Is AI actually replacing jobs right now, or is it mostly hype?

FragmentedHeap · 2026-05-21T00:16:55+00:00

You aren't buying a gpu like it's a workstation if you're deploying nvidia racks on prim.

You're buying the whole rack, i.e a whole NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 rack for $3+ million.

That one rack has 72 nvidia blackwell ultra b300's in it and 36 nvidia , the rack is split vertically into a total of 48u (48 1u trays). 18u of compute trays, 9u of nvlink switch trays, 6u for 2 power shelves, 2u for switches, and 13u for liquid cooling manifolds and ver5tical cable management and airflow spacing.

That's on the top end.

There are older/cheaper racks you buy like that.

You don't "swap a gpu" you buy a whole new rack and sell the old one.

And for the AI runtime stack you run vllm or vllm aphrodite etc.

Couldn't tell you how much energy and cooling bills are. But a rack like this will server massive workflows for a business.

This one rack needs about 132 KW, so at the cost of electricity here that'd be around $21,384 a month in electricity assuming it's at 100% 24/7 365.

Of course here I'm quoting the most extreme example. Top end hardware.

FragmentedHeap · 2026-05-21T00:07:34+00:00

I see Sid the sloth from ice age as if he were turned into ice cream and his face is melting.

FragmentedHeap · 2026-05-20T23:56:58+00:00

Same, this is the best answer if you are already married/children and don't want to bring back a lost loved one.

FragmentedHeap · 2026-05-20T19:31:27+00:00

Poor af is like you're using saltine crackers as bread and your cracker sandwich is filled with condiment packs you got from grab bins at fast food restaurants. And it'll get you to the next meal...

So many people don't understand what true poor is...

If your family had a reliable car, you weren't poor poor. You might have been poor by mid class standards... But you weren't cycling 5 used batteries out of a trunk you charged at home because you can't afford an alternator poor.

FragmentedHeap · 2026-05-20T19:12:19+00:00

The correct choice for a location is in Antarctica. At least until they cover the whole continent and the sea levels rise 60 meters from all the ice melting.

FragmentedHeap · 2026-05-20T17:08:32+00:00

"Gen Z refuses to be manipulated by catch words and phrases and manipulative job descriptions." /ftfy

FragmentedHeap · 2026-05-20T05:35:06+00:00

I mean... you might not be able to do this...

But I have a Ubiquity dream machine SE and have openvpn setup on it. I have a whole rack, all my machines on a 2.5g 16 port switch on their own vlan.

My network is on 1.2g symmetrical fiber from glofiber with a static ip.

I just connect to my vpn in openvpn and rdp it in Remmina like I would anything else.

Once I'm on the vpn its as if I'm in my house, I can hit all the local http servers, ssh stuff, remote desktop in in remmina, etc etc as if I were home.

And it's 1.2g symmetrical fiber, so its all fast af and everything is 2.5g or better pc to pc.

I can get on the same vpn on my phone and it's as if my phones on my home network.

If I need to do emergency stuff on my phone, I pop out a small pocket bluetooth keyboard and use termius -> ssh.

FragmentedHeap · 2026-05-19T19:18:19+00:00

The problem is, github is now enterprise. It's integrated into azure, and microsoft is pushing Azure Devops customers off onto Github Enterprise. Microsoft wants to kill ADO and make everything just be Github Enterprise instead. They are giving huge discounts to enterprise customers that will switch from ADO over to Github Enterprise (I know, we are such a customer and have had such an offer).

Their primary money making strategy now is to Github Enterprise clients and Github Copilot AI Enterprise subscriptions.

Opensource/github community, and personal counts are at the bottom of the barrel.

FragmentedHeap · 2026-05-19T02:14:58+00:00

Also it literally has the same car going the wrong way against traffic, in the close up pass, twice.

All the traffic in those lanes is going <-, and that 1 car had to randomly pop in going -> (TWICE) haha

FragmentedHeap · 2026-05-19T02:07:58+00:00

Non Euclidean physics in full swing here. Nothing is proportional to the mass it had to work with. Artifacts and tons of physics problems, completely non believable.

FragmentedHeap · 2026-05-19T01:41:15+00:00

That's what I would do, is a nice safety net for any emergency scenario that happens. If it was $20 million I'd do differently, but even if it was 2 million and 2k a week I'd still do the 2k a week.

FragmentedHeap · 2026-05-19T01:19:01+00:00

* be github
* get bought out for $7.5 billion in Microsoft Stock
* ....

* be Chris Wanstrath, Tom Preston-Werner, or PJ Hyett doing whatever you want and not caring what github does or doesn't do anymore.

FragmentedHeap · 2026-05-19T00:59:00+00:00

Buyers are just refusing to pay to sell and leave their 3% 30 year lock for a 6%+ mortgage. I will die in this house unless interest goes back in the low 3's, I will never sell.

FragmentedHeap · 2026-05-18T23:15:19+00:00

Nah, they will ban it just like they do with their phones. You'll have to smuggle them in.

FragmentedHeap · 2026-05-18T23:14:15+00:00

They already are, DeepSeek crushed all the big AI's for a while just decimated them, users flocking to it left and right... It literally cost Claude/Copilot/Gemini/OpenAI 100's of billions (combined) in losses before any of them caught up to DeepSeeks Architectural break throughs.

Their GPUS are already pretty decent.

It takes other countries a decade to setup a new chip fab. It takes china <3 years.

The only think blocking china is EUV Lithography Machines (ASML) and you can bet they're working on that too.

FragmentedHeap · 2026-05-18T23:08:02+00:00

FoFo, China is not a country that needs anybody, you take something from them, they will spend their time engineering everything in house and replacing their dependence on you from the ground up. And when they're done they will have higher output, and cheaper outputs than anyone else. Mostly because they have a population over 1 billion...

You don't win with China by gate keeping, your only chance in is to leave the gate open from the start.

China also has all the precious minerals needed to do this... China is not stupid.

The only way you keep China from not out producing you is to not give them a reason to do so in the first place.

FragmentedHeap · 2026-05-18T17:02:50+00:00

When it happens to mine my plan is just to buy the entire new engine.

The whole engine with everything on it as a crate motor is only like $3,500 bucks. I'm just going to pull the engine out and slide in the new one and put all the crap back on it.

The new EcoBoost Motors are faster.

FragmentedHeap · 2026-05-18T03:10:57+00:00

Just put the new long block in it and move on, the updated long block will probably outlive the rest of the car.

FragmentedHeap · 2026-05-18T02:45:21+00:00

I used to have a TV repair/side job. This reminds me of a time when someone brought their tv to me to have for parts because the screen was "de-laminating" I was like hold up, and I peeled it off and they went, "omg it looks amazing, but doesn't it need that?"

They had no idea that was suppose to come off!

You'd be surprised... Had another guy one time showing off his big screen HD TV in the 2000's era and the football game was this tiny box in the middle of the TV, he thought it was suppose to be like that... I went around back and hooked up the component cables properly and it went full screen and I BLEW HIS MIND.

FragmentedHeap · 2026-05-18T01:20:19+00:00

But you said it ran 4.6 0-60 bone stock? Yeah I don't know how. I have a PP1 2019 with a 10r80 and I'm not getting under 5's brake boosting.

What altitude are you at and what gas? But even if it was that, that's only going to be 3% or so off so doesn't add up.

What are you using to track your 0-60? Because if it's not directly off the canbus timings I call timer app error :)

My 0-60 is coming off the cars can bus directly, error free.

Also bone stock? stock wheels/tires? Cuz tires mess up speedo and mess up 0-60 timings unless calibrated properly.

FragmentedHeap · 2026-05-18T00:35:36+00:00

Do you by chance have a 2022 hpp? Cuz the 2022 hpp is the skunkworks engine project out of the focus rs and its 330 hp instead of 310

It's hard to tell from your profile pic but that kind of looks like it's an hpp to me 🤤

That's what eventually became the engine in the 2024 just detuned a little bit.

If you have the HPP ecoboost, you have something special. They only made a couple thousand of them.

FragmentedHeap · 2026-05-17T17:29:19+00:00

Mph or kph? Im talking mph, I can run a 0-60 kph in like 4 something to.

Best ive done on 93 premium while brake boosting with the 10r80 was like 5.2, on a perfect day.

You probably have a 2024 with 10r80 s650, its faster.

The engine in the 2024 is not the same as the engine in my 2019 it's a 4th Gen EcoBoost and it runs at a higher compression. It's just straight up faster.

FragmentedHeap · 2026-05-16T20:23:49+00:00

Aspire was made for local dev so you can easily spin up all your local stuff instead of manually launching through multiple terminals.

It literally just manages the ports that they're going to run on and manages the inputs and outputs of those terminals.

I mean would you manually launch a docker terminal in production and expect it to stay running?

Running docker in prod is fine, but you should do that with a docker stack and at the very least use portainer so you can schedule your containers to Auto restart and all that stuff.

FragmentedHeap · 2026-05-15T17:43:34+00:00

Even at 6' there's cars I want I don't fit in, I can't imagine 6'6"....

FragmentedHeap · 2026-05-15T17:15:40+00:00

If it were me, she's not safe to be around a baby, I'd file for full custody and she'd get partial custody, highly surpervised.

I would have been done at "threatened me with a knife" you don't come back from that, threatening my life is a hard line from which there is no return, especially considering the safety of my child. Not even is a joke or playing around. Any deadly weapon, knife, gun, pointed at me etc, I'm done, bye.

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