Interesting results, but the piece is written in an almost repulsive claudglish (or geepeeteeglish). Can’t force myself to read more than a couple sentences.
Post is at least semi AI-generated and contains conflicting or misleading bits. It could (and should) have been expressed differently. It conflates changing one flag with permuting a flag at a time in different places, leaving me unable to understand what was actually tried. It has warnings on interpreting the results that make no sense. If flags were permuted, it isn’t possible to list their impact one-dimensionally, then also mixes up addition/removal of flags with permuting its individual value.
I regret giving this article a chance and wasting my time trying to figure out why the “author” was saying what they were saying. Flagged.
If you're still running a MacPro4,1->MacPro"5,1" conversion, be really careful attempting this: one of the few differences is that its bootrom only has a single VS_Cache (i.e. the real MacPro5,1 , manufactured 2010+, has two VS_Cache).
This can lead to a VS_Store corruption == noBOOT sadMAC
It turns out that the essentially no difference thing wasn't true... but fortunately these things are such antiquated beasts that just two people can fix this, via email, by custom "rebuilding your VS_Store firmware" – you'd have to search the forums.
One sad day soon... the "5,1"s won't boot (without pre-emptive maintenance, or an onboard reflow of the many-pinned bootROM chip). Every bootup... one step closer to its eWaste fate.
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Yes, it uses a lot of power, but my VEGA64 is about as fast as an RTX 5060Ti(8gb) for using Ollama, locally (eight year old design, but it used HBM2 !!).
In wintertimes, this thing has reliably acted as a monero-mining space-heater, albeit quite inefficiently (no: I do NOT have a reversible heatpump; spaceheaters, only == no net-cost).
Truly this is the autoexec.bat/xf86config tuning of our modern age. But how long will it take this time until all this painfully accumulated knowledge is obsolete?
Much Claude, very 4.7: "Heavy lifting... single most useful thing... the careful claim is narrow... there are three outcomes, not two... honest caveat... honest oddity... honest verdict... honest shape."
It's the weekend on HN, prime time for lost souls, so I'll dare to post that.
If you're going to prompt out an essay, at least take a minute to set up the prompt so that a hint of your personality, or even an invented one, comes through.
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[ 3.2 ms ] story [ 25.1 ms ] threadBut it sounds like there were other gremlins (like ulimit reverting itself) that would've thwarted automated testing.
Do you feel like there's a point where it would've made sense to automate?
(otherwise, congrats for discovering the scientific method!)
I regret giving this article a chance and wasting my time trying to figure out why the “author” was saying what they were saying. Flagged.
Please...
This can lead to a VS_Store corruption == noBOOT sadMAC
It turns out that the essentially no difference thing wasn't true... but fortunately these things are such antiquated beasts that just two people can fix this, via email, by custom "rebuilding your VS_Store firmware" – you'd have to search the forums.
One sad day soon... the "5,1"s won't boot (without pre-emptive maintenance, or an onboard reflow of the many-pinned bootROM chip). Every bootup... one step closer to its eWaste fate.
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Yes, it uses a lot of power, but my VEGA64 is about as fast as an RTX 5060Ti(8gb) for using Ollama, locally (eight year old design, but it used HBM2 !!).
In wintertimes, this thing has reliably acted as a monero-mining space-heater, albeit quite inefficiently (no: I do NOT have a reversible heatpump; spaceheaters, only == no net-cost).
It's the weekend on HN, prime time for lost souls, so I'll dare to post that.
If you're going to prompt out an essay, at least take a minute to set up the prompt so that a hint of your personality, or even an invented one, comes through.