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by gymbeaux 3y ago
I haven’t read the article but my first question would be “what problem is this accelerator solving?” and if the answer is simply “you can AI without Nvidia”, that’s not good enough, because that’s the pot calling the kettle black. None of
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by gymbeaux 3y ago
As “humble” as NVIDIA’s CEO appears to be, NVIDIA the company (he’s been running this whole time), made decision after decision with the simple intention of killing off its competition (ATI/AMD). Gameworks is my favorite example- essen
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by gymbeaux 3y ago
Hey that’s not fair, the X5690 is VERY efficient… at heating a home in the winter time.
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by gymbeaux 3y ago
I can’t reply to the post directly (locked?) but my take is that security measures like VPNs and proxies are moot because tech isn’t really the vulnerability- people are. You can have MFA on everything and all databases behind VPNs, but if
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by gymbeaux 3y ago
It looks like, officially, you need to disable automatic backups to disable local snapshots: https://support.apple.com/en-us/102154 Of course if you make sure your Time Machine disk is always available, you should neve
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by gymbeaux 3y ago
Other than feeding sensitive documents? I’m not sure. OpenAI has certainly gone out of its way to eliminate the need for local LLMs- they offer fine-tuning of GPT 3.5 and 4, so it’s harder to argue you might get better results from a loca
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by gymbeaux 3y ago
Here in the United States, companies are more important than people.
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by gymbeaux 3y ago
They have three tiers of pensions- the government pension, the employer/union pension, and the private pension. The government (“public”) pension is the primary one that everyone gets, whereas the US counterpart (SS) is more “break gla
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by gymbeaux 3y ago
I max out my 401k each year and would give my left nut to be able to opt out of SS. I know for a fact I will have that money in retirement if I’m allowed to keep it and stash it away, but will the welfare slush fund even exist by 2050- or w
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by gymbeaux 3y ago
My armchair guess is that depression is more likely, but god damn, to bet it all one way or the other… Surely there’s some economic research to suggest hyperinflation doesn’t happen to the world powers? I’m not an expert in economics but it
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by gymbeaux 3y ago
Social Security was a great idea in post-depression times. I don’t think it would ever pass today- one, because so many Americans lack empathy(1) and two, because there are better systems that have been proven to work over time in countries
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by gymbeaux 3y ago
The best models may be owned (and perhaps somehow patented) by some large medical company like Merck or Stryker. I always have a side project or two going on, and I think it would be a neat side project, but I would need a LOT of pictures o
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by gymbeaux 3y ago
I can find YouTube videos and podcasts all day long talking about the “imminent” housing crash, and while I think these discussions are important and interesting to have, they’re little more than hypotheticals or thought experiments. I’m no
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by gymbeaux 3y ago
“Debt: the first 5000 years” is an interesting read that addresses your question. In short the author argues that debt- especially government/country level debt- is good for the country issuing the debt and bad/a liability for the
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by gymbeaux 3y ago
AWS also forked ElasticSearch into their “OpenSearch” DBaaS. It caused some issues at my last job because OpenSearch limited us to a particular version of the NEST .NET library that was missing some newer functionality. Real bummer and feel
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by gymbeaux 3y ago
Usually I use DropBear for this. Do you know if one is necessarily better than the other? DropBear I think is what RHEL docs recommend for remote boot disk decryption.
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by gymbeaux 3y ago
I’m not sure what this scenario is but it sounds like you’d be F’d with or without swap
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by gymbeaux 3y ago
Not to be pedantic but I don’t know that it’s an “O ring” if it’s a flat cap with holes.
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by gymbeaux 3y ago
It’s not an O-Ring… you want the O-Ring in there. Some shower heads have a sort of mesh looking object the covers the O-ring or sits just below it.
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by gymbeaux 3y ago
The “this is a free country” argument is flawed and tired. You must be 21 to legally consume alcohol. You must have a license to drive a car. You can’t drive faster than the speed limit on a road. Meth and cocaine are illegal. Children must
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by gymbeaux 3y ago
The Rick roll is a nice touch
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by gymbeaux 3y ago
On one hand, it’s inefficient to have more RAM than you’ll ever use. So many people buy MacBooks with the largest RAM capacity and while that worked well in the days of 16GB being the max, I’m not sure 64GB of RAM is going to come in handy
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by gymbeaux 3y ago
I used to hibernate religiously in the Windows XP days. Now I don’t even have that option because my Linux distro of choice (and many other distros now) doesn’t enable it by default. Some popular Linux distros don’t even create swap by defa
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by gymbeaux 3y ago
I can see the benefit to not having swap in a server scenario, but to offer a counterpoint- it seems like IT likes to under allocate servers by something like 25%, so if you have a server with 256GB of RAM, by design it should never use mor
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by gymbeaux 3y ago
Higher GPM shower heads usually cost more, so this certainly passes the “it’s expensive to be poor” test in that those who can’t afford a $75 shower head eventually pay for the difference and possibly then some.
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by gymbeaux 3y ago
They should all be banned
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by gymbeaux 3y ago
SFO is where United’s main maintenance facility is, so statistically I would think this is where the most issues will occur
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by gymbeaux 3y ago
It’s interesting and encouraging to see this working in the real world. I think most “leaders” are concerned about having to come up with what people, especially software engineers, should be getting done in X amount of time, which I sympat
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by gymbeaux 3y ago
Underrated comment.
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by gymbeaux 3y ago
There's a lot of chaos that stems from the crypto boom, COVID, the AI boom, the fact that NVidia is essentially a monopoly, some groups are making custom GPUs so they have more VRAM....

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