ericd

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1. 331.▲
   by ericd 7mo ago

   Something to consider, and something I got a vivid demonstration of while playing with solar panels, DC arcs aren't self-extinguishing, unlike AC arcs. At one point I stuck a voltage probe in, and the arc stuck with it as I pulled the
2. 332.▲
   by ericd 7mo ago

   I think you’re massively underestimating the network effects in play. Steam has an enormous moat.
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   by ericd 7mo ago

   I don’t have a horse in this race, but my only point was you don’t have to wait 15 minutes for a really decentralized experience. Yeah, you do need to be ok with not being able to later chargeback your grocery store, just like with cash. Wh
4. 334.▲
   by ericd 7mo ago

   Yeah, maybe just finding a small shop is the move. Surprising that they can get you something for less than buying direct can after their fee, though!
5. 335.▲
   by ericd 7mo ago

   Doesn't lightning settle basically instantly, while still being decentralized? You're just trading signed transactions iirc, with settlement happening whenever.
6. 336.▲
   by ericd 7mo ago

   What gpu hardware/model? Good enough?
7. 337.▲
   by ericd 7mo ago

   Are their incentives totally aligned? I'd assume they'd want to get through bookings as quickly as possible to maximize earnings?
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   by ericd 7mo ago

   Seriously. Have you tried Octopart? One of the very early YC companies, dedicated to electronics part search (I haven't used them recently, so no idea if they're good these days, just remember them from like a decade and a half ag
9. 339.▲
   by ericd 7mo ago

   Maybe, I've never used a human travel agent. Based on my experiences with human agents in other industries (especially real estate), I think the LLM version will probably already know my preferences a good bit better than most human tr
10. 340.▲
    by ericd 7mo ago

    Apparently I'm the only one here who finds it to be one of the worst things I ever have to do, I hate managing the combinatorial tab explosion by hand. Compounded by the adversarial nature of the price-setting algorithms that jack up t
11. 341.▲
    by ericd 7mo ago

    Same, but it sounds like Lemmy still has some issues, and it'll be hard to replace some of the niche subreddits.
12. 342.▲
    by ericd 7mo ago

    I’d been developing with emacs for years before I learned how to quit vi. Just means he’s never had to change the config on a remote server with a barebones setup :-)
13. 343.▲
    by ericd 7mo ago

    Thanks for the confirmation, wasn't sure if I was just going a bit senile heh. Yeah, I love /r/localllama, some of the best actual practitioners of this stuff on the internet. Also, crazy awesome frankenrigs to try and get th
14. 344.▲
    by ericd 7mo ago

    Yeah, pretty sure that was edited in after I commented because 150 toks/sec was also new, but could’ve just missed it.
15. 345.▲
    by ericd 7mo ago

    Yeah, I'd just be pretty surprised if they were getting 100 tokens/sec that way. EDIT: Either they edited that to say "quad 3090s", or I just missed it the first time.
16. 346.▲
    by ericd 7mo ago

    Yeah, the other big benefit is that the Max-Q's have blowers that exhaust the hot air out of the box, the workstation cards would each blow their exhaust straight into the intake of the card behind it. The last card in that chain would
17. 347.▲
    by ericd 7mo ago

    How're you fitting a model made for 80 gig cards onto a GPU with 24 gigs at full quant?
18. 348.▲
    by ericd 7mo ago

    Oh, why'd you go that route? Considering going beyond 80 gigs with nvlink or something?
19. 349.▲
    by ericd 7mo ago

    That’s surprising, 200 amp 240v service is pretty common in the US.
20. 350.▲
    by ericd 7mo ago

    Was that cheaper than a Blackwell 6000? But yeah, 4x Blackwell 6000s are ~32-36k, not sure where the other $30k is going.
21. 351.▲
    by ericd 7mo ago

    Haha awesome. I guess they were going through YC right then, I still remember their launch video from around then and thinking it was one of the best ads I’d ever seen.
22. 352.▲
    by ericd 7mo ago

    Shades of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079
23. 353.▲
    by ericd 7mo ago

    Sure, that needs to change.
24. 354.▲
    by ericd 7mo ago

    I mean, we all saw the occasional heinous stuff, goatse, lemon party, etc, that doesn't ruin you. I don't think preventing them from ever seeing anything disturbing is a realistic goal. It's more an issue when kids are allowe
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    by ericd 7mo ago

    Not sure what you’re talking about, I scaled to millions of users on a pair of boxes with PHP, and its page generation time absolutely crushed Rails/Django times. Apache with mod PHP auto scales wonderfully.
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    by ericd 7mo ago

    The Google paper ( https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.19468 ) didn’t seem too concerned with radiator mass/size when I skimmed it, but maybe I just missed it. My understanding is that if you run the chips relatively hot (an
27. 357.▲
    by ericd 7mo ago

    Did you seriously register an account to leave that little jab? A van dweller has a much smaller carbon footprint than the average American.
28. 358.▲
    by ericd 7mo ago

    Maybe when they've also been doing their thing for almost 40 years, people will be past this phase for LLMs, too ;-)
29. 359.▲
    by ericd 7mo ago

    Maybe the bottleneck for most high profile open source is PR review and not coding?
30. 360.▲
    by ericd 7mo ago

    Yeah true, might be a good idea to have the full UI and then just have the agent slowly “drive” it for the user, so they can follow along and learn, for when they want to move faster than dealing with a chatbot. Though I think speech to tex