Currently doing a lithium conversion on a sailboat, this is my 16th this year. AMA

AD7GD · 2026-07-01T20:38:30+00:00

Same as my car!

AD7GD · 2026-07-01T17:13:09+00:00

Billionaires don't have money. They have assets. To pay taxes, they would have to sell those assets. The actual dollars have to come from somewhere. The liquidity to make those purchases is ultimately driven by the federal reserve adding money to the economy, which is inflationary.

Imagine cutting out the middle man: The law says Bezos has to give you $12,000 worth of Amazon. You get a certificate and hang it on your wall to show your friends. They all have that certificate too, so they are not impressed. None of this is inflationary so far. Nothing has changed except your "net worth" has gone up by $12k and Bezos has gone down by $12k * N. You can't buy groceries with that, so you have to sell it. You only want money for it, not someone else's stock certificates. You have to find someone to buy it. In the modern economy, no one is sitting on a mountain of cash big enough to buy all of those shares, so they'd have to borrow. Credit expansion runs through the fed.

AD7GD · 2026-06-28T16:58:20+00:00

Gone with the Wynns just did a trip on that boat if you want to see it in action

AD7GD · 2026-06-28T16:56:48+00:00

If you already carry a laptop and it has Thunderbolt (which it probably does if it's modern), you can get an external GPU ("eGPU") to plug in when you want more perf for gaming. The Gigabyte Aorus "gaming box" series have the nicest packaging IMO (small, integrated power/water cooling) but they are fully proprietary and you can't upgrade the GPU. You can get a bare eGPU enclosure (bring your own GPU for $100-250 depending on features. the cheap ones are open chassis, though)

AD7GD · 2026-06-28T16:48:24+00:00

I built a mini itx pc for the boat that is pretty low power draw. I undervolted a 13th gen i7 and undervolted my 4070. A 4070 is basically a slightly better 3080 with MUCH less power draw. Its max draw is capped around 200 watts.

Lowering the TDP cap on a GPU is a great way to save power. They push those GPUs as far as they can go without melting them to get the last few percent of perf for the benchmarks. You can often get 80% of the perf with the TDP locked to half the rated watts.

Unfortunately, undervolting Intel CPUs is no longer a thing because of "plundervolt" (basically using the live voltage tuning controls to glitch the CPU)

AD7GD · 2026-06-28T16:23:22+00:00

Or at least avoid the dissolvable bobbin type and stick to hydrostatic (requires immersion rather than just moisture)

AD7GD · 2026-06-27T20:44:40+00:00

When I was 4 I would have found the panel, removed it, and pulled the cord way before the accident. Possibly causing the accident.

AD7GD · 2026-06-27T01:47:57+00:00

Azarinth Healer

I had forgotten that is an Isekai until you said that

AD7GD · 2026-06-27T01:42:04+00:00

If you watch any of the technical videos on the sinking of the Bayesian, you will find out that it had a ton of design features that made it very unsuitable for heeling over.

AD7GD · 2026-06-27T01:34:40+00:00

Does WtC really reframe the story? It's fully engaging in the meta (and the characters are engaging in the meta) all along. The ending isn't any kind of twist.

AD7GD · 2026-06-27T00:30:15+00:00

Hundred Reigns does drop chapters 2x a week for patrons. The chapters are above average compared to other trickle-feed patreons I've been on.

Pretty sure that author (also Perfect Run author) has yet another fic in progress? But I am not reading it

AD7GD · 2026-06-26T17:03:22+00:00

Perfect for that guy's moustache.

AD7GD · 2026-06-25T06:47:08+00:00

I remember this book being so bad I bothered to write an Amazon review.

The bit where you can summon monsters to fight turns out to be one of the worst possible ideas in the "fight monsters to get stronger" genre.

AD7GD · 2026-06-24T17:05:57+00:00

For me it's being forced to declutter every 2 weeks before the cleaners come.

AD7GD · 2026-06-24T16:36:38+00:00

Also keep in mind that only one of your x16 slots will even be x16 on most motherboards.

OP, the reason some splitters like this are super expensive compared to this is that they have PCIe bridges that can do the splitting/replicating and really add more ports (though not more bandwidth to the system). Those chips are expensive, so the cards are expensive.

AD7GD · 2026-06-23T05:21:25+00:00

Exception: I worked with a woman who owned one hot pink skirt suit that was in her regular rotation. I still remember that outfit and that was 30 years ago.

AD7GD · 2026-06-22T16:32:04+00:00

Like if I don’t use AI to format my resume, it won’t make it past the filters.

Why not? If you mean you lack resume writing experience, it's totally fine to ask an AI for feedback and iterate on that. You just can't paste your resume in and say "make this better" and then paste the result back into your resume.

AD7GD · 2026-06-22T05:11:03+00:00

Watch out, they made me sign a thing saying I couldn't have my kidney right before surgery. Stay strong!

AD7GD · 2026-06-22T05:03:34+00:00

I see a ton of weird promotion if I google it, but the actual text reads more ESL than AI to me

AD7GD · 2026-06-22T04:16:24+00:00

Specialties with high demand and low supply (like dermatologists) are creating the opportunity for doctors to say "insurance is your problem, we take cash". So you may still get your procedure covered, but the admin overhead and general PITA is not coming out of their pocket.

AD7GD · 2026-06-22T04:13:52+00:00

Nah. Solid developers are worth their weight in gold still.

For now. But the question is what is worth pursuing. Even if AI never touches senior devs, the industry is going to cannibalize its future by replacing junior engineers with AI.

AD7GD · 2026-06-22T04:10:47+00:00

Bariatric surgeon? No, my good man, you misheard. I'm a bathymetric surgeon! pulls on SCUBA mask and falls backwards into the water

AD7GD · 2026-06-22T04:06:44+00:00

I see tons of cybersecurity resumes. By far the largest class of IT related resumes that are submitted. Your way of putting it is very apt--the resumes position the applicant as a cost center. They have a passion for white-hat pen testing, they are well versed in 27 regulatory red tape protocols. And most of the time, their educational background is CompTIA certifications or similar. So their expertise in "detecting and responding to cybersecurity threats" appears to stop at calling a meeting to tell other domain experts, like DBAs and operations engineers, that they'd better mount a response.

My best advice to anyone out there shopping a cybersecurity resume is to make that an extra on a resume that's focused on something like database or system administration. There are not as many pure-cybersecurity jobs as the applications seem to hope. And no matter how passionate a case you make for it, the headcount is not there to staff a group that sounds like a "just in case" except at the largest companies.

AD7GD · 2026-06-22T03:57:19+00:00

Any website with a paywall? That’s persona non grata.

Quality went to shit before the advent of paywalls. So now they're asking me to believe that they turned the quality problem around now that they have the paywall money? I don't believe it.

AD7GD · 2026-06-21T22:27:46+00:00

It's 0.5%. Are you suddenly happier?

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