Ahh that sucks. It’s been a very mild summer up here with almost no “hot” days. I think 28C is about as much as we’re seeing lately.

The advancements in this space have moved so fast, it’s hard to extract a predictive model on where we’ll end up and how fast it’ll get there.

Meta releasing LLaMA produced a ton of innovation from open source that showed you could run models that were nearly the same level as ChatGPT with less parameters, on smaller and smaller hardware. At the same time, almost every large company you can think of has prioritized integrating generative AI as a high strategic priority with blank cheque budgets. Whole industries (also deeply funded) are popping up around solving the context window memory deficiencies, prompt stuffing for better steerability, better summarization and embedding of your personal or corporate data.

We’re going to see LLM tech everywhere in everything, even if it makes no sense and becomes annoying. After a few years, maybe it’ll seem normal to have a conversation with your shoes?

Dirt bikes get WD40 on the chain every ride. Just keeps the water off.

I’m not sure either, Win 10/11 are pretty quick to get going and Ubuntu is not much longer than that. If I have to hard reset the mbp for work, it’s a nice block of slacker time :)

For the really old stuff, I used to do NetBSD. I’m sure their 32bit x86 support is still top notch.

Halls of Torment. $5 game on steam that is like a Vampire Survivors clone, but with more rpg elements to it.

It’s not usually enough power to make a big difference, and it can raise the noise level to a point where you might not like how it sounds on longer rides. Some can provide weight reduction, but again not a lot.

Take it through some gravel right away to scrub that release agent off.

Exhaust pipe is just a consumable

Did they balance the wheel when they put the new tires on? Should be really obvious without a passenger though.