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I call BS. Yield on high-speed, high-capacity RAM at scale is pretty hard to manage. If it was, Chinese manufacturers would have 'flooded the market' sooner.

It'll take them years to get to the point where they can match the yield of Samsung, Hynix, Micron, or even Kingston. And those guys are all focusing on the highest margin packages.

Sorry, we're all screwed until demand drops.

Now do web bluetooth.

Pretty cool, but no mention of range distance or power use.

Historically speaking, absolutists start rethinking their world-views once rats start congregating in the overloaded bins, and the unmended potholes / cock-and-balls-drawing crew ramp up.

It's just a matter of time.

This bus proposal is basically a 'back to the drawing board' plan. How can you get people to travel between SF and LA faster than driving, and maybe cheaper than flying, especially if jet-fuel prices stay high.

It's going to follow the existing roadways. What the original high-speed rail project could have done, instead of jogging far inland: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Route_of_California_High-Speed_Rail

Given diesel fuel costs, they'll probably end up with EV, perhaps with overhead cabling. And to avoid expensive 'self-driving' buses, maybe they'll put down 'guide lines.' To be able to go faster than cars, they'll have their own lane, or use center divider areas. And to avoid pollution and wear and tear, instead of rubber tires, they'll go with metal wheels. But to prevent damage to the roads, maybe they'll have to swap the guide lines with hard metal, protective lines...

Meanwhile, elsewhere: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-speed_rail_in_China

https://www.techspot.com/news/112343-samsung-chip-workers-reject-340000-bonus-sk-hynix.html

For context, Samsung offered the workers a one-time $340K bonus. Workers refused, since their competitor SK-Hynix has annual employee profit-sharing. SK employees are getting $477K bonuses this year, and $900K next year. The 18 day strike will cost Samsung around $250K loss per employee. This likely won't be the last strike.

The disputes are over profits from HBM memory used in AI servers. Expect memory prices to keep going up.

The right person to prevent it from getting out-of-hand.

In my old consulting days, a lot of work showed up when companies cut corners, laid people off they should not have, and generally made bad management decisions.

They would then show up, hat in hand, asking if things could be quickly patched and fixed.

99% of the time, the answer was that it needed to be rewritten. Often they would be forced to bring back some of the former employees since they had domain expertise, at multiple what they were paid before.

Guessing the same will happen here.

ESL teachers, when the paycheck doesn't clear.

What you want is a 'push stick.' There are a lot of different form-factors, but this one reminds you why:

When using the turn signal handle, "Down is left, Up is right."

This picture is obviously indicating the car is down.

At 60, they switch over to units of time. After 70, to metric.

Edit: My bad. After 60 pounds, they reverse polarity.

We are uniquely positioned to not only participate, but to lead in our category where the TAM is exploding at a step function rate.

They don't make heart stents strong enough.

The new US ambassador, explaining his positions through interpretive dance.

A friend of mine lived in a hillside neighborhood. Wanted a small ADU (standalone unit, usually pre-fab, for office or in-laws). Reasonably priced prefabs. Since it was on an incline, couldn't just plop it on cement blocks. Got an estimate for a poured foundation. Slab was too heavy. It had to be the lighter kind that traced the exterior edge, with anchors into bedrock to comply with code.

$300K, just for the foundation.

Noped right out.

Haha, yes I actually did get those back then. Didn't work. Turned out the wiring between floors was really old and there was a lot of noise. Place was also a rental, so I couldn't drill big holes into floors and walls to draw ethernet.

The thing that ultimately solved it was mesh. It's worked pretty well since then and on to the new place where wiring is even worse. With mesh repeaters, we can even reach far corners of basement storage.