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ttt3tson The average CPU performance of PCs and notebooks fell for the first time

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

ttt3tson Balcony solar is taking off

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.

ttt3tson I'm glad I took the off-ramp from software engineering

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.

ttt3tson Nvidia-Ingest: Multi-modal data extraction

Do you have some benchmark results I can look at that compares results?

ttt3tson Nvidia-Ingest: Multi-modal data extraction

https://github.com/microsoft/table-transformer

This is much lighter weight and more reliable than vllm

ttt3tson As Gen X Nears Retirement, Many Fear They Can't Afford It

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.

ttt3tson Apple seeks to defend Google's billion-dollar payments in search case

"3rd party" browsers on iOS are just safari/webkit. They do not allow browsers that don't use safari/webkit.

ttt3tson My second year without a job

> 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.

ttt3tson UnitedHealthcare CEO fatally shot in midtown Manhattan

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.

ttt3tson Why Companies Are Ditching the Cloud: The Rise of Cloud Repatriation

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.

ttt3tson Nvidia passes Apple as most valuable company

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.

ttt3tson Nvidia passes Apple as most valuable company

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.

ttt3tson Nvidia passes Apple as most valuable company

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.

ttt3tson Why Companies Are Ditching the Cloud: The Rise of Cloud Repatriation

Yea, I call BS on 100Gb uplink for $1000. I have racked a lot of servers at different data centers. No way.

ttt3tson Windows 10 begins one-year countdown to end of support

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.

ttt3tson "Begin disabling installed extensions still using Manifest V2 in Chrome stable"

IMO they are still not as good although they have improved. I just develop in chrome and use Firefox for everything else.

ttt3tson Reddit policy changes make sitewide protests nearly impossible

> Lemmy is missing niche communities

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

ttt3tson Reddit policy changes make sitewide protests nearly impossible

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy

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

ttt3tson Cloudflare misidentifies Hetzner IPs as being located in Iran

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.

ttt3tson Proposed ballot measure to raise corporate taxes, give every Oregonian $750/year

What stops them from just charging 3% more? Kinda sounds like an awkward sales tax?

ttt3tson SearXNG is a free internet metasearch engine

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.

ttt3tson SearXNG is a free internet metasearch engine

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.

ttt3tson PfSense Software Embraces Change: A Strategic Migration to the Linux Kernel

Poorly executed april fools joke?

ttt3tson Florida's DeSantis signs law restricting social media for people under 16

> 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...

ttt3tson How Couples Meet

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?

ttt3tson Google will start showing AI-powered search results for users who didn't opt-in

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.

ttt3tson Marginalia: 3 Years

Cool engine. Going to check out source soon but "ROME2D16-2T" returned relevant results from esoteric sources. Useful.

ttt3tson Florida House of Representatives approves bill to ban social media for kids < 16

> 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.

ttt3tson Cost of employer-sponsored health insurance is flattening worker wages

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.

ttt3tson Benchmarks and comparison of LLM AI models and API hosting providers

Any chance of including some of the better fine tunes, e.g. wizard or tulu? (worse than mixtral but I assume other finetines will be better just like wizard and tulu are better than LLAMA2)

I guess their cost is same as base model although would effect performance.