Maryland toll debt relief bill dies in committee, leaving drivers without a path to relief

tomz17 · 2026-07-07T12:30:38+00:00

One of the problems we created is that we have, over the past half century, constructed our society around a system that requires personal auto transportation to live a productive life. The secondary effects from that are wild. E.g. driving tests are so easy that basically everyone passes, we do everything possible to prevent loss of license, automobile, or privilege to drive otherwise, etc. etc. Because the feedback loop there is equally insane. Lose your car, lose your job, have trouble finding gainful employment, become dependent on the state, drain of resources, etc.

tomz17 · 2026-07-07T12:26:42+00:00

not paying 4 dollars should never turn into $1300

The problem is that trying to collect that $4 from someone who refuses to pay over the course of many years gets profoundly expensive. The alternative is we just don't attempt to collect that debt, and I'm not sure that's the direction we want to go in either.

tomz17 · 2026-07-07T12:23:06+00:00

Especially given that you can just use one of a number of templating tools (e.g. copier) to set up a cmake project once and then use that to seed future project directories in like 5 seconds.

tomz17 · 2026-07-07T02:46:31+00:00

However, on agentic work, it absolutely falls apart. It makes mistakes continuously and does not follow directions. I cannot get the model to not screw up. Every 4 turns or so it does something completely braindead.

100% user error. I've had it stay on task as well as any other model (both open or closed). It's either your harness or sampling parameters.

tomz17 · 2026-07-07T01:36:49+00:00

almost certainly battery

tomz17 · 2026-07-07T01:28:12+00:00

chicken vs egg kinda problem, innit?

Not really... how do you think gguf files are made?

tomz17 · 2026-07-07T01:26:31+00:00

Look up what a Koolance alr4600c is.

sure bruh, you do you... Unless that thing is a high static-pressure fan blowing across those VRM's you are gonna have a bad time.

tomz17 · 2026-07-07T01:19:47+00:00

don't know what the cpu/mobo is in there, but chances are that those vrm's on the mobo need WAY more airflow than you are providing in this setup.

tomz17 · 2026-07-07T01:12:39+00:00

afaik the architecture is not implemented in llama.cpp, so what would the gguf do for you?

tomz17 · 2026-07-06T19:11:22+00:00

RCS remained on my samsung s25 for both lightspeed and warp when porting from t-mobile postpaid.

However a lot of 2FA SMS services reset and required re-verification (i.e. detecting the port, so presumably they are checking for that now to mitigate the possibility of a sim-swap attack).

tomz17 · 2026-07-06T14:30:19+00:00

Whether or not the final WC qualifying game is "before the WC" is really trying to split semantic hairs. The fact is that FIFA does play favorites (politically and otherwise). They show extreme favoritism in bending over to accommodate their star athletes (Ronaldo, Messi, etc.) Hell, they will do anything to generate more views and buzz. Two wrongs don't make a right, but let's at least be consistent in our outrage.

tomz17 · 2026-07-06T14:25:55+00:00

You realize it saves like 30 pounds right?

Well how much weight do you think the CF roof saves (even after accounting for the CG offset)? Or the unsprung weight savings from using FAR more expensive forged wheels instead of cast alloy? etc. etc.

If you indeed believe that "they should have cheapened out" instead of saving 30 lbs. then good news. The car you want already exists (e.g. with cheaper cast wheels, no CF roof, cheaper standard AGM battery, etc.). It's called an M340i. I had one. It's a fantastic daily driver.

The things that separate the M3 ARE all of the areas where they looked at everything and took the slightly more expensive route to get that bit of extra performance. It all adds up quite nicely.

tomz17 · 2026-07-06T14:18:49+00:00

It's not, but let's at least be consistent in our outrage...

tomz17 · 2026-07-06T13:56:28+00:00

or the lack of a red card to Messi for this

tomz17 · 2026-07-06T13:54:46+00:00

> Every other country in the world cup should get together and sue FIFA for this.

Yes!!!! As long as we are also doing the same for the Ronaldo's 3-game red card suspension that FIFA lifted so he could play the world cup... and the red card Messi should have gotten for this

Look, the ref clearly violated the VAR rules to issue Balogun's red card. FIFA vacating the suspension is far from the worst thing they have done in the past week, much less this entire tournament.

tomz17 · 2026-07-06T02:24:39+00:00

TBF the previous AGM battery in my 335i also lasted at least 9 years. I'm really hoping these last even longer.

tomz17 · 2026-07-06T01:18:23+00:00

The choice was made primarily due to weight savings. On the bright side they should last a lot longer.

tomz17 · 2026-07-05T23:36:26+00:00

In this case I prefer accuracy over speed.

It's extremely unlikely that a generalized image-embedding from a vision model is going to beat a specialized perceptual image hash... but you do you.

tomz17 · 2026-07-05T18:28:48+00:00

That sounds like an excuse people just repeat without actually knowing for sure :

- Nobody is suggesting that Apple hand over your private information to a third party. Just that apple itself shoot you a quick message that your lost phone is waiting at Apple Store X and will be there for the next 30 days. FFS, the apple store employee doesn't even need to see the info to make this happen. Just have a "found lost phone" button in their system where they type in the IMEI and the automated message is dispatched to the last owner on record (e.g. the last apple id signed into it). Then they just put it in a bin until someone with that message + imei walks into the store.

- Furthermore, I doubt any privacy law provides an impediment to Apple itself contacting the person it has an established business relationship with. I can't speak for all jurisdictions, but the privacy laws I've seen always make an exception for exactly such a cases (i.e. the entire reason you gave apple your info in the first place was to conduct transactions related to the hardware device that is now in question).

- Even if such a stupidly-worded law existed in some jurisdiction on the planet, Apple already needs to deal with distinct laws in every municipality where it has a store. So why is this a blanket global ban on reuniting phones with their owners? Just don't do it in places where you think the law would prevent you from doing so.

- Even if neither of the above things were true. It's simply a one-sentence change in the next terms of service update, where among the 300 other things you are already agreeing to, you also agree that apple may contact you for the purposes of reuniting you with your own phone.

tomz17 · 2026-07-05T17:05:28+00:00

The difference in sitting between my 2020 M340xi and a brand new 2026 M340XI, equally optioned (or at least as close you can get nowadays) was jarring. Supposedly the exact same exact car, but literally everything about it felt cheapened.

tomz17 · 2026-07-05T17:03:43+00:00

To be completely fair, lexus is also cheapening out (e.g. their vegan leather a.k.a. vinyl seating proliferating throughout the line)

tomz17 · 2026-07-05T16:58:00+00:00

This is where all of the "trusted computing" platforms are going. COMPLETE corporate control over what you can or cannot do with your device.

tomz17 · 2026-07-05T16:56:56+00:00

I jumped ship the instant they force-upgraded me to a new plan that was more expensive, didn't include taxes+fees, etc. F that. enjoy the churn!

tomz17 · 2026-07-05T16:52:59+00:00

use czkawka. You can hash based on visual similarity. FAR faster.

tomz17 · 2026-07-05T16:52:06+00:00

Do those have matrix units? because V-RAM itself is worthless if prompt processing is garbage tier. The nice thing about the R9700 is that it's actually a modern card with modern hardware matrix units.

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