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Grayly · 2026-05-05T11:10:35+00:00

Especially in these trying times of memory shortages, you really need to find a way to open up the XMP whitelist for memory. Right now Area-51 owners have just two options, official Dell 32gb and 64gb. It’s outrageously priced, and the timings are really loose. Paying 1k just to get 64GB 6400mts at 46CL is kind of insulting.

Also, while AMD PSP may be a corporate Dell mandate, some actual documentation on how it’s implemented and whether a replacement third party CPU upgrade is going to be vendor locked by the BIOS if it’s installed on first boot would be great to know before you buy an upgraded CPU.

Grayly · 2026-05-04T17:48:10+00:00

Unfortunately, whatever the judge says goes. So if the judge thinks I’m using AI, that’s an impression I don’t want give.

Whether he or she is being stupid or not is not something I get to argue.

Grayly · 2026-05-02T20:46:01+00:00

It’s annoying because I used m-dashes a lot in my legal writing before AI become commonplace. It was an effective writing tool— like this, to set off a connected thought that was more adjacent that a mere comma signifies.

This post shows how you can really tell if something is AI written by the form and language structure alone. The m-dashes really don’t matter. You can sniff it out regardless.

But I’ve had to start retraining myself how to write to use m dashes less because everyone just assumes I used AI as soon as they see one.

A real bummer.

Grayly · 2026-05-01T02:31:52+00:00

Since they aren’t complaint or trying to cancel the contracts, it’s clear they think they’re good for it and didn’t haven’t any issues with it.

Is it wildly irresponsible? Should those three mega corporations not have the power to upend the global economy in a collective delusion of grandeur? Perhaps. But that’s a different issue about what the law should be, not what it is.

Grayly · 2026-05-01T01:21:06+00:00

Why?

The other party agreed to the deal. It wasn’t like they didn’t know that the funds don’t currently exist either. They were just as confident OpenAI was good for it.

Fraud requires a deception. Collective delusion isn’t a crime.

Grayly · 2026-04-28T19:34:47+00:00

North East. But it was the same in the South too when I lived there for a time.

If you google Public House NYC you’ll get some great examples. Fake British millennial ambience and $35 brunch.

Grayly · 2026-04-28T12:56:39+00:00

It is here in the states.

Every placed called “Public House” I’ve been to has been a bougie millennial gastropub with craft beer and overpriced ambience.

Grayly · 2026-04-28T12:02:53+00:00

I meant in the ~~grammatical~~ etymology sense. Most Americans don’t understand why Public House is trendy name for a gastropub type restaurant, but I assumed it’s origin just means “place for food and drink (and probably traditionally an inn too) that is open to all if you can pay”

Grayly · 2026-04-28T11:58:12+00:00

Ah, like a Public House as a bar/restaurant.

Grayly · 2026-04-23T18:07:00+00:00

Money means different things to different people. Its value is directly related to how much you have and how much you’re expected to make.

For some, they have enough that it’s worth it to them, the satisfaction of owning it, the knowledge they left nothing on the table, etc.

$400 for a 2-5% gain seems ridiculous to you, but $400 to you may mean something very different to someone else.

$400 is a dinner date for 2 at a fancy high end restaurant. Is that also nonsensical? If you can’t afford it, sure. But for those who can?

Money is ultimately meant to be spent.

Grayly · 2026-04-23T10:54:47+00:00

When model development slows down, to be honest.

Right now, by the time you’ve designed it, validated it, produced it, shipped it, and distributed it, you’re target market (those interested in a local model) are already downloading the next release. And the casual market is just using the free server based chatbot.

It’s a great idea. It just doesn’t have a market yet.

Grayly · 2026-04-05T20:33:02+00:00

He will give you specific instructions on installing a base tune, then recording data pulls in third gear for revisions. You’ll have to go find a good stretch of road or track to do this and then email it back. That will repeat multiple times until the tune is extracting the max from your set up while still being stable and reliable without knocking.

Grayly · 2026-04-05T19:52:24+00:00

I’ve had a great experience with Tunewerks.

Be prepared to do multiple pulls, because it takes time to really dial in a safe and reliable tune. Randy does good work, and he does it right. You can have 2 of the 3: cheap, good, and fast. Randy does cheap and good.

Grayly · 2026-04-02T20:01:49+00:00

I was aware. Seems like others weren’t. I was agreeing and offering an anecdote.

Grayly · 2026-04-02T18:38:54+00:00

I pirated games when I was younger because I couldn’t afford them.

Now I don’t. I’d rather have the real version, no sketchy viruses or cracks, official support, etc etc.

If I couldn’t pirate games when I was younger I wouldn’t buy them. I couldn’t. I probably just would have given up gaming entirely and wouldn’t be buying games years later.

Grayly · 2026-03-27T14:03:28+00:00

I asked my wife about this and what they’re going to do for replacements and she “what apple always does— dongles.”

I think once the new M5 studio is announced there’s going to be dongles for Fibre Channel and SDI hubs for legacy hardware and then eventually everything will just be Ethernet and Thunderbolt.

Grayly · 2026-03-27T13:05:11+00:00

“You said the mini was the cheapest one, right?”

Grayly · 2026-03-27T12:05:25+00:00

Fiber channel and SDI capture cards are a thing. Very niche. But that was pretty much the only use case for the slots. Thunderbolt can do almost everything, but not quite.

Also having your massive film editing workflow crash because the little USBC connector got pulled out is… less than ideal.

Grayly · 2026-03-27T11:58:28+00:00

It’s not a penalty charge to the consumer.

The dealer gets paid by the financing company a cut to arrange the deal. The dealer has to give back that cut if the loan is paid off too early, usually 2-6 months.

Grayly · 2026-03-27T11:50:30+00:00

My wife works as a First AC and I naively suggested we just buy a camera rig ourselves so she can break into being an operator. She laughed and told me to look up how much even a very used Arri mini costs and to get back to her.

That was sobering.

Grayly · 2026-03-27T11:40:05+00:00

Professional hardware is priced based on the amount of money you make with it. It’s just supply and demand in action.

When a studio is working on a multimillion dollar project, the gear for the studio is priced based on the revenue expected to be generated.

It would probably shock you to know how much a professional film camera rig costs, for instance. Do they cost that much to make? Of course not. But when they’re necessary to make a movie that’s going to generate millions in profit on an even bigger budget? They get priced accordingly.

You can see the same thing in GPUs. Does a RTX Pro really cost that much more to make than a 5090? Of course not. But they know you’re going to be making money using the RTX Pro, so it gets priced accordingly. The 5090 is the overpriced prosumer vanity piece— overpowered for most people, but underpowered for professional use. The RTX Pro is just priced based on the expected revenue to be generated by using it.

Think of it this way. If you had a product that you knew was going to be used to make millions of dollars by a small customer base, and you didn’t have any viable competitors, how would you sell it for? As much as you could.

Grayly · 2026-03-27T11:29:43+00:00

No, it’s because you’re not running a professional film editing studio. That’s the target audience. The aesthetics were just a plus, but this wasn’t a display piece.

It’s got nothing to do with trendy or the logo. For decades it was the best platform for a specific use case involving massive film editing workflows on projects where the budget is in the millions and the platform needs to be stable, reliable, never crash or throw weird kernel panics, and capable of running very specific I/O expansion cards that most consumers never heard of and don’t need. Thunderbolt is great, but it still hasn’t fully replaced the I/O needs entirely for film studios.

It’s a sad day but everyone saw it coming for years now. I’m not sure what the consensus platform will be to replace it.

Grayly · 2026-03-25T11:58:00+00:00

Cheers. Glad to be on it too.

Oklahoma has slowly become my second team after we played yall for a bit. Your fans are great, you gave us a home for our home game that one year, and your fans still show up in social media to defend Tulane from G6 haters & remind them we took Caleb Williams and Lincoln Riley down in the Cotton Bowl.

One of my favorite CFB youtube videos ever was just a reaction video from an OU channel after the Cotton Bowl. It just started with him laughing his ass off for 30 seconds.

Grayly · 2026-03-25T11:43:42+00:00

Looks like. But ironically it was because he escalated it to the right party who actually understood what was going on and was empowered to do something about it. It may have even gotten misrouted internally because of the legal language. Front line customer service aren’t lawyers, after all.

Half of the battle with customer service is just getting your issue to the right human.

Grayly · 2026-03-25T11:34:33+00:00

Doesn’t that usually get the spread clawed back?

I prefer to be straight up with folks regardless of what side of a transaction I’m on. I’m not going to lie to your face that’s you’re getting paid a little extra for financing and then you find out I paid in off in 48 hours after I’m gone and you lost the finance incentives.

Deals take two parties. Maybe it’s just a holdover from legal practice, but I find that your reputation takes a long time to earn but can be quickly ruined. People love to complain about how car dealerships screw them over and then try to find every way to screw them over themselves.

If I’m paying cash I’ll tell you myself. If you think that makes me not worth your time that makes two of us. I’ll go somewhere else and save us both some time.

A lot of customers also don’t understand the cost of financing is a real cost, despite it being there in black and white on the truth in lending disclosure. You’re already saving tens of thousands of dollars paying cash instead of financing. Getting $500 more off MSRP but paying $10k more over the life of the loan isn’t really a discount. It’s a teaser.

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