sunbeam60

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[–] sunbeam60@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 days ago

Nej det ville ikke. Jeg bor i England og vi har differentieret moms på alle mulige ting. Det håndterer supermarkederne fint. Herre Jemen, det lyder som om et kæmpe 900 millioners projekt (der løber op til 2.3 milliarder) som et kæmpe konsulent firma tager.

[–] sunbeam60@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 days ago

Save more than you need.

Run fiscal history simulations (several programs do this for you). If I had invested this money in 1900, how would this have fared? If I had invested this money in 1901, how would this have fared. Etc.

Accept that you can’t plan for everything except your own resilience. You may have to adjust your spend if things are looking harder than you had planned for. You’ll be fine. At least that’s what I tell myself.

My fiscal plan has me running out in 0% of historical scenarios, which is belt and braces. Still need to save a lot before I can retire according to that fiscal plan.

[–] sunbeam60@lemmy.ml 9 points 5 days ago

Yes they do. Not sure if 48 counts as older than you, but I’ve definitely seen economic cycles and peace/war cycles come and go. This too shall pass.

[–] sunbeam60@lemmy.ml 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

I run EXOS drives in the under-stair cupboard. They’re noisy but they’re not that bad.

There’s definitely a chance my knowledge is no longer current but I would 100% verify that for your operating system of choice (which I presume is Linux), your AMD CPU can deliver hardware transcoding under Plex. I’ve not heard of AMD CPUs handling this under Linux at least. Ready to be corrected.

[–] sunbeam60@lemmy.ml 7 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (5 children)

You’re not using a CPU that most distributions support for hardware transcoding. You either need to use an Intel CPU with QuickSync or stick a discrete nvidia card in the box. The Intel route is often easiest here, and I say this as a die hard AMD fan.

Are you intent on building your own box?

I’m only asking because TerraMaster does the F6-424 (or F4-424) series which has 6 bays (or 4), a decent CPU (1235U) with hardware transcoding support, space for two 4x4 NVME m.2 SSDs, which runs silently and will just work as an appliance, even though it is a full PC. You can then install unraid or truenas on it, or heck bareback Linux and do it yourself. There are decent alternatives to putting something together yourself.

Regarding disks Seagate EXOS are often cheaper than IronWolfs and have higher MTBF than even the Pro. Don’t ask me why they’re lower cost, for more bang.

[–] sunbeam60@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 days ago

And what you could do is to enable an LLM to use these tools and reason about their outcome. Complaining that an LLM isn’t good at adding numbers is like complaining that humans aren’t as fast as calculators when multiplying large numbers.

[–] sunbeam60@lemmy.ml 13 points 6 days ago

Until we move away from FPTP, new parties are as much a risk as they are a boon.

And then, yes, big parties change when little parties threaten them (UKIP vs Tory, classic example) but wouldn’t it just be so much easier if you knew your vote wouldn’t be wasted and you could express your opinion freely in the voting booth and expect to see results in parliament?

It’s no wonder people feel disconnected from politics in the UK.

[–] sunbeam60@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 days ago (2 children)

This is such a misguided article, sorry.

Obviously you’d be an idiot to use AI to number crunch.

But AI can be extremely useful for sentence analytics. For example, if you’re trying to classify user feedback as positive or negative and then derive categories from the masses of text and squash the text into those categories.

Google Sheets already does tonnes of this and we’re not writing articles about it.

[–] sunbeam60@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

That was partly a result of seeking explicit compatibility with Lotus, IIRC.

[–] sunbeam60@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 days ago

I’d agree that the average game dev is on Unity or unreal and won’t be hand optimizing any inner loops.

But there are a surprising amount of studios still on their own tech and there the low-level engineers definitely do (I’ve worked in the industry and have seen it first hand - and done it myself).

It also tends to be at the start of a console’s life span before the compiler and linker is mature up against the hardware.

[–] sunbeam60@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

Many games are still hand optimised in assembly, at least the inner loops.

[–] sunbeam60@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 week ago

They’re not. They’re using this as an excuse to become paid gatekeepers of the internet as we know it. All that’s happening is that Cloudflare is using this to menuever into position where they can say “nice traffic you’ve got there - would be a shame if something happened to it”.

AI companies are crap.

What Cloudflare is doing here is also crap.

And we’re cheering it on.

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