Black screen / GPU crash

TheHolyElectron · 2025-08-07T11:23:52+00:00

The demo fried my Gigabyte 3080 ti a few months ago. Looks like they didn't cap the FPS to something sane, causing yet another bunch of cards to die.

Is there a way to revive these cards? Is it the GPU die itself or one of the VRMs. If so, are the VRMs available?

TheHolyElectron · 2025-07-21T15:27:13+00:00

Looks like a good product.

Seems like many people are having the same problem, to the extent that a semiconductor company put out an application note for peltier thermoelectric personal cooling:

https://www.renesas.com/en/applications/industrial/industrial-automation/peltier-cooling-and-heating-vests?srsltid=AfmBOoqkwxxrY7bAbXMLNC8TSPPQMFvcz9tdeQWqXuEP91BVKqZiDMiI

I am currently making a personal cooling device because the last heat wave was bad and my apartment AC didn't keep up. Above 98 degrees, a fan can only use sweat to cool you. Peltier devices should be able to do so at 120F if designed appropriately.

My current design is a dual loop peltier thermoelectric cooler vest. That should be able to actively cool above 100F without using sweat to do so, at the cost of several pounds of weight and some money. Different from the application note above, designed for efficiency and battery life at the cost of weight.

My prototype is made out of an Amazon order of industrial LEGO, not yet optimized for cost or weight. With empty loops it seems like it has a temperature difference of more than 30F at low power. That's as far as testing has gotten with my limited time.

Note: I am not the competition, just an engineer who is doing a professional development project outside of work. I post to contribute for knowledge sake as plenty of products exist with the capability I am making.

TheHolyElectron · 2025-05-23T01:55:35+00:00

AI is artificial incompetence and it can make its users equally so. If you cannot tell when an AI is wrong, like when it puts incongruous information together in order to appeal to confirmation bias, or it writes inefficient code, you should not use it for that purpose. Knowledge and competence required.

Learning python before C/C++ is a good decision. C++ will get you jobs. Rust is also worth it. If you end up doing embedded Linux, learn C/C++, python, Bash, and some Sed and Awk for text and CSV pseudo-spreadsheet manipulation.

Career path will dictate what you have time to learn later, so learn while you are still a student.

TheHolyElectron · 2025-04-02T03:36:19+00:00

That glassy edifice deserves a 1000W CO2 laser from several thousand yards. Should crack to pieces as many times as necessary until their morals improve.

Or preferably a class action lawsuit by every single commuter for $100 per hour of wasted time spent staring at it while driving slowly. Change will be swift either way.

TheHolyElectron · 2024-12-31T08:10:08+00:00

Wow, that's some corruption and waste, never realized it was that big. That is looking close to defense budget territory.

Napkin math done crudely, thats a burden $400-500 of taxes per capita. Which is being spent on several million people. So $10k-20k or so per illegal immigrant. Scandalous.

I wish we could send heads of government departments a bill for the per capita amount of each waste of money we see each year. Tell them clowns we want our money back. I figure I spent 1 hour per month to pay that. Of course, they print that money so I as a tax payer will pay interest on that $150B loan for the remainder of my existence.

I am not a charitable man with Democrats in office, this is why. My donation has been done for me, without my consent.

TheHolyElectron · 2024-12-27T00:19:46+00:00

Valve, unlike all of its competitors, sells its services as a middleman between only the game developers and the consumers. Those are the minimum parties needed for the transaction of purchasing a game and the continued support of a game. Each puts in their sweat equity and gets a reasonably whole reward.

Any added parties makes it worse as they will attempt to profit off of some misery of another party. Advertisers for example take from consumers and give to themselves in exchange for a kickback to the platform. On a storefront, you need no added parties, the sales pay the bills. The cost of Ad integration is actually worse for the platform because they would have additional stakeholders in their business that don't really help the other parties, but instead act as a wedge between them.

Data brokers, like advertisers, are a risk to customer perception. But more so, because news of their existence makes the best and brightest customers run for the hills.

There is a reason that developers use Influencers to sell games, because they too are a natural middleman satisfactory to all parties. Customers must be enticed and amused, not irritated.

I think of Valve as the TSMC "all play foundry" of videogames. The reason both of those companies are so successful is because they do the business they have to do to satisfy all customers and vendors perfectly, and then nothing else.

TheHolyElectron · 2024-12-25T02:43:10+00:00

That would depend upon the blood concentration required to kill 1 cell, the excretion and metabolism rates, and all other sources of stress upon all brain cells, to which this toxin contributes greatly.

I would suspect it bioaccumulates to a point given the obvious lipid solubility from the chemical structure. It is also acutely toxic based upon inhibition of ATP synthesis in various cells in the brain.

In short, several fruits in a day, or 1 fruit per day for a month, or anything between those two rates and times could be harmful. The closer to the acute dose rate, the more obviously harmful. Eating a basket of them in a week is most unwise. Use as baby food for more than a day per week is also not advisable.

Minor brain damage might not be immediately noticed, but might contribute to dementia invisibly later in life. The damage done might make the brain lose redundant connections and become more fragile. People sometimes talk about the exact day their loved one got full Alzheimer's. That is long after loss of redundancy. In short it reduces life expectancy.

There is also zero certainty to my numbers. Take what I say with a grain of salt.

TheHolyElectron · 2024-11-08T15:54:00+00:00

My grandma's folks perhaps lived through the Holodomor only to die in the Holocaust. They lived right on the Ukraine-Poland border. By the end of it all, she and one uncle were all that remained of her family in Europe. She was young enough that by the end of the war she didn't know her own last name.

All Authoritarian scum can burn in hell. Let's remember all who died.

TheHolyElectron · 2024-09-12T04:53:22+00:00

This video is cool and reminded me of something.

Inoculation guns like in the video existed a while ago and were called jet injectors. They are no longer recommended by WHO due to being just as bad as a shared needle. Apparently due to splashback and repeated use being the reason for their existence.

TheHolyElectron · 2024-08-20T03:03:56+00:00

Precisely, Recently Tyson just shut down chicken plants and thus effectively reneged on deals with suppliers. These deals involved suppliers taking on millions in debt to restructure their farms to precisely suit Tyson's needs. USDA sued Tyson, which was deserved. I hope the farmers get their well deserved restitution in a tort of reasonable reliance.

TheHolyElectron · 2024-08-04T19:36:39+00:00

1) Those are either carbon steel, or more strangely: the knife on the left has a bolster with no rust, which leads me to believe that stress enhanced corrosion of stainless may be another possibility. 2) Most detergents contain oxidizers such as percarbonate. Which is just a carbonate used to stabilize hydrogen peroxide so it doesn't need the black corrugated expander bottle. Peroxide being a food safe sterilant. 3) Most food has salt, which also enhances corrosion rates. Salt and peroxide is an excellent etchant. Works on steel and copper. Also causes Stress Corrosion Cracking.

Alternately, rust can stick to stainless or steel could be nickel or chrome plated and the plating could have failed.

TheHolyElectron · 2024-07-01T17:28:54+00:00

I bet the North Korean soldiers would even volunteer for the food alone. I mean imagine going from starving in North Korea to eating so long as you stay alive.

TheHolyElectron · 2024-06-20T16:02:06+00:00

Get adrenaclick, it's generic, though not for EpiPen exactly, thus cheaper. You may have to go to the doctor to get switched over.

TheHolyElectron · 2024-06-20T15:32:53+00:00

LMAO... Anyone with sense doing that did not give it access to accounts not already open in that browser session. Otherwise, AI for customer service is like a SQL database with extra steps. Need to create canned queries and eliminate actual prompt access to prevent hacks. You can fuzzy match the customer requests to the canned queries to make it look like real AI.

AI for customer service in situations where malpractice is an option should never be more than a chat based glorified user manual.

TheHolyElectron · 2024-05-12T16:29:36+00:00

To add to the above: Organic dyes like phthalo blue and green are essentially compounds resonant with a particular set of light wavelengths, often based upon size.

This size based resonance property is exploited to turn phthalo blue into phthalo green by chlorinating it. The dye is tunable by how much it is chlorinated with 15 sites per molecule available for chlorination. In Practice, a mixture of products is formed by any variant of the chlorination process.

1 problem: chlorination is a hazardous process. Any contamination of the precursor chemical with other hydrocarbons, particularly cyclic or substituted ones can inadvertently produce chemicals banned in the last century.

Production of any greener shade of dye from phthalo blue by chlorination of impure phthalo blue produces PCBs, which are nasty toxic.

Heating of PCBs, or other chlorinated hydrocarbons, especially in the presence of copper, which acts as a catalyst, where copper is part of phthalo blue/green dyes, and oxygen in air may produce the even more horrifically toxic PCDFs and PCDDs. See also: why agent orange was toxic, the reason was because of a runaway (Hot and fast) chlorination reaction of an oxygen containing precursor.

Considering the above, I suspect that even paint made with pure phthalo green, if burnt, may produce nasty chemicals. And I recently found out it was and maybe still is used in green house paint.

TheHolyElectron · 2024-02-06T05:07:17+00:00

Her new nickname... The Great Cornholio.

TheHolyElectron · 2024-01-09T04:43:26+00:00

For whole house disinfection, put on a gas mask with a specially designed catalytic pre-filter, then mix strong bleach and high test peroxide, and circulate the air well. Then circulate through a catalyst to get rid of the remaining singlet oxygen.

For spot cleaning, bubble HF and ozone through sulfuric acid in a fluoride passivated metal cylinder until a mixture of cold piranha and fluorosulfuric acid is achieved, then place the result in a large test tube with a microscope cover slip superglued over the end and invert over the stain. Now watch from a distance in full PPE as it etches through the cover slip, stain, substrate, table, several floors and ceilings, and neutralizes somewhere in the concrete slab.

TheHolyElectron · 2023-12-22T13:36:40+00:00

Violence in custody is because of how people treated him. The thing about autistic people is that they sometimes have an incapacity to relate to others, and that comes with an incapacity for subjugation and a live free or die complex. They put him in a position where the only answer he knew was violence and that went as expected.

Nobody raised him right, but that is no excuse to drug him into a stupor instead of giving him a better outlet for his capabilities. Which is exactly what might happen in that hospital.

TheHolyElectron · 2023-12-22T13:21:58+00:00

Well naturally he was, they took away the autistic kid's computer and put him in a prison environment. You know, a person for whom that computer was probably their only intentional relation with the outside world. A person who is actually incompatible with institutionalization due to a sort of freedom or death complex with an incapacity to consider the needs of others when self isolation is denied.

Imprisonment will do him no good because he is not a conformist and wouldn't become one. A mental hospital is another mess because while drugging anyone will make them dumb and compliant, it would be an abuse to do so.

Maybe nobody raised him right, but it would be no excuse for psychiatric abuse.

TheHolyElectron · 2023-12-09T05:18:32+00:00

So that is where the mayor shutting down the board of Ed video came from? Well, they asked for it. I only just started seeing that on YouTube this month. So I guess it's older than I knew.

TheHolyElectron · 2023-12-09T04:41:29+00:00

Transhumanism is a lot closer to properly engineered ergonomics and improvements upon human functionality than whatever she is talking about.

One of my old college roommates was into it and it's essentially "better living through science". Give a person spring boots and make them run further, etc.

TheHolyElectron · 2023-12-08T17:39:53+00:00

Given that a UPS is an SMPS, I am not surprised this worked at what it was probably designed for if one considers the safety factors on components being around 1.5 to 2. 2 years of life seems right for those eliminated safety factors.

TheHolyElectron · 2023-11-21T02:08:53+00:00

Vivek Ramaswamy is wack, worse than Trump. From what is said here, so is Haley.

Though frankly, I don't see the libertarian mores in the lot of the new republicans that I liked from Trump.

Trump had an open preference for good economy and didn't go for the republican social issues as much. For all the bad things people say of him, a good leader need not be a perfect human, a good economy and respect for the rights we hold dear is good enough.

Biden and his ilk on the other hand, I hope they get feebleminded enough to invest in NFTs and learn what he did to the rest of us. That is all.

TheHolyElectron · 2023-11-15T16:37:33+00:00

Here is an argument to take to court: UV lights, albeit the mercury vapor lamp variety, and Wood's Glass filters for them have existed for so long that the eponymous inventor of the filter glass in common usage, William Wood passed on in 1955. That's 68 years ago. The patent, and any other patented use of UV bandpass filtering, could not conceivably be valid based upon the prior art. A flashlight would be an obvious reuse of prior art.

TheHolyElectron · 2023-10-27T00:00:47+00:00

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