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A few months ago, I thought... ok, this is amazing, an i7 with 8 cores and 32 GB of RAM and an SSD... I'm set for the next decade! Now I'm just trying to run S

A few months ago, I thought... ok, this is amazing, an i7 with 8 cores and 32 GB of RAM and an SSD... I'm set for the next decade! Now I'm just trying to run Stable Diffusion to generate things an it's 30 seconds per iteration at only 512x512 pixels. It looks like I'll have a GPU soon enough if I want to do any development with neural networks. What an amazing ride... heck, I still remember thinking back in 1980 that the 10 Megabyte Corvus hard drive my friend was installing for a business would NEVER be filled... do you have any idea how much typing that is? ;-)

jsjohnst 4y ago
> 10 Megabyte Corvus hard drive my friend was installing for a business would NEVER be filled... do you have any idea how much typing that is? I’ve seen a single PDF which is the internal developer guide to a certain ARM based processor from years ago and that PDF was well over 1,000x in size to that hard drive. Yes, there were some pictures and charts, but most of that was just text, thousand upon thousand pages of detailed specs.
jwalton 4y ago
When I bought my 386 sx/16, they were all out of 10mb drives, so I bought a 20mb, and my dad thought I was crazy, because that was more space than anyone could ever need. :)