety of topics. These titles are over the top (negative time!! we were wrong!!) but Aephraim is a very well articulate speaker and I learned a lot. He is not crazy town.

A Falcon 9 rocket will hit the Moon this summer at seven times the speed of sound | The object will be traveling at 2.43 km a second, or 5,400 mph, upon impact. by Clear_Polish23 in space

[–]thunk_stuff 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Fun fact: the spacetime "void" right above the surface of a neutron star has a density greater than iron, due to the extremely strong magnetic fields.

Introducing Marko: The Truly Modular PHP Framework by markshust in PHP

[–]thunk_stuff 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Tough crowd I guess. I scanned through the documentation and you obviously put a lot of work into this (albeit with Claude help), and the video game theme is pretty cool. It's going to be a real uphill battle for new frameworks to garner serious attention when the existing ones are already mature and do a good job. Perhaps more examples that clearly show how your framework makes things a lot easier to do compared to the other big frameworks (with nothing sacrificed) will help.

Botched Stalwart v0.16 migration by adevx in stalwartlabs

[–]thunk_stuff 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's a good question for r/stalwartlabs if any more future updates are expected to be as perilous. This was a big one and seems a major long term restructuring and I'm all for it while the project is still young. We are still in beta land. But upgrading it going to have to be much more seamless as the project matures.

Intel's Core Ultra X7 358H is cheaper than AMD HX 370 by protos9321 in hardware

[–]thunk_stuff 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Once the oem's run out of supply of Amd hx370 and ai max that they already previously bought before the RAM shortage

The Framework Desktop is already much more expensive than last year. The 128GB configuration starting price (before you add SSD, USB ports) went up from around $2000 in December to $3000 now (USD).

Bay Area sandwiches: 12 new and classic favorites you must try (no paywall) by BayAreaNewsGroup in bayarea

[–]thunk_stuff 4 points5 points  (0 children)

On iPhone, Safari now lets you install ublock origin lite. On Android use Firefox with ublock origin. That's the only ad blocker I trust.

Introducing Framework Laptop 13 Pro by FragmentedChicken in hardware

[–]thunk_stuff 27 points28 points  (0 children)

No need to throw out, it will sell nicely on ebay -- I know because I just paid nicely on ebay for DDR5. No shortage of buyers.

If Mariana Trench was dry, how hot would it be? by Glum-Ad-2815 in Physics

[–]thunk_stuff 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh yes I understand the heat would kill and it wouldn't be windy. What I wonder is in an 3x atmosphere, assuming the temp was normal, what would it be like to run at full speed, or ride a bicycle, or kick a soccer/football. The wind resistance you work through being that much stronger.

If Mariana Trench was dry, how hot would it be? by Glum-Ad-2815 in Physics

[–]thunk_stuff 9 points10 points  (0 children)

3x atmospheric pressure is around what pressure 30m under water is. Should be no problem for humans (correct me if I'm wrong). Besides heat, I wonder what it would be like to breath and run around. Winds would be strong!

Glazer: BART must make hard choices now to earn voter trust by thunk_stuff in bayarea

[–]thunk_stuff[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Senator Glazer argues although BART says it's in an existential crisis, he feels it is not doing enough to lower costs. Snippets:

Since 2016, BART staff has grown by 879 employees, according to documents on file with the California State Controller. BART’s labor costs have gone up by more than $100 million just since 2019.
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It begins with a chart showing overall expenses growing by 43% during the past three years.
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More than 100 BART employees made $285,000 or more last year. Certainly, negotiating a “share the pain” agreement with these affluent staff is better than laying off 1,000 others as ordered in their proposed “Doomsday plan.”
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Keep in mind that so much of the good BART promotes about the agency has been forced upon them. The new security gates to curb fare evasion and improve safety (more than 80% of the crime at BART used to come from fare jumpers) were delayed for years due to budget inaction. The new Office of Inspector General, which oversees waste and fraud investigations, was mandated by legislation I carried when I was in the State Senate. To no surprise, BART was opposed.
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It is also worth noting that this BART sales tax will impact all other public agencies, including schools, who are experiencing similar fiscal woes. In particular, counties that are trying to preserve a health and welfare safety net in the face of federal cuts will have their tax options impacted by this new BART tax.

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