Dan Southwood-Wells

1 year with no loadshedding 🎉 Since 15 May 2025 at 22:00. Congrats.

Can you please start naming our storms @SAWeatherServic ? I think it will make the news stories more fun. "Cassiem blew off my roof" "Gareth floods Hermanus Mall" "Mandisa sweeps through Western Cape" I'm ready to help

Oh and you can monetise by allowing sponsored names 💰 "Sixty60 arrives unexpectedly fast" "Pronutro ruins everyone's morning" "Households destroyed by Hollywoodbets"

It's a bit awkward that I'm now getting emails from the DA, on an email address I only ever gave to DSTV

@JustinPBarnett Was playing with qwen3.6-35b-a3b earlier - quite snappy in comparison to 27b But I need to optimize

@c4talyst Will do! Going to see if I can get it to be a helpful coder using qwen coder. Just dipping my toe in

It works! Didn't buy junk, so I've got that going for me. 24gb vram here I come

@ruark @JustinPBarnett Not doing coding with this machine - yet. Doing text & image stuff - summaries, moderation, intent, etc.

@c4talyst @JustinPBarnett Thats sick. So like logic/process based stuff or are you doing code dev locally as well?

@hermux At the similar time other big players (i.e. X and Reddit) started closing their public APIs and blocking scrapers ; meanwhile stack overflow ... Sold 🤣

I think about this all the time: In June 2021, Prosus, a subsidiary of the South African multinational Naspers, acquired Stack Overflow for approximately $1.8 billion.

@ruark @JustinPBarnett We run an anonymous chat app 😅 Lots of stuff, it's in production and removed most of our hosted model costs (besides dev).

@c4talyst @JustinPBarnett I see you build pics the other day was meaning to ask what you’re doing with it?

We’ve agreed to a partnership with @SpaceX that will substantially increase our compute capacity. This, along with our other recent compute deals, means that we’ve been able to increase our usage limits for Claude Code and the Claude API.

Power outage Orlando East

@wootware Here we go 🚀 x.com/i/status/20499…

@c4talyst Woot Woot! 😃 It's awesme to hear that you could get the extra cable, Dan! Show off your build when you're finished assembly. 🔥

Thanks @wootware for sourcing me a PCIE PSU cable - I needed 5 and only had 4 😅 You peeps are heroes 🚀

@chriszeuch Excited for the one week later review 😅 I hate it, so much 🤣 I think it's a polarizing device

My very first Magic Mouse 🖱️ Let’s go!

@areyouevenreal4 Where do you even buy one these days? Prices are mental? 👀

@c4talyst You should buy an NVLink bridge and use NVLink with tensor parallelism

The homeserver got a dual 3090 upgrade. Now running Qwen3.6-27B-FP8

@r4m_3200 I built it in 2023: Intel 13500, 64GB ram, a bunch of HDDs and a Google Coral. Now upgraded with a 1300W PSU and 2x3090s 😅 The motherboard is not ideal (Asrock Steel Legend z790) doesn't do x8/x8 PCIe. Will assess. Also will assess if Nvlink will be beneficial(can't find)

@c4talyst Hi , hardware specs pls

@dinosaurRabbit_ Found second hand on Carbonite, R14k ($870) each, both top condition, same seller. PSU upgrade R3k ($180). Guessing they were used for mining, didn't ask, but mint condition and with original boxes & things. Came from Gauteng, so no rust either 🙏

@c4talyst Dare I ask the cost ?

@DiyarGn Yikes already expensive just with one 😅

@c4talyst That's a good idea because running those two beast will nor be cheap i guess 😀

@DiyarGn Fortunately going into Winter in the southern hemisphere 🔥 but yeh I might need some solar to offset the power

@c4talyst Dual 3090 is maddd. You would use it as a small heater too to save some on the energy bill

@erdemwrites Same same But different

@c4talyst It looks like a mining rig 😅

@CosmicMonad @recallmenot 🔥🚀 thanks!

@c4talyst @recallmenot Here you can see some of the numbers: