You must have a way bigger home than me. No way am I going to be listening to that jet engine sounding hardware in my house.

The problem with that is that a big chunk of that hardware is in formats that are no good for home use.

I think the prevalence of canned pineapple is a big part of the problem. Most canned stuff just isn’t all that good on pizza.

So you are also in favour of genocide then? The fuck is the point of your comment?

Oh? And which third party was running that you voted for?

Nah, that’s a complete waste of your time. You’d be far better off celebrating by going outside and enjoying the weather.

Fabled? It’s perfectly ordinary. I see the D drive all the time. At home it used to be an HDD to store things that didn’t need the speed of the SSD (media, documents, etc), and now it’s where USB drives end up on my work laptop.

You can’t?

Can’t have that cheat code in science, unless they let their models study the behavior of real ant colonies as part of their reinforcement learning process.

You know, that’s actually one of the very few types of use case where I’d be ok with the massive resource consumption of AI data centers. Just feed enormous volumes of raw sensor data into model training and see if it comes up with patterns and connections that we didn’t notice.

I’ve entered my crotchety old man phase early. Amazon has given me an unreasonable hatred of online shopping, and therefore I do everything in my power to find brick and mortar places to shop at.

Before upgrading my server to a DDR4 platform, I’m pretty sure I had bought the last 32 GB kit of DDR3 in the country. Dude at the store was surprised it was even there.

Poor choice? Debbie is the one with long hair.

It’s that stuff you download to make your computer run faster.

It’s a victory in the sense that it’s a major headache that he’s now not going to have to deal with.

Even more fun is that US customary units are explicitly defined by their metric equivalents. So the US is using metric whether they like it or not, they just slap pointless conversion factors on top.

That infographic looks to be for a VPS deployment, which is where the cost would be coming from. They’re comparing to a $9,000+ OpenAI payment.

If it’s just a media server that spends 99.5% of its life idling, temps might not actually be that bad.

Yup. Just checked in Ontario, and if you want to drive from Windsor to Kenora, that’s a 24 hour drive. If you shortcut through the US, it’s only 19 hours

I know “terrorist” as a term has been so abused for so long, that it’s now effectively meaningless, but I really do think that you’ve stretched it beyond its breaking point here.

“Doing” implies at least some level of success, while “trying” doesn’t.