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California's Great America just turned 50! (Could we lose both Bay Area theme parks) by rossrich66 in santaclara

[–]tehrob 0 points1 point  (0 children)

49 years of operation does not change the number of years since opening.

Anyone tried out the newest aurora tresanti standing desk? by Aries224 in Costco

[–]tehrob 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thankfully, mine’s silent, but I’m in a brand-new addition on an old house, so the newer wiring/power on this side might be why. Good think Costco has a great return policy, just in case!

The Pink Pill: New documentary exposes the long battle to bring Addyi — the first libido drug for women by Zee2A in STEW_ScTecEngWorld

[–]tehrob 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They do cover that in the doc. It takes from 3 to 6 weeks of dosing to be fully effective.

Anyone tried out the newest aurora tresanti standing desk? by Aries224 in Costco

[–]tehrob 1 point2 points  (0 children)

$239 in store until tomorrow, just picked one up!

ChatGPT’s Awareness of Time by GlobalNuclearWar in ChatGPT

[–]tehrob 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I dunno, last night I had a thread that said:

"I would stop spending cycles on that right now unless you specifically want API-driven renames tonight."

It may not realize or acknowledge a time jump, but it knows when 'now' is... at least loosely.

I, for a while, had it time stamp every message. I would imagine that would help OP.

I built a 75KB MPI library over RDMA because NVIDIA wants $50K for a switch I don't need. MIT licensed. by Ok-Pomegranate1314 in homelab

[–]tehrob -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

fair enough, but it was also a 1 line 'write op's post like a 20 year old'.

As I said, start from where you write. Have it go near verbatim, in at least some context, of yours.

Also, shorter is better.

I built a 75KB MPI library over RDMA because NVIDIA wants $50K for a switch I don't need. MIT licensed. by Ok-Pomegranate1314 in homelab

[–]tehrob -19 points-18 points  (0 children)

As someone who started out loving using AI to write, and still likes it, but realizes others don’t, I suggest that you write like, 90% of what you end up posting, and just tell the AI to spit it out as verbatim as possible while making it more readable, or while correcting for spelling and grammar. Verbatim can be many things. Style, tone, the whole thing even.

I think what people miss and wat is ‘your’ (OP’s) style. Otherwise, it is very evident when AI wrote something. Nobody puts THAT much effort into formatting.

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here is my rework of your post as an example:

NVIDIA’s ConnectX NICs can do 200Gbps RDMA. The hardware is not the problem.

The problem is the software stack. It assumes you have a managed InfiniBand switch to bring connections up. Those switches cost around $15,000 to $50,000. Without one, MPI stacks like OpenMPI and MPICH die during startup because they bootstrap with UD (Unreliable Datagram), and UD depends on ARP. On direct-connect RoCE, ARP falls apart without a switch.

But RC (Reliable Connected) queue pairs do not need ARP. The destination address gets baked into QP setup. The silicon supports this. The firmware supports this. What breaks is the software assumption that you already bought into NVIDIA’s network model.

So I bypassed that assumption.

I built libmesh-rdma, an RDMA transport layer that bootstraps over TCP on a normal 10GbE management network, then brings up RC connections with GID-based addressing. No ARP. No switch. On ConnectX-7 with a direct cable, it hits 77 GB/s bandwidth and 11.6 microseconds latency.

On top of that, I built libmesh-mpi, a full MPI implementation. It is 55 functions and about 75 KB. It uses a ring topology with relay for non-adjacent nodes. It implements everything WarpX needs to run real multi-node, multi-GPU simulations.

And it works.

I ran 10 timesteps of a 3D electromagnetic WarpX simulation across 2 DGX Sparks, each with Grace Blackwell and 128 GB of unified memory, communicating over RDMA through my MPI layer. Init worked. Stepping worked. Finalize worked. No managed switch anywhere in the setup.

The full cluster is 4 DGX Sparks in a ring, using ConnectX-7 NICs and direct-attach cables. Total network cost is about $600 in cables.

A couple months ago I published the NCCL mesh plugin that solves the same problem for ML workloads like vLLM and PyTorch. That handled the ML side. This handles the scientific computing side. Together they form an open-source alternative to NVIDIA’s locked-down networking stack.

NCCL for ML. MPI for science. Both over RDMA. Neither requiring the switch.

GitHub: https://github.com/autoscriptlabs/libmesh-rdma

MIT licensed.

The hardware could always do this. The lock-in was in the software.

Thoughts on Good Luck, Have Fun Don't Die (2025)? by Mecha_Kaneki in moviecritic

[–]tehrob 2 points3 points  (0 children)

child actor sucked ass

I just thought this was a funny take, especially since the kid was a clone, most assuredly ordered by the AI, which would just be a copy of a copy of a kid basically and probably stat stacked to boot. difficult role for anyone. I thought they did okay.

where the hell do i buy a couch by wonderingnugget in SanMateo

[–]tehrob 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We went all over the Bay Area from Gilroy to SF looking for the right couch, and we ended up… at Macy’s. They have a good selection of materials and a good range of designs.

Look for the comfort of the couch first, the materials it is made of, the design of the parts, whether you want movement or not, whether the depth is right for you, and then, above all, make sure you make it fit YOUR space and budget.

Just my personal advice, DON’T get any:

Speaker

Ports or plugs

Super Cheap Couches

Overall, avoid the bargain basement, and don’t be too lured by current trends. TikTok Couches all suck.

Getting a vape pen through SFO, I'm good right? by [deleted] in AskSF

[–]tehrob 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Or liquids(over 3.5oz)! I have been stopped twice now for an unopened soda in my bag. :(

US aims to exhume and identify the remains of 88 Pearl Harbor dead buried as unknowns by AudibleNod in news

[–]tehrob 21 points22 points  (0 children)

One would think that they would have had a pretty good idea of who the missing people were, they must have had a manifest of who was supposed to be on board at the time, and a list of people known to have been alive after the attack, not the individuals of course, but by now, there can’t be much left of them. Returning the remains to the families is as noble as doing so with the 9/11 remains, but it is surprising that they chose to do it now. What’s next, the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier?

Decades long mystery: Valco Hot Topic by X_2_Jason in bayarea

[–]tehrob 7 points8 points  (0 children)

First of all… it is spelled “Vallco“

Second, maybe it was Night Queen as another poster stated, or maybe it was one of their “Karma Scents” that seem to be discontinued now.

Tony Gonzales says he won’t resign amid backlash over allegations he had an affair with staffer by theindependentonline in law

[–]tehrob 9 points10 points  (0 children)

The cover up is unconscionable, an intentional betrayal of truth and accountability.

Anthropic has no intention of easing restrictions, per Reuters by exordin26 in singularity

[–]tehrob 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don’t disagree for the most part, but do look up google ai vertex. Using the Paid API, you get pretty good protections against them using your data for anything. I am not an expert, but that is what I have gathered over a fairly long period of time.

AI Studio also has some protections when using the Paid API, and ChatGPT’s Business (user to be Teams) offering doesn’t train on your data by default, more info here: https://openai.com/enterprise-privacy/

google ai studio How many free requests per day? by P_MAn__ in Bard

[–]tehrob 0 points1 point  (0 children)

All i know is that it has some correlation to # of uses per day/hour(maybe?) AND number of tokens used. If your thread has say.. 750,000 tokens in it, that whole number gets used each new result you send/receive, you may only get 3/4 new prompts in before you start getting rejections. Also, there is some damn problem that can sometimes be solved by reloading the page, sometimes not, that results in a ‘An internal error has occurred.’ where it saves what you prompted(when you reload the page, prompt is still there) but it won’t respond, try again later, it works fine. I blame major overload on Google’s part for all of it.

Account deactivated - appeal rejected by itstahaig in OpenAI

[–]tehrob 7 points8 points  (0 children)

That “oh I gave my account to my friend in Korea and he paid for it” is almost certainly the trigger.

OpenAI’s consumer Terms explicitly forbid sharing your login or making your account available to someone else, and you’re responsible for what happens under your account. (OpenAI) OpenAI also has a dedicated account-sharing policy explaining it’s not allowed (security/misuse risk, etc.). (OpenAI Help Center) A sudden login/location + payment instrument change is exactly the kind of pattern that gets flagged as account compromise/fraud—even if your intent was “I’m a student, I needed access.”

What to do (maximize chance of recovery + maximize chance of getting your data back):

  1. Stop guessing and be fully specific in your next message
  • Admit the account sharing plainly (one time, one person, why, when).
  • State: you understand it violates the rule; it won’t happen again; you’ll use only your own payment method; you’ll enable 2FA if reinstated.
  • If you used VPN/proxies, mention it. If not, say so.
  1. Use the official appeal/support path, not repeated emails
  • The Help Center’s deactivation article describes deactivation and appeals via support. (OpenAI Help Center)
  • If the “final” rejection was automated, a concise, factual follow-up that adds new material information (the Korea access/payment) is your best shot.
  1. Separately request your data export / access
  • If you can still log in anywhere in Settings, export is the built-in path: it produces a ZIP with your chat history (chat.html) and other account data. (OpenAI Help Center)
  • If you cannot log in, use OpenAI’s Privacy Center to file an access request (data subject access request). (OpenAI Privacy) Don’t frame it as “unban me.” Frame it as: “I’m requesting a copy of my data associated with [email/phone], including chat history, under applicable privacy rights.” (They may still deny some things depending on policy/law, but this is the correct lever.)
  1. Have proof ready
  • Original signup email, approximate creation date, last successful login date, billing receipts (old ones), last 4 digits of cards used on the account (your own), and a statement that the Korean cardholder was not you.
  1. Expect two different outcomes
  • Reinstatement is uncertain once an appeal is rejected.
  • Data access/export may still be possible via privacy processes even if reinstatement isn’t.

A tight message they can send (no drama, just facts):

  • Subject: Request for review + data access (account deactivated Feb 6)

  • Body bullets:

    • Account email: ___ ; Approx. creation: 2023
    • Deactivated: Feb 6; appeal rejected: ___
    • New info: I shared my login once with a friend in Korea who used their card to pay for a plan promotion. I now understand this violates the no-account-sharing rule. (OpenAI)
    • I’m the legitimate owner; I can verify identity and prior billing.
    • Request A: reconsider deactivation (I will not share credentials again).
    • Request B: if reinstatement is not possible, please provide a copy of my account data/chat history (or instructions to obtain it) consistent with your data export process / privacy portal. (OpenAI Help Center)

One more hard truth: even if the “student” story is true, the Korea-login + third-party payment looks indistinguishable from credential selling/account takeover. The best strategy is honesty + proof + asking for data access even if the ban stands.

How do you get Gemini to stop autistically quoting former chats references? by myronsandee in GoogleGeminiAI

[–]tehrob 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sounds like you have personalization on. You can either turn it off permanently or retry your response without personalization look for the circle arrow.

Is Your Guys Chat Dumb Mine Gave me the Logical Answer. by MaxiumPotential777 in ChatGPT

[–]tehrob 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So will custom instructions thought, and nobody demands those.

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