What is ridiculous is how funny it is when your three year old stubs his toe on the coffee table and yells "oh for fucks sake!", but you have to hide all that amusement.

Good job expressing yourself, little man. It was accurate and concise, but we're going to try not to say that.

Depends on your definition of budget friendly, I suppose. I was looking around the other day and the cheapest working 24GB RTX 3090 on eBay was $1800 CAD after exchange rate, shipping and all the rest.

Hugely inflated from the $700 they were once going for. Maybe there are still deals around.

Actually budget friendly is RTX 3060 12Gb.

With one you can run 9B/12B models which are fine for text tasks like chatting or summarisation. Not for precision like tool calling or code.

With two of them you can run models up to Qwen 27B and 35B with a few-turn context window (8k-16k). Dense at 14t/s and MoE at 68t/s.

With three of them you can run 128k context, though you'll need a large format case and the right motherboard or PCIe riser.

I'm running three and even with a new case this setup cost me less than one 3090.

This seems quite unlikely. What motherboard are you getting three 16x GPUs on? That alone with the associated sever processor would be more than a used 3090, before even buying the three 3060s. Give full BOM and costs.

That's insane. I bought two in December for ARS 1.2M (a little less than USD 1000). Maybe OpenClaw raised the demand.

Wild I paid $1000 CAD for mine 2 years ago, I guess things have changed.

Because they are hugely more useful now than running some stupid game at 240 fps instead of 60 fps.

They're not a particularly fast card compared to something like a 5070, they have lots of VRAM.

That's why they were cheap before.

Also "Some stupid game", who woke up and made you king of hobbies.

It is getting pretty hard for my family of four to go out and eat for less than $100, but we have food at home.

At home, my external IPv4 address was the same for extended periods of time even though I never paid for a static IP. You could have figured the traffic was coming from the same location.

The one external IP to many internal devices relationship does help with privacy.

But once you enable those IPv6 privacy extensions, I have so many devices bouncing between IPs I’m not sure how you’d even know how many devices I have, let alone which device is which.

My experience is that this is largely true only of the biggest ISPs in the US and Europe that were around in the 90s and have IPv4 in plenty. In other countries or even with other ISPs I see fairly frequent turnover.

Agree it’s not the biggest deal but it is a pity and something the protocol stack around IPv6 should support (daily/weekly randomizing of prefix unless someone needs the stability). The vast majority of modern devices and usecases get no additional value from being stably addressable from the internet.

Learning to move quietly is definitely a skill. A baby just forces you to realize how needlessly loud you are.

When I was a kid my grandfather lived downstairs. He had Alzheimer's, slept at some pretty weird times, and could get pretty mad pretty fast.

I sneak up on everybody to this day.

Yes, this would stop people from asking for my key when they choose the wrong one for a new AWS EC2 instance.

Not a chance. It is my key.

Still better than five eighths.

Hah, old memories unlocked. As a kid I remember using “eatable” to mess with people because it “wasn’t a word”.

Is it edible? Yeah, it is eatable.

Here I am, years later, learning I was right all along.

Between then and now, what ever happened to "no code development" or whatever they called it, where all of the world's APIs could be connected with lines in a diagram?

low code / no code, and it's been around in one form or fashion since the 1990's, at least.

I have broken dishes loading and unloading the dishwasher. Am I a massive failure?

My non-AI dishwasher can't even always keep the water inside. Nothing is perfect.

If someone paid 100 grand for you to load and unload the the dishwasher, and the research to be able to do it costed hundreds of billions, decades of research, hundreds of thousands of researchers, and that was the ONLY thing you could do, yes, you WOULD be a massive failure.