⛏️🌱Don Kackman 🌱⛏️

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[John Robinson @johnrobinsn]

I put an RTX 5090 in TinyCorp's $249 open-source eGPU dock, plugged it into my MacBook Pro M5, and tried to train a model.

It didn't work. But what I found was more interesting than if it had.

New post: https://t.co/bq5TOkz625

[Dr Juliet Turner @juliet_turner6]

My bee photographic calendar is out of stock online, but there are still a few available for sale in this lovely nature-themed gift shop in Caernarfon, North Wales 🌿😊

If you live locally, why not pop by and have a look!

[Sebastian Christiansen @CerebralCoding_]

A 78GB model on a 24GB Mac is no longer a joke.

Qwen 3.8 Flash Next with MoEShift streaming experts from the SSD on an M5 Pro: 14 tok/s decode, 380 tok/s prefill, 8.5GB peak memory.

For MoE models, RAM buys speed. It no longer decides what you can run.

On 32GB or less? What's your daily driver model?

https://t.co/gjwPeELnrG

[Cato Institute @CatoInstitute]

The government's equity stakes in private companies are unprecedented.

Cato scholars launched the Restoring Free Enterprise project to examine them and chart a path toward getting Washington out of the boardroom. #CatoRFE

https://t.co/jlzyMWtYwq

[⛏️🌱Don Kackman 🌱⛏️ @Dkackman]

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[Wei @wei_wang]

一台 Mac Studio 加一张 RTX 5090，用雷电扩展坞连起来当一个推理引擎，跑 Qwen3.8 Flash-Next 单路约 210 tok/s。

项目叫 Apple NVIDIA Sidecar，11/8 刚开源。机器是 M5 Max 64GB，5090 装在扩展坞里，权重用的是 NVIDIA 官方的 FP4 版本。

同一个模型，别人公开过的数字���概是这样，测法各不相同，只能看个量级。

1. 一台 DGX Spark 约 43
2. Jetson AGX Thor 约 47
3. M4 Max 峰值约 83
4. 5090 加 128GB 内存的 PC 跑 NVFP4，114 到 116
5. 72GB 的 RTX PRO 5000，中位 159

短板作者自己列得很清楚。

1. 8K 提示的 prefill 约 1,900 tok/s，好一点的 PC 能到 3,900 以上
2. 一次只服务一个会话，1 到 16 路冷启动，总输出一直在 61 tok/s 左右
3. 雷电链路实测单向 6.79 GB/s，反向 5.53，标称 7.88
4. 驱动是作者本地改过的，没放进仓库

想复现，得先自己把驱动搞定。Mac 和 N 卡拼起来跑同一个模型，这条路算是有人走通了。

[⛏️🌱Don Kackman 🌱⛏️ @Dkackman]

@gospaceport oh no. hope all turns out well.

[Dr Juliet Turner @juliet_turner6]

When people think of bees, they still most often think of honeybees or bumblebees, yet there are 20,000+ species of bee worldwide 🐝

Most of them are solitary, many live in burrows underground, quite a few are mistaken for wasps or flies, and some are only a few mm long!

Here are a few of my photos of a very small bee that is common in the UK but not often recognised as a type of bee: This is the Common Green Furrow Bee (Lasioglossum morio).

Hopefully the photos with a rosemary and dandelion flower give you a sense of how tiny they are!

I post a lot about bees because think they are a good ‘gateway drug’ to wider biodiversity, helping show just how many forms of life live alongside us that we barely notice.

[⛏️🌱Don Kackman 🌱⛏️ @Dkackman]

@juliet_turner6 oof. those people suck

[Bulwark Clips @BulwarkClips]

Massie: "I hope [Hegseth] addresses the eight articles and doesn't get up and misquote the Bible in Quentin Tarantino-fashion, do some pull ups, and call everybody fat and gay for being for this impeachment — I might have just given you half his speech."

[Cato Institute @CatoInstitute]

Why is US health care so expensive and complicated?

@RIKKISCHLOTT and @mfcannon unpack how the tax code wrecked health care, distorts labor markets, and has led to increasing government control.

Watch on YouTube: https://t.co/FdfVJpCS6M

[Jake Tapper 🦅 @jaketapper]

Clearly heeding the cries of a frustrated public, the president is in the Brady Briefing Room with UFC’s Dana White talking about how Pete Rose deserves a pardon.

[spawn @spawn]

@slopshipper 3 per day this week for 5.2 launch

[spawn @spawn]

Spawn now uses Fable 5.2 when you /lock-in

(for free ofc)

[Vince Mpls @vincempls]

#OnThisDay Nov 9 1975 12:30pm: The SS Edmund Fitzgerald is being loaded with taconite pellets at Burlington Northern Railroad Dock No. 1 in Superior, Wisconsin. The boat is scheduled to depart at 2:30pm to transport its cargo to National Steel at Zug Island on the Detroit River.

[Michael Warburton @For_Film_Fans]

William Shatner spent YEARS apologising for this joke!

[C-Bo the Eggman @CBoTheEggman]

Just rubbing corruption in America's face

[Native Santa Cruz @NativeSantaCruz]

Monarch Butterflies are back at Natural Bridges State Park

[⛏️🌱Don Kackman 🌱⛏️ @Dkackman]

@exchan_ge @joewilliams oh man. can't wait for that pendulum to swing back!

[Joe Williams @joewilliams]

1983 Ford Lincoln Continental Concept 100, had a moving map screen with the car’s location on it. It pulled position fixes from old Navy Transit satellites every hour and a half or so (accurate to about a quarter mile). Between fixes it just used a compass and sensors on the wheels to keep track (known as dead reckoning).

Map lived in the car’s memory with an 80K of EPROM chip with 16K of RAM, drawing the map and controls in custom software.

One of the first real attempts at putting a moving map and satellite location in a car.