BlameThePeacock

@BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Selfhosting with a seven year old⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d argue home assistant with some smart LEDs and a few sensors would be great.

  Having a bulb that let’s you know the outside temperature/weather when you’re getting dressed in the morning is neat. Having a dimming pattern for sleeping time. Tons of other really simple stuff available too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does the private equity bubble compare to the AI bubble if at all?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, we really don’t have the data to prove this either way.

  tomshardware.com/…/faulty-nvidia-h100-gpus-and-hb…

  Meta’s training of Llama3 405B model had a 1.34% failure rate for GPUs over the 54 days it ran, across 16387 gpus. It’s not likely that all of those faults led to bricked hardware either, they could have just lost part of their performance or memory.

  The real question is does that test scale to the long term, often with hardware like this there’s a bathtub curve for failure. If those units used were brand new, many of the failures could have just been the initial wave of failures, and there could be a long period of relative stability that hadn’t even been seen yet.

  GPU based coin mining demonstrated that GPUs often had a lifespan over 5 years of constant use before failure on consumer cards in often less than ideal operating conditions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does the private equity bubble compare to the AI bubble if at all?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re pulling shit out of your ass at this point, there are some doom reports out of people suggesting that may be a problem, but there are also reports out of other companies(meta for example) with documentation saying the rate is much lower and the mean failure is 6+ years.

  The other leftovers from the crash also won’t have that problem. It’s not just about GPUs. Datacenters and their infrastructure last a lot longer, and the electric generation/transportation networks will also potentially be useful for various alternative applications if the AI use case flops.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does the private equity bubble compare to the AI bubble if at all?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re still somewhat functional for those workloads, and they can even use those low-precision components to emulate high-precision using libraries like cublas, though obviously not as fast as hardware that could do it natively.

  It’s not like they can’t do it at all. It’s just that Hopper was better at FP64 than Blackwell is but if Blackwell chips become effectively free due to an AI crash then you could likely still use them in that capacity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does the private equity bubble compare to the AI bubble if at all?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The power costs are nothing compared to the hardware costs for those things.

  Getting the massive power required is difficult for datacenters but the usage per unit of compute is actually quite low.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does the private equity bubble compare to the AI bubble if at all?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s important to note that in some previous bubbles, the leftovers of the crash ended up spurring new beneficial growth after.

  GPUlike computing power available at scape for essentially free after the ai crash could be used in all sorts of potential ways.

  Maybe it makes rending movies with special effects super cheap, and available even to tiny indie studios. Maybe scientists grab it for running physics simulations or disease treatment computations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are you using n8n for?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I hear theres a few neo Mennonite colonies starting up that only use tech before the turn of the millenia. Maybe you could look into them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are you using n8n for?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And the vast majority of my automations don’t use it because it isn’t required.

  I will stand by what I said, the tool is great even if you don’t touch AI at all with it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are you using n8n for?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The comment was wrong. It’s an automation tool. It can use ai, but its not the primary focus.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are people buying refurb pcs just to strip out the DDR 4 ram with the current price hikes on new ram?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is this happening? Probably

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How much money's out there?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Unless you’re in a desert with no stores around, in which case the person with 50 waters is going to tell you to go take a hike because that dollar is useless to them but the water will keep them alive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does no one in the bible have a last name?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because there were few enough people at that point in history, and they rarely moved around enough, such that a second name would be necessary to tell people apart.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How will the Military be after this mess with Trump?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The vast majority of people who join the military aren’t thinking so logically about the situation. They’re young, stupid, and often the money and benefits are the only real priority.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It really just helps in cases where you get hacked, but the hacker doesn’t have continued access. Say someone physically penetrates into your building, grabs the key through an unlocked station, and leaves.

  That being said, like you mentioned, if someone is going through this effort, 45 days vs 90 days likely won’t matter. They’ll probably have the data they need after a week anyways.

  Encryption key theft really requires a secondary attack afterwards to get the encrypted data by getting into the middle and either decrypting or redirecting traffic. It’s very much a state level/high-corporate attack, not some random group trying to make a few bucks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OPSEC social media related question⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just sell it through someone else who has an account.

  A family member, friend, neighbor, etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a word for when someone is not capable of, or doesn't try to understand verbal communication in a language, they are fluent in similar to functionally illiterate but for speech?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You mean Comprehension?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[NSQ Friday] Are sunchips really from the sun?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The molecules are also mostly created through the use of energy from our sun.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Noob RAM speed question⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Part of that is going to depend on what exactly you’re doing with the computer, and how fast the other components are.

  If you’re just browsing the internet and want to be able to have more than 5 tabs open before your computer starts stuttering, the extra ram will be far more important than the speed.

  If you’re playing games, and your CPU and GPU are really good compared to your ram already, the bottleneck from the ram speed dropping may slow things down rather than speed them up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What types of cleaning products do you *really* need to clean the bathroom?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Each thing gets washed once, with the appropriate chemical if needed.

  Generally for the toilet bowl, something with bleach.

  For surfaces like the toilet and sink, especially in a bathroom, I usually swap between using just some vinegar and Fantastic all purpose cleaner. Vinegar is fine most weeks, Fantastic once in a while to get some of the stuff Vinegar may not have got properly with those extra chemicals that it has but I could easily go months without needing it.

  I use water and a microfiber cloth for the mirrors and the faucet, a drop of dish soap if there’s something on it (like dried toothpaste spittle). This also works for walls most of the time if you wipe those, but I don’t wipe my walls very regularly, maybe once a year.

  Hot water is fine for the tile floor too, maybe it gets something stronger a couple times a year.

  You don’t need a lot unless someone in the household is sick with something that could be transmitted through a bathroom. Then hit it with harsher chemicals.

  One thing to note may be that in certain warmer climates, there are other considerations for mold and bacterial growth that I do not have to worry about where I live (in a cooler climate)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a fucking struggle right now, and It’s not supposed to be like this.

  You shouldn’t have to work a full time job, and take care of the house, and take care of the kids. Neither should the wife/partner.

  The fact that it requires two working parents at this point to afford life is the problem. There’s enough to go around even if just one parent was participating in the economy, if it was distributed more fairly.

  The pendulum has swung too far on capitalism, and it’s sucking the vast majority of people dry just to feed itself. There’s a reason why birthrates have jumped off a cliff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self hosted hands free app⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  So there’s an answer, and then there’s a problem.

  The easy answer is that Home Assistant has Voice Assistants now, and you can use Ollama, Whisper, and Piper to do that all locally.

  The problem is that it really only talks to Home Assistant, there’s no ability to have it search the web, or make a phone call, or really anything else outside of Home Assistant without significant addon stuffs.

  It also requires a reasonably significant amount of RAM on your computer to run the VM for Home Assistant while supporting Whisper and Piper and Ollama.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self hosted hands free app⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Agent voice response

  It’s even mostly open source.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do seemingly all politicians (and no one else) do that hand gesture when they talk, the one where it looks like they're holding an invisible fishing rod?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s neat.

  Why does that article contain no references more recent than 1806 though. Is it called something else these days? It seems like there should be more modern information on the practice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Based on your question, and your other comments, it sounds like the only way you’re getting laid is by paying for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How many people would a generation ship need to have for inbreeding to not be an issue?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That does not apply to humans who are capable of intentionally avoiding certain breeding problems, and also who have medical knowledge that can apply even if it does happen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some good things to purchase to add a new distraction to my life?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hockey, started in my late thirties, couldn’t even stop at the time.

  Great exercise

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reducing power consumption of a desktop PC⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  British Columbia

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reducing power consumption of a desktop PC⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The simple answer is most desktop PCs will not come even close to that at idle. Even just having a few case fans may draw more than that, without involving the CPU at all.

  Laptop devices can do that in some cases with their extra power management features.

  That being said, do the math to see if it matters. The difference between 10w and 40w is 0.7kwh per day, at least where I live that’s about 7 cents or about $25 per year.

  In my case it would be more expensive to purchase a dedicated low power device than it will save me in 4-5 years compared to just using something I already have laying around.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In terms of time investments, working out may be one possible consideration.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do Ghostwriters work? Does the person the book is about say to the writer I will give you 2 or 20 percent of the sales or is it a 50 50 split?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s definitely not 50/50, there would be a negotiated amount (Fixed or percentage) less than that. The ghostwriter may be employed by the publisher and just receive a salary too.