Professor

>be me >be 34, two kids, one wife, one nas >buy second 3090 off some guy in a walmart parking lot >he counts the cash twice and says "god bless" >finally run qwen 4 27b fully local >q4, 190 tok/s, room is 31 degrees >no cloud, no api key, no telemetry >"nobody can read my prompts now" >first prompt: "is the government about to collapse" >model says "that depends on several factors" >mfw $1400 of silicon to get a weather report >midterms tomorrow >every ad is a man in a flannel standing in a field >every other ad is a woman in a flannel standing in a different field >can't tell who's winning, can tell flannel is winning >meanwhile some agency puts out a "preparedness advisory" >"citizens should maintain 72 hours of food and water" >they literally say this every single year >but this year the news says it in the SCARY font >wife: "we already have 72 hours of food" >me: "that's for the KIDS" >drive to costco >everyone at costco is me >eleven guys buying the same pallet of water and the same 50lb rice >we make eye contact >we do not speak >we all know >get home, ask qwen how long 50lb of rice lasts a family of four >it writes a python script >the script has a bug >fix the bug myself >mfw I am the inference now >3am, can't sleep >new neighbor moved in last month >keeps weird hours, foreign plates on the car, carries boxes in at night >"anon.exe has detected a sleeper cell" >ask qwen if my neighbor is a sleeper cell >"I can't make that determination from the information provided" >based and lawyered >stay up anyway >watch him through the blinds like a tactical hamster >he's carrying boxes in >boxes say ZOTAC >no >NO >he has 3090s too >he's doing local inference too >he's not a sleeper cell he's a SLEEPER BUILD >next morning he knocks on my door >"hey man, your rig trips the breaker at night, we're on the same panel" >"...how do you know that" >"because mine does too" >he's an electrical engineer from lahore, moved here for a job the company couldn't fill locally >he has a 4x3090 nvlink setup and a 5kw ups in his garage >he also went to costco >he also bought the rice >we stand in silence >we both know >he runs a quant I've never heard of >he benchmarks ~360 tok/s >mfw the "sleeper cell" is just a guy who out-built me >mfw the immigration crisis is that my neighbor has better airflow >midterms tomorrow >polls open at 7 >we're going together >after we vote we're going to pool our cards and run the 235b >the war can wait >the rice can't >tfw the real national security threat was a 200 amp panel from 1974 >tfw I still don't know who's winning >tfw flannel