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New comment by ttt3ts in "The average CPU performance of PCs and notebooks fell for the first time"

ttt3ts — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 01:13:21 +0000

New GPUs are quite a bit better than previous ones but perf oer dollar has been flat for a while now.

Also, if you're talking gaming GPUs old ones work fine given there has not been a new PlayStation or Xbox in many years. Min spec for many games is 5 years old tech

New comment by ttt3ts in "Balcony solar is taking off"

ttt3ts — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 00:09:01 +0000

Fewer outages vs US source? I work in the power industry in the US and I am sure this is regionally true but highly doubt it as a blanket statement.

New comment by ttt3ts in "I'm glad I took the off-ramp from software engineering"

ttt3ts — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 23:03:56 +0000

I am so happy I am not this jaded after over 20 years in software. I have never felt like I have hit a ceiling in terms of salary or skill. I still learn each and every day. I would get bored if this were not the case. Would I recommend it to everyone? Hell no but I wouldn't choose anything else.

New comment by ttt3ts in "Nvidia-Ingest: Multi-modal data extraction"

ttt3ts — Sat, 11 Jan 2025 18:05:54 +0000

Do you have some benchmark results I can look at that compares results?

New comment by ttt3ts in "Nvidia-Ingest: Multi-modal data extraction"

ttt3ts — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 15:52:53 +0000

https://github.com/microsoft/table-transformer

This is much lighter weight and more reliable than vllm

New comment by ttt3ts in "As Gen X Nears Retirement, Many Fear They Can't Afford It"

ttt3ts — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 15:32:46 +0000

https://www.statista.com/chart/30224/share-of-americans-who-...

Only 60% of us own any stock at all and often through 401k or other indirect investment.

New comment by ttt3ts in "Apple seeks to defend Google's billion-dollar payments in search case"

ttt3ts — Wed, 25 Dec 2024 18:20:18 +0000

"3rd party" browsers on iOS are just safari/webkit. They do not allow browsers that don't use safari/webkit.

New comment by ttt3ts in "My second year without a job"

ttt3ts — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 22:18:00 +0000

> Kids are another huge factor that changes this.

Yep, I have have quit a perfectly good job to bum around Southeast Asia. Now that kids are in the picture being unemployed would be very stressful.

New comment by ttt3ts in "UnitedHealthcare CEO fatally shot in midtown Manhattan"

ttt3ts — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 21:47:12 +0000

It isn't like US public system, medicare, is great. I still end up buying my folks supplemental. This narrative of pubic vs private misses most of the nuance.

New comment by ttt3ts in "Why Companies Are Ditching the Cloud: The Rise of Cloud Repatriation"

ttt3ts — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 16:01:47 +0000

If you don't mind me asking, to where? That is, what uplink do you see to your nearest AWS or gcloud? In the US, advertised residential speeds don't nessarly translate to realized gains. Just pushes the bottle neck to the ISP.

Agreed that either way it is way cheaper than cloud bandwidth.

New comment by ttt3ts in "Nvidia passes Apple as most valuable company"

ttt3ts — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 04:31:12 +0000

I have used some of those systems, namely frontier (AMD). In the case of frontier, it is the US gov hedge their bets. The super computer before was Nvidia and the next is intel. Bunch of politics there which don't translate to business but make a ton of sense for a government.

New comment by ttt3ts in "Nvidia passes Apple as most valuable company"

ttt3ts — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 01:37:37 +0000

Haha, I think that hope is officially dead. Although, Nvidia hardly cares about graphics right now so AMD might release a good gaming card even if it isn't "the best". Rising prices on the "best" will mean gamers never have them anyway.

New comment by ttt3ts in "Nvidia passes Apple as most valuable company"

ttt3ts — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 01:30:16 +0000

I think a lot of people would consider alternatives if there were some. Sourcing AMD hardware is a PITA, even just renting for validation. On the consumer side, AMD announced they are done with top end GPUs for the time being.

I agree with you on marketing but Nvidia's relationships with the big cloud providers and big companies is more important. It locks AMD out.

New comment by ttt3ts in "Why Companies Are Ditching the Cloud: The Rise of Cloud Repatriation"

ttt3ts — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 01:17:25 +0000

Yea, I call BS on 100Gb uplink for $1000. I have racked a lot of servers at different data centers. No way.

New comment by ttt3ts in "Windows 10 begins one-year countdown to end of support"

ttt3ts — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 00:55:27 +0000

I just put Windows 11 on its own little VLAN/WiFi island called "RebootRift." It lives alone, endlessly restarting, hoping one day it will be trustworthy enough to join the others—but deep down, it knows it never will.

New comment by ttt3ts in ""Begin disabling installed extensions still using Manifest V2 in Chrome stable""

ttt3ts — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 19:56:07 +0000

IMO they are still not as good although they have improved. I just develop in chrome and use Firefox for everything else.

New comment by ttt3ts in "Reddit policy changes make sitewide protests nearly impossible"

ttt3ts — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 16:00:02 +0000

> Lemmy is missing niche communities

I would say the exception to this is communities reddit frowns upon. For example, piracy related.

New comment by ttt3ts in "Reddit policy changes make sitewide protests nearly impossible"

ttt3ts — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 04:41:21 +0000

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy

Lemmy is one such alternative. I follow a few instances.

New comment by ttt3ts in "Cloudflare misidentifies Hetzner IPs as being located in Iran"

ttt3ts — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 22:46:46 +0000

I have done that exact configuration for several of my clients who didn't realize any/much revenue in the EU. For them it was the obvious best move but I wish there was a better option.

New comment by ttt3ts in "Proposed ballot measure to raise corporate taxes, give every Oregonian $750/year"

ttt3ts — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 15:00:12 +0000

What stops them from just charging 3% more? Kinda sounds like an awkward sales tax?