Easy, which one has the highest interest rate. If you pay off your hdd now, do you save on loan interest? Then that 1000 is worth more because it's 1000+ the Interest you now won't have to pay. Same for savings. My savings rate is ~3.6% APY, so 1000 after a year is 1036, not much extra, but that's a meal or two.

Or Yolo it into the stock market, and potentially make 20% ($200) on it by next year.

It depends what you think the future holds.

Boring answer is: can you put it in a Roth IRA or other post-tax advantaged account? That's for if you think the world will be around when you retire.

If you think the price of ram is gonna double again, buy a 64 GB kit of DDR5 now and sell it on Craigslist next year

Or if you believe that memories now are worth more than memories in the future, just spend it on things that make you happy. This is free money, Noone can force you to be responsible

Oh that's per year! Not quite as bad as I thought

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That's a lot of misplaced trust you're putting into graduate school admins.

Your keyboard probably still works if you unplug it and wash it (including some soaking to get whatever Pepsi residue inside the switches out), but it'll take a few days to dry back out.

But for new keyboards, I just echo that you want hot swappable switches, desoldering switches sucks so hard. My keyboard is 12+ years old, so it probably isn't sold anymore

Sometimes discord servers grow and evolve abd the old stuff gets cleaned up, people who never use it are removed. I've got one server that did this, but they announced it first, and anyone who didn't say they wanted to stay by x date got removed. I hadn't used it in a long while and didn't recognize more than half of the people using it currently, so I let myself get removed, despite being there the day the server got founded.

Other servers though, for 5+ years it's just me and 4-5 other people, if I got removed silently from one of those, it might be more like what you suspect.

That's probably exactly what they did, deployed a sbc + some off the shelf model and increased the price 300x by making a black plastic shell.

This is probably why he teaches Calvin very true facts about how the world works

In my area of the US at least, that is basically how it goes even for cars. If it was a hit and run and you weren't in the car they're just like "well good luck wkth the insurance company bro that really sucks"

This is just standard "ram/chips are so expensive now that all consumer devices had to raise prices and thus sold less". With maybe a little general reduction in overall consumer spending?

It does seem like the open-weight models don't have easily monetizable adjacent money streams like support and services, best they have is inference cost. But the whole point of the open weights is that anyone else can come and take that part from them. It's a tough place to be in if the goal is only profitability. But since AI was declared a national security thing here in the US, the strategic value of ensuring we don't end up dominating global AI is probably worth it. And a steal at the 500mil per year loss they claim.

I do wonder what sustainable future looks like for an open weights lab, once we're past this wackiness. A very well tuned harness? That's kind of its own product. On-prem seployment support?

Well you see they both end in -berg and fatberg is a bad thing