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[–] Greg@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

If you’re driving the same speed as the car in front of you, you have no reason to use the left lane

What if the car in front of you is driving at the same speed but heading right at you? Or if there is an angry T-Rex in the right lane?

[–] Greg@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

OK, I did the math. I could turn $1K into $74M in 10 years with that strategy. I lost a year of growth because I thought Ethereum was released in 2013 however it was the white paper that was released in 2013, the coin started public trading in August 2015. Either way, I'd still be happy with that return.

  • 2014-06-19 twiddle my thumbs because Ethereum hasn't been released yet
  • 2015-08-01 $1.00 = 3.22ETH
  • 2020-01-02 3.22ETH = $421.24 = 6.12 ZOOM shares (also buy toilet paper and n95 masks)
  • 2020-06-01 6.12 ZOOM = $1538.262 = 6.80ETH
  • 2022-12-30 6.80ETH = $8170.67 = 570.18 NVIDIA shares
  • 2024-06-18 570.18 NVIDIA = $74773.41
[–] Greg@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'm doing this from memory to stay in the spirit of the question. I'd buy ethereum, then pivot to zoom in early 2020, pivot back to etherum mid 2020, then finally to NVIDIA at the end of 2022. I'll look up how well my memory works have served me.

[–] Greg@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The scene you're describing is a good example. Though I would argue that given this story line is set a millennium in the future, it isn't just lazily progressive, it's an ultra-conservative view of the future. It perpetuates today's bigotries as universal truths instead of challenging the audience to perceive of a future without our current bigotries like the Kirk / Uhura kiss did 50 years ago.

[–] Greg@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The original series was based in a post-race society. When Kirk and Uhura kiss, it wasn't an interracial kiss in the show because the concept of race doesn't exist in the 24th century universe. It got backlash when it aired because some people couldn't contemplate a the future without their current bigotry existing. Star Trek explored current social issues by visiting some planet with a veiled version of that issue.

Contrast that to Discovery where Burnham is having a conversation with an Admiral and the Admiral brings up Burnham's family's history of slavery.

[–] Greg@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago (16 children)

I agree. Discovery is the least progressive Star Trek series and is already aging poorly. The other series use the Star Trek universe to cleverly explore present day issues whereas Discovery lazily frames today's social issues as if they're universal truths. It was a real back step for the franchise.

[–] Greg@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago

That's fair. I appreciate that every instance host has the right to moderate their community any way they want however moderation rules should be clear and consistent. Banning people for posting respectful criticism of communism is inconsistent with the rules of lemmy.ml

[–] Greg@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm not defending these people. I'm saying illinformed hot-takes are common on the Internet. However they are an useful opportunity to understand an opposing perspective even if they're based in factual inaccuracies.

In my experience, most people are great. If a stranger has a wildly opposing opinion to myself, it's rarely because of differing values and more likely because of differing experiences.

[–] Greg@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 year ago (18 children)

Everyone that has been on the Internet for more than a few days has an illinformed hot-take floating around. You can learn something for a perspective even if it's not based in fact. Read with compassion and you don't have to believe everything you read.

[–] Greg@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

I'd step back at that launch

[–] Greg@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's 128GB RAM, the GPU has 24GB VRAM. Ollama has gotten pretty smart with resource allocation. Smaller models can fit soley on my VRAM but I can still run larger models on RAM.

[–] Greg@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I've installed Ollama on my Gaming Rig (RTX4090 with 128GB ram), M3 MacBook Pro, and M2 MacBook Air. I'm running Open WebUI on my server which can connect to multiple Ollama instances. Open WebUI has it's own Ollama compatible API which I use for projects. I'll only boot up my gaming rig if I need to use larger models, otherwise the M3 MacBook Pro can handle most tasks.

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