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When You Use A Nuclear Reactor To Power A Light Bulb

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1 year ago 457.9K views 1 shares

When You Use A Nuclear Reactor To Power A Light Bulb

Paying $1200/month to use GPT-4 to uppercase text. That's like hiring a brain surgeon to put on a band-aid. The real kicker? Someone spent their entire weekend auditing API costs only to discover they could've just used .toUpperCase() and saved $1000. The most expensive string transformation in history. Somewhere, a regex is laughing at us all.

Dumpster Diving For Digital Gold

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1 year ago 436.3K views 0 shares

Dumpster Diving For Digital Gold

A dumpster full of RTX 5090 GPUs? That's not garbage—that's my retirement plan. After spending three years trying to buy a single card at MSRP while crypto miners hoarded them all, seeing this feels like stumbling across El Dorado. Would I dumpster dive? I'd rent a U-Haul and bring snacks for an overnight operation. That's roughly $50,000 of hardware or exactly one mortgage payment in today's economy.