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[@xXshaurizardXx](/creator/twitter/xXshaurizardXx)
"Vision insurance despite seeming like a great deal isn't worth it either. The same company that owns Eyemed owns LensCrafters Target Optical Pearle most popular glasses brands and Essilor You aren't getting XX% off they're making margin on sale on top of your monthly"  
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"Famously Unprofitable REI closes flagship store in Rediculously High Rent Location where Literally Every Single Brand They Stock Has A Damn Store Within A Block Sorry I don't think Union busting is the main reason for this one chief. Was a nice bathroom while it lasted though"  
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"i'm confused why they aren't testing on sparse MoE models why they use ollama and why the strix halo isn't included"  
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"And a few notes here I am clickbaiting a bit AMX is not inherently better than AVX (or NEON or the newer SVE/SVE2) it is another approach to similar problems. The two work together The 2x number is from a study by Nod Labs (acquired by AMD) cited from their now-deleted blog comparing M1's matmul performance in AMX vs NEON Hector seems to have confused the two here SVE & SME. And I am glad to report to hackernews that Apple did go the open route"  
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"Seems like reviews for the DGX Spark ("Project Digits") started rolling in about what you'd expect the lackluster VRAM bandwidth brings it down I am hoping they depreciate well and I can pick one up for use as a lackluster portable development workstation. The compute is neat"  
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"This concept is fantastic takes the best of the 300SL Mercedes XXX stunning design But its not the first good concept from them there is the Maybach Vision X (left) which turned into the garish overpriced SL680 (right) Zero hope they will bring it to market in that form"  
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"People for good reason are going to point to pricier examples but it's not difficult to do this with cheaper cars as well e.g. '04 Honda S2000 cost $21k similar examples $28k now IMO pick 10-15yr old cars then wait till those who grew up with them can afford the nostalgia"  
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"Or more broadly relatively limited cars but mass produced cars that drive well 2-3yrs after release. E.g. previous generation M5CS Shelby GT350R etc Hagerty insurance does a 'bull market' for cars every year with more picks Not perfect but agreeable"  
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"On top of the points raised here I can't in good faith read CR following their hit job on the Suzuki Samurai saying it "easily rolls over in turns" which tanked sales In reality the unacceptable rollover behavior only occurred after they modified the standard course"  
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"Another case of this their infamous reliability rankings e.g. '24-25 considers data from 2000 to 2024 the survey is highly subjective sent to paid CR subs & "reliability" includes anything from paint/trim to gearbox/engine issues +insufficient data for XX brands last year"  
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"This is also partly why Tesla ranked so terribly low their first few years & why Rivian continues to rank quite low Both will easily last you hundreds of thousands of miles with minimal to no maintenance being electric w/ extensive use of aluminum etc. But the trim won't last"  
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"Averaging an entire brand is terrible regardless. Each brand offers a different spread of products some reliable models some unreliable. E.x. I don't expect Mercedes' flagship sports car to be quite as reliable as their economy cars & Toyota had to replace every LX engine"  
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"fwiw I have this issue w/ product recommendations in general the data is all garbage Real users rarely have extensive experience across multiple products reviewers are paid this is assuming your preferences align at all just hope u find a well-off autist with similar tastes"  
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"like shocker when an auto manufacturer flies out reviewers wines and dines them hands them the keys no questions asked to a half-a-million dollar car for a week they aren't going to complain even when the car is complete & utter dogshit cough cough Lamborghini huracan STO"  
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"For 27" apart from apple there is the Kuycon G27P Acer PE270XT & Philips 27E3U7903 Nobody is making OLED monitors at that high of a pixel density as it stands will be IPS. XDR is the only one w/ local dimming I believe but the blacks on these are good enough Nothing available because practically nothing outside of apple's ecosystem needs it both linux & windows support fractional scaling etc. & Microsoft has spent millions upon millions of $ between hundreds of patents making fonts & rendering look crisp on lower resolution displays"  
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"@neogoose_btw Apple for better or worse in this case as you are going with a 5k 27" monitor only does integer scaling. Renders to 110ppi or on higher density monitors 2x that at 220ppi Hence why anything in the middle has odd artifacting it is still rendering at 2x then downsampling"  
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"@neogoose_btw Note on windows the aforementioned million dollar font rendering takes advantage of the sub-pixel layout of IPS displays (i.e. how the red green & blue are laid out within a pixel) So text and more look absolutely awful on OLED monitors w/ windows wouldn't recommend"  
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"@kalomaze they do reddit has a deal w/ google to the tune of XX mil for their data think they have one with openai as well"  
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"@shguke i pray these people find out the real costs of operating the subway & the relative cost of owning a car Also pray they read up on how subway price controls destroyed the system & likewise with general rail before that also how r we paying X fed taxes"  
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"@HighFreqAsuka @PandaAshwinee that entire tier looks like a meme but why shouldn't they be in the tier below"  
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"within walking distance you have arcteryx norrona fjallraven patagonia peak north face half of your favorite shoe companies and like yeah selling tents & cots & shit is pretty cool but I'm really curious who is buying a Fenix X & MegaMat Sleeping Pad from REI Soho"  
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"@soft_fox_lad I think people seriously overestimate how little separates the big compute players intel could leapfrog amd within a year and likewise for Qualcomm vs. apple in the consumer space intel made back almost all the ground vs. TSMC But everything thinks AMD + TSMC are unbeatable"  
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"@soft_fox_lad Also something I don't think many people realized w/ M4 the gains in geekbench were almost entirely from adding SVE support And SVE is practically AMX which was already available from M1-M3 the real world gains are from the two extra cores ie there is such minimal IPC uplift"  
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"@soft_fox_lad this is also why I find Jeff Gerling's commentary so odd "Maybe this is why Qualcomm abandoned their marquee Dev Kitit is thoroughly trounced by M4" The apple cpu division is sitting on their ass they are not delivering the generational IPC improvements everyone is saying"  
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"@soft_fox_lad What I really don't understand though is why rank automobile manufacturers rather than automobiles when they have the data to do both At least vacuum brands *generally* compete in similar spaces. Meanwhile Chrysler only has one product and it's a van"  
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"@soft_fox_lad I want to go try the walmart ones now & compare as well see if they're any more consistent never knew they did that sort of thing"  
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"nissan al gaib"  
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"The only way to fund operations like Bell Labs is through printing money For valve this is their sales cut. For firms that is being rewarded for making markets more efficient For tech firms that is ads. It has been and will always be ads. Your work powers the attention economy"  
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"@SemiAnalysis_ I'm confused about the question do you guys not have one Why not buy one and see isn't that what you guys do Semiconductor Analysis"  
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"@elletwocache i don't think salesforce is high enough"  
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"@yao_nobond @FFmpeg @intel the avx512 functionality was removed on the consumer chips only and it wasn't advertised much if at all big reason was the implementation is wonky only the p-cores have support often wasn't going with avx512 AMD doesn't have this issue as they implement it across all cores"  
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"This entire article is either finely crafted ragebit or insane "I love how the most vocal Pixel critics are usually those who arent using one" yes that is why they aren't using one dumbass Folks need to realize the Pixel lineup exists not for volume but to make android better"  
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"Recently got in one of these Lucifer CYX same fixtures in the Apple Cartier stores Founded allegedly bc they were dissatisfied w/ options when architecting a store for their apparel Incredible engineering & machining unsurprisingly not 24x as good as Ikea for 24x the price"  
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"Figured out the source of my Sonos Arc issues When you used to hardwire one of your speakers Sonos would enable 'SonosNet' a dedicated 2.4ghz mesh network for your speakers using them as access points The newer era/ultra speakers forego this for "better" network hardware"  
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".Which is great in theory but I live in an apartment with faraday cages for walls which absolutely kills any high-frequency wifi Now have to debate between either dropping the newer products or upgrading/expanding my mesh system shame because it sounds absolutely fantastic"  
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"See: The "good" news I suppose is now I have a cutoff on hardware to collect used. I'd probably be fine with the standard arc sub gen X etc. But its a shame because the era XXX are fantastic when they work at least (rarely)"  
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"My "issue" with CR at least with automotive is that their data even if correct doesn't always line up with consumer preference especially w/ more premium cars Eg their road test includes cargo packaging and subjective eval of controls/infotainment weighting is undisclosed"  
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"I cannot overstate how terrible the Huracan sounds regardless of the audio option regardless of the price point They all audibly distort w/ zero imaging and zero care given to tuning. Everyone who worked on that system should be ashamed & funniest bit is the Audi's sound well"  
[X Link](https://x.com/xXshaurizardXx/status/1979253555841171857) [@xXshaurizardXx](/creator/x/xXshaurizardXx) 2025-10-17T18:29Z XXX followers, XX engagements


"i wish there was a little widget on twitter that told you what tweet caused someone to block you i am discovering there are people who have me blocked despite literally never interacting with them and i don't care i'm just extremely curious as to what caused it and why"  
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"@LobAllan Tbh much prefer Mercedes' method of going with a pure 800v setup & routing you to 800v chargers of which there are enough tap and there are only going to be more in the future 400v isn't going to be around all that much longer and then its dead weight (& cost) for Hyundai"  
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"I wish all local bicycle shops would die a quick & untimely death If I bring in a canyon or my 50yo Panasonic villager I am undeserving of their time & effort because I didn't buy some local top-of-the-line I have never worked w/ one that isn't full of holier-than-thou elitists"  
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"@_ueaj @menhguin @leothecurious @kalomaze issue w/ gdm is there are plenty of folks who are vaguely GDM-types & plenty of folks who simply stumbled internally into GDM they just don't carry that openai vagueposting dawg in them demis coded yes"  
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"single largest "issue" w/ usbc is how easy it is to get dust & sand lodged in it doesn't "lock" isn't quite as as lightning either which exacerbates the issue pretty much destroyed an s8 & s10e trying to get the port cleaned up one charges on one side the other not at all"  
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"that being said the benefits clearly outweigh the drawbacks but given the chance i'd prefer an outie connection just so i don't have to leave the phone behind surfing"  
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"This is why I don't use reddit anymore The Apple Music UI shows 2x as much content knows I am looking for the album puts the album at the top. we figured this out over a decade ago. And that is if it is available in the sonos app at all collaborative playlists don't appear"  
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"Essentially if you are building a sonos system right now just now that there is barely any benefit to spending the extra $1k for the - newer atmos supported ultra + sub + larger era 300s ($2.4k) vs. the - older standard XXX arc + era XXX + sub ($1296)"  
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"And so e.g. in their brand ranking Range Rover ranks 33rd when Chrysler ranks 5th even though capability & convenience triumph and there is a reason it sells so well But BMW ranks higher SUV only brands in general score poorly though they better align with consumer demand"  
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"Lamborghini Sonos Faber & McIntosh recently threw an event in NYC w/ House of Sound to demo their latest collaboration & Lambo's new Temerario I appreciate the invitation and the speakers were nice but Lamborghini's still have the worst sound quality out of any car ever made"  
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"Audi's being the RSQ8 (same platform & cousin to the Lamborghini Urus) as well as the R8 (same platform & cousin to the Lambo Huracan) In general I cannot imagine buying any lambo when the Audi offers 80-90% of the fun in a (IMO) better package at a fraction of the price"  
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"@nearcyan Do you still use & recommend your 2d non-display meta glasses I recall you liked them quite a bit. Are you getting the refresh of those My largest qualm about these sorts of devices is not the tech but rather the upgrade timeline battery degradation is brutal"  
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"One of the main reasons google decided to develop tensor was to push Qualcomm & the rest of the android industry to match Apple's 7yrs of driver support & update You should celebrate the pixel and then buy the equivalent Samsung flagship Context:"  
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"nissan al-gaib"  
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"Though I will say for all the Sonos love & hate their new web UI is absolutely fantastic incredibly easy to set up a kiosk more brands should do this Between this and their headphones' virtual surround & upsampling they are finally taking advantage of their position"  
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