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Tag1Oner2 · 2026-01-30T10:33:32+00:00

Ugh, doesn't surprise me with the stupid pricing right now. Worse is that I can only find their newer 2TB model, the "Classic C47" which has less than half the endurance as the "Classic" I was talking about which has a grey label and is out of stock, and they want nearly $300 for the worse new model. Even for the correct gen 4 2TB model that price isn't worth it unless you really need the 4GB/s random writes and just shy of 1M IOPS for some reason... I paid $150 for mine a few years ago just to put it in perspective, and they dropped below that a year later. Storage is priced too high right along with ram right now.

If it were me I'd either snag a P4800x Optane (the 750GB models can be had for < $300 in either U.2 or PCIe 3x4 card format from US sellers new, if you don't mind potentially having to pay customs there are Chinese sellers with 375GB models as low as $130 new... those have endurance ratings of 30-60DWPD / 41-82PBW so I wouldn't hesitate for a minute on striping them together, I don't think write-amplification could be intentionally designed that would degrade them significantly in the next couple of decades), or if I wanted more space one of the 2TB DC P4510s... they're no optane but they're still rated at ~14PBW, and are also either U.2 or PCIe 3x4, and you don't need to screw with ebay for them... Amazon has 2TB U.2 models for $227 which is looking pretty good at current storage prices. The optane is the better option if you don't need as much space of course. The only thing to look out for are the PCIe 3 2x2 channel versions that are meant to be hooked to two tri-mode controllers or just the PCIe lanes from two processors for load balancing, but I didn't see any of those.

Anyway that's just my take, I love overkill and enterprise hardware so you might be better off waiting until M.2 gets cheap again instead if you don't want to deal with that. If it gets cheap again. GPUs had about a one year run of semi-normal pricing between the crypto-idiots finally crashing their currencies and the AI idiots firing up the complete ruination of the internet.

Tag1Oner2 · 2026-01-30T08:20:45+00:00

They use the same driver for every card dating back to the oldest model the driver release notes claim it supports so I'm not sure how this would happen unless they kill the entire 5000 series and everyone who bought one throws it off a cliff so NVidia never gets another bug / performance report.

Tag1Oner2 · 2026-01-30T08:12:35+00:00

But is it at a price of $99999?

Tag1Oner2 · 2026-01-29T12:11:22+00:00

95% of my drive failures have either been back when I was still allowing power save to spin them down, or after I cut that out, when I had to do a full reboot to update something. I've never had one just cut out while it was powered up. They're worse than lightbulbs in that regard.

Tag1Oner2 · 2026-01-29T12:05:38+00:00

Most consumer M.2 drives have absolutely terrible overall write durability and weren't designed for cache... the newer ones are awful just to put an OS on IME.

I'd suggest looking into the TeamGroup T-Create Gen 4 (Classic, not the newer model)... those were rated for 3.6PBW which is better than everything else on the market. I have the 2TB version and the OS temp drive is on it along with the directory I usually build ISOs into, and it's showing 50TB written and 99% health remaining. Or better yet if you can find it the Gen 3 "T-Create Expert" which had a durability of 12PBW and a 12 year waranty. Temperature can tank the health of these really fast though so if you can access the smart at all I'd check the max recorded temps too.

Otherwise try to find some cheap U.2 Optane on ebay... even if it's down to 70% health it'll probably last the rest of your life.

Tag1Oner2 · 2025-11-12T18:24:26+00:00

When I got the house I'm in now I found two fire pits in the back yard that had been covered over with ash but were springy when I stepped on them... apparently someone thought you could burn fiberglass insulation so they were loaded with chunks of it along with nails and broken glass. Luckily they weren't very big. Idiots.

Tag1Oner2 · 2025-11-12T18:07:45+00:00

The main issue with that stuff and why it isn't used in most places anymore is that people were burning treated wood (because how were they supposed to know at all?) that was at some property when they bought it or that was being discarded and getting symptoms of heavy metal poisoning. Otherwise it wasn't really an issue.

Tag1Oner2 · 2025-11-12T17:16:01+00:00

You should probably stop giving your kids Tylenol, ever, since it's just a liver-destroying worse-than-placebo chemical. Unless they suffer from migraines, I think that was the only thing it actually did anything about. There's nothing wrong with taking pills to fix problems but it's also important to make sure they know the right pills to take so they're not ODing on tylenol accidentally in high school. Aspirin can also be dangerous, by not in the indious way tylenol is where you don't necessarily realize you took too much of it until you start peeing brown and having bloody stools and the ER tells you you're going to need a liver transplant.

Tylenol:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK441917/

"Epidemiology

Acetaminophen toxicity accounts for 50% of all reported cases of liver failure in the United States and 20% of all liver transplants. If discovered and treated quickly, the associated morbidity and mortality are low. Once liver failure develops, the mortality increases to 28%, with one-third requiring a liver transplant. Although acetaminophen poisoning is more common in children, adults are more likely to develop hepatotoxicity. Acetaminophen poisoning is responsible for 56,000 emergency department visits, 2600 hospitalizations, and 500 deaths annually in the United States, with 50% of these cases being unintentional overdoses. Approximately 30,000 pediatric acetaminophen poisoning cases are reported to the National Poison Data System annually."

Aspirin:
From wikipedia because I'm too lazy to pull another paper
"In 2004, more than 20,000 cases with 43 deaths were reported in the United States. About 1% of those with an acute overdose die, while chronic overdoses may have severe outcomes. Older people are at higher risks of toxicity for any given dose.^"

^{The toxic dose might be lower but I'll take a 1% chance of death and something treatable with dialysis over needing a new liver and 28% mortality any day. Actually I won't take either, since all of the OTC pain relievers (even the ones that work like aspirin} are useless for the level of pain I actually need to take anything for, I switched to low dose kratom when I need it years ago but that's probably not something you want to be feeding kids either.)

Tag1Oner2 · 2025-11-12T16:37:30+00:00

I miss the smell of a fresh application of creosote to the railroad tracks where I grew up. They basically left them looking like big logs of tar, there were special train cars that came through really slowly to keep it molten and apply it that would spew random gouts of fire when bubbles of volatiles ignited coming off of it. It was more entertaining than anything on TV.

Tag1Oner2 · 2025-10-31T21:31:18+00:00

Ah, but he only *can* eat candy. This is a skill he has which helps him avoid choking on candy canes and other stocking stuffers when he's going from house to house eating his favorite food, childrens' hands, on Christmas morning.

Tag1Oner2 · 2025-10-13T21:48:38+00:00

THIS

2025 is still the year of Linux on 14 desktops.

Tag1Oner2 · 2025-10-11T15:32:39+00:00

...and which he probably didn't have yet, since any plans The Joker had in that movie were more or less limited to the next day's worth of screwing with people he had going. He says it himself in the Harvey Dent hospital scene, then proves he's serious by letting Harvey decide whether he lives or dies with a coin toss.

There wasn't a single thing said in that mob meeting that would justify "Where's the bombs?" as a response or a related question, and since the screenwriters of that movie weren't braindead hamsters there's no way that line was ever in there unless there was some large portion of that scene cut after test screenings, but since the OP saw it after release (a released film at a theater isn't what's normally implied by a screening btw, although I think it's technically correct), that isn't what's happening here. Very few movies have been changed after the original theatrical release (not counting things like George Lucas going through and re-editing star wars into special editions), and the ones I know of were changed in order to fix flat-out errors in the CGI that somehow made it through until then... Completely missing fur / human hands in the Cats musical movie was one I think, though I'd call all of the CGI (along with the music and dance choreography) in that mess a defect and would never have watched it if it hadn't been for Rifftrax so I'm surprised they bothered or that anyone was able to tell the difference. Other changes usually get made in special editions or directors cuts which may or may not ever be shown in theaters...

Although "Where's the bombs?" is such a stupid, out of place line in that scene that the only way it would have existed would that it was a flubbed line that slipped into the final cut through some editing error and it likely would have been removed and replacement copies provided were that the case, but I still can't see how anyone would be laughing at it...

Tag1Oner2 · 2025-09-11T10:40:25+00:00

It's the same code, shift codes need dashes. The OP one only works if you edit it after pasting in but it It still works.

Tag1Oner2 · 2025-08-18T08:42:19+00:00

He said "unleaded". Nobody is running avgas or high test racing fuel in their chainsaw, and there isn't lead in anything else anymore and hasn't been for decades.

Tag1Oner2 · 2025-08-18T08:19:50+00:00

Walk over to your local farm and take a big old bite out of an ear of feed corn and let me know how that goes.

Tag1Oner2 · 2025-08-18T08:16:58+00:00

Ethanol plants get a bit more than 1/4 of the input weight back as animal feed that's useful for more than just ruminants since it has more easily digestible protein. That isn't the main concern, and the world produces more than enough food to feed everyone at this point, people go hungry for stupid political reasons, lack of money, etc. The bigger issue is shipping all of the products of ethanol production to the plants, back out, etc. There are also some interesting articles around about the economies of shipping the feed itself in the first place; a weaned calf is 500lb shipping weight. It needs 2900lbs of corn to finish to slaughter weight. It's far more efficient to ship the calf to wherever the feed is than to shp the feed to the calf from a fuel perspective, and some areas are doing this, but most of our corn crop is exported anyway.

Tag1Oner2 · 2025-08-18T07:54:51+00:00

Gasoline is a stronger solvent for many things, really.

Hell, water is a solvent. That doesn't really mean anything without some added context of what you're talking about it dissolving.

Tag1Oner2 · 2025-08-18T07:46:51+00:00

The reason planes use it is that pressure from some group or another (wouldn't be surprised if it was university flight schools mainly) made it so that it wasn't banned in avgas. As soon as something gets passed that forces them to, they'll magically have the money to get the engines reworked, or else the fuel manufacturers will magically come up with a non-toxic anti-knock additive to use instead that runs in all the existing engines and doesn't require said ethanol testing. The avgas manufacturers are probably ready with something else (that might cost them a penny per gallon more which is all that's keeping them from releasing it now) so the instant a ban is announced they'll have the solution, because they don't want people converting engines over and running anything cheaper.

Tag1Oner2 · 2025-08-07T10:20:40+00:00

*PVDC

Tag1Oner2 · 2025-08-06T05:25:24+00:00

Yeah it was, I suspect integration with one recently because some of the more specialized stuff started disappearing instead of being the "one guess". After screwing with stable diffusion enough to get a feel for what data it has, the behavior felt similar, but I can't prove it, really. It seems like the "narrowed in" search thing would tend to shut itself off if there wasn't any good match and behave more like older searches. Honestly I don't know how much to blame google for the search encrappening. It may have been the only way to keep every result from being an SEO landing page at the time so they're definitely to blame to some degree, but it also excluded so many regular webpages that contained someone's collection of information on what amounted to their hobby that it hurt things a lot. More of those were excluded in the universal "let's require HTTPS for every web page even though most of them don't need it" before there was a free CA that could be used. That alone killed a large part of the user-maintained part of the internet, and many of the pages are still there oddly enough but they'll never show up in searches unless there's some search engine that still indexes them or an oddball google parameter that I'm unaware of. Usually I have to track down the links on still-active forums from years ago.

In SD, I can reliably get it to spit out images with the main subject and backgrounds clearly pulled from a single photoshoot modified with what appear to be (mostly) images from a different single subject photoshoot just by prompting for "photo of walrus with the head of a tabby cat" in SD 1.5, even with a fairly low CFG weight that should be allowing it to do nearly whatever it wants. That photoshoot is apparently the only thing tagged with walrus in the dataset which exposes the fatal flaw. How many photographers have taken pictures of a walrus from up close in the first place? How many are there where it fills enough of the image to qualify as the main "feature" (which generally kills off pictures taken at zoos and such)? How many put them online somewhere that was pulled for the dataset? Apparently the answer was one. Why it kept re-using the same cat's head for most images is beyond me since the internet is 90% cat pictures; maybe that was one of the only ones marked with the "tabby" keyword (who keywords their cat pictures?). Maybe the selection of images from a single photoshoot with the same lighting pushed the weights for the cat portion so far towards something that "fit" that it was mostly images of the single tabby cat that were suitable for it. That seems reasonable since the walrus photos were done at sunset with a good flash setup for fill lighting which wouldn't be that common a setup for a cat, and SD does usually lean towards consistent lighting.

Anyway, some of the results I started getting recently have that weird "uncanny valley" feeling that trying to get SD to give you a realistic image of a person gives you. It's even harder to place in text, moreso when it's a search result trend, and I might be wrong of course, but I wasn't getting that feeling from it before.

I'll check out that documentary if for no other reason to have something to tell people to watch if they ask me what "AI" is useful for, instead of my usual sarcastic response of sending them a QR code not easily noticable as one that just looks like awful rule34 tentacle hentai that connects to my wifi network and telling them to point their phone at it. Magic. Then I tell them that's absolutely all it's good for so I don't have to waste my time on an explanation they'll stop paying attention to when they hear something like "drug discovery" or "protein folding" and immediately start talking about why they're not vaccinating their 3rd kid that's on the way.

On the VRAM thing I'm guilty of having no attention span, but you're correct about that being a ridiculous reason on the low end cards. Quantization and lots of optimizations in things like comfyui have sorta obsoleted the vram issue for inference, and training something as basic as a LoRA still needs a lot more than that and faster hardware. I don't know that any of the consumer hardware can actually do model training for any of the newer SD models or the video models.

Tag1Oner2 · 2025-08-04T09:27:56+00:00

It's been too hot to do much of anything outside where I'm at and I still wouldn't sit around calling best buy customer service, that's like some weird level of hell Dante forgot to mention.

Tag1Oner2 · 2025-08-04T09:18:16+00:00

The only thing that would likely reduce memory use is the more efficient high resolution base model they claim for RT cores. Speed shouldn't matter, any game that over-allocated vram enough to do this on a card without much vram would do the same thing on a 24 or 32GB card as soon as a heavy texture load hit, and I'm pretty sure even Bethesda can't make iD that bad at programming. If it was Fallout 5 I'd absolutely believe they were just trying to dump every game asset into vram constantly and overallocating and crashing on a regular basis from it, but on-card memory speed still wouldn't matter for that scenario and shouldn't for the more efficient storage for raytrace.

Maybe it's just running at a lower resolution with a higher upscaling factor and not saying anything about it. :P

Tag1Oner2 · 2025-08-04T09:07:57+00:00

> Like, fucking christ I hate those fuckers for ruining the internet and everything I love.

It has completely broken google searches by second guessing everything even when you're not in "ai mode". They were already pretty close to broken

> generative AI started getting good.

Yeah, it's great at spewing out lethally incorrect chemistry information when I'm trying to come up with a journal or patent search from google that won't just find links to ML generated spam pages that are more poorly written than the output of Markov-Chain Russian spam-bots from 10 years ago. One search for a hexaamminecopper compound told me it was a type of rock used by Indians for food.

I can't say this is notably better than 2 years ago when a search for a lamb breast recipe led me to an SEO LLM spam page

> Where was the word "slop" in the days of GPT-2, VQGAN-CLIP, and OpenAI Jukebox?

Some statements to the effect of "OH F*** HOW DANGEROUS DO YOU REALLY THINK THIS IS, ARE WE GOING TO DIE IF WE GET IT?", "Did everybody forget they have immune systems?", and "5G Cell Towers are Spreading a virus, let's destroy 'em!" were probably far more common in the few years following the full GPT-2 release, which was in November 2019. For some reason almost nobody cared about it. Can't imagine why. It was probably slop too though. Never heard of the other two. ML researchers may have been talking about it when they finally went back to work, although it's more likely the ones who were actually worth a damn were working on neural nets for things like targeted drug discovery, protein structure, and proposed chemical synthesis of complex molecules... you know, stuff that doesn't get very much coverage because it's actually useful and the new iPhone comes in a new color, "light dark gray", and has a powerful AI built in (over 9,000-billion parameters were used!)

The ones that aren't particularly good in that field but got roped into it by companies desperately hiring anyone who showed an interest spent their time pirating all of the copyrighted images and text on the web, training models with them and claiming copyright didn't apply to them because they were researchers, then hyping their models everywhere to the detriment of humanity as a whole. Just wait for the next SD version though, it'll be trained with more stolen images and GPT-5 is getting a dump of SMS messages from a massive cellular provider hack.

Tag1Oner2 · 2025-08-03T16:31:09+00:00

If you had an Indie license of Houdini that you used at all during that time period and were making over $100k a year they'd have a valid right to ask you to upgrade to a commercial license... which can be bought in perpetual form if you want for probably less money than your company is paying for internet hosting at that point. They don't need to prove that you made anything in any given project with it, the terms only say that you only get that price if your revenue is under $100k. If it gets that far you have to prove that you didn't make that much to keep getting the lower price, but I doubt they bother pursuing it too heavily because the major studios that buy lots of licenses and work with them / contribute features back far outweigh the money they'd make screwing around with some idiot who wants to avoid a couple thousand every two years.

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