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I paid $5000 for the workstation (2019) and upgraded to NVMe later, and I pay $0 for the datacenter because I have referred clients to their business and established a relationship over the years. Because when people find out how much cheaper it is to skip the cloud, they switch but don't know where to go.

I could upgrade to dual 2.5 GigE but I have nothing that needs that much bandwidth. I can download 30gb from hugging face in a few minutes which doesn't bother me.

The DC is about to onboard another client of mine, a startup that ran on AWS credits for 9 months. They are upgrading to a 64 core 2TB ram box that was an extra the DC had, for $3500, which will probably go into the rack next to mine.

I rent server rack space at a datacenter where I have a beefy workstation to do all my work. I use VS Code Remote and SSH port forwarding. The workstation has fast 2TB NVMe and 64gb of ram, 16 cores and a RTX GPU. It's actually cheaper and faster than our production cloud server.

I tried Github Codespaces and thought it was cool but wasn't nearly as fast as my remote workstation.

What does it mean to go Haymaker on you, am I up against the Amish? That being said I've seen agile fail so hard in so many ways. Currently I'm dealing with incomponent people trying to design and assign tasks.

Coming from somebody who has $260M reasons to say so.

weaviate takes about 15-30% of my CPU just being idle. Whatever it is doing, nobody knows...

I've had cavities disappear, and teeth recover. I've had before and after x-rays side by side taken by shocked dentists. It's not to hard to believe, children teeth grow.

My teeth regrow. I've mostly kept it a secret to myself because people disbelieve me. Good to know there's evidence it can be done now, I feel vindicated.

this isn't that big of a deal. People do this on purpose. Collect cars, wait until the price of steel goes up, and bring in a moble crusher and truck them out to a port. It's pretty common practice. If you play your cards right, you can make money. It's only 8 acres. I've seen 40+ acres full of cars, which were crushed in a few days with a special machine.

after 6 captcha, I gave up.

My second thought was utilizing some nodejs express reverse proxy -- with some kind of rate limiting slow down, but the attack stopped and I moved on to something else.

sh*t my bad

Recently fighting with bots in a different situation. I discovered you can return code "466" in nginx, which is a special code that completely disconnects the TCP session.

didn't want to hijack the thread about my personal setup, but that's almost about right amount of power usage I aim at entirely, about 120-200 watts per hour: but there are other things plugged in besides my desktop like ... my entire house. Lights, freezer, monitor, radio, DC adapters, starlink. Another 30-50w is just insane to run Figma. My freezer chest uses less and at least I can grab a steak.

good opportunity to try the free and totally open source Big Science Petals chat: https://chat.petals.dev/ ... Try out Stable Beluga 2 70B

I am currently running my 3090 GPU on there to help out, you can check out https://health.petals.dev/

If you have a spare GPU, consider contributing: https://github.com/bigscience-workshop/petals . I am not associated with them.

No, it's even better. Check out the UI/UX!

Requiring figma at a job should be a human rights violation :). I'm off the grid and whenever I use figma it drains my batteries with a high CPU load. I have to be careful to open it during the dead winter, if I leave it open I could drain my entire 5kw setup. If I throttle my CPU, it's totally unusable. Hopefully I can get a more efficent setup (currently an old 2400GE minipc). Usually I take a screen snapshot because this has happened.

we moved over to talk.brave.com

I'm not immediately recalling the Getty situation, could you perhaps enlighten me?

Are there any large or publically shared evaluation datasets and corresponding question and answer validation data?

shouldn't we all get a refund check for 39% of the price we paid for a CPU?

writing graphql resolvers by hand was what I did in ... 2017. I've been using postgraphile since and couldn't be happier. I don't think I've written a single line of Apollo in 5+ years.

And with postgraphile, and a remix/next BFF, you don't even need a backend!

to me it took quitting coffee. But it took over 200 days to begin to notice. It's not as simple as quitting coffee for a few weeks. and really, 1-2 years.

I've come to the conclusion that anything that "abstracts" the openai complete/chat complete API call is just bad practice and to stay away from the entire framework, with the exception of microsoft guidance. Just because you can, doesn't mean you should. And if you do abstract the completion API, then it must either reduce friction or increase capabilities over just calling openai with http fetch/axios. Which microsoft guidance does this.

Nobody wants to read your spam ridden medium article.

it was called the phoenix browser.

Ironically, now you can work from home at your old work office. They wanted us back in the office, they got it.

> Consumers who have any other form of cancer should ask a doctor before use.

I wonder why?

on startupschool I met several groups that are trying this. One of them, when I asked for a follow up meeting about ethics, instead took a small write up I wrote to respond to their technical needs (...literally a two page write up) and immediately sent it to upwork. Three weeks later, lol, when that didn't work out, they contacted me again. I'm not going to disclose who it was, but I have a new policy now: Absolutely, under no circumstances will I consider working with former McKinsey partners.

We're calling it LLMOps

my OpenAI API account got nuked due to a missing organization error when I switched clients one night. I just got an email back from their support... took them 2 months. For reference, ChatGPT API has been out for only 3 months.