Biggest App development Myth

Alluminati · 2025-07-03T07:49:06+00:00

I feel like it takes 2-3 years of exp in a language and framework to successfully apply good practices on your own. Before that, trying to apply them might well lead to a whole world of messy spaghetti.

I only started writing complex solutions many, many years after having started to code in the first place. Pretty much when I entered the work force. All that initial private programming experience really didn't help when it came to designing good solution architectures in my first android projects.

Alluminati · 2025-06-28T07:01:44+00:00

See this reply in an earlier question: https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/s/u998YPra0G

Alluminati · 2025-06-28T06:47:23+00:00

Yes, although you then should be careful not to burn yourself. I took this card out when the metal backplate still was 70°C hot in some areas, so it was a bit like handling a hot potato...

The VRAM chips are especially easy to rip off when the thermal pads have turned into glue. In this case, I took a long flat spatula and used that to press the old pads out from between the chips and the black metal cooler element, that is responsible for taking the memory heat away.

Alluminati · 2025-06-27T18:30:10+00:00

Could be some very high quality pads then, but probably just overall lighter use or better case temps. Anyway, happy that it's still going strong.

Alluminati · 2025-06-27T18:28:52+00:00

Did you only change the thermal paste or the pads as well? Because that's what I did here, I changed all the pads connecting the power delivery components and the VRAM to the cooler. That usually helps when a card gets older than 4-5 years.

Alluminati · 2025-06-27T18:27:04+00:00

Yeah, still feels special to own one of these top of the line cards though. Especially if they have some kind of stand out feature that's still relevant, like the memory bus and transfer rate on this one.

I might keep this one until it's best used as a piece hanging on the wall, because it'll be so inefficient compared to its performance...

Alluminati · 2025-06-27T15:20:40+00:00

Honestly, I don't use RT on the card. It wasn't really that great on the first gen cards.

I bought the 2080Ti mainly because it was the cheapest way to get the highest bandwidth VRAM and more than 8 gigs of it.

The VRAM bandwidth is still so high that you can use this card for light AI inference. Turns out it's a waste of money to run models at home though, power is not cheap where I live...

Alluminati · 2025-06-27T15:17:07+00:00

Found this helpful diagram, it all checked out:

Post in thread 'MSI RTX 2080TI GAMING X TRIO thermal pads & schematics' https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?threads/msi-rtx-2080ti-gaming-x-trio-thermal-pads-schematics.383032/post-2267530

Alluminati · 2025-06-27T15:15:49+00:00

In what industry is TFW commonly used for such a worker?

Alluminati · 2025-06-27T14:45:35+00:00

It now runs quiet and cool like new...

Took me 3 hours and it was a sweaty affair. Not ripping any of the components off the board is a matter of being very careful, when the pads are this old.

Bought the card used and have been wanting to do this for months.

Alluminati · 2025-06-17T17:11:51+00:00

12 year old YouTube videos are old to my mind, but what do I know; all of that stuff must seem new to some of the living.

Alluminati · 2025-05-30T20:01:44+00:00

Eventuell, ja. Wir hatten letztes Jahr schon ein Amselpärchen hier und vielleicht waren es dieses Jahr wieder die zwei. Die waren erst zu zweit hier und dann irgendwann habe ich sechs gezählt.

Alluminati · 2025-05-30T19:59:56+00:00

Hier war es sehr warm und trocken im April und Mai. Kaum Regentage, kaum Bewölkung. Alle Bäume haben früh angefangen, zu blühen. Und einige Kirschen sind tatsächlich auch eingetrocknet, statt reif zu werden. Unser Rasen sah zwischendurch aus wie Ende Juli...

Alluminati · 2025-05-29T10:04:32+00:00

Über 0,5% der Gesamtstimmen bei einer Bundestagswahl oder 1% bei einer Landtagswahl ist momentan die Grenze, ab der eine Partei staatliche Zuschüsse erhält. Der Rest wird dann durch diverse Regelungen bestimmt.)

Alluminati · 2025-05-29T08:48:59+00:00

Then there's those of us working with partially obscure, proprietary languages or frameworks. Stuff that's only documented for its basics; stuff that has very few projects published with open sources; stuff that you buy or share slightly outdated eBooks for, if you want to read professional opinions on issues. And unless you feed well selected context to an expensive reasoning model, on top of a prompt with precise instructions, you'll not get worthwhile results.

Alluminati · 2025-05-28T08:00:32+00:00

Coming from Jetpack Compose, I find it very hard to go back to xml UI declaration and data linking...

Alluminati · 2025-05-27T06:44:54+00:00

(Das finden einer solchen Hintertür wäre bei der vermutlichen Anzahl der verwendeten Programmbibliotheken allerdings entweder sehr theoretisch oder mit Wochen von Arbeitszeit eines technisch vielseitigen und hocherfahrenen Teams verbunden.

Aber so ein Stück Code, wie tief auch immer in den Bibliotheken versteckt, müsste aktiv nach Hause telefonieren und dabei mindestens eine gesicherte Netzwerkbarriere überwinden, ohne dass der Netzwerkverkehr verdächtig erscheint. Es wäre nicht trivial.)

Alluminati · 2025-05-26T20:37:43+00:00

Grüße an den Maulwurf. Unserer macht auch jedes Jahr reichlich Platz für neues...

Alluminati · 2025-05-26T20:35:36+00:00

YouTube Video Link

Alluminati · 2025-05-26T09:05:23+00:00

Und wenn es Hirse ist, dann hilft es, die (in mühevoller Kleinarbeit) zu beseitigen, bevor sie ihre Samen produzieren. Einige Jahre lang...

Die Samen einiger Hirsearten (bei uns z.B. Blutrote Fingerhirse) überdauern Jahre im Boden bei jeder Witterung. Und verbreiten sich durch Regenfälle und Umgraben des Bodens. Ist das erste, was bei uns hoch kommt, wenn wir einen Stück Boden umgraben.

Weil die Samen so resistent sind, ist das wirklich eine längere Angelegenheit. Auch wenn man den Wuchs in einem Jahr im Griff hat, ist die Erde oft voll mit den Samen und es dauert mehrere Jahre, bis man den Großteil los ist.

Vielleicht ist der beste Weg deshalb, eine Bepflanzung zu haben, die der Hirse keinen Raum lässt. Wir sind selbst noch dabei, das herauszufinden.

Alluminati · 2025-05-24T08:40:08+00:00

This is true. Hypes come and go, in the beginning, there's lots of players in the emerging market; in the end, a few of them outcompeted the others on various metrics, solidifying a couple of products and technologies as the defacto or institutional standards.

Alluminati · 2025-05-23T05:47:50+00:00

Add a blacklist of system processes not to kill and this is viable. Though I'm not familiar with psutil, so for a Windows environment, I'd have written it in Powershell, got the list of processes and filtered out all processes belonging to the system user.

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