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New comment by shrubble in "16GB EGPU for AI Inference, $699"

shrubble — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 04:18:20 +0000

If you could get 2x 16GB eGPU in external cases for $1398 vs the Intel B70 for $1199 to $1299 (MicroCenter pricing), some would choose the ease of use of getting the Nvidia solution up and running, over the lower price. Personally I'm rooting for Intel to be stronger in the GPU department.

New comment by shrubble in "16GB EGPU for AI Inference, $699"

shrubble — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 03:54:29 +0000

you could have 2 to get 32GB VRAM, which is enough to run a decent AI model locally.

16GB EGPU for AI Inference, $699

shrubble — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 03:54:29 +0000

Article URL: https://www.amazon.com/GIGABYTE-Graphics-128-bit-Server-Grade-Thunderbolt/dp/B0GKFHSPN8

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49281626

Points: 5

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New comment by shrubble in "The “mechanical miracle” that ruined Mark Twain’s life"

shrubble — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 05:16:24 +0000

The wedge-shaped expander bars you mention are a brilliant bit of engineering: they deliver perfectly equal spacing across the entire line without any calculation or measurement needed.

New comment by shrubble in "Hardware backdoors in some x86 CPUs"

shrubble — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 14:56:42 +0000

I was thinking about something similar recently: if you bought a US govt purchased laptop like the ruggedized Dell Latitude I saw, would it be less likely to have Intel's IME enabled?

New comment by shrubble in "US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects"

shrubble — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 12:58:47 +0000

They bought back the leases; how much did the lease cost originally, and how much work was done on the project? Those are the only important questions

New comment by shrubble in "Cro – elegant reactive services in Raku"

shrubble — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 05:30:59 +0000

Took me a while to remember that Raku is the "Perl 6" followon to the still-supported Perl 5, though it has morphed into a very different language.

New comment by shrubble in "NetBSD 11.0"

shrubble — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 14:29:45 +0000

https://man.netbsd.org/ldconfig.8 states that it checks the contents of /etc/ld.so.conf - what is the default configuration of that file when it is installed? Is it empty?

New comment by shrubble in "IBM i (OS/400) the Database Operating System"

shrubble — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 14:05:58 +0000

It likely would have been based on the PowerPC-based ThinkPad like laptop they produced which also ran AIX (IBM's version of Unix). like these https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThinkPad_Power_Series

New comment by shrubble in "The Vanishing Page: AI Firms Scan Then Destroy Rare Book Editions"

shrubble — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 13:21:31 +0000

There are plenty of scanners that do not destroy the book being scanned. Here is one, I am sure there are many others: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9LcTZU-HHI

New comment by shrubble in "NetBSD 11.0"

shrubble — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 19:06:21 +0000

Desktop use is probably the best option for daily driver, since almost everything on the motherboard has support, most likely.

New comment by shrubble in "Getting 25 Gbps Thunderbolt Ethernet on My Mac Studio"

shrubble — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 03:31:51 +0000

To get 10Mbps of Ethernet, they would bond together 7x T1s on the SONET side...

New comment by shrubble in "Kimi-K3 Technical Report [pdf]"

shrubble — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 19:25:15 +0000

As mentioned, it is a "large enough company" already; they have full time sysadmins running things.

Adding another rack beside the VMWare cluster, managing any storage/networking issues, etc. will be incremental costs; they already have a pager (probably not a pager not anymore just an app on their phone) like rotation schedule etc.

New comment by shrubble in "JetZero"

shrubble — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 05:07:11 +0000

An experimental/homebuilt of similar but not exactly the same design, the Dyke Delta https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyke_Delta of which about 50 have been built, has its pilots reporting a comfortable ride.

New comment by shrubble in "Intel Starts Shipping High-NA EUV Silicon"

shrubble — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 13:06:43 +0000

The EUV lithography process and other pieces that comprise what ASML sells was developed with US government funding, and it remains encumbered by that. The US government thus has veto power over the tech, and thus over ASML.

New comment by shrubble in "Self-Powered Trailers Promise Leaner Freight Runs"

shrubble — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 12:55:27 +0000

The placement of the Krone pack in the photo at link, makes me laugh: it would never survive in the USA, given the way truck drivers drive and the bumps and curbs etc. that trucks drive over. It would be ripped off or at least heavily damaged within 50K miles.

New comment by shrubble in "Airbus Takes Flight from AWS"

shrubble — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 12:11:31 +0000

Management listened to the siren call of "it's easier and cheaper".

Now they still have to pay for the same senior sysadmins they were told they wouldn't need anymore, but, with the added bonus of paying 10-1000x for bandwidth over what they could get if they had stayed on-prem.

New comment by shrubble in "A new Intel Itanium (IA-64) emulator that boots Windows"

shrubble — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 04:20:37 +0000

OpenVMS ran on the Itanium also; wonder how far it could get in booting?

New comment by shrubble in "A new Intel Itanium (IA-64) emulator that boots Windows"

shrubble — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 04:16:47 +0000

EPIC is Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing; nothing to do with the AMD trademark word, EPYC.

New comment by shrubble in "Flock CEO Apologizes for Calling Activists 'Terrorists'"

shrubble — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 20:55:09 +0000

If it was just recognizing license plates that would be fine. However it fingerprints individuals by running a Bluetooth and WiFi connection to capture your phone or laptop’s Bluetooth MAC and WiFi MAC.

There are Flock cameras placed along running paths where there are no cars, and other places that would never need license plate readers.

Does Flock have a microphone that can record you talking with your friend while watching ducks at the local park?