OpticalMoose

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[–] OpticalMoose@discuss.tchncs.de 24 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Thank you for that explanation. My regex impaired ass thought he wanted to hurt generation[x|y|z].

I'm like "what'd we ever do to you?"

[–] OpticalMoose@discuss.tchncs.de 85 points 5 months ago (14 children)

At least the article points out that this is a Wall Street valuation, meaning it's meaningless in reality, the company doesn't have that much money, nor is it actually worth that much. In reality, Nvidia's tangible book value (plant, equipment, brands, logos, patents, etc.) is $37,436,000,000.

$37,436,000,000 / 29,600 employees = $1,264,729.73 per employee

Which isn't bad considering the median salary at Nvidia is $266,939 (up 17% from last year).

[–] OpticalMoose@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 5 months ago

It sounds like the processor is the real limitation. Plenty of stuff from Windows XP era and before ran in less than 512MB.

[–] OpticalMoose@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 6 months ago

Probably better to ask on !localllama@sh.itjust.works. Ollama should be able to give you a decent LLM, and RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) will let it reference your dataset.

The only issue is that you asked for a smart model, which usually means a larger one, plus the RAG portion consumes even more memory, which may be more than a typical laptop can handle. Smaller models have a higher tendency to hallucinate - produce incorrect answers.

Short answer - yes, you can do it. It's just a matter of how much RAM you have available and how long you're willing to wait for an answer.

[–] OpticalMoose@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 6 months ago

One thing I love about usenet is that it's great if you're just looking for one episode, song, etc and don't want to download a whole collection.

[–] OpticalMoose@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Why replace torrents? Why not use both? It's a bonus if your usenet provider includes a VPN.

[–] OpticalMoose@discuss.tchncs.de 88 points 7 months ago (13 children)

Even after the price cut, theirs is still 3x the price of Mercedes' system which works better. I have a feeling Tesla's earnings report won't go well this afternoon. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tesla-earnings-q1-175358835.html

[–] OpticalMoose@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I guess "It’s not for everyone" is the real takeaway here. I'm not a phone guy in general, but I've been using cards since BK was still selling 99¢ Whoppers. I'm guessing both of us are ready to pay before the cashier has our order rung up.

To each their own. (I'm finally admitting that I'm fighting a losing battle on writing checks though.)

[–] OpticalMoose@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 7 months ago

Same here. I guess I should have pointed out that I'm not really much of a phone guy to begin with. I don't install many apps, and I stay logged out of Google. To me, losing a phone really just means losing my pictures and videos. The most expensive phone I've ever had was $200.

[–] OpticalMoose@discuss.tchncs.de 22 points 7 months ago (24 children)

Using a phone sounds inconvenient to me. I usually just pull my card out of my wallet, wave it over the terminal until I hear a beep and that's it. Worst case scenario, I have to insert it into the chip reader or God-forbid swipe it through the slot like some kind of Neanderthal.

I'm kidding, but seriously, that's easier than screwing around with a phone, to me.

[–] OpticalMoose@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Obligatory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDxmpmln-CI

Words just mean whatever these folks want them to mean.

[–] OpticalMoose@discuss.tchncs.de 24 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I pirated a certain 'crash cars and shoot'em up' game because, even though I own it on Steam, the gameplay (especially the launcher) absolutely sucks.

No more automatically downloading online content when I don't even play online and no more updates breaking my mods. It's worked out so well that I'm looking at pirating other games I already own.

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