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  • Its probably a parent company situation.

    Lots of corpo structures are just large parent companies that actually just own a bunch of smaller companies so that the parent company gets the profits while the smaller companies make the risky products and can be bankrupted at any minute.

    The company I work for does that. We just bought a couple companies that were competitors in a risky but profitable market. The full idea is that if one company gets sued to oblivion, we let that company die, move all the employees and customers to the backup company, and call it a day.

    Capitalism baby!



  • I hate to report but Candice called Gaza a genocide and said when the vacation spot opens on Gaza beach we should look at those who went as vermin.

    1. obviously she’s a grifter who is rapidly loosing favor in the trump regime she helped build. So always keep that in mind.

    2. I’m personally not a fan of dehumanizing fascists or genocide enablers. I think its important that we remember that human beings are always capable of this.




  • It was really simple to do in Proxmox.

    You will find no name brand HBAs in IT mode on eBay for half the price of Intel, Supermicro, Dell, Etc branded ones. Do not buy the no names. I spent a week flashing and reflashing some cheap one, cycling through cables, etc. Nothing.

    My supermicro branded one worked absolutely no issue. And I think it was like $40

    It probably took a total of 30 minutes to pass it through and build the VM and everything. It took a couple days to rebuild my data from my previous truenas server but I had 10 TB of data on 4 drives.

    The only issues I’ve had have been my own reading comprehension in setting up truenas accounts.










  • A few months ago now, Arizona? Arkansas maybe? Some state legalized “AI powered” home schooling systems. But it was mostly clickbait and the system is less like ChatGPT and more like the YouTube Algorithm machine learning. It takes into account the stuff that students do well at and let’s them advance beyond “grade level” limitations while also learning how to present problem areas in ways the student responds to.

    I had asked my home schooled AI researcher buddy his thoughts and he obviously liked it. I like the idea too, but my hang up was on socializing kids. That to me is the more important role of schools.

    I wouldn’t trust an LLM in this set up though. A human tutor would still need to step in for questions outside of a FAQ IMO. I love working with an LLM by giving it all the manuals, guides, and config files I used then asking where I went wrong because it can usually give me a good enough interpretation to see where to go next. But that’s just a rubber duck. My mind and skills are developed. A kid learning math for Tue first time can’t do that.




  • From what I understand its not as fast as a consumer Nvdia card but but close.

    And you can have much more “Vram” because they do unified memory. I think the max is 75% of total system memory goes to the GPU. So a top spec Mac mini M4 Pro with 48GB of Ram would have 32gb dedicated to GPU/NPU tasks for $2000

    Compare that to JUST a 5090 32GB for $2000 MSRP and its pretty compelling.

    $200 and its the 64GB model with 2x 4090’s amounts of Vram.

    Its certainly better than the AMD AI experience and its the best price for getting into AI stuff so says nerds with more money and experience than me.


  • From what I understand its not as fast as a consumer Nvdia card but but close.

    And you can have much more “Vram” because they do unified memory. I think the max is 75% of total system memory goes to the GPU. So a top spec Mac mini M4 Pro with 48GB of Ram would have 32gb dedicated to GPU/NPU tasks for $2000

    Compare that to JUST a 5090 32GB for $2000 MSRP and its pretty compelling.

    $200 and its the 64GB model with 2x 4090’s amounts of Vram.

    Its certainly better than the AMD AI experience and its the best price for getting into AI stuff so says nerds with more money and experience than me.