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1. тняэдт™ (threat@ryona.agency)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Jul-2024 04:41:24 JST тняэдт™
   i was recently consulting a colleague on his homelab who was building some large/power-hungry setup on threadripper with enough ram to store many bluerays in ramdisk (hah!).
   
   we were planning out the tier1-hypervisor deployment and subsequent vms/storage system(s) and i made the comment of, "you must have a lot of people in your lab or friends". he said it was just for him.
   
   i tend not to judge, but when you're pushing ~200w idle and with all of your fleet deployed your cpu/ram are not even touching the ~30% mark this is a heavy overprovision scenario.
   
   meanwhile i'm running my entire life/experiments on a chinese 4c/4t box from lenovo with 16gb of rams and the only splurge a 2tb ssd.
   
   if it makes him happy, great. but i don't think it's necessary to build a superpowered machine to handle sub 5 rq/h cycles
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   • practically without merit (pwm@gh0st.live)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Jul-2024 04:58:02 JST practically without merit

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     @threat I have recently been looking at what I can make happen with 8 or so year old xeons, and you can kit out 20c40t (only 2.something GHz base clock though) for not much dosh (~$20 x 2 for cpus, ~$40 for the mobo) if you're trolling through ebay while mercury is in retrograde and the moon is rising.
     The temptation to splurge on newer hardware is difficult to resist (or would be if I had limitless cash) but I would be wildly overprovisioning as in your anecdote because realistically, it would just be me plus maybe one or two off and on.
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