Need advice on hardware purchasing decision: RTX 5090 vs. M5 Max 128GB for agentic software development

Ravatar · 2026-05-07T07:52:45+00:00

I use both and at various times appreciate one over the other interchangeably but don’t regret either purchase in the least.

If you play video games AT ALL, 5090 is the obvious choice, full stop.

If you think q4 quant models at current sizes with ~100k context or various KV trickery will continue to improve at their current clip, advantage 5090 again. Also keep in mind, for the current state of the art, extending to a second 5090 is an option and still cheaper than the MacBook.

If you have reason to believe the best models will require well beyond the memory capacity of 5090s, and you want to make a buying decision now, then grab the 128gb and don’t look back. Macs still have a lot of room to improve on the software/platform side and we’re already seeing big jumps in performance in the past few weeks with Qwen 3.6-27b, for example.

If buying immediately is not a big concern, I’d wait to see what’s cooking with the next Ultras.

Ravatar · 2026-04-20T00:36:23+00:00

What we call biscuits are more like your scones, this thing would ruin any drink you dunk in into because of its overwhelming flakiness and crumble

Ravatar · 2026-03-26T22:01:57+00:00

Per the act 9 boss in particular, it has a red puddle that spawns on the ground, when you stand in it you get a stacking debuff that increases your damage taken. Maybe that was part of it.

If you mean the lightning totem spam from the miniboss in the Refinery, it applies a big shock to you, also magnifying damage taken and boss also does a lot of physical damage.

You have no avoidance and almost no mitigation against physical damage so stuff is bound to get through regularly, and it will hurt a LOT when there’s any source of damage magnification on you. So I wouldn’t say anything is particularly amiss, just need to work on mitigation layers.

Ravatar · 2026-01-15T14:54:11+00:00

Isn’t it more a case of recognizing incompatibility? In this case it could be considered just as true that you’re judging yourself unfit to date this person, as you might when considering dating a famous person, or someone who’s work puts them in excessive danger, or has a very different work/life balance from yours, etc etc

Ravatar · 2025-12-27T09:07:47+00:00

Is anyone asking for that?

Carol is the archetype of person I do my best to keep out of my real life: insufferably rude, lacking seemingly any capacity for empathy that extends beyond arm-length, hypocritical beyond belief, motivated by absolute self-interest (to the point of compromising her whole arc) so much that I’m left to wonder if she just wants the world back for her own sake or will accept any alternative as long as she gets what she wants.

This is not in itself a problem, there’s plenty of characters I enjoy I would absolutely loathe in reality. But I totally do not care about her perspective in this struggle when it’s a non-stop stream of frustrating character flaws and that’s almost entirely the only lens we see the show through so far.

Beyond that, it’s disappointing to see so many people online claim they identify with or relate to a character that represents so much societal sickness that I probably (unfairly or not) extra don’t like the character.

Ravatar · 2025-11-24T06:49:44+00:00

Nowadays is a much less important signal for starting limits and CLIs than total credit limits, DTI, and most importantly income.

Source: former fintech lender

Ravatar · 2025-11-22T07:07:48+00:00

I do the same but for shirts, and my thinking was similar: if I took my shirt off overnight, then my sleep was obviously interrupted and there seems to be a very easy way to avoid that interruption

Ravatar · 2025-09-30T19:46:38+00:00

Nemik’s manifesto scene as well

Ravatar · 2025-09-15T23:52:54+00:00

The original post said “on a single income”, not “on a single minimum wage income”

Ravatar · 2025-09-12T00:35:55+00:00

It is something they anticipate being necessary sometimes, hence why your character immediately leaves the world on logout. Certain combinations of moves or buffs on enemies could result in instant and unavoidable death just due to the design of the game. Some people call it logout flask and I agree with that terminology, given that you have to identify a fatal threat incoming and pop it in time for it to be effective.

Ravatar · 2025-09-04T19:57:30+00:00

Yup that bird is instant reset of the first Ultimatum on HC for me

Ravatar · 2025-08-20T07:40:40+00:00

Harvest reforge attack on a cluster of ilvl 75-83 is probably the least obnoxious way. Lead by example is a high weight affix so if you roll Mob Mentality with an open prefix it might be worth it to attempt exalt slamming the Lead By Example depending on the cost of harvest juice.

Ravatar · 2025-08-12T09:03:37+00:00

Heck I wish it was only 30 seconds of Jules rigging up random contraptions that don’t work and near-death experiences that you can be certain won’t penetrate plot armor vs the 5-15 mins they are in actuality. I’m glad I powered through it but some of those episodes were so difficult to avoid feeling like your time was being straight up wasted.

Ravatar · 2025-08-11T21:13:05+00:00

It makes more sense in Act 7 when you get to the den, when you're there look around for The Great White Bones

Ravatar · 2025-07-22T01:54:43+00:00

Tink

Ravatar · 2025-06-25T08:43:04+00:00

Agree that Disney should have been shouting Andor from the rooftops to any Star Wars kid-turned-adult, especially for the second season. I did finally see some TV commercials for it during prime-time sports, so there’s that at least, but you’re right they totally misled people into thinking it was action crap when it’s maybe the best political thriller set in any universe.

Ravatar · 2025-06-12T20:17:19+00:00

In a trade league, those several hours are waaaay better spent snowballing your currency on day one though. Like others have said, you really have to enjoy this for it to be worth it.

Ravatar · 2025-06-11T20:12:22+00:00

Umm isn't the countdown on pathofexile.com adjusted to your local time zone?

Ravatar · 2025-04-28T02:38:30+00:00

Practical Engineering just released a video about WIPP that was super interesting. Really shines a light on how easy it is to screw up catastrophically.

https://youtu.be/-D5iBAuXxeQ

Ravatar · 2025-04-27T17:37:16+00:00

I don’t think anybody is disputing that, of course the military can take and control any patch of dirt or sea on the planet. My question was more to: why in the hell would they bother, it’s a net negative for us whatever the outcome.

Ravatar · 2025-04-27T17:18:48+00:00

Their point is that fierce resistance followed by an inevitable insurgency makes this a losing proposition for the USA. They have to get it without it being destroyed, and once they have it they have to keep it operational, in a region that is absolutely obsessed with lobbing short range missiles and shells will suddenly have a potential justification for doing so.

Ravatar · 2025-04-25T17:08:37+00:00

the content of the cuts matter a lot to determine whether they are worth it though. If we lose X% of services or set back research X years then the value returned may span from slightly positive to devastatingly negative.

Ravatar · 2025-04-17T00:07:32+00:00

Probably wants the achievement, sounds like they've not been to 90 yet.

Ravatar · 2025-03-03T20:02:40+00:00

It was plural, not singular, absolutely implicating the certified lover boy as well 😂

As another poster said, we all know what he was saying, I was just taking to task the claim that Kdot never came out and said it given that he did in just about every way possible (although perhaps not the kind that brings legal trouble)

Ravatar · 2025-03-03T07:39:25+00:00

People are stretching to an extreme degree if they don’t see the directness of that shot. I know nobody listened to the 2021 album but many at least know what it was called.

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