Dr. Dabbles

In the dark ages, Mosaic downloaded Firefox and IE. Time truly is a wheel.

Best use of chrome is downloading another browser.

They could have just illegally cut down the trees like they illegally used too much water, or any of the other things they did against their agreement with the government.

I do realize. I also realize things like weight of the train, cost of the battery packs, the fact those packs will wear and need to be replaced faster than anything else in the system, and much more.

I guess if by a kernel of truth you mean an existing train was used on an existing track, then you could almost make it make sense? But since all of this existed before, it’s just a lie.

I’ll also point out that anybody introducing battery electric trains instead of just electrifying the remaining parts of rail is making an astoundingly bad choice, but that’s almost certainly Germany and not Tesla.

You and I both know someone somewhere was that stupid before Musk. He isn’t even original in what an idiot he is. 😆

It’s also just an outright lie. But, I guess that doesn’t matter anymore.

The current democratic party isn’t standing for trans rights any better than anyone else. Perhaps individual politicians are, but the party has a lot of de facto republicans in the ranks. So vote for them or not, they aren’t going to make things better for folks that are trans. They also aren’t ending wars, reducing military spending, helping vulnerable people seeking asylum, helping homeless people, providing free mental healthcare or national healthcare at all, and so on. Hell, they haven’t enshrined abortion rights into law in the past almost 50 years.

People vote for democrats because of tradition and lesser-of-the-evils reasons. That’s it. That’s a shitty place to be, and should embarrass us the voters as well as the party.

Trans rights are human rights, and how you treat anyone in your society is how you treat everyone. Democrats were scared in the '80s and '90s to support gay people for this exact reason, and instead of losing elections they started winning because people realize gay people are people. They lost elections because they weren’t brave enough to stand with the courage of their convictions, and in my opinion that’s what they deserved.

All scams come to an end when they run out of marks to steal from.

Customers are fairly inflexible. If you need storage or ram for 10k new servers, that’s it. You have to have it. And since all manufacturers raised prices, you’re going to spend more. Making matters worse, if you have to onboard another vendor to safe a few tens of thousands of dollars, you can easily spend hundreds of thousands on time and resources to go through a qualification cycle alone.

Home computers make up a significantly smaller portion of the computer component space. So while this might prevent a person from upgrading their SSD or building a DDR 5 equipped gaming computer, that’s small percentages of sales. A single corporate relationship account will buy thousands of devices at a time, larger accounts will buy tens of hundreds of thousands. A cloud operator building 10k servers with 12 channels of RAM will buy 24 dimms per server. It’s a totally different game.

I have information directly from the three main manufacturers. Demand is down, production is down, so in order to not show losses on the balance sheet prices went up.

TSMC did the same thing last year- raised prices by around 27% for all customers. Because demand is way, WAY down. Sadly their increase wasn’t enough to stave off a drop in revenue.

When you have the whole market cornered, normal supply and demand economics don’t apply.

I’m not the one complaining

Ok. Well, people are buying all the production. But production is down. And they control the price so they raised that too.

Welcome to free market capitalism.

What?

Yup. They control the entire market and there’s a decreasing number of fabs. They raise prices to ensure revenue doesn’t drop and they can keep showing investors lines going up.

It’s idiotic, and it’s how the industry has worked for decades at this point. Just wait till people figure out the games played by fabs, substrate manufacturers, and component suppliers…

It’s exactly how this works, and during a quarterly review with Samsung, they literally told me they were doing this. Nobody in the industry is surprised by this.

Not sure why you’d deny what you literally see happening.

By cut supply, you mean several fabs have suffered catastrophic losses and turned down production for nearly a year? Because that’s what happened.

And yes, nobody makes products when there’s no demand for them. It’s the basics of how they turn the screws to buyers at all times.

Demand is way down, so they raise prices. This is the cycle that keeps repeating, and nobody should be surprised.

Whenever a government or government agency announces a successful exploit, I presume they’ve already exhausted it and moved on to another one that won’t be patched or publicly divulged for many years.