will_a113 @ will_a113 @lemmy.ml

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I was about to type something very similar, but switching words. “Wealthy” to me implies having enough wealth to not really worry. “Rich” makes me think of Lamborghinis and yachts and mountains of cocaine.

It might be old and slow, but I love RS-232. It works on every platform, you can write a client or server in just about any programming language in a handful of lines (and understand what they all do). I’ve literally made working RS-232 connections with paperclips and scotch tape. After the corpo wars when we’re all computing on salvaged tech you’ll come to appreciate it.

24GB VRAM will easily let you run medium-sized models with good context length, and if you’re a gamer the XTX is a beast for raster performance and has good price/performance.

If you want to get serious about LLMs also keep in mind that most models and tools scale well across multiple GPUs, so you might buy one today (even a lesser one with “only” 16 or 12GB) and add another later. Just make sure your motherboard can fit 2, and you have a CPU, RAM and power supply that can handle it.

Here’s a good example from a guy who glued two much more modest cards together with decent results: https://adamniederer.com/blog/rocm-cross-arch.html

Thank you for your work! A native Jellyfin client is pretty much the only reason I still have a Roku.

Hurts So Good

The Lemmy Gentle Whisper

The holy trinity of the Christmas season - Saturnalia, Yule, and the Coca-Cola version Santa Claus

Mostly you either went without knowing stuff, or you had to go to the library. I knew a couple of wealthy folks who had their own sets of encyclopedia at home which could cost thousands of dollars.

During lockdown I was jogging my usual route and passed someone walking in full plague doctor getup. Thinking “that’s kinda odd” I turned the corner and almost ran into a lady rollerskating backward entirely in the nude. I live in Florida and see weird shit somewhat frequently but that particular run stands out in my mind.

Toothbrush. In one hand it scrubs food and gunk away and helps distribute fluoride toothpaste around. On the other it’s made of tiny plastic bristles that are probably disintegrating when in your mouth and growing a fun ecosystem when out of it.

Public speaking. I've seen surveys where more people are afraid of speaking in front of an audience than they are of dying, which is utterly insane. For the vast, vast majority of scenarios where you might find yourself speaking to a group of people, the risk level is very low. Likewise, in the vast majority of cases, few people are likely to remember much about your performance. It's just talking.

I wonder if this matrix app was just a honeypot that was named to trick people into thinking they were using the “real” matrix.

Yikes.

Not sure if it was ever actually done or just urban legend but there used to be something called “the husband stitch” where an OBGYN would add another stitch while repairing an episiotomy (when a woman tears a bit giving childbirth) supposedly to make her vagina tighter. A lot of things there don’t add up, but that’s what the joke is about.

The Ancient Greeks had steam engines centuries before Rome existed and mostly just treated them as curiosities (probably because they were too impractical to use as weapons of war)

Obsidian or Joplin. Offline first, clients for every platform, and easy self-host (if you want) syncing options and plugins.

Blissfully unaware, thanks.

It's a reasonable technology choice for whenever you need to have a ledger that is shared between multiple parties. Blockchain gives you an immutable (un-editable) history of transactions, including who made it, what it was, and where/when it happened, and gives all of the parties who are allowed to edit the ledger a way to trust in the outcome, even if the parties don't trust each other.

Would be neat to see deaths or hospitalizations pre/post visualized this way too to really drive home the point for the “measles weren’t really that bad” crowd.

I just replayed Super Mario Galaxy for the first time in about 10 years and it felt every bit amazing as the first time. What an incredible game.

My kids and I also still occasionally play MarioKart Wii (even though we have it in the switch too) just to use the Wii wheels :)