Definitely. It might require significantly more input to gain the same certainty, but all it’s doing is reweighting the possible next tokens before choosing, and code output is still just token output. The rigid syntaxes probably means that the next token probabilities are much more sharply divided (maybe a random sentence the top 1 choice is just 40%, top 3 are 80%, but for a line of code, the top 1 choice might be 90% probability and top 3 hit 99%)
Easy, which one has the highest interest rate. If you pay off your hdd now, do you save on loan interest? Then that 1000 is worth more because it’s 1000+ the Interest you now won’t have to pay. Same for savings. My savings rate is ~3.6% APY, so 1000 after a year is 1036, not much extra, but that’s a meal or two.
Or Yolo it into the stock market, and potentially make 20% ($200) on it by next year.
It depends what you think the future holds.
Boring answer is: can you put it in a Roth IRA or other post-tax advantaged account? That’s for if you think the world will be around when you retire.
If you think the price of ram is gonna double again, buy a 64 GB kit of DDR5 now and sell it on Craigslist next year
Or if you believe that memories now are worth more than memories in the future, just spend it on things that make you happy. This is free money, Noone can force you to be responsible
Oh that’s per year! Not quite as bad as I thought
That’s a lot of misplaced trust you’re putting into graduate school admins.
Your keyboard probably still works if you unplug it and wash it (including some soaking to get whatever Pepsi residue inside the switches out), but it’ll take a few days to dry back out.
But for new keyboards, I just echo that you want hot swappable switches, desoldering switches sucks so hard. My keyboard is 12+ years old, so it probably isn’t sold anymore
Whenever I see a article about ‘cups’ of coffee, I assume it’s just an observation study thing where large groups of people get surveys on their habits and their regular checkups are more thorough and available to the researchers. So the researchers can only tease out so much info without actually running an experiment with controls, like how big a cup is.
That’s probably exactly what they did, deployed a sbc + some off the shelf model and increased the price 300x by making a black plastic shell.
This is just standard “ram/chips are so expensive now that all consumer devices had to raise prices and thus sold less”. With maybe a little general reduction in overall consumer spending?
Well you see they both end in -berg and fatberg is a bad thing
But which one is chocolate and which one is vanilla
Good stuff. I think there’s an some personal sites that are web devs trying neat things and that leads to larger sites like visualrambling.space and such, but most people’s personal sites aren’t doing anything crazy and following these rules will help (see also the smolweb movement). But worst of all are people on substack, which will load 12 MB of javascript on any random text+static pics page.
I got 16 gb on my W11 laptop, and I’m regularly bouncing off the 13 gb point where swap/ compression/ whatever kicks in and shit gets slow, doing relatively benign shit like browsing the web, YouTube and Gmail open, and vscode running working on some python shit. On 8 gb I’d probably have to use my phone for everything except vscode to get it to fit. It’s not the lightest possible workload, but it shouldn’t be slamming swap so regularly.
I guess yall haven’t heard the art of Memphis Kansas Breeze https://youtu.be/L8MBUZjJX7Y?t=213
It’s definitely somewhere in their discography