Honestly given that they’re nowhere near profitable even with their main product this is the right move.

I started out gaming on CRTs in the late 90s. Moved to LCD in the mid-2000s and haven't looked back. I don't miss CRTs, not least the bulkiness of them lol.

For real haha. I remember helping my dad move his old big screen TV out of his house when he replaced it with a "flat screen" and holy hell, it beat the hell out of 4 of us and we only had to take it 100 feet. The bulk was something I'm the young will never be able to appreciate :-D

I think what the article is driving at is that The Ramones are the _first_ band where that became true.

Are they? I mean they're world famous. I'm sure there were thousands of local bands before them that made a penny from merchandise. Maybe they didn't even have finished records to sell.

I’m a big fan of rock and metal music and often go to concerts. I’ll always buy a t-shirt of the main band I go to see, even if I don’t particularly vibe with the design, because I know it’s an additional way to support a band I like.

In my opinion that alone is worth it, but it is a fun piece of memorabilia. Although I don’t wear most of them in my day to day, especially the older ones.

I’ve got shirts from about 2008 onwards, which is the year I first went to see Sabaton and Disturbed.

I wish I had, and the only shirt I ever got at a show was from Necrophagist. A girl I was seeing at the time left my house wearing it and I never saw it again :(

I went to see Amon Amarth headline in ~2013 and Sabaton was one of the openers. I had never heard of them before but they actually were on par with Amarth's performance and I've been a fan ever since!

That’s unfortunate! But you can start your collection going forward haha :)

Yeah Sabaton is great, I’ve been a fan since Primo Victoria, their debut album. They’re also doing an NA tour this year (after rescheduling some dates). I’ve mostly seen them tour in EU so this is a good chance for those outside EU to see them live!

Thanks for the headsup, I will definitely try to make it out to see them again!

why don't they have donate pages or venmo QR codes at the concert? I am serious. I don't want more stuff. I don't need tshirts. I don't need trinkets. I legitimately love music and want to support, but it is so difficult. Best I can find is digital sales of an album that doesn't cost them any manufacturing/shipping costs.

I go to shows fairly often and I see bands with venmos and stuff all the time. Could just be the kind of concerts you're going to.

I wonder how much these are still being used though. None of my friends or family in EU use these, it's mostly induction stoves nowadays.

They'd be extremely rare in new builds, at least in Ireland, but some older houses would still have them.

Interestingly, they were seen as kind of a high-end option for a long time; before induction stoves became a thing, the _default_ was halogen stoves (and before those resistive electric stoves), but gas stoves were kind of seen as an upgrade (they _are_, IMO, better to cook on than halogen, and also more expensive to install because gas, so I suppose it kind of tracks). Induction has mostly taken over, tho.

Still very common in the US. Predictably, there is also some phenomenon of people who loudly prefer gas for some reason.

The US's voltage issues make installing powerful electric stoves more expensive than it is in Europe, AIUI; for anything decent you need three phase there.

Hence this bizarre (and very expensive) product: https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/copper-charlie-in...

Yeah, moving from EU (induction) cooking to Canadian (electric) stove took some getting used to. Boiling water takes so much longer lol.

The third point in this article is what really gets me. The credit card culture in Canada and the US is just insane to me, coming from a European point of view. You can get by without credit cards in Europe, and most of my family only has one for traveling abroad. So sure, they can use their credit card if they really have to, but it’s not a good default, as many others won’t even have credit cards. (And within EU, traveling without one is still fine for the most part).

You can get by just fine in the US without a credit card too. At least if you have a debit card (which can pretend to be a credit card in most situations). We were actually unscored by the credit bureaus for several years when we didn't own a house.

You may be able to get by in the US without a credit card, but every purchase will literally cost you 2-5% more if you aren't making smart use of them.

These days in a lot of places it is the other way around- using a credit card costs a 3% surcharge over cash.

I feel like this is regional, because I keep hearing it but I never run into these places.

I find that many online payments require CC. And yeah credit score is the other issue.

Yes, and I'm increasingly bored of talking about 'the internet'. AI definitely plays a part in that, I don't want to deal with randomly generated articles or content. But even regular content, like YouTube shorts, are unhealthy for the human brain.

I'm currently reading non-things by Byung-Chul Han, which is an interesting exploration of internet's impact on humanity/humans. Haven't finished it yet, but enjoying it so far.

Hadn't heard of this book. Picked up a sample based on your comment and I'm really enjoying it, thanks.

Pretty large amounts of energy go towards training large language models. Running them is also a non-negligible energy cost at scale.

But yeah, there's way worse industries out there when it comes to climate change impact.

"Once you stop learning, you start dying." Don't know if that quote is actually by Einstein or just attributed to him, but it rings true for me.

Back when I studied philosophy at university, the oldest person in my class was in his seventies and just took random courses in fields that interested him since his retirement 10+ years previously.

I like to think that I'd do something similar, as long as I'd have the energy.

This is a pretty cool project! Essentially this is like using Swap memory to extend your RAM, but in a 'smart' way so you don't overload the NVMe unnecessarily.

I do wonder in practice how the 'smarts' pan out, because putting a ton of stress on your NVMe during generation is probably not the best choice for it's longevity.

This is not putting any stress or wear on the NVMe, it's a pure read workload.

Yes, exactly this.

> but in a 'smart' way so you don't overload the NVMe unnecessarily

"overloading NVMe"? What is that about? First time I've heard anything about it.

> because putting a ton of stress on your NVMe during generation

Really shouldn't "stress your NVMe", something is severely wrong if that's happening. I've been hammering my SSDs forever, and while write operations "hurt" the longevity of the flash cells themselves, the controller interface really shouldn't be affected by this at all, unless I'm missing something here.

Hypura reads tensor weights from the GGUF file on NVMe into RAM/GPU memory pools, then compute happens entirely in RAM/GPU.

There is no writing to SSDs on inference with this architecture.

Even if there was a ton of writing, I'm not sure where NVMe even comes in the picture, write durability is about the flash cells on SSDs, nothing to do with the interface, someone correct me if I'm wrong.

I had assumed heat generation on the controller if it's continuously reading. But maybe it's not actually bad.

Just pop a heatsink on it and call it good.

People talk about "SSD endurance", but enough parallel I/O on M1/M2 can make the NVMe controller choke, with very weird latncy spikes.