PC Master Race? I’ve always been a multi-platform gamer. I’ve always loved collecting consoles, and have had a varied gaming experience over many generations. But I considered myself a PC gamer first. I’d always go back to PC whenever I could. And I LOVED upgrading my PC, and modding my PC, and overclocking my PC. It may not sound like much now, but I remember the first time I had a stable 5Ghz on i7-2600K on air cooling. It. Was. Awesome. ...
Wow, the new Mac Studios look really impressive. I can’t find the post that I saw last night about it, so I can’t share that author’s thoughts (I thought I commented or reacted at least, apparently not…), but what was interesting is the M3 Ultra goes up to 512GB of unified memory. 512GB… Of unified memory… If you’ve been playing with LLMs locally, and you have Apple Silicon, you’ll know that Apple’s unified memory is pretty performant, and it’s great for running local LLMs because the GPU uses the same system memory as the CPU, which means it can access most if not all of the RAM. ...
LOLWUT. Random. Yes. Kinda. So here’s the thing; I recently watched a reaction video by ThePrimeTime for a clip about the “Best Programming Setup” from the Lex Fridman interview with John Carmack, and for some reason it sparked an urge to write about something. The specific bit was here (from around 19:45 to 21:12), where John talked about making the move from 2 to 3 monitors, and Prime commented on being a 1 monitor person. ...