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I just finished building a water cooled Threadripper 9980X machine today (you can go see it on reddit in r/watercooling or r/threadripper.

My first ever build was a 386 though.

What fond memories.

I talked to ChatGPT about it for a while. It says mmWave means you can get 1-3gbps speeds if you're in a covered area. However, most are stadiums, airports, etc.. Verizon has by far the largest coverage, then AT&T.

At least in my daily use, it means nothing. I've also never seen speeds like that when I've tested the phone.

I generally look for high IQ and work ethic more than anything else. I don't even care if they don't have experience in the framework I need for example because good programmers can figure out stuff quickly.

So 1: very willing 2: Very willing 3: I don't even look at stuff like that

I just hire people that are skilled and capable.

That's by far the hardest part. Almost all referrals. I've tried everything including hiring a sales team paid on commission and nothing reliably works.

Because of that my pay varies pretty dramatically. Something always seems to come in at the right time, but I still haven't figured out how to reliably find clients, despite how many companies are looking for people out there (I'm an AI expert and lots of companies are interested in my work but they are very hard to find).

This was on the front page 5 minutes ago and gaining traction. Now it's not even on the 2nd or 3rd page.

What gives? This is an important topic.

I've also been on the hiring side of this. Within an hour of making a job posting on LinkedIN, I'll usually have 150+ applicants.

95%+ are unqualified and wading through the applications is a nightmare.

But the fact such a high percentage are unqualified leads me to believe a big part of all of this is people are reaching for jobs they cannot actually do creating unnecessary noise.

Last time I applied out in 2023, I probably submitted 700+ applications. I've been CTO of several medium sized organizations, CEO of a startup that exited, and am a great backend coder and software architect.

I got 2 interviews. One wanted me to be CTO to manage a 50 person team for $180k. I made $200k in 2014 managing a smaller team.

I gave up and do consulting now. It's actually easier to find clients and I can collect 3-5 paychecks. Works much better.

edit: I forgot a recruiter was working with me. I asked him what was going on. He said I was "too senior", "looked expensive", and "no one wants to hire white males right now."

I think most parts are geared towards gaming these days. When I've needed a server, I went for multi-CPU setups with older, cheaper CPUs.

That being said, for AI, HEDT is the obvious answer. Back in the day, it was much more affordable with my 9980XE only costing $2,000.

I just built a Threadripper 9980 system with 192GB of RAM and good lord it was expensive. I will actually benefit from it though and the company paid for it.

That being said, there is a glaring gap between "consumer" hardware meant for gaming and "workstation" hardware meant for real performance.

Have you looked into a 9960 Threadripper build? The CPU isn't TOO expensive, although the memory will be. But you'll get a significantly faster and better machine than something like a 9950X.

I also think besides the new Threadripper chips, there isn't much new out this year anyways to warrant upgrading.

Hyprland > Sway

That is one ugly watch.

Sure appears that way. Wish they used Starlink. 5G cuts out at high speeds.

The fact they don't mention they are any faster is disappointing. I'm all for a better cabin experience (I take the Acela at least once a month) although first class was perfectly acceptable. Much better than flying.

Yikes.

It's weird to me that ChatGPT would release a local model that you can't plug directly into their client.....kind of defeats the purpose.

Also creates a walled garden on purpose.

I didn't post this for people to feel bad for the VCs. It's super funny the banks totally fucked them. These "sophisticated investors".

Sounds like Windsurf.

I think Altman and Softbank wanted it more.

This is a wild story. It's all just marketing sleight of hand. Kind of pathetic.

The details have not come out about how they structured the deal, probably because it was shady as fuck.

This really breaks the social contract that startups and employees have had together for a very long time and will severely damage the ecosystem in the long term.

Shame on the VCs who got paid out allowing this to happen.

The VCs all got paid their multiples.

Google put a ton of money into the company which then repurchased select people's stock while leaving everyone else high and dry.

Actually, their recent acquirer is now raising at a $10B valuation from Founder's Fund.

They had plenty of value left even after getting gutted.

That was really shady.

I've tried to ask dozens of companies that wanted to hire me just for how many shares were outstanding and/or authorized. They almost always refused to share.

You can almost never get any info on equity until it's too late and you realize it's worth nothing.

I tell every engineer always to maximize their cash comp and every founder and investor always says "No, that's such a bad idea! Get more equity!"

Yeah, because that is in your interests, not the engineer's.

Awesome

This is fantastic news. Especially the way they are structuring the equity payout.

Am I the only one who finds AI not very helpful?

Just this morning, Cursor was giving me a ton of incorrect tab completions. When I use prompts, it tends to break more than it fixes. It's still a lot faster to write by hand. Lots of libraries that take *arguments in Python also cannot be groked by AI.

It's something you should never assume is true until the wire hits your account. I had a deal where I was going to make $15 million called off 36 hours before closing.

That's what my friends not from SF said. "This is insane, this would never happen"

Dude, I saw a lot crazier things happen on a monthly basis. And don't even get me started on the personal lives and partying that the show didn't display.