booty

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by booty 5d ago
the A connectors with the extra contacts in between the normal USB 2 ones still aren't enough. Oh jesus, I hadn't even realized that was a thing!
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by booty 5d ago
Everybody's situation is different but for me, it hasn't been too big a problem really. There are only a couple of places where I need the fancier cables that can carry video and have super high xfer speeds. Those don't m
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by booty 5d ago
Brother label printers (and I assume others) can print text small enough and sharp enough to fit onto USB connectors. (You'll need to manually trim the label with scissors to fit of course) Visually, if it's something I'm goi
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by booty 5d ago
Wow... have you found cheap cables that are able to display video despite not being advertised as such?
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by booty 5d ago
I didn't see his video, but after many years I finally figured that out independently and felt like a fool for it taking so long to realize. That's a real game changer.
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by booty 6d ago
It's not for everybody (what ever is, rite?) and since you "hardly have any pairs of cables that are similar enough to be interchangeable" then congrats, you're winning at life and don't need anything like this.
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by booty 6d ago
Large 4mil ziploc style bags are extremely durable and are about $0.26 each in bulk on Amazon. I very much recommend them. As a bonus, you can label them if desired. (Print a label out, or slap some tape on there and write on that, or just
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by booty 6d ago
For me, it's a big task just decompressing from a "normal" fun weekend convention where I've done nothing more than light drinking. I imagine decompressing from something like Burning Man would be even more intense... ev
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by booty 6d ago
Hmm, interesting. I've never had a static charge issue, but then again, maybe I will someday. I'll definitely look into that next time I mess around with my storage. Thank you.
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by booty 6d ago
God, yeah. I try to label the USB-C cables directly by capability with my label maker, if they are more than basic charging cables.
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by booty 6d ago
Grouping is also key to de-duplicating IMO. Can be tough to throw away a single cable. But when you have 10 of them grouped together, you know you can safely get rid of them. IM/FWIW: I personally have found 4mil ziploc-style bags to b
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by booty 6d ago
Key for me is to "group" cables. For example, I have a bag of USB-C cables, a bag of USB-A cables, etc. Grouping them is key to deduplicating. It's easy to look at a single legacy USB A-to-B "printer" cable in iso
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by booty 15d ago
Hahaha. It's an excellent question, though! I have not spun up my own homelab, but, I have researched it and the electricity costs can be mitigated to a large extent. One... the GPUs can be massively clocked down during idle state, to
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by booty 16d ago
Two thoughts. A $20/month Gemini subscription is truly all you need, then yeah, sure.... obviously a homelab setup is a ridiculous alternative on a pure cost basis. For most people doing "real" work with LLMs 40+ hours per we
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by booty 16d ago
What models you running? What effort level? Wild oversimplification, and benchmarks vary widely, but I've read a lot of benchmarks suggesting that Qwen3.8-27B (xhigh effort) competes with near-frontier models at a lot of coding tasks.
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by booty 21d ago
Anecdotally, ~$500-1500/month token spend at API OpenAI/Anthropic pricing seems pretty realistic for full-time engineers at companies with "liberal but not unlimited" LLM spend policies. This is of course anecdata. I kno
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by booty 21d ago
Compared to pricing from 3 years ago, it's insane. The Sparks admittedly are kind of anemic: 273GB/sec is the same bandwidth as a midrange 4060, although (depending on how you configure things) you can effectively have much greate
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by booty 22d ago
I work on a big web monolith on an M5 Pro 48GB. I'm usually running about ~4 instances of it locally in separate Git worktrees, which (in our setup) means I'm also running 4 copies of the whole stack: web, frontend, Redis, Postgre
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by booty 25d ago
GREAT classic question (with a well-defined answer) In general, the reason why modern CPUs are so complex is because the gap in performance between CPU and memory has grown massively over time. In the old days, something like a 6502 was run
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by booty 4mo ago
You definitely don't want too much realism, for most games - you probably don't want to manage bathroom trips! We just assume it happens "off camera" But when humanoid enemies behave in plainly stupid ways it's a
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by booty 4mo ago
I tried the qwen3.6-27b Q6_k GUFF in llama.cpp and LM Studio on my M2 MacBook Pro 32GB machine last week, and I barely get a token a second with either. The fact that it was this slow makes me suspect it's a matte
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by booty 4mo ago
It's highly improbable that the US government has a secret team inside Anthropic and OpenAI manipulating their training regimen. Two thoughts. One: it would be relatively technically trivial for $GOVERNMENT_AGENCY to just mon
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by booty 4mo ago
Yeah, at this point I think the worst-case scenario for OpenAI/Anthropic/etc is to slow down frontier model development and focus on tooling and services, as opposed to imploding completely and bursting the economic bubble. I hope
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by booty 4mo ago
Prevailing wisdom is that serving LLMs at a profit is achievable... it's when you factor in the cost of training them that prices get astronomical real fast. Open-source model inference providers (who do not have to bear the cost o
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by booty 12y ago
All I really want from a database IDE is awesome autocomplete for identifiers and keywords. (I consider SQL Server Management Studio's autocomplete to be great - if I could get that for Postgres, I'd be thrilled) You can get par
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by booty 13y ago
I was that way when I was younger. As I hit my thirties I found myself becoming a "morning person." Anecdotally, I find this is super common. I actually enjoy early-morning coding (before the rest of the world wakes up) more than late-nigh
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by booty 14y ago
Sure, I perfectly understand how bars work. Like you say, it's totally possible nobody at the bar knew this woman was being harassed. Especially if this guy has plenty of experience being a creep and has gotten good at doing without attra
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by booty 14y ago
I've been in this conference organizer's shoes before. On one hand, running a conference/convention is difficult enough without being asked to referee personal conflicts. It almost inevitably devolves into a he-said/she-said kind of argume