OpticalMoose

OpticalMoose, 6 months ago

Looks like it’ll be able to live up to all the hype. Hopefully AMD is improving ROCm to match. Customers won’t buy it if it’s still a pain in the ass to use.

OpticalMoose, 6 months ago

What kind of spreadsheet?

OpticalMoose, 6 months ago

Ahh, ok. I do mine yearly, at the same time I do my taxes. I only wish I’d started doing it decades ago.

OpticalMoose, 6 months ago

Were are the houses supposed to come from? I don’t see many being built around me. Sellers aren’t just going to put their house up for sale unless they have someplace to move to.

OpticalMoose, 6 months ago

OMG, been waiting so long for the cube to return.

OpticalMoose, 6 months ago

Lol, I came here to ask the same thing.

OpticalMoose, 6 months ago

Anybody else remember there being 5 year CDs at 5+% years ago? I could have sworn I saw those advertised back in the late 90’s - early 00’s. I didn’t get one because stocks were all the rage.

Nowadays, banks won’t offer 5% for more than 18 months or so. It seems like they’re expecting interest rates to come back down in the next couple of years.

OpticalMoose, 6 months ago

Good observation. I’m happy with my money market accts(~5%). But I figure banks have access to a lot more info than we do, so I look at CD rates as an indicator.

As far as actually investing in one, I had a CD back in the 90’s and didn’t like it. It’s just not my thing. I’m a stock guy.

OpticalMoose, 6 months ago

I’m thinking something along those lines. It could be another 5-6 months before inflation cools down to where the Fed is happy.

OpticalMoose, 6 months ago

I probably should’ve broken it up into multiple posts

I wouldn’t worry about it. Honestly, it’s good to have it all in one place, without ads, not split up into a slideshow, not paywalled, etc. Good info. Thanks!

OpticalMoose, 6 months ago

I never knew her, but after reading this, it makes me feel as if I know she existed.

OpticalMoose, 6 months ago

Awesome work. Trains always come out horrible for me.

OpticalMoose, 7 months ago

First time I heard it was on The Daily Show (sorry about the ads), but in the archives, they bleep it for some reason. I think they just allowed it because it was the name of a book. Brickleberry was the first show I saw use it regularly.

OpticalMoose, 7 months ago

You might check to see if Windows has deactivated itself.

Hmm, yeah, about that … lol
But thanks for the tips. I did have to do a sudo mount -a to get it to recognize network shares and raid volume, but I think I was having that issue before the swap.
It did connect to wifi which was a surprise to me. One thing I didn’t check is if the VPN is routing correctly when I have both wired and wireless connected. Honestly, I don’t even know how to check that, so that’ll be something to keep me busy.

OpticalMoose, 7 months ago

Anyone else get discouraged by all the anti-capitalist rhetoric on Lemmy? lemmy.world/post/7989808
It’s like they’re saying “It’s not possible to become a millionaire, so no point trying. It’s best to just hate on people who have money.”

I get the feeling that a channel like /c/landlord or /c/dividendinvesting would never take off on Lemmy.

disclaimer: not a millionaire(yet)

OpticalMoose, 7 months ago

Sadly, Lemmy is a very polarized place. I will say people are pretty good at keeping their comments in appropriate communities, or the mods are doing a great job of policing it.

Trust me, I know about small and inactive. I moderate the Chip Stocks channel and that place is about as unpopular as you’d expect it to be, lol. Maybe one day we’ll attract more of a following here.

OpticalMoose, 7 months ago

I don’t think it will burst. It’ll just slowly deflate as new houses come onto the market and demand eases. The main problem (at least where I live) is that there just aren’t enough houses being built. I don’t think we’ll see a sharp price drop anytime soon because there are so many people waiting to buy.

OpticalMoose, 7 months ago

So true. Where I am, a podunk town in the deep south, most of the homes being built are 4 bed, 1800sf+. The ‘starter’ homes with 3 beds, 1200sf are still like $185k which is ridiculous compared to what people make around here.

Even building condominiums would be an improvement. Personally, I hate condos (because I own one) but at least it gives people the chance to own something.

OpticalMoose, 7 months ago

AMD getting a nice bump the day after releasing earnings.

Earnings call: youtu.be/wz4YCFym6Yg?t=572
PowerPoint slides: …cloudfront.net/…/AMD+Q3'23+Earnings+Slides.pdf

OpticalMoose, 7 months ago

Damn, you beat me to it. Randolph and Mortimer would be pissed to hear about this. https://discuss.tchncs.de/pictrs/image/2de3e563-0b33-4325-bbdc-769448daa24c.png