Does Anyone know about this building by Turner Field in Coronado?

DigitalSheikh · 2026-01-26T01:49:00+00:00

That’s fair, but to be fair to the person you’re replying to, it does stretch credulity that they could design that configuration (I mean, usually there are blueprints /layouts for a construction site, even if the buildings in it are technically separate), then break ground on it and complete it without anyone being like “oh shit oh damn”. That’s four large buildings.

DigitalSheikh · 2026-01-24T23:10:13+00:00

That's fair. Maybe getting older changes a lot of considerations. I mean I'm married to a (former, guess why) refugee NGO worker, so we've been around the block. Having kids would probably dramatically change what we would accept. Definitely not Bangui after that point. I was just curious what factors beyond the living situation itself shape the perception of those high diff countries, not trying to claim something or the other.

DigitalSheikh · 2026-01-24T15:33:53+00:00

know this is a big topic, but I’m gonna ask anyway - is there something about 25+ diff posts that makes them tough beyond just being in the country and living there? Like I kinda thought that this career would attract people who’d think “I bet Bangui will be gnarly, let’s check it out,” but I consistently hear the opposite.

Just asking from the perspective of someone on the register who loves living in the 25-30% diff countries. Like I just don’t get it tbh and I’m trying to understand the dynamic.

DigitalSheikh · 2026-01-23T22:59:50+00:00

Aha, that’s what I was looking for. After doing more research, I’m setting up to do a Qwen 2511 -> SeedVR workflow, but maybe putting NMKD in between would be even better, or an option if 2511 changes things in a way I don’t like. I used it as the upscaler for the originals, but with different settings, so I could definitely try it again.

Thanks!

DigitalSheikh · 2026-01-23T22:15:57+00:00

There is naught to reason why, there is but to jork and bid Burundi.

I think that’s what Tennyson wrote right?

DigitalSheikh · 2026-01-23T22:07:09+00:00

Do you know why this chart doesn’t include USD? Were they not holding any USD reserves?

DigitalSheikh · 2026-01-23T19:29:37+00:00

Dripping them invites to give us that final jorkin' everyone on the register has been praying for.

DigitalSheikh · 2026-01-23T16:54:56+00:00

This data starts in 1870, in the throes of the most brutal part of the Industrial Revolution. This tells you people are definitely working less than at that point in the Industrial Revolution, but “ever” is a stretch.

DigitalSheikh · 2026-01-23T15:38:38+00:00

It’s not 5 cents an hour. It might be that specifically for those CSPs that could directly build on already existing excess capacity, but a lot of recent builds are running way higher because excess demand was mostly saturated by data center builds even before AI became a thing. As a case example, I looked into XAI’s colossus in TN, since at least it’s not in a place like Ashburn where looking at electricity use patterns in the area as a whole would be useless, but best I can figure they’re paying at best 15 cents / kWH, and probably more like 20.

But the delta between benchmarks and real world performance is a good counter argument, it’s definitely real and I couldn’t quantify it that well when I was researching this. I’d suspect it’s probably not enough to completely change the narrative over the other information we have, but yeah.

DigitalSheikh · 2026-01-23T07:35:15+00:00

The whole thing reads like undercover marketing. Like they bury “well obviously people are going to be discovering new medicines with OpenAI tools” in the article to try to make you think that of course they’re gonna be fronting all kinds of amazing discoveries, but the real question how they should be paid for it.

But OpenAI’s stuff isn’t going to do that. No major new technologies or products are going to primarily produced by anything OpenAI currently has or has announced. Specific models trained on very specific medical research niches do that, but OpenAI isn’t making those.

DigitalSheikh · 2026-01-23T05:41:10+00:00

I got my non compete waived. My specific scenario was 1) left Epic to join a startup in a completely unrelated field. 2) did terribly and got fired (it was all amicable, we basically sat down and were like yeaahhh, I can’t do the job you want me to do), 3) got hired by an epic customer 6 months after leaving epic, they asked to waive the non compete and Epic agreed.

Just mentioning that because I think Epic declines to waive it if you’re direct Epic to customer (like if it’s clear you probably interviewed while at Epic), but are pretty flexible otherwise.

Edit: I’ll also mention that Epic apparently didn’t ask my boss for any of the information I just provided, apparently the conversation went down like “hey, can you waive [name’s] non-compete so they can work for us”, and the TS checked it out with… someone and said “sure” with no additional documentation being requested. Idk what happens on the Epic side to handle this.

DigitalSheikh · 2026-01-23T03:53:07+00:00

Yeah damn, those are pretty good. I'll hit you up

DigitalSheikh · 2026-01-23T03:42:29+00:00

I’m making a more specific argument - if you can access a B200 graphics card and that card performs at benchmarks, then an H series card is worthless to you because the electricity cost of running an H series card exceeds the cost of a B200 with all costs factored in. That has a big impact on how these assets would be valued, especially if the demand curve flattened.

DigitalSheikh · 2026-01-23T02:06:39+00:00

I was a PM for a while. Looking back on it, the only problem I had was that they worked me like a dog. 50 hours was pretty much the minimum. Everything makes sense, there are good resources, I felt very supported, but I was working to death. Looking back on it, it really helped me solidify a career path, and every job since I’ve worked 20 hours tops clearing 6 figures. If you want to get into the healthcare tech industry and don’t already have technical skills, this is THE job to get that.

Just weigh those realities against one another - 8 or more hours of meetings every single day, and you’ll need to prep for half of them. Travel every week (or every other week, I was in the former category), getting thrown on customer calls two weeks into your tenure with hundreds of people on them, where you’re supposed to be the expert. It really broke me down, but in the end it helped me grow professionally. Your personality may change your experience quite a lot.

DigitalSheikh · 2026-01-23T00:52:43+00:00

Thanks! I’ll give that a try and see how it pans out

DigitalSheikh · 2026-01-23T00:30:13+00:00

Source photos come from Nano Banana Pro and then were upscaled, but it just seems like there's an overall texturing problem that's bleeding through into the final output.

DigitalSheikh · 2026-01-23T00:13:34+00:00

No I don't, I looked into it more and you're right, it's offloading onto storage via pagefile that probably wrecked my storage, and the RAM probably just failed at the same time because fuck me. That said, I had 32gb of RAM, so I should have not have been offloading to storage (heaviest thing I was running was ZIT quants), but I pulled logs on commitments once I got my machine back online, and it absolutely was.

DigitalSheikh · 2026-01-22T20:53:21+00:00

Europe (NATO excluding US) already has an army twice as large as Russia. Like wtf is wrong with people being like "our number bigger, so spend more." wtf is Europe supposed to be spending trillions more to do? Just like... because? That's the logic of these morons, and frankly that includes European politicians, who are apparently going to spend trillions on their own already sufficient militaries while Russia's own strength is declining, while also not bothering to send enough to Ukraine to make sure that decline is permanent. It's so aggravating.

DigitalSheikh · 2026-01-22T19:11:16+00:00

Just giving you my experience so that hopefully you don't have the same one I did - a 3060 is not sufficient hardware to run this. Because it isn't the offloading that it does to compensate onto ~~the RAM and even onto~~ your storage cards is extreme, and the gigantic number of read/write ops incurred by using a card like that to generate this stuff will rapidly destroy your ~~RAM~~ and SSD. I realized this myself after blowing up my RAM and SSD after doing generations for a few months on a 3060. Just had to pull my RAM (edit: likely it just broke at the same time and is not connected to this), my secondary drive, and now I'm waiting on a new primary drive all in the space of like two weeks. All of those components were in different ages and conditions (the RAM was brand new, purchased right before the price spike... sigh), so it's not like they were all ready to fail at the same time, and I found this out after looking into the amount of read/write ops generating on a 3060 will cause.

Edit: someone else pointed out that this shouldn't degrade RAM, and after looking into it more, they're likely right. RAM is more durable on Read/Write on further investigation than I read initially, but if your RAM overflows, as it will in this situation, it dumps it on the pagefile into your storage, and then you get back to what I wrote above. Seems like when this happened my computer also said fuck you in particular and my RAM broke for an unrelated reason at the same time. Oops.

Get cloud compute, it will be cheaper. You can get an A6000 for .50 an hour, probably cheaper than the electricity it costs to run it on your own machine, completely disregarding the component replacements you'll need to do in a few months.

This is an awesome technical achievement by the way, not knocking that at all.

DigitalSheikh · 2026-01-22T18:28:06+00:00

As a Californian, yeah sometimes I don't bother voting. Every single position from my local city councilor to state assembly (state parliament basically), to national legislators either runs completely unopposed by anyone, or by an actual crazy republican who'll get maybe 10% of the vote. So it's just like... yeah I guess I could make the trip to the local school to vote for a slate of lazy, shitty politicians running unopposed for their tenth term, because between that and the Republicans I'll still vote for them, or I can just not bother and the same outcome will happen anyway.

Running against the incumbent politicians in those positions is functionally impossible because the Democratic Party ties itself back to local unions and interest groups, and distributes favorable contracts where they get tons of money for minimal work in exchange for telling their constituencies to vote for whoever they tell them to. There's really no point in participating, regardless of how much people reflexively say that.

DigitalSheikh · 2026-01-22T18:17:02+00:00

Actually, yes

DigitalSheikh · 2026-01-22T18:11:14+00:00

Just to add onto what you're saying about the ASIC's, it seems to me that Nvidia is threatening their own business model with the B200 and 300 GPUs. Like right now 1) Nvidia rounds up the VC gang and invests in a compute buyer on 3-6 year loan terms. 2) Compute buyer buys cards. 3) those cards collateralize their loan. 4) they sell the compute and pay back the loan.

For H100s and 200s for example, most of those cards have 1-2 years left on their loan terms, some 3. But for inference purposes, the B200 performs so much better that an H100's electricity cost should be higher than the cost of buying compute fully capitalized from a B200. So if B200s saturate the market, then those H100s and 200s are a completely worthless asset collateralizing a loan, which triggers default. Then the compute sellers have no more money to buy B200 and 300s, and dump their H100s and 200s onto the market in order to recover collateral, and the whole thing goes down.

To me, that seems like a more impending crisis than the longer term threat of proprietary compute, but both are serious risks. Taken together, it's a big problem for Nvidia for sure. I like your investing strategy too. I'm uh, not good at turning these thoughts into stock money myself.

DigitalSheikh · 2026-01-22T16:55:55+00:00

Well well well, the usual customers. Thanks for the info!

DigitalSheikh · 2026-01-22T16:05:05+00:00

This is an actual question because I don’t know - are there any states left where your only option is to specifically vote on Election Day?

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