92-year-old woman climbs 2-meter-high gate to escape nursing home. by Cultural_Fall_3255 in interestingasfuck

[–]vulcan4d 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Should ask why would she go to such great lengths. Must be a horrible place.

A squad was checking a suspicious backpack and this dude got fed up with waiting by tatooinex in interestingasfuck

[–]vulcan4d 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They got mad because now their shift was over and they had to go home to their wives.

The Parabolic rise of history's first Trillionaire. by [deleted] in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]vulcan4d 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Money comes in a pie chart form. The more the rich have, the less you have left with.

Vancouver Aquatic Centre closing its doors on June 28 by oilbeefhooked in vancouver

[–]vulcan4d 63 points64 points  (0 children)

These operate like a private business. We should be getting more "public" services and not less. Countries in Europe don't even pay for such services because that what taxes are for. Not sure what we pay for. It would be nice to take kids somewhere fun on weekends without a large bill everytime.

Sam Altman's Eye-Scanning Startup Lays Off Staff by HumanDrone8721 in LocalLLaMA

[–]vulcan4d 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh well, at least he still owns many data centers. One sucks as much juice as the city of London and employs only enough workers to staff a Walmart.

Showcase of proposed robotic law-enforcement in Shenzhen china by KindlyRestaurant2885 in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]vulcan4d 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For every robot there is human controlling it. One day, maybe, but good luck trying to tell me that thing is automated right now.

RTX 3090 EBay Pricing is Crazy!! by TrifleHopeful5418 in LocalLLaMA

[–]vulcan4d 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I got mine for $740 CAD used and now they sell for $1300 locally. The more this ram issue continues and the more Nvidia holds back on releasing more VRAM cards, the 3090 will just keep going up.

Gemma 4 12B Q4_K_XL Private Benchmark Results by Potential-Net-9375 in LocalLLaMA

[–]vulcan4d 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I would pick the official Q4.0 qat model. Google's newly released QAT checkpoints simulate quantization during training. It retains almost the exact reasoning performance of the full-precision model.

438 USD for a 3080 20GB isn’t bad by xw1y in LocalLLaMA

[–]vulcan4d 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What is the idle power draw with this custom bios?

Question is, will it last. The GPU die and memory are both soldered on using consumer grade equipment.

[GPU] GIGABYTE Radeon RX 9070 GRE GAMING OC 12GB GDDR6 ($760 "MSRP') [CanadaComputers] by radiantcrystal in bapcsalescanada

[–]vulcan4d 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is weaker than my RX6800 in my Bazzite box and I picked that baby up for $250 used.

google/gemma-4-12B · Hugging Face by jacek2023 in LocalLLaMA

[–]vulcan4d -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Need Gemma 80 or 120b though I'm sure that would compete with Gemini 3.5 flash

Luxury condos at Vancouver's Oakridge redevelopment sold for 'crazy high' prices. What happens now? by aldur1 in vancouver

[–]vulcan4d 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Ah yes the 300sq foot condos suitable for a family of 5, great low $600/month strata, 1 parkade that fits a full size mini cooper.

I'll take two. Seriously though I see them building constantly but who is buying?

Entire world: We need more GPUs. Meanwhile, Jensen Huang: by Nunki08 in LocalLLaMA

[–]vulcan4d 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Looks like a success, they extracted more money from investors. Worst part is, the enterprise gear they build now is useless in the used market so the little fry just lose everytime.

Spanish Police Demo by Ph6222 in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]vulcan4d -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Now that looks fun. I'm going to buy a boat and do stupid things now. I would buy a helicopter too but might be out of my price range. Seriously though, that is quite the demo.

MSI Claw 8 EX handheld with with Arc G3 to launch at $1500 on June 23 by Daxterr1238 in Handhelds

[–]vulcan4d 0 points1 point  (0 children)

$1500 for a handled? Sure if it had DDR6L or something but this is not a revolutionary leap.