Can someone definitively say for sure that I can just use two independent PSUs? One for GPUs and one for GPUs and motherboard and SATA? No additional hardware?

Could an expert in the field provide an overview of what is known for sure so far about this incident and one from a month or so ago?

The CDC statement might be helpful https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2024/m1218-h5n1-flu.html

Exactly how big are the numbers of readers of this site are experts in this field?

I'd wager $100 per GB, so $3,200

At this point it makes sense to just buy an Nvidia Quadro RTX 8000, with 48gb of ram. Especially since I will be using it for LLMs locally.

Also, for gaming, it makes financial sense to just buy a console at this point especially since these GPU prices are stupid pricey.

consoles only make financial sense if you think about the short term.

They cost monthly, games are more expensive, no cheap future upgrade path and backwards compatibility is a gamble.

Even worse: Poor mod compatibility. There are numerous games that are pretty lame without some community mods, or are fun for a single playthrough but there is a whole galaxy of mods that give it a new life afterward.

UPDATE:

The requirements have been brought down to 1200VA so the APC SMX2000LV (2000VA) seems to be a good choice for UPS. It's much cheaper on Amazon too.

There's a company called mediproducts that offer UPS units for medical equipment but their pricing is opaque at the moment.

Ideally I'd love to chain an affordable battery backup solution like EcoFlow or Anker Solix along with a good APC UPS. But I'm concerned about chaining two sine wave generators (they become sine wave generators when there's a power outage). But I have no clue if that causes any cascading issues or not.

I checked out EcoFlow a few weeks ago along with the Anker Solix range. Anker's switching times are around 20ms and I wasn't able to find EcoFlow's switching times. The switching times indicate the UPS performance. It needs to be quite low for sensitive equipments like a dialysis machines. The APC SMX range provides switching times of 4ms.

Just got back a reply from the manufacturer that they cannot recommend any UPS. They clarified the specs the UPS should have which is 1200VA + sine wave + 120V.

D*mn! ...but 100% understandable, from a liability PoV.

Though I might still be tempted to ask them if they could anti-recommend any UPS's. Saying that they heard of someone using a FooBar X2400, but it didn't end well, could still be useful. Especially if you'd tentatively decided on a FooBar X2400.

I disliked it too intially but it had grown on me after a couple of days. As to why the name was chosen and how to pronounce it are in the FAQ [1]

[1] https://github.com/mwmbl/mwmbl#how-do-you-pronounce-mwmbl

The very fact that people look at it and think "what the fuck is this" is a problem, even if there are decent reasons under the hood somewhere.

Hard disagree. The points about not working hard enough and checking out before 5pm sounds like you were just trolling or being cheeky. If you were then you can ignore my response.

The response sounds like it’s coming from someone who’s never thought deeply about problem solving and it’s relationship with mathematical complexity.

When one is given a task that they have no idea on how to proceed, to them, the number of solutions could be infinite. At that moment, even knowing what to Google could be overwhelming.

Imagine the junior developer being given a traveling salesman problem as their first task but neither the manager nor the junior developer recognize that the problem is a TSP problem. The Junior Developer can spend years and years rediscovering all the heuristics and algorithms related to TSP without knowing they’re actually doing that. You can’t google for it very well because the task doesn’t explicitly say TSP.

What you need is a Senior Developer to step in, hopefully they recognize it’s a TSP problem based on their experience, and then give context and an explanation on how to recognize such problems in the future and finally tell Junior Developer “Just Google traveling salesman problem”.

No working beyond 5pm needed. Junior dev is happy they solved the problem that was pushed to production, Senior dev is happy they don’t have deal with a pile of technical debt and Manager is happy that the task got delivered on time.

I’m sorry, but if you want to be good you need to work hard and long. Ignore at your own risk.

With respect to the rest of what you wrote, I’d just say that the possibilities are always infinite and my point is that being able to discern and limit the possibilities to something reasonable is a skill that has nothing to do with seniority and everything to do with general (read: fixed) aptitude.

> my point is that being able to discern and limit the possibilities to something reasonable is a skill that has nothing to do with seniority and everything to do with general (read: fixed) aptitude

I disagree with that.

You don't need to be a genius to be a good developer, you can be learn to be one or you can be mentored to be one. Some aptitude is required, but nothing extraordinary. Hard work obviously is a good thing, but not a pre-requisite.

P.S. Our success criterias might differ though. I'm not part of silicon valley or FAANG so my standards might be lower than yours.

Kudos to the author for crystal clear one line summaries. As someone who struggles to write clear single line titles for Jira tickets, I don’t consider this ability to be easy or obvious.

Just tossing an opinion out there. In the last 10 years my editor progression has been notepad++ -> sublime -> atom -> vscode -> pycharm. Virtually every pixel on Pycharm is dedicated to at least try to let me write better python code and ease development friction. Lapce may eventually be vscode++ but I'm no longer in the market for general purpose editors.