If you wanted the absolute largest, you bought American.

No one in Britain bought American made cars in the 1980’s because they weren’t officially imported. American imported cars were grey market that needed extensive conversion to be legal.

That doesn’t mean they all have $20B in cash

Apple has $68B in cash on hand. Not stocks or other investments, cash.

There are documented cases of these same 3 companies colluding to constrain supply,

Yes, but that doesn’t change that there are dozens of companies that could make ram but don’t because they pass off the price increases and blame ram manufacturers while not risking their own money.

Yes, that’s what I said. There are two implications:

1. Sensors never fail which is known not to be true.

2. Tesla doesn’t lie about accident data which is also known to not be true.

https://electrek.co/2025/08/04/tesla-withheld-data-lied-misdirected-police-plaintiffs-avoid-blame-autopilot-crash/

It’s the same customer: People buying the absolute largest car sold with features like off-road 4 wheel drive that they have absolutely no intention of using.

If Range Rover offered a 3,000 kg car in 1985, soccer moms would have bought it.

and it’s nearly impossible to become an actor without having tens of billions to start

There are over 300 companies with over a $50B market cap. The money is there.

Micron doesn’t expand production not because they don’t want more money but because they think AI is a fad like everyone else.

They’re like a movie actor who was in obscurity for decades and is suddenly popular. Is it being a traitor when everyone is offering larger and larger amounts for your time?

If you applied for two jobs, both said they wanted to hire you and started budding higher and higher so you’d work for them, are you a traitor to the customers who ultimately pay your inflated salary?

I don’t blame Micron. I blame the people who invested billions into AI which allowed this to happen.

The sensor said he had his foot on the pedal.

40 years ago Alexi Sayle joked about moms driving giant Range Rovers to the shops.

Saying “lte Linux that can run Android” means nothing. All Android phones run Linux and support LTE. It’s an Android phone with restrictions on what Android apps it will run. That’s it. The screen is tiny and two small screens are cheaper than a larger one.

You can buy all of that for $100 on Aliexpress.

This is trash dressed up in a fun skin to sell to Commodore fans who don’t know how to delete an app from their phone.

That makes no sense? Why not play small bands that would be happy to have their music on the air for free?

have undoubtedly improved but LLMs are using the same open source libraries and tools available to anyone…

I read a surprising article on Lemmy just a week ago that explained that that is not how LLM’s do OCR. LLM’s convert images into tokens and then treat them like text input. I can’t see how it works but it does. It’s why they are better than classic OCR neural nets but at the trade off of enormously larger computation cost.

Would you be fine doing those jobs if you were paid more? Be a model employee until you meet with the person that can change your salary. Find the number that would make you happy and ask for it. If they don’t meet that number, then slack off.

Don’t be emotional. You are a tool like a wrench to them. If they can buy a wrench cheaper, they will. If you are a great wrench that they will profit from purchasing, they will pay extra.

I had a problem at an exact height every time and it was a tiny bit of dirt on the z screw. I couldn’t see it because it was a white wisp of filament in the threads but after a cleaning and lube the problem went away.

That makes no sense. You are already at war. You have already justified it. Getting the other country to defend harder is not what you want. You want to win.

Bombing a school wasn’t 5D chess by Trump. It was incompetence.

Fusion lets you print from the UI. I have never used it. I always export an stl or step and load that into the slicer.

Punch a tree in Minecraft?

Millennial China and Hummels. I’m all for it!

When your boss ranks you based on the number of tokens you burn, there’s no choice.