BlameThePeacock
@BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca
- Comment on The show I was watching went from "Free" to "Paid" *while I was watching it* 3 days ago:
Arrrrrr
- Comment on How does the private equity bubble compare to the AI bubble if at all? 1 week ago:
I mean, we really don’t have the data to prove this either way.
tomshardware.com/…/faulty-nvidia-h100-gpus-and-hb…
Meta’s training of Llama3 405B model had a 1.34% failure rate for GPUs over the 54 days it ran, across 16387 gpus. It’s not likely that all of those faults led to bricked hardware either, they could have just lost part of their performance or memory.
The real question is does that test scale to the long term, often with hardware like this there’s a bathtub curve for failure. If those units used were brand new, many of the failures could have just been the initial wave of failures, and there could be a long period of relative stability that hadn’t even been seen yet.
GPU based coin mining demonstrated that GPUs often had a lifespan over 5 years of constant use before failure on consumer cards in often less than ideal operating conditions.
- Comment on How does the private equity bubble compare to the AI bubble if at all? 1 week ago:
You’re pulling shit out of your ass at this point, there are some doom reports out of people suggesting that may be a problem, but there are also reports out of other companies(meta for example) with documentation saying the rate is much lower and the mean failure is 6+ years.
The other leftovers from the crash also won’t have that problem. It’s not just about GPUs. Datacenters and their infrastructure last a lot longer, and the electric generation/transportation networks will also potentially be useful for various alternative applications if the AI use case flops.
- Comment on How does the private equity bubble compare to the AI bubble if at all? 1 week ago:
They’re still somewhat functional for those workloads, and they can even use those low-precision components to emulate high-precision using libraries like cublas, though obviously not as fast as hardware that could do it natively.
It’s not like they can’t do it at all. It’s just that Hopper was better at FP64 than Blackwell is but if Blackwell chips become effectively free due to an AI crash then you could likely still use them in that capacity.
- Comment on How does the private equity bubble compare to the AI bubble if at all? 1 week ago:
The power costs are nothing compared to the hardware costs for those things.
Getting the massive power required is difficult for datacenters but the usage per unit of compute is actually quite low.
- Comment on How does the private equity bubble compare to the AI bubble if at all? 1 week ago:
It’s important to note that in some previous bubbles, the leftovers of the crash ended up spurring new beneficial growth after.
GPUlike computing power available at scape for essentially free after the ai crash could be used in all sorts of potential ways.
Maybe it makes rending movies with special effects super cheap, and available even to tiny indie studios. Maybe scientists grab it for running physics simulations or disease treatment computations.
- Comment on Are people buying refurb pcs just to strip out the DDR 4 ram with the current price hikes on new ram? 1 week ago:
Is this happening? Probably
- Comment on How much money's out there? 1 week ago:
Unless you’re in a desert with no stores around, in which case the person with 50 waters is going to tell you to go take a hike because that dollar is useless to them but the water will keep them alive.
- Comment on Why does no one in the bible have a last name? 2 weeks ago:
Because there were few enough people at that point in history, and they rarely moved around enough, such that a second name would be necessary to tell people apart.
- Comment on How will the Military be after this mess with Trump? 2 weeks ago:
The vast majority of people who join the military aren’t thinking so logically about the situation. They’re young, stupid, and often the money and benefits are the only real priority.
- Comment on IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending trillions on AI data centers will pay off at today's infrastructure costs 2 weeks ago:
“There is zero chance any of these investments are going to turn a profit.”
This isn’t accurate. There’s a zero chance ALL of them turn a profit, but there’s actually good chance that one or more of them will return a huge profit.
If I invest $100 in a hundred companies, and 99 of those companies fail, you may think I’m a terrible investor. If that 1 company returns $50,000 on my investment though, I’m actually a fucking genius.
That’s how venture capital works.
- Comment on OPSEC social media related question 2 weeks ago:
Just sell it through someone else who has an account.
A family member, friend, neighbor, etc.
- Comment on My Car Is Becoming a Brick: EVs are poised to age like smartphones. 3 weeks ago:
Taxi companies don’t keep specific vehicles for 20 years, they wear out long before then. Keeping them maintained to pass inspection at that point would be a costly nightmare.
The first Tesla only came out 17 years ago, and it was a 2-door sports car… so yea it’s not really surprising you wouldn’t see 15 year old Teslas regularly. They do exist though. The Model S has only been out for 13 years, and there are definitely still first run Model S vehicles driving around. There are 8 from that original year for sale on Autotrader.com right now, all in running condition.
There are only 2 Prius C from 2012, and 2 more Prius V from the same year. Those were the first years of each of those models as well, just like the Tesla.
I think Teslas are shit though. They’re designer brand electric cars, poor quality, and they make zero financial sense at all compared to full EV models from the likes of Hyundai, Kia, or VW.
Also, like I said in an other comment, Taxis are not driven the same way that a regular person drives their car. Hybrids are absolutely perfect for the Taxi driving use case. They make almost no sense when used once a day to go to work, and then hit the grocery store and gym on the way home.
- Comment on Is there a word for when someone is not capable of, or doesn't try to understand verbal communication in a language, they are fluent in similar to functionally illiterate but for speech? 3 weeks ago:
You mean Comprehension?
- Comment on My Car Is Becoming a Brick: EVs are poised to age like smartphones. 3 weeks ago:
Cabs don’t drive like you do. Neither based on distance driven, nor the constant stop and go driving that optimizes hybrid use case.
Full electric is better for a lot of taxi locations, which is why a lot of Cab companies are now starting to switch their fleets over.
Even Uber ditched it’s Uber Green branding for Uber Electric.
Every single Waymo on the road is fully electric at this point after they phased out their hybrid units a couple years ago.
- Comment on My Car Is Becoming a Brick: EVs are poised to age like smartphones. 3 weeks ago:
And then it will become more expensive to maintain than the gas version the year after, and worth less at resale because of a degraded battery or some shit.
Also, brakes are not a primary cost in ownership of a vehicle.
Math is fun, but you need to do a total cost of ownership calculation, not a cost to date calculation.
Full electric is simply better math.
- Comment on My Car Is Becoming a Brick: EVs are poised to age like smartphones. 3 weeks ago:
If you’ve only had it three years, the expensive maintenance part hasn’t started yet, it’s probably still under warranty.
- Comment on My Car Is Becoming a Brick: EVs are poised to age like smartphones. 3 weeks ago:
A) Your car is not an EV. It’s a Hybrid.
B) All hybrid cars were/are bad investments.
You take a car, make it more complicated by adding an entire second power and drive system, and then expect it to not cost a fortune to maintain later?
Fucking stupidity.
- Comment on Google tells employees it must double capacity every 6 months to meet AI demand 3 weeks ago:
Welcome to the Matrix.
- Comment on [NSQ Friday] Are sunchips really from the sun? 3 weeks ago:
The molecules are also mostly created through the use of energy from our sun.
- Comment on Noob RAM speed question 4 weeks ago:
Part of that is going to depend on what exactly you’re doing with the computer, and how fast the other components are.
If you’re just browsing the internet and want to be able to have more than 5 tabs open before your computer starts stuttering, the extra ram will be far more important than the speed.
If you’re playing games, and your CPU and GPU are really good compared to your ram already, the bottleneck from the ram speed dropping may slow things down rather than speed them up.
- Comment on The Data Center Resistance Has Arrived 4 weeks ago:
It won’t matter in the slightest.
- Comment on What types of cleaning products do you *really* need to clean the bathroom? 5 weeks ago:
Each thing gets washed once, with the appropriate chemical if needed.
Generally for the toilet bowl, something with bleach.
For surfaces like the toilet and sink, especially in a bathroom, I usually swap between using just some vinegar and Fantastic all purpose cleaner. Vinegar is fine most weeks, Fantastic once in a while to get some of the stuff Vinegar may not have got properly with those extra chemicals that it has but I could easily go months without needing it.
I use water and a microfiber cloth for the mirrors and the faucet, a drop of dish soap if there’s something on it (like dried toothpaste spittle). This also works for walls most of the time if you wipe those, but I don’t wipe my walls very regularly, maybe once a year.
Hot water is fine for the tile floor too, maybe it gets something stronger a couple times a year.
You don’t need a lot unless someone in the household is sick with something that could be transmitted through a bathroom. Then hit it with harsher chemicals.
One thing to note may be that in certain warmer climates, there are other considerations for mold and bacterial growth that I do not have to worry about where I live (in a cooler climate)
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
It’s a fucking struggle right now, and It’s not supposed to be like this.
You shouldn’t have to work a full time job, and take care of the house, and take care of the kids. Neither should the wife/partner.
The fact that it requires two working parents at this point to afford life is the problem. There’s enough to go around even if just one parent was participating in the economy, if it was distributed more fairly.
The pendulum has swung too far on capitalism, and it’s sucking the vast majority of people dry just to feed itself. There’s a reason why birthrates have jumped off a cliff.
- Comment on Online Oxford English Dictionary puts definitions/meanings and usage behind paywall 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Online Oxford English Dictionary puts definitions/meanings and usage behind paywall 5 weeks ago:
That ain’t going to work out for them.
- Comment on Why do seemingly all politicians (and no one else) do that hand gesture when they talk, the one where it looks like they're holding an invisible fishing rod? 1 month ago:
That’s neat.
Why does that article contain no references more recent than 1806 though. Is it called something else these days? It seems like there should be more modern information on the practice.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Based on your question, and your other comments, it sounds like the only way you’re getting laid is by paying for it.
- Comment on Generative AI is a societal disaster 1 month ago:
On one hand, you’re right.
On the other hand, you’re missing the point.
Jobs aren’t the the goal of life. People need to remember that. Our current system of distributing resources is broken if we don’t have enough jobs, but we could change the system rather than forcing everyone to work when it’s not needed.
- Comment on How many people would a generation ship need to have for inbreeding to not be an issue? 1 month ago:
That does not apply to humans who are capable of intentionally avoiding certain breeding problems, and also who have medical knowledge that can apply even if it does happen.