the A connectors with the extra contacts in between the normal USB 2 ones still aren't enough. Oh jesus, I hadn't even realized that was a thing!
Everybody's situation is different but for me, it hasn't been too big a problem really. There are only a couple of places where I need the fancier cables that can carry video and have super high xfer speeds. Those don't…
Brother label printers (and I assume others) can print text small enough and sharp enough to fit onto USB connectors. (You'll need to manually trim the label with scissors to fit of course) Visually, if it's something…
Wow... have you found cheap cables that are able to display video despite not being advertised as such?
I didn't see his video, but after many years I finally figured that out independently and felt like a fool for it taking so long to realize. That's a real game changer.
It's not for everybody (what ever is, rite?) and since you "hardly have any pairs of cables that are similar enough to be interchangeable" then congrats, you're winning at life and don't need anything like this. The…
Large 4mil ziploc style bags are extremely durable and are about $0.26 each in bulk on Amazon. I very much recommend them. As a bonus, you can label them if desired. (Print a label out, or slap some tape on there and…
For me, it's a big task just decompressing from a "normal" fun weekend convention where I've done nothing more than light drinking. I imagine decompressing from something like Burning Man would be even more intense...…
Hmm, interesting. I've never had a static charge issue, but then again, maybe I will someday. I'll definitely look into that next time I mess around with my storage. Thank you.
God, yeah. I try to label the USB-C cables directly by capability with my label maker, if they are more than basic charging cables.
Grouping is also key to de-duplicating IMO. Can be tough to throw away a single cable. But when you have 10 of them grouped together, you know you can safely get rid of them. IM/FWIW: I personally have found 4mil…
Key for me is to "group" cables. For example, I have a bag of USB-C cables, a bag of USB-A cables, etc. Grouping them is key to deduplicating. It's easy to look at a single legacy USB A-to-B "printer" cable in isolation…
Hahaha. It's an excellent question, though! I have not spun up my own homelab, but, I have researched it and the electricity costs can be mitigated to a large extent. One... the GPUs can be massively clocked down during…
Two thoughts. A $20/month Gemini subscription is truly all you need, then yeah, sure.... obviously a homelab setup is a ridiculous alternative on a pure cost basis. For most people doing "real" work with LLMs 40+ hours…
What models you running? What effort level? Wild oversimplification, and benchmarks vary widely, but I've read a lot of benchmarks suggesting that Qwen3.8-27B (xhigh effort) competes with near-frontier models at a lot…
Anecdotally, ~$500-1500/month token spend at API OpenAI/Anthropic pricing seems pretty realistic for full-time engineers at companies with "liberal but not unlimited" LLM spend policies. This is of course anecdata. I…
Compared to pricing from 3 years ago, it's insane. Compared to 1-2 years worth of LLM tokens for a full-time software engineer, $12K for on-prem private LLM inference starts looking reasonable, particularly if privacy…
I work on a big web monolith on an M5 Pro 48GB. I'm usually running about ~4 instances of it locally in separate Git worktrees, which (in our setup) means I'm also running 4 copies of the whole stack: web, frontend,…
GREAT classic question (with a well-defined answer) In general, the reason why modern CPUs are so complex is because the gap in performance between CPU and memory has grown massively over time. In the old days,…
You definitely don't want too much realism, for most games - you probably don't want to manage bathroom trips! We just assume it happens "off camera" But when humanoid enemies behave in plainly stupid ways it's a real…
I tried the qwen3.6-27b Q6_k GUFF in llama.cpp and LM Studio on my M2 MacBook Pro 32GB machine last week, and I barely get a token a second with either. The fact that it was this slow makes me suspect it's a matter of…
It's highly improbable that the US government has a secret team inside Anthropic and OpenAI manipulating their training regimen. Two thoughts. One: it would be relatively technically trivial for $GOVERNMENT_AGENCY to…
Yeah, at this point I think the worst-case scenario for OpenAI/Anthropic/etc is to slow down frontier model development and focus on tooling and services, as opposed to imploding completely and bursting the economic…
Prevailing wisdom is that serving LLMs at a profit is achievable... it's when you factor in the cost of training them that prices get astronomical real fast. Open-source model inference providers (who do not have to…
All I really want from a database IDE is awesome autocomplete for identifiers and keywords. (I consider SQL Server Management Studio's autocomplete to be great - if I could get that for Postgres, I'd be thrilled) You…
the A connectors with the extra contacts in between the normal USB 2 ones still aren't enough. Oh jesus, I hadn't even realized that was a thing!
Everybody's situation is different but for me, it hasn't been too big a problem really. There are only a couple of places where I need the fancier cables that can carry video and have super high xfer speeds. Those don't…
Brother label printers (and I assume others) can print text small enough and sharp enough to fit onto USB connectors. (You'll need to manually trim the label with scissors to fit of course) Visually, if it's something…
Wow... have you found cheap cables that are able to display video despite not being advertised as such?
I didn't see his video, but after many years I finally figured that out independently and felt like a fool for it taking so long to realize. That's a real game changer.
It's not for everybody (what ever is, rite?) and since you "hardly have any pairs of cables that are similar enough to be interchangeable" then congrats, you're winning at life and don't need anything like this. The…
Large 4mil ziploc style bags are extremely durable and are about $0.26 each in bulk on Amazon. I very much recommend them. As a bonus, you can label them if desired. (Print a label out, or slap some tape on there and…
For me, it's a big task just decompressing from a "normal" fun weekend convention where I've done nothing more than light drinking. I imagine decompressing from something like Burning Man would be even more intense...…
Hmm, interesting. I've never had a static charge issue, but then again, maybe I will someday. I'll definitely look into that next time I mess around with my storage. Thank you.
God, yeah. I try to label the USB-C cables directly by capability with my label maker, if they are more than basic charging cables.
Grouping is also key to de-duplicating IMO. Can be tough to throw away a single cable. But when you have 10 of them grouped together, you know you can safely get rid of them. IM/FWIW: I personally have found 4mil…
Key for me is to "group" cables. For example, I have a bag of USB-C cables, a bag of USB-A cables, etc. Grouping them is key to deduplicating. It's easy to look at a single legacy USB A-to-B "printer" cable in isolation…
Hahaha. It's an excellent question, though! I have not spun up my own homelab, but, I have researched it and the electricity costs can be mitigated to a large extent. One... the GPUs can be massively clocked down during…
Two thoughts. A $20/month Gemini subscription is truly all you need, then yeah, sure.... obviously a homelab setup is a ridiculous alternative on a pure cost basis. For most people doing "real" work with LLMs 40+ hours…
What models you running? What effort level? Wild oversimplification, and benchmarks vary widely, but I've read a lot of benchmarks suggesting that Qwen3.8-27B (xhigh effort) competes with near-frontier models at a lot…
Anecdotally, ~$500-1500/month token spend at API OpenAI/Anthropic pricing seems pretty realistic for full-time engineers at companies with "liberal but not unlimited" LLM spend policies. This is of course anecdata. I…
Compared to pricing from 3 years ago, it's insane. Compared to 1-2 years worth of LLM tokens for a full-time software engineer, $12K for on-prem private LLM inference starts looking reasonable, particularly if privacy…
I work on a big web monolith on an M5 Pro 48GB. I'm usually running about ~4 instances of it locally in separate Git worktrees, which (in our setup) means I'm also running 4 copies of the whole stack: web, frontend,…
GREAT classic question (with a well-defined answer) In general, the reason why modern CPUs are so complex is because the gap in performance between CPU and memory has grown massively over time. In the old days,…
You definitely don't want too much realism, for most games - you probably don't want to manage bathroom trips! We just assume it happens "off camera" But when humanoid enemies behave in plainly stupid ways it's a real…
I tried the qwen3.6-27b Q6_k GUFF in llama.cpp and LM Studio on my M2 MacBook Pro 32GB machine last week, and I barely get a token a second with either. The fact that it was this slow makes me suspect it's a matter of…
It's highly improbable that the US government has a secret team inside Anthropic and OpenAI manipulating their training regimen. Two thoughts. One: it would be relatively technically trivial for $GOVERNMENT_AGENCY to…
Yeah, at this point I think the worst-case scenario for OpenAI/Anthropic/etc is to slow down frontier model development and focus on tooling and services, as opposed to imploding completely and bursting the economic…
Prevailing wisdom is that serving LLMs at a profit is achievable... it's when you factor in the cost of training them that prices get astronomical real fast. Open-source model inference providers (who do not have to…
All I really want from a database IDE is awesome autocomplete for identifiers and keywords. (I consider SQL Server Management Studio's autocomplete to be great - if I could get that for Postgres, I'd be thrilled) You…