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gbgarbebon Was my $48K GPU server worth it?

Please, allow me to show you how far I can pee. It's several feet more than you can and a much mightier stream to boot.

gbgarbebon SF startup is testing robots in Airbnbs, and trashing them, lawsuit claims

$13,000 in damage you say? Where have I heard that number before... [1]

Keep it real, Kyle. It doesn't seem like you learned anything from the failure of your last company.

[1] https://weartv.com/news/local/report-pensacola-woman-charged...

gbgarbebon Stress disrupts hippocampal integration of overlapping events, memory inference

Very obvious Claude.

gbgarbebon I'm Tired of Talking to AI

I can't charge my car without my phone. Oh, also, I can't charge my car without the grid.

gbgarbebon SpaceX launches Starship v3 rocket

You might have it backwards. Trump 2 has been way more pro-SpaceX than Biden or Trump 1.

gbgarbebon The memory shortage is causing a repricing of consumer electronics

It'll definitely happen. After all, the collective hate for the oil barons 100 years ago put them out of business in a jiffy. /s

gbgarbebon Antigravity 2.0 Tops the OpenSCAD Architectural 3D LLM Benchmark

"Vase mode snap-fit box" sounds to me like "flexible concrete".

gbgarbebon Was my $48K GPU server worth it?

All the 22GB 2080 Ti are now $450-600.

gbgarbebon Was my $48K GPU server worth it?

24GB GPUs are $700-2500. Please show me the 64GB GPU for $1k.

gbgarbebon Kioxia and Dell cram 10 PB into slim 2RU server

$20 FPGAs have single event upset modules built in these days. You really think it's that hard to make a 2kB bootloader triple or quadruple redundant?

gbgarbebon Was my $48K GPU server worth it?

Bizarre. They don't care that eBay takes 14%?

gbgarbebon Was my $48K GPU server worth it?

A buyer can claim they never received it or that the box was empty, thus receiving a full refund.

For something listed at $25k I would not list on eBay at all. eBay corporate will pocket $3400 in fees and will also dock you local taxes on the $25k.

gbgarbebon Was my $48K GPU server worth it?

40-80 tok/s is unusable to you? Ok.

If you like having a box with 8-12 fans blasting hot air and noise into your office all day, nobody's stopping you.

gbgarbebon Was my $48K GPU server worth it?

The ones sold for $25k from established sellers are legit. Filter by "sold."

The 0-reputation account in Spain selling an M3U 512GB for $4200 is 100% fraud.

gbgarbebon The bird eye was pushed to an evolutionary extreme

Congratulations on missing the point.

gbgarbebon It is time to give up the dualism introduced by the debate on consciousness

Not for long, if I have my way.

gbgarbebon The bird eye was pushed to an evolutionary extreme

Squid are really stupid. What if blind spots make you smarter?

gbgarbebon Bun's experimental Rust rewrite hits 99.8% test compatibility on Linux x64 glibc

Rust is too mainstream now. Every Zig fanboy clutches to their heart the confidence that they are still a little bit "alt" in some way.

gbgarbebon Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent

Oops

gbgarbebon Bun's experimental Rust rewrite hits 99.8% test compatibility on Linux x64 glibc

Xunroll's "view on X" truncates the first character of the username.

gbgarbebon Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent

1.8 to 4.5 kW.

gbgarbebon I rebuilt my blog's cache. Bots are the audience now

It's about control. Admit it.

gbgarbebon A desktop made for one

Not a good look to be here fighting in the comments when you could have been writing something that reads like anything other than Claudeslop.

gbgarbebon I rebuilt my blog's cache. Bots are the audience now

Why not just redirect all requests to your website to the Reddit frontpage?

gbgarbebon A desktop made for one

Thank you. It would have been nice to see you personalize the hook and show your storytelling voice the way you personalized your computer in the story, but we aren't all poets.

gbgarbebon DeepSeek V4 – almost on the frontier

Then where did 200M come from? 200,000 tokens?

gbgarbebon DeepSeek V4 – almost on the frontier

All hail antirez.

gbgarbebon A desktop made for one

Did OP write this by hand? It reads like language written by a human overfitted on GPT 4o or Claude.

gbgarbebon I rebuilt my blog's cache. Bots are the audience now

This is like choosing to be an elementary school teacher and then quitting because it turns out your students for the year aren't your pets in perpetuity.