I've never purchased rental insurance from a landlord or their recommended place. I used my insurance company I already had.
I think the point is that an i7, even from ~15 years ago, is probably sufficient for most gaming needs, especially if the game is primarily GPU-bound. As long as you give the older CPU enough RAM, an SSD, and a good…
Meh - our dev machines are over-provisioned cloud pc's from MS, that run as fast a laptop from 2005. And I'm sure they are paying a premium for the privledge. My 10 year old desktop sitting next to me is a lot faster,…
Massive immigration would cause the system to completely collapse as imported people will not respect the local economy, culture, etc. in the same as natural citizens that originally built the nation. That's not…
If I'm picking a stock to buy (in the "retail" market, it's primarily based on a balance of EPS, P/E ratio, and a low(er) amount of debt. My P/E filter filters out the likes of Nvidia, Amazon, etc, whereas my debt…
The obvious brain-child of this concept is HP and their consumer inkjet printers. Originally, they sold their printers for "cheap" and then sold ink for a premium. However, as consumers realized any old printer ink…
Which is probably a backwards anti-pattern companies have built. Your most expensive engineer's time is most valuable, so if you give them standard issue which is half the speed, you are throttling the value you can get…
Luckily we're not, because then your tip to a waiter/waitress would be dependent on their student loans remaining, especially considering how many expensive liberal arts majors struggle to find a sufficient career.
Catastrophies would be we vibe coded a nuclear plant or space rocket system and we blew up thousands of people due to a vibe coding error.
I see this said a lot, but Amazon products I buy actually work (even if the quality of obviously laughable - it actually performs the function and won't break any time soon to justify a 100x price increase for something…
They'll do local LLMs you have to pay for. Best of both worlds: your LLM processing power will be locked behind a subscription. You'll be coerced into a subscription to unlock the processing power you already have, and…
I'll give 27B-MTP a try. I think I can tolerate 45 tps if the results are technically better. 35B is pretty good, but definitely shows it's inabilities at times (probably either due to the heavy caching quantization I'm…
Agreed. I have a single 9700 and I'm able to fit Q6 27B at 30tps or Q5 35B at 100tps very easily via llamacpp running vulkan. The results are impressive considering the amount of people trashing AMD and still trying to…
The cheapest 3090s I could find with any sort of guarantee were pushing $1500. An AMD AI Pro R9700 32GB brand new is $1350 right now. After some tweaking, I had it running faster than the models the 3090 could run, and…
Obamacare, but for AI, where every American has to now pay a penalty to not use AI or something like that? That was the last major thing the Democrats did, and healthcare has gotten substantially worse...but at least…
The CEO won't get in trouble, but the employee who can't justify a bad result/prompt?
There will always be a competitor that can undercut the inference market. There is no "moat" given that you can self host decently capable LLM agents like Qwen3.6 on not super expensive hardware, like an AMD R9700, and…
An R9700 is $1350 and can get 100 TPS running Qwen3.6-35B-A3B Q5 with 130k context window (with room to spare) with a bit of fine tuning llamacpp-vulkan, but llamacpp's repository instability and lack of real versioning…
Like a compliment sandwich or something.
The coding isn't the hard part. It's the people and networking. Facebook's only moat is HOA boards that think private communication behind Facebook groups somehow equates to public messaging a community... In other…
I hope this is sarcasm, or "half" my job doesn't exist or something. Or you talking about full time non-dev scrum masters?
My 980 is currently unpowered. I have not tried to integrate them yet. It's on my to-do list, but the first time they were both powered on, the system had booting issues, and I didn't want to care at the time, since the…
GitHub Copilot. It was one of the best values around in terms of cheap LLM access since each prompt was basically 4 cents (more or less), no matter how much it would do or how many tokens it used. A simple "Proceed"…
I added an R9700 32GB to my 10+ year old desktop that had a 980 4GB card in it, for a grand total of $1350 or so. The payoff compared to what I was using with GHCP was 33 months, but when GHCP announced their price…
I wonder if you paired a few different types of AI together, an LLM agent might be good at strategizing -. E.g. building a strategy on how to handle a scenario. But, it would need to know the entire game manual…
I've never purchased rental insurance from a landlord or their recommended place. I used my insurance company I already had.
I think the point is that an i7, even from ~15 years ago, is probably sufficient for most gaming needs, especially if the game is primarily GPU-bound. As long as you give the older CPU enough RAM, an SSD, and a good…
Meh - our dev machines are over-provisioned cloud pc's from MS, that run as fast a laptop from 2005. And I'm sure they are paying a premium for the privledge. My 10 year old desktop sitting next to me is a lot faster,…
Massive immigration would cause the system to completely collapse as imported people will not respect the local economy, culture, etc. in the same as natural citizens that originally built the nation. That's not…
If I'm picking a stock to buy (in the "retail" market, it's primarily based on a balance of EPS, P/E ratio, and a low(er) amount of debt. My P/E filter filters out the likes of Nvidia, Amazon, etc, whereas my debt…
The obvious brain-child of this concept is HP and their consumer inkjet printers. Originally, they sold their printers for "cheap" and then sold ink for a premium. However, as consumers realized any old printer ink…
Which is probably a backwards anti-pattern companies have built. Your most expensive engineer's time is most valuable, so if you give them standard issue which is half the speed, you are throttling the value you can get…
Luckily we're not, because then your tip to a waiter/waitress would be dependent on their student loans remaining, especially considering how many expensive liberal arts majors struggle to find a sufficient career.
Catastrophies would be we vibe coded a nuclear plant or space rocket system and we blew up thousands of people due to a vibe coding error.
I see this said a lot, but Amazon products I buy actually work (even if the quality of obviously laughable - it actually performs the function and won't break any time soon to justify a 100x price increase for something…
They'll do local LLMs you have to pay for. Best of both worlds: your LLM processing power will be locked behind a subscription. You'll be coerced into a subscription to unlock the processing power you already have, and…
I'll give 27B-MTP a try. I think I can tolerate 45 tps if the results are technically better. 35B is pretty good, but definitely shows it's inabilities at times (probably either due to the heavy caching quantization I'm…
Agreed. I have a single 9700 and I'm able to fit Q6 27B at 30tps or Q5 35B at 100tps very easily via llamacpp running vulkan. The results are impressive considering the amount of people trashing AMD and still trying to…
The cheapest 3090s I could find with any sort of guarantee were pushing $1500. An AMD AI Pro R9700 32GB brand new is $1350 right now. After some tweaking, I had it running faster than the models the 3090 could run, and…
Obamacare, but for AI, where every American has to now pay a penalty to not use AI or something like that? That was the last major thing the Democrats did, and healthcare has gotten substantially worse...but at least…
The CEO won't get in trouble, but the employee who can't justify a bad result/prompt?
There will always be a competitor that can undercut the inference market. There is no "moat" given that you can self host decently capable LLM agents like Qwen3.6 on not super expensive hardware, like an AMD R9700, and…
An R9700 is $1350 and can get 100 TPS running Qwen3.6-35B-A3B Q5 with 130k context window (with room to spare) with a bit of fine tuning llamacpp-vulkan, but llamacpp's repository instability and lack of real versioning…
Like a compliment sandwich or something.
The coding isn't the hard part. It's the people and networking. Facebook's only moat is HOA boards that think private communication behind Facebook groups somehow equates to public messaging a community... In other…
I hope this is sarcasm, or "half" my job doesn't exist or something. Or you talking about full time non-dev scrum masters?
My 980 is currently unpowered. I have not tried to integrate them yet. It's on my to-do list, but the first time they were both powered on, the system had booting issues, and I didn't want to care at the time, since the…
GitHub Copilot. It was one of the best values around in terms of cheap LLM access since each prompt was basically 4 cents (more or less), no matter how much it would do or how many tokens it used. A simple "Proceed"…
I added an R9700 32GB to my 10+ year old desktop that had a 980 4GB card in it, for a grand total of $1350 or so. The payoff compared to what I was using with GHCP was 33 months, but when GHCP announced their price…
I wonder if you paired a few different types of AI together, an LLM agent might be good at strategizing -. E.g. building a strategy on how to handle a scenario. But, it would need to know the entire game manual…