Good day. It’s time for my weekly report.
Personal Website
Last week, I planned to do two things for my site: automation of updates and a sitemap.xml. Out of those two things, I only did the first one—update automation. The automation is now working; new blog posts are added daily at midnight. It took some effort to debug the program in Kubernetes. I noticed a specific quirk: if the memory for the Go program runs out, there isn’t any error message at all 🤔 It just says “error” without the slightest hint as to why. I don’t know why it’s like that. https://github.com/hinst/hinst-website/blob/master… I spent 10 hours on this, and besides the automation, I also fixed and improved various other small things.
AI Computer Upgrade
I’ve been thinking about upgrading my computer for AI for a long time. I need more video memory: right now I have 16 GB, but I’d like to have 20 GB… But a graphics card with that much is very expensive. Therefore, I decided to go for a budget upgrade: I bought the cheapest additional 4 GB graphics card. Now I have 16 GB + 4 GB = 20 GB 🧐 The plan was this: assign all memory-hungry programs to the second video card and free up the main graphics card for AI and gaming. The plan worked, but only partially: the second PCI-e slot on my motherboard has a very low speed—only 1 GB per second. Consequently, the programs assigned to the second video card lag. 🥴 Plus, the setup process itself is inconvenient: you have to assign each program individually in the Windows settings. Man, I should have just bought one large 20 GB graphics card; then these problems wouldn’t exist. But that’s for some other time, in another life.
Conclusion on the upgrade: getting a second video card only makes sense if you have a FAST second PCI-E slot on your motherboard.
