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New GPUs are quite a bit better than previous ones but perf oer dollar has been flat for a while now.

Also, if you're talking gaming GPUs old ones work fine given there has not been a new PlayStation or Xbox in many years. Min spec for many games is 5 years old tech

Fewer outages vs US source? I work in the power industry in the US and I am sure this is regionally true but highly doubt it as a blanket statement.
Re:I'm glad I took the off-ramp from software engineering on Monday February 10, 2025 @06:03PM (#43006439)
I am so happy I am not this jaded after over 20 years in software. I have never felt like I have hit a ceiling in terms of salary or skill. I still learn each and every day. I would get bored if this were not the case. Would I recommend it to everyone? Hell no but I wouldn't choose anything else.
Re:Nvidia-Ingest: Multi-modal data extraction on Saturday January 11, 2025 @01:05PM (#42667693)
Do you have some benchmark results I can look at that compares results?
Re:Nvidia-Ingest: Multi-modal data extraction on Friday January 10, 2025 @10:52AM (#42656708)
https://github.com/microsoft/table-transformer

This is much lighter weight and more reliable than vllm

Re:As Gen X Nears Retirement, Many Fear They Can't Afford It on Monday January 06, 2025 @10:32AM (#42611385)
https://www.statista.com/chart/30224/share-of-americans-who-...

Only 60% of us own any stock at all and often through 401k or other indirect investment.

"3rd party" browsers on iOS are just safari/webkit. They do not allow browsers that don't use safari/webkit.
Re:My second year without a job on Friday December 06, 2024 @05:18PM (#42345172)
> Kids are another huge factor that changes this.

Yep, I have have quit a perfectly good job to bum around Southeast Asia. Now that kids are in the picture being unemployed would be very stressful.

Re:UnitedHealthcare CEO fatally shot in midtown Manhattan on Wednesday December 04, 2024 @04:47PM (#42322380)
It isn't like US public system, medicare, is great. I still end up buying my folks supplemental. This narrative of pubic vs private misses most of the nuance.
If you don't mind me asking, to where? That is, what uplink do you see to your nearest AWS or gcloud? In the US, advertised residential speeds don't nessarly translate to realized gains. Just pushes the bottle neck to the ISP.

Agreed that either way it is way cheaper than cloud bandwidth.

Re:Nvidia passes Apple as most valuable company on Tuesday November 05, 2024 @11:31PM (#42057211)
I have used some of those systems, namely frontier (AMD). In the case of frontier, it is the US gov hedge their bets. The super computer before was Nvidia and the next is intel. Bunch of politics there which don't translate to business but make a ton of sense for a government.
Re:Nvidia passes Apple as most valuable company on Tuesday November 05, 2024 @08:37PM (#42056685)
Haha, I think that hope is officially dead. Although, Nvidia hardly cares about graphics right now so AMD might release a good gaming card even if it isn't "the best". Rising prices on the "best" will mean gamers never have them anyway.
Re:Nvidia passes Apple as most valuable company on Tuesday November 05, 2024 @08:30PM (#42056657)
I think a lot of people would consider alternatives if there were some. Sourcing AMD hardware is a PITA, even just renting for validation. On the consumer side, AMD announced they are done with top end GPUs for the time being.

I agree with you on marketing but Nvidia's relationships with the big cloud providers and big companies is more important. It locks AMD out.

Yea, I call BS on 100Gb uplink for $1000. I have racked a lot of servers at different data centers. No way.
Re:Windows 10 begins one-year countdown to end of support on Monday October 14, 2024 @08:55PM (#41843838)
I just put Windows 11 on its own little VLAN/WiFi island called "RebootRift." It lives alone, endlessly restarting, hoping one day it will be trustworthy enough to join the others—but deep down, it knows it never will.
Re:Manifest v2 is now removed from Chrome canary on Friday October 11, 2024 @03:56PM (#41813042)
IMO they are still not as good although they have improved. I just develop in chrome and use Firefox for everything else.
> Lemmy is missing niche communities

I would say the exception to this is communities reddit frowns upon. For example, piracy related.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy

Lemmy is one such alternative. I follow a few instances.

Re:Cloudflare misidentifies Hetzner IPs as being located in Iran on Wednesday September 18, 2024 @06:46PM (#41586460)
I have done that exact configuration for several of my clients who didn't realize any/much revenue in the EU. For them it was the obvious best move but I wish there was a better option.
What stops them from just charging 3% more? Kinda sounds like an awkward sales tax?
Re:NumPy 2.0.0 on Sunday June 16, 2024 @08:14PM (#40701199)
Given I just landed on this thread after running into an error running a major ML project (which often don't tag versions). No, this is going to be pretty annoying.
Re:SearXNG is a free internet metasearch engine on Saturday April 06, 2024 @09:15AM (#39952238)
A ~dozen. Several are technical and use it because it includes several private and paid engines on request.

Config is in a git repo I give access to if requested. One of the technical users modified it to keep pretty minimal logs. I guess they are trusting me to actually use that config but trust is pretty high in the group so not really an issue.

Re:SearXNG is a free internet metasearch engine on Friday April 05, 2024 @09:49PM (#39949316)
To add, I have been running instance for years for family and friends. I run it behind a nginix basic auth with a config that sets a forever cookie first time you login. Really simple. Another good option is cloud flare zero trust.
Poorly executed april fools joke?
> Maybe America just has a uniquely depressive social media environment?

You might have something here. Given the other responses to your post which are largely unrelated but undeniably depressing. Now I have to go see if such a study exists...

Re:How Couples Meet on Monday March 25, 2024 @08:17PM (#39822856)
What about meeting through any interest group? E.g. CrossFit, Climbing, underwater basket weaving? Just a little confused where those would end up on this chart?
I would recommend https://github.com/searxng/searxng

One of my biggest gripes with Google search these days are it's bad UI. Started using searxng a few years ago when Google made everything above the fold useless videos, excessive whitespace, and dynamically poping content to accedently click.

Re:Marginalia: 3 Years on Sunday February 25, 2024 @10:49AM (#39501750)
Cool engine. Going to check out source soon but "ROME2D16-2T" returned relevant results from esoteric sources. Useful.
> effectively regulating and destroying the anonymous nature of the internet

The bulk of the internet has not been anonymous for a while. Facebook requires an id already, Google tracks you using Google and the OS, reddit is tightening to control bots, amazon requires a phone number.

Think about it. What portion of your activities day to day on the Internet are anonymous? Now try to do them anonymously. It isn't practical/possible anymore and the internet of yesteryear is gone.

The rising costs of healthcare should not be simplified to this extreme. Other huge factors: we are getting older on average, fewer doctors, bureaucracy, transparency, etc. Further, these are heavily entertwined. Been working on costs of healthcare for a while and the laymens simplified explanation of the problem makes it tough at times.

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