There was absolutely no reason to bring up that you were coding longer than I was alive other than to imply that your age is a reason why the argument is invalid.

Funny how you use your age as an argument but see it as entitled when I point out the reverse.

Calling your operating system “Linux”–when Linux is just the kernel and not the OS–doesn’t really help your argument here.

I specifically referenced Gnu tools, window managers, etc. What is wrong with you?

My age isn’t important to the argument. That’s not an opinion.

I noticed now that I posted my age you didn’t respond with yours.

Go get your reading glasses

You can’t get past personal attacks. First it was I’m too young. When that attack didn’t work, it’s now I’m too old.

Unless you work at Microsoft on the code, you have absolutely no basis for your claim that the entire code base should be thrown out. I use Linux. There are frequent bugs that require me to type in a command manually to work around. It would be insane to claim that all of Linux (I’m also referring to all the gnu tools, window managers etc) should be thrown out and start fresh.

I’m approaching 60.

How old are you? I’m guessing you are like 40. You don’t even know who Joel is.

It’s bad form to attack me personally instead of the argument.

Joel addressed your argument that the code is misread throughout the entire essay. Code is easier to write than read.

You should never rewrite a large program:

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-never-do-part-i/

Ideally you want stories to go with the photos. Your memory will fade. You’ll forget some stories. For the stories you remember you’ll forget details. Write the stories. The photos are a supplement for your stories.

I write notes on the photos.

You should value yourself more. If you think it’s important to have history passed down more than 20 years or whatever the average person remembers, then your own life should be as valuable to you.

Burned DVDs use a dye that turns dark when hit with a laser. The dye was claimed to be stable for 100 years but wasn’t. Mdisc is different and should last longer.

Because in 20 years your memory will be lost. But you’ll run across the photo and it will be incredible. It will both remind you and fill in the gaps that your memory lost.

I have all the best photos of my kids printed every year into a photo album. I don’t trust digital despite having 3 copies. My 100 year azzo verbatim DVDs kept in black cases in the basement went bad after 10 years. Mdisc on paper should actually last 100 unlike azzo but I don’t trust it either.

No, full models are not loaded into each GPU to improve the tokens per second.

The full Gpt 3 needs around 640GB of vram to store the weights. There is no single GPU (ai processor like a100) with 640 GB of vram. The model is split across multiple gpus (AI processers).

I don’t see the difference between breakdown and cleanup.

Unless breakdown means an emotional breakdown because the project failed and you need to start over or deal with a huge unexpected issue.

You can. But I don’t think it will help because the igpu is so slow.

https://medium.com/@mayvic/llm-multi-gpu-batch-inference-with-accelerate-edadbef3e239

More gpus do improve performance:

https://medium.com/@geronimo7/llms-multi-gpu-inference-with-accelerate-5a8333e4c5db

All large AI systems are built of multiple “gpus” (AI processers like Blackwell ). Really large AI models are run on a cluster of individual servers connected by 800 GB/s network interfaces.

However igpus are so slow that it wouldn’t offer significant performance improvement.

Then post an alternative. Newegg isn’t a good choice: https://youtu.be/2fnXsmXzphI

For keyboards and some other parts you can window shop at Amazon and then go direct to the manufacturer’s website to make a purchase.

That leaves Microcenter. Which the poster above mentioned.

After Sonos bricked their old hardware to force upgrades, I wouldn’t trust Sonos if they sold analog jack headphones.

The important part is to not stop until it actually can have an effect. Cut off the oil in 18 months so inflation skyrockets before mid terms.

If anything is resolved now, it will only encourage shenanigans again after US midterm elections.

If Trump’s problem is with fentanyl, why didn’t he tariff fentanyl?

/s

It was 1997 not 1947. Those parts were skeevy even then. People were even more sensitive about power dynamics and women’s rights. Clinton was raked over coals for an inappropriate relationship with an underling. Nowadays Trump can pay for sex while his wife is pregnant and gets elected President.

We’ve gone backwards.

They’ve turned blocking thieves into an income stream. Consumers will have to let CVS collect their personal data to be allowed to purchase baby formula.

Re: Shining

Mom dropped me off at the movies to see Star wars (again). As I walk in the screen showed elevators doors open and a waterfall of blood pour out. I found an usher because I thought I was in the wrong room.

Trailers, man.

??? The success of the Mini PC formfactor has caused a big resurgence of egpu products. Now they are sold as empty pcie slots with a thunderbolt or occulink port. You provide your own GPU and power supply.

Here’s a new product from last month:

https://youtu.be/o-csSxd3TJo