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I was going to say you need an extension cable. My first dual 3090 build I had three issues. First was the pcie extension wouldn't support gen4, so I had to change to gen3 in the bios. Second issue was that depending on which slot, you couldn't get x16/x16 and it would drop to x16/x8 unless you had it configured right. Third, I finally gave up and just had the card resting first inside the case and then outside which if fan kicks up, it'll jiggle around, so I had to make some makeshift holder to keep the card sitting there.

I was going to say, do a file -i to find the encoding of frodo.py. I note the file man page has a -0 or --print0 command that adds a ‘\0’ that can be 'cut', but strings works too.

I came into a company once that had built their own server room. It had a couple hundred pizza boxes in it and was always hot as hell even with full blast air conditioning. When I retired almost all of them to use virtual servers, it turns out that 1) a lot of the chipsets internallyl still had plastic film on them (to prevent scratches? Why would you put film on them? There were even some CPUs that didn't have any coolers on them, just film) and 2) A lot of the inpflow and outflow air ports also had plastic shipping film that was never removed. I was completely shocked. So I fixed dozens if not a hundred computers simply by removing a piece of tape.

LMAO. I have about 150 Bitcoins sitting on an old hard drive at the bottom of the local dump. I guess someone would try to dig them up if it ever hits a million, but doubtful they could recover them much less unlock them.

since the 80s, I've always kept a ~/.cryptic file that I would add commands for which I could never remember the format. It would be cool to use that as a localized fine-tuning.

They forgot the 5th monitor. We used to use a whole other sun sparcstation running the tiniest, laggiest video with the camera on the other remote user so when you fragged them you could flip them off. Back then, they didn't really have picture in picture or video overlays, so we just used a whole other machine sitting next to us.

3060 12GB are the best things you can buy right now. They are cheap, have a ton of memory--which seems to be the issue w/ image generation--and you can fit four of them into the cheapest motherboards.

3060ti 8GB, 3090 24GB, and 4000 series all have performance benefits, but for now this one is off the charts.

That is a great point. Eclipse in Java in the past 5+ years has started auto completing beginning of expressions. As someone who started programming in vi, it's really enjoyable. It doesn't do everything, but strings, statement completions, loops and scopes, even variable naming and selection, etc all autocomplete. I realize that's not quite the same as autocorrect, but it works well. Second, with the OpenAI GPT-3 stuff, it does generate syntactically correct code, though I haven't learned to trust it enough to generate semantic instantiations of what I'm thinking.