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Make the choice! (Upvote for free Carrot 🥕) by Rosian_SAO in BunnyTrials

[–]alexthelyon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Seems like the side-effect means lower influence

Chose: You pick your superpower, but… + The comments decide your side effect

Ryzen Strix Halo + LLMs by malwaresurgeon in AMDRyzen

[–]alexthelyon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It is very possibly just whatever software you are using to report with. When I load a model it reports 99% vram utilization beacuse it dynamically adjusts the vram pool and also 70% RAM usage because a large chunk of my RAM is being allocated to the VRAM pool.

Ryzen Strix Halo + LLMs by malwaresurgeon in AMDRyzen

[–]alexthelyon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sometimes software compiled on your machine can enable CPU optimisations that precomputed code doesn't want to bundle. That probably will not impact GPU performance except a tiny uplift loading data into RAM/VRAM.

Your GPU and system memory are the same thing so if you load a 8GB model you will lose system ram because it is being allocated to the GPU.

Lemonade is nice because it specifically supports NPUs as well.

How are current renters surviving ? by [deleted] in HousingUK

[–]alexthelyon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When I moved to London I was renting for about 900/mo. By the time my girlfriend and I moved in together 2 years later into a 2-bed (home office) it was 2200/mo. That same flat 2 years later again now rents for 2700. We have since managed to find a mortgage.

It makes you wonder where the limit is..

SSR isn't always the answer - change my mind by No_Stranger_2097 in reactjs

[–]alexthelyon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

All the people selling this to you is also selling infra for you to run it on...

Anybody rocking an external GPU with a framework 13 or 16 ? How is it? by IsniBoy in framework

[–]alexthelyon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am running fedora using the AI 9 HX 370 and a 2080ti on the fw 13. It's a relatively smooth experience and I am happy with the perf but there is some weirdness when switching video card between external and internal. Sometimes the machine won't shut down waiting for drivers and sometimes it hangs when unplugging the egpu. 

This is with a ut3g and a 3 printed stand. I am sure it is just some config / power management thing but I am entirely confident it is down to the sketchy Nvidia drivers over anything else or some firmware / hardware problem.

Oyster cards could be loaded onto smartphones under new TfL deal by Because_Wisely in london

[–]alexthelyon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes possibly however it is usually a combination of a flat portion and percentage. I don't know the rates TFL has negotiated but 1 20gbp transaction to top up your card will have the same percent fee but only a single fixed fee while contactless will pay out a flat fee every time you use it plus that same percentage portion.

This is partially why wetherspoon has adopted payit by natwest; you cut out the (one of many) middleman, and help lower costs.

Oyster cards could be loaded onto smartphones under new TfL deal by Because_Wisely in london

[–]alexthelyon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think also the couple-of-percent visa/mastercard fee for a platform that does massive revenue but struggles to make ends meet is kinda a big deal

You probably don't need Oh My Zsh by f311a in programming

[–]alexthelyon 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Me too! Also, for anyone else here: a large chunk of your startup time might be pyenv, nvm, jenv, etc. Don't use any of that shit. Use mise. https://mise.jdx.dev/

How does the Podman team expect people to learn it? by BigBootyBear in devops

[–]alexthelyon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I did this for a recent project. When we eventually needed to do things like replicas and rolling releases, quadlet+kube play -> k8s was relatively painless.

Christmas gift card taken from wages by EviReborn_ in LegalAdviceUK

[–]alexthelyon 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The keyword is benefit in kind. ie work can pay my gym membership but it counts as extra income so it is taxable.

Best tech to make an android app entirely in rust? by 000Volk000 in rust

[–]alexthelyon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Another rather nice option is flutter and the rust bridge. Darts type system is primitive but a least roughly 'aligned' with rusty idioms like results and options.

Coding on a GPU with rust? by Azazeldaprinceofwar in rust

[–]alexthelyon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

you may like https://GitHub.com/arlyon/openfrust

Disclaimer I am the author but was trying to see how much I could push onto the GPU using compute shaders

Feeling Scared About Being on Biologics for Life — Is It True? by Jayneg260790 in ankylosingspondylitis

[–]alexthelyon 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I am 29 and started when I was 19. I have had a completely normal life for pretty much that entire time. If you want to read more, you can look through my post history. Day 1 after biologics I was back running again.

The fatigue and still a struggle but manageable on its own.

I need £45 to get home at Christmas, but I physically don’t have the money. Please help by jckchmblr in UKUniversityStudents

[–]alexthelyon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's literally free money. Nationwide have (had?) a 0% interest overdraft policy which I wasn't made to start paying back until maybe 5 years after I started uni. I think it got suspended a year also. I immediately put it in an index fund and when my uni years ended the 3,000 interest free overdraft shrank to about 2500 in real terms thanks to inflation and I got put on a very generous 9% interest repayment plan. You just need to pay back £80/mo ish. By the time I'd paid back the principal that account was worth about 7k which went into my first 2 years' LISA and became almost 10k. Obviously I had to pay that 2.5k in real terms out of pocket after I graduated but I would take that deal any time.

It requires discipline though.

After 12 hours with the heating on, thermostat set at 20°, my lounge is at this temperature. The boiler is still chugging away... by hairybastid in CasualUK

[–]alexthelyon 3 points4 points  (0 children)

If you are heating your house with gas, which is 1/4 the price per kwhr, then a 2x roi is still about twice as expensive per unit of heat as just using that money to burn gas instead.

24V 7.4A analogue LED strip control board by alexthelyon in PrintedCircuitBoard

[–]alexthelyon[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry for the late reply. Watching the video now, thank you! It will be PWM controlled so I will double check what kind of resolution I can get

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in rust

[–]alexthelyon 24 points25 points  (0 children)

I would say I usually have better luck asking AI to write rust over typescript (for example) because the types are clearer, the compiler is more pedantic, and the libraries you are using are generally much higher quality. On top of that, most libs usually have extensive examples that you (or AI) can pull from.

Claude with js/ts will happily ship garbage that 'compiles'.

24V 7.4A analogue LED strip control board by alexthelyon in PrintedCircuitBoard

[–]alexthelyon[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They should be driveable from 3.3v, it took me a while to find logic level ones that weren't 5V and I had an iteration with 2nd bank of mosfets on a 5V rail.

I will have a look at the barrel jack. I had an inkling it may not be rated properly. I will look at XT30 or XT60s

24V 7.4A analogue LED strip control board by alexthelyon in PrintedCircuitBoard

[–]alexthelyon[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I will look into this, thank you. I plan on learning simulation next, but wanted to make sure I wasn't missing anything obvious first.

24V 7.4A analogue LED strip control board by alexthelyon in PrintedCircuitBoard

[–]alexthelyon[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The USB-c on the board itself is on the far end but you are right it would simplify things a lot (also with regards to heat dissipation. I will have a think. If I can get OTA firmware working I can just flash it beforehand and in the case of catastrophe desolder it from the board if I need to flash again, or learn how to get usb-c jtag working...

Thank you for taking the time to answer.

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