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  • I don’t have questions, but you should read your own link…

    See, unlike the major DRAM manufacturers, CXMT doesn’t even possess the latest cutting-edge tools to produce memory for hyperscalers.

    What’s preventing them.from Data center contracts is they lack the scalability…

    If they develop the scalability to make a dent in consumer RAM, they now have the ability to get datacenter contracts.

    The only question is if they’ll pay to build up that missing architecture, or if a data center contract will come with the build out costs included.

    You’re looking at an apple falling out of a tree and expecting it to blast straight thru to the other side of the planet.

    You don’t understand any of this, but weirdly think you’re helping people…

  • What I’m trying to say here is that more competition in a so oligopolistic market would helps bring prices down.

    No one is saying that’s wrong.

    I’m saying that those companies wouldn’t stop making something with a $1k profit per unit to make something with a $100 profit per unit product.

    Consumers will never be willing/able to pay the prices datacenters will pay.

    For companies to start switching back to consumer ram. Either the AI bubble needs to burst so demand goes away, or consumers have to be desperate enough to see our prices keep skyrocketing.

    They may even know the bubble will burst, at least understand that they won’t keep being built at this rate. But it costs money to switch, there is zero reason to switch before that math changes, because it’s a relatively quick and easy switch.

    Like…

    What aren’t people understanding here?

  • Market share is meaningless when the same infrastructure can be used to crank out a slightly different product with an insane profit margin.

    There is no logical reason for Chinese corporations to produce consumer RAM for less profit than what datacenters use.

    If RAM prices rise to where profit margin is comparable, they’ll make consumer RAM.

    Which is literally why RAM.prices are astronomical right now…

    Does none of this make sense to you?

  • They make whatever is most profitable as individual companies.

    And China as a government, absolutely loves the idea of everyone’s computer usage going thru giant corporations because the Chinese government owns part of every Chinese company and doesn’t need a backdoor since they have a set of keys.

    Like, why would they make something that they don’t want and would sell for less profit margin overseas?

    Why build for a bunch of broke consumers when there’s a blank check for anything related to data centers right now?

    That demand could disappear tomorrow. Personal computers will just get more expensive so prices will keep going up for when they have to switch back.

    Why would you ever hope China would save us from this?

    Edit:

    It seems like people are confused here:

    Reason 1 they want to make data center stuff, is just money:

    They make whatever is most profitable as individual companies.

    Separate reason #2 to prefer data center stuff as a product, is everything in China goes thru Chinese companies which China controls.

    And China as a government, absolutely loves the idea of everyone’s computer usage going thru giant corporations because the Chinese government owns part of every Chinese company and doesn’t need a backdoor since they have a set of keys.

    If Chinese consumers have to offload their data processing to large corporations, then since China owns a piece of every corporations, they now see everything people process.

    Which is why the next sentence references two reason the Chinese government would want to squash home computing in favor of “cloud computing” thru data centers:

    Like, why would they make something that they don’t (reason 2) want and would sell for less profit margin overseas (reason 1)?

  • Yeah…

    Lots of words change over a century.

    That doesn’t change the subtext in the earlier versions like OPs screenshot being removed and tamed over the years.

    Again, this isn’t great literature it’s children stories. Kids didn’t need to understand why a pedo or wolf were actually dangerous, they just needed to know to trust their instincts around a creep.

    So villains were over the top creepy, paragons of every red flag. Because that’s what it takes to get kids to listen.

    Peter Pan cuts off Hook’s hand and feeds it to a crocodile,

    When subtlety is used, they don’t just never mention a reason. They allude to an easy surface answer. Sometimes “real” to the story, sometimes shoehorned in as a reason.

    But that’s kind of a requirement for subtext…

    A surface level narrative.

    So you pointing out a surface level narrative, just doesn’t really mean anything

  • Jesus…

    You don’t realize you’re the problem in that thread?

    They said they were don’t responding to them, and you accused them of harassing them for replying?

    Why reply again to prolong it?

    Even if you didn’t block them, you could have just not responded. But you did, and then just keep insulting them with someone else.

    Just, I’ve never seen a bigger example of a problem blaming everything else for a problem existing.

  • Bro…

    Why did you think an adult pirate was obsessed with hunting a group of unaging little boys?

    That story always had a lot of weird subtext, because it’s halfway back to the Grimm style fairy tales.

    They might not say “stay away from pedos” but all the villains were made to give off those vibes so kids recognized those vibes as dangerous.

    For the majority of human history, every story you told kids was about teaching them to be safe. It’s not a coincidence a generation or two after Disneyfication we’re left with kids who ignore what older generations still consider obvious warning signs. The point went from education to entertainment, so kids expect everything to work out in the end because that’s how stories always end.

  • Surely driving instructors teach students that it is a blindspot of a sort and that you should keep it in mind, no?

    Drivers Ed is a month for a teenager or a handful of lessons…

    The only thing I remember from drivers Ed was when another student was told to turn right up ahead, replied “yep” and then just didn’t do it.

    When the instructed asked why not, the kid accelerated and said he didn’t want to turn.

    Scary as fuck. But everything else I was told decades ago I can’t remember.

    And that’s not even getting into how much vehicles have changed in the last couple decades. Especially when the topic involves the continued increase in size in trucks…

    You think a boomer remembers what they were told in the 1980s during drivers Ed and will be able to extrapolate the changes to modern vehicles on their own?

    Quick edit:

    Besides all that, you’re putting a distracted drivers “safety” after hitting a pedestrian in a giant truck over them being able to not hit a pedestrian.

    You know what’s safer for a driver? An Abrams tank.

    Your line of logic is literally why trucks keep getting bigger and why were in this fucking mess

  • Kind of?

    It’s not just that the outside of the vehicles are big.

    The inside is too, so a lot of people can barely see over the dash on the best of days, so glancing down at a phone means taking their eyes fully off the road. In a sedan they’d at least maintain a periphery view of the road, which allows for unconscious sight and reactions.

    Like how “daredevil blindness” is real and some people are blind but will duck if you throw a wrench at their head.

  • He’s 80…

    The brain is basically on autopilot, and just falls back on habits. For him that means shoveling high calorie trash food down his throat.

    Don’t forget one of his favorite “power moves” at diners he hosted was to serve ice cream as dessert. Just so he could give everyone one scoop but get two scoops himself.

    It’s not just food for him, it’s like that Always Sunny episode where they hyperfocus on who eats first. He’s a very stupid person and for his generation eating a lot is a sign of masculinity, so he’s going to force fed himself and then shit himself.

    He’s been in a spiral for a while, I fully expect JD to swoop in after January, if he acts earlier than he’s limited to one term.

    I think trump will be the fall guy starting after midterms and then a hard push in about 6 months. He’ll stop being valuable as a scape goat in office, and Republican voters are dumb enough to see a mild improvement under JD and blame not getting the shitty parts on Dem.

    People keep saying they can’t see a Republican future without trump but it’s blatantly obvious what they should do.