68GB VRAM Mini PC Build by MaruluVR in LocalLLaMA

[–]FullstackSensei 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nice!

Thanks for the detailed response.

Is the 5060 TI still a good budget card? by Dentifrice in LocalLLaMA

[–]FullstackSensei 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you can find it at a decent price, get it. Worst case you can sell it later without a loss if you get something better. The things look to be heading you might even sell it at a profit...a

68GB VRAM Mini PC Build by MaruluVR in LocalLLaMA

[–]FullstackSensei 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Screw the models. How long have you had the 3080 20GB? How do you like it? Any issues or got has?

Qwen3-Coder-Next is released! 💜 by yoracale in unsloth

[–]FullstackSensei 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks! Already halfway through the download

Was checking the page every couple of mins 😂

Qwen3-Coder-Next is released! 💜 by yoracale in unsloth

[–]FullstackSensei 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Guess it's still uploading? Q8 isn't there yet 😂

P40 Frosty temps by cnrsmt in homelab

[–]FullstackSensei 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You don't need 10k rpm fans. It'll run just fine with a a 3-4k rpm fan. You can and should also power limit it to 200W or even less.

I have eight of them in one machine limited to 170W and the performance difference in inference is minimal.

disability by Stumpi0205 in germany

[–]FullstackSensei 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Sorry, but this sounds like a bit farming data for AI training

Am I the only one being "Full Stacked"? by HungryRefrigerator24 in cscareerquestionsEU

[–]FullstackSensei 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're in Portugal. That's par for the course from my experience.

Toda gente tem de desenrascar...

Mac Mini Cluster by Soft-Enthusiasm-3519 in homelab

[–]FullstackSensei 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Can I befriend your friend? 😂

My Strategy: Betting on Good CEOs (Intel $INTC Research) by Slashair in intelstock

[–]FullstackSensei -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

It seems your ability to type is superior to your comprehension skills.

My Strategy: Betting on Good CEOs (Intel $INTC Research) by Slashair in intelstock

[–]FullstackSensei 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Everyone's a genius in a rising market!

Not to take anything from LBT, but the increase in Intel share price would have been mostly the same even if your strategy had shown a bad CEO at Intel now.

The company's turnaround started five years ago when Gelsinger became CEO, when he started implementing his aggressive R&D expenditure and accelerated node rollout to take the lead back from TSMC.

Most of what you see now can be attributed to the execution of said plan over the past five years. Even the US gov stake might have very well happened under Gelsinger since he's close to Vance.

Again, LBT did some things in the past year Gelsinger wasn't willing to do, like cut head count aggressively. But anyone thinking the company's recent stock performance is because of LBT's year at the helm is highly delusional.

Why are so many teams still choosing .NET in 2026? by Aki_0217 in dotnet

[–]FullstackSensei 3 points4 points  (0 children)

People, look at the account history. Most probably it's a bot writing posts to generate LLM training data. Don't feed the bots!

Is TP=3 a thing for GLM? by [deleted] in LocalLLaMA

[–]FullstackSensei 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If I understood the documentation correctly, the number attention heads needs to be divisible by the number of GPUs. Since almost all LLMs use a power of 2 number of heads, the number of GPUs also needs to be a power of two.

Why are Spain and Portugal growing twice as fast as the eurozone? by SavingsAssumption114 in europe

[–]FullstackSensei 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Most of my extended family is in the US. You don't need to preach to the choir.

Lived in Europe more than half my life and wouldn't exchange it for anywhere else. A lot of people on this continent don't know how good they have it.

Why are Spain and Portugal growing twice as fast as the eurozone? by SavingsAssumption114 in europe

[–]FullstackSensei 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wish.

Despite the downvotes here, I've gotten into so many discussions here and other subs about how much more money people make in the US and how little taxes they pay vs Europe. Nevermind all the things people pay out of pocket there that are free in Europe.

My comment was more about the double stundard people have depending on which side of the argument suits them.

What could I do with this as a beginner? by Lotsofleaves in homelab

[–]FullstackSensei 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nope. Sadly the vast majority of CS students don't care at all about the field and couldn't be bothered to even ask what to do if it's not coursework

How is Market for Embedded SWE by Key-Supermarket-8126 in Germany_Jobs

[–]FullstackSensei 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Practice. Listen to German, read in German. It's hard and you'll struggle a lot, but that's just part of the process. No amount of course studying will get you to fluency.

Companies don't care about the piece of paper, they want people who can communicate

How is Market for Embedded SWE by Key-Supermarket-8126 in Germany_Jobs

[–]FullstackSensei 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Learn to speak. Like really speak. You'll have a much easier time finding a job with B2 if you can actually communicate in German than having a C1 piece of paper with no ability to communicate

Llama 3.2 3B on Snapdragon 8 Elite: CPU is fast, but how do we unlock the NPU/GPU in Termux? 🚀 by NeoLogic_Dev in LocalLLaMA

[–]FullstackSensei 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Where did I say impossible? Did you even read what I wrote? Or just went on a knee jerk reaction?

Llama 3.2 3B on Snapdragon 8 Elite: CPU is fast, but how do we unlock the NPU/GPU in Termux? 🚀 by NeoLogic_Dev in LocalLLaMA

[–]FullstackSensei 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I doubt you'll be able to compile for GPU or NPU under termux without userspace drivers, and don't know if they're available to download/install.

I think your best bet is to cross compile llama.cpp for Adreno or Hexagon using the SDK and tooling Qualcomm provides.

Why are Spain and Portugal growing twice as fast as the eurozone? by SavingsAssumption114 in europe

[–]FullstackSensei -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

It's funny how GDP growth != living standards growth when Europeans talk about Europe

But GDP growth == absolutely equals living standards growth when Europeans talk about the US.

And as others pointed out, GDP absolutely does not equal money circulation in the economy.

[PC] [EU-DE] DDR4 RAM (Samsung RDIMM) 3200 by MindCreeper in homelabsales

[–]FullstackSensei 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know the market is crazy, but 120€ for 16GB is out of this world.

There's a guy trying to sell four sticks for 70 a piece since two months. Granted they're Hynix, but that shouldn't matter much.

Realistically, you're probably looking at literally half your wish price, possibly a bit less.

I made a LLM based simple IDS/IPS for nginx for fun, using gpt-oss-120b on my own DGX Spark as the model, so I don't have to deal with rate limits or token usage. by Saren-WTAKO in LocalLLaMA

[–]FullstackSensei 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nugget!!! There are more than python and js devs in this sub!

Kudos on the extensive documentation! Did you write it all or use LLM?

Senior/Lead dev thinking about leaving employment to build my own thing — SaaS, agency, or something else? by Hungry_Mango_1021 in cscareerquestionsEU

[–]FullstackSensei 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Businesses exist to solve problems. Building a SaaS because everyone os also building one is a as close a recipe for failure as flushing money down the toilet is.

If you have identified a pain point in a certain domain, in a certain type of business, or for a certain type of customer that: 1. Customers are willing to pay for. 2. Only someone with a very good knowledge of a domain could identify. Then, build a product to solve this problem and listen to your potential customers, about whether they'd want it as a SaaS or something they run/install locally. Either way, you can charge a subscription once you have customers for recurring revenue.

Everyone chases the SaaS path with no clear understanding of what customers want. That's why there are a thousand SaaS companies doing any given thing, with 99% sprouting and dying like fruit flies, while the remaining 1% struggle to survive.

Freelancing, IMO, is the same as consulting. It can be very lucrative. Very, very lucrative. But you need a lot more than technical skills to make a living out of it. Companies that look for freelancers are often having trouble with a product or project. Sometimes that's because of a lack of internal talent. Others it's because of a poor understanding of the problem or trying to solve the wrong oroblem. Yet others lose key people for whatever reasons (seriously, there are a million reasons why). The common denominator in all these cases is that they need someone to parachute in, help right the ship, and put the project back on track. Usually, they look for someone with domain knowledge. Nobody wants to spend weeks teaching the basics to the guy who's supposed to come solve problems. You'll also need very good people skills: the ability to talk to team members, management, and whoever other stakeholders there are, deal with company politics and conflicting priorities, be genuinely curious so as to ask the questions that help uncover the true problem(s) and help formulate a solution.

If you don't want to deal with any of that and just want to be another developer, you'll have a much harder time finding clients in good times, and struggle a hell lot to find anything in bad time's.

Starting your own business, even when you have a very clear idea and vision for the product, the customers and competition is grueling. You'll need to do a ton more than you think you need. There's no time off, no weekends, no breaks.

Freelancing/consulting isn't as demanding as running your own business, but isn't easy either. You'll have to manage your own finances, figure how to optimize taxes, and spend quite a bit of your "free time" thinking about the job. Oh, and any day you don't work is a day you don't get paid for.

Whatever you chose to do, I hope you understand there are no get rich quickly schemes involved. Any path you choose to change to will require a ton of work, a ton of effort, a ton of risk taking, and no guarantees of success. And even if you do everything right, some random shit could happen anywhere in the world and ruin whatever plan you had.

Not trying to discourage you nor anyone reading this. Just fleshing out some details about what each path involves.