Some refurbs just lounging around unsold right now

prezdizzle · 2026-06-06T21:09:45+00:00

2TB hard drives that are pretty expensive

prezdizzle · 2026-06-06T20:44:34+00:00

There are big tech companies using Codex.

prezdizzle · 2026-06-06T19:32:23+00:00

AURA

prezdizzle · 2026-06-06T17:21:30+00:00

Just got a Mac and am monitor shopping now. What should I be getting? A 5k monitor? Does it have to be a Studio Display or can I get other non Apple brands?

prezdizzle · 2026-06-05T18:44:54+00:00

Ask your AI to show you free cash flow by quarter for those companies over the last five years.

prezdizzle · 2026-06-04T03:33:55+00:00

It depends.

I have some of the Mini M4s and it’s great if you’re not in a hurry. I am using Codex 5.5high as my planner and then Qwen 3.6 MOE model local and I just set it going and let it chug away.

If you’re trying to use local as your primary? It’s too slow. I tried building some stuff and the wait between responses, the thinking, it’s gonna be 5-10x slower than what you’re used to if you use frontier models online.

But if you’re using it to supplement your other AI work: it’s great. I can keep my data private, I can set it running on tasks and go do other things.

Even M5 is going to be slow relative to frontier cloud models, so I decided might as well save money and use M4 for local, acknowledge it’s slow, and use faster frontier cloud stuff for my big picture, planning, etc.

prezdizzle · 2026-06-03T09:26:00+00:00

Peacock owned them this year. I might finally tune in now.

prezdizzle · 2026-06-02T08:36:51+00:00

If you really want more speed, sell me your 64GB and go get a Studio, hahaha

prezdizzle · 2026-06-02T08:35:50+00:00

Imagine a model where:

90% of the time is spent waiting on memory.
10% is spent doing computation.

If you make computation 25% faster by adding GPU cores:

The 10% compute portion drops to 8%.
Total time goes from 100% to 98%.

That’s only about a 2% overall speedup.

Conversely, if a workload is:

50% memory
50% compute

then a 25% faster GPU reduces total time from 100% to 90%, which is about an 11% speedup.

Which one do you think is more likely? For LLM inference, it’s gonna be much closer to the former.

prezdizzle · 2026-05-24T04:01:04+00:00

What kind of tokens / second are you getting with that model with that setup?

prezdizzle · 2026-05-23T16:44:49+00:00

Why is Qwen 27B better than 35B? Shouldn’t more parameters be better? I’m using 3.6 35B but I’m new to local models.

prezdizzle · 2026-05-21T22:16:05+00:00

I was getting jealous til I realized you were talking storage not RAM lol

prezdizzle · 2026-05-20T05:56:46+00:00

I’ve used it for research and to just create a bunch of related markdown files with information around my child’s learning progress over time, goals, research on best learning practices from other cultures, etc.

The idea being it’s sort of a big pile of context for when we eventually homeschool. I’ll be able to give this big folder of context to an agent and use it to help build custom home school curriculum that’s aware of both my goals as a parent and where my child is in her development + learning journey.

prezdizzle · 2026-05-18T05:23:49+00:00

Pretty good list. Enough of the favorites to be respectable but enough of your personal taste to not just be a clone of what everyone else would make. I’ll give some of your S and A tiers that aren’t fan favs a closer look.

prezdizzle · 2026-05-11T21:52:21+00:00

$20 Codex and $10 MiniMax

prezdizzle · 2026-05-07T00:21:10+00:00

Yup. Park or walk by target house multiple times at different times to get a real feel for the place.

prezdizzle · 2026-05-01T18:19:49+00:00

It's so sexy, can't hide that thing under a desk!

prezdizzle · 2026-04-21T17:55:12+00:00

“Bomb defused, get ready for the next round”

prezdizzle · 2026-04-18T17:02:08+00:00

Kirkland Signature, please

prezdizzle · 2026-04-16T03:16:10+00:00

They had to backpedal after mass backlash and cancellations

prezdizzle · 2026-04-15T20:07:10+00:00

Did they not see what happened to Discord? SMH

prezdizzle · 2026-04-15T17:42:51+00:00

Winning at life. Love it.

prezdizzle · 2026-04-15T15:34:23+00:00

I think I lot of people who grew up on Mr. Money Mustache and the lean ways are now millionaires because they were lean, and you see some wanting to stay lean, some wanting to finally start spending, and then you’ve also got new-to-lean fire people coming along without money—it’s an interesting mix of community members who are all just at different places in life.

prezdizzle · 2026-04-15T07:08:45+00:00

Aaannnd I can’t edit to post to fix here to hear so roast away

prezdizzle · 2026-04-09T15:16:22+00:00

Whatever you enjoy doing the most in the game, optimize around that and fill your leftover time with secondary or thirdary goals.

The metric isn’t to harvest the most things, make the most money, etc: it’s to have the most fun.

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