Everything in tech has historically gotten better and cheaper. I paid $1000 in early 90s dollars for 4 x 4 MB of ram. That's $62 per megabyte. My 128GB kit would be unreliable slow and cost me $8 million, not even counting inflation, if what you said was true.

New products are born into the world they must inhabit. Complaining their pricing doesn't look like pricing from years ago isn't completely reasonable. Complaining that DDR5 pricing today doesn't look like pricing from two years ago makes perfect sense to me. Complaining about what DDR6 will cost isn't nearly as clearcut. To be clear, I would like a return to the old paradigm where pricing naturally drifts downward. I liked buying at the sweet spot of 2 year old tech. My current box has 128GB of DDR5 that has quadrupled in price since I got it.

I'm just saying that the news is not 100% bad.

Sure, it's not great for anybody looking to build a new box, but there is an upside. If you're a gamer, your current kit got a life extension. And developers just got a reprieve from having to chase new tiers of hardware performance. I don't think it's a bad thing for the consumer world to just hole up, take a pause for a couple of years, and mature what's already in place. Look at what happens to console game performance on year 1 vs year 5. The hardware doesn't change, but everything gets better.

Of course all of the other things that have ram may become problematic... but a lot of those don't use cutting edge ram. They use old shit because it's plentiful and cheap.

Of course it's a mixed bag. I'm not claiming it doesn't irk me to see prices like this. I'm just saying it's not 100% bad.

That's correct. I don't experience those things. But holy hell... I mean, I've done ketamine, from a tiny bump to the deepest hole. I found it to be the most intensely bizarre experience of all, because it upends all normal relationships, like cause and effect, identity, language... all out the window. But never hallucinations of coherence that retained the trappings of normalcy.

Hah hah... :)

One of the best cars I ever owned.

If it wasn't disclosed, how did you figure it out? Were they hiding it, or was it just not applicable, and therefore not worth mentioning, in relation to this use case?

When I talk about my 1998 Miata I don't mention it was bad at hauling gravel.

I mean, they're flooding across the borders at the same time as the temperature is rising. That's got to be causal, right? And a lot of them are darker than most white folks. Everybody knows dark bodies retain more heat - there's your mechanism. Albedo's a bitch, am I right? Letting your daughter bring one into your home definitely means you need air conditioning.

In my younger days, the list of psychedelics I tried was pretty lengthy. And I never had a single bad trip. Not one. I was always joked while not joking that the stereotyped hallucinations always eluded me. I wanted to see elves peeking at me from behind bushes. But no matter how deep I went - and I went 800 mcg of LSD deep - the hallucinations topped off at melty, wooshy, and emotionally bizarre and impactful. I never hallucinated specific, coherent events or individuals.

Well, here it is. I would return from a 25 year hiatus to try that.

In America all those pesky "experts" building that capacity will be fired and replaced by partisan sycophants who, despite being wholly unqualified, will undoubtedly build systems so much better that you'll get tired of having such powerful systems.

I fully understand what they are going for. And I also think it would be a great idea. The issue I see is, who decides what is "trusted". The US is showing that it takes 1 asshole to get power to completely upend everything. When UK Trump gets elected and decides the only "trusted" news sites are the ones that report nice things about him, how do you stop that? At this point, everything has to consider what happens if a bad actor gets power because we can see how bad it can be.

I am not expressing an opinion on the morality of any party in this drama. Taken on its face, ascertaining whether the claimants were speaking wholly as private citizens or as Amazon associates is a reasonable action to take. That matters. I worked for two decades for a very large industrial company in sensitive spaces. If I had gotten in public, declared my affiliation, and proceeded to undermine the company, no matter how right I was I would have expected to be fired. Would not even have occurred to me that it shouldn't happen.

What I think also matters is whether or not their testimony was volunteered, or court ordered. If it was the latter, they should be shielded. The former? Not so much,

Apple runs about 25% profit margin overall. That's very healthy but I wouldn't call it obscene.

If you insist on calculating margin as the sales price minus unit manufacturing costs, you would be suggesting other expenses - such as R&D and employee wages - don't count.

I have an iPhone 13. It's fine. In fact, a couple of months ago I paid Apple to replace the battery in it with an OEM replacement. It was actually a pretty reasonable cost. I should be good for another few years. I'll hang on to this one until I damage it beyond repair, or they retire LTE. Because in all other ways, it's as much phone as I could possibly want.

From their bounty program page at https://bughunters.google.com/... :

"Insecure customer configurations (such as unconditionally injecting shared secrets or misconfiguring security-related settings) rather than a product vulnerability.}

If their published standards indicate that giving the connector that level of admin permissions is excessive, and the access needed to exploit this is as clearly a set of poor security management as the last paragraph of the summary implies, then, "Yes, it should be corrected, and no, it's not bounty worthy" seems a reasonable stance to take. It sits right in the zone of that definition.

You could have the argument, but it's not clear to me that Google has it wrong.

In my life I have owned... let's see... 11 cars. Since 1996 I've owned exclusively new cars - 6 of them. Three were distributed in my country in limited numbers so I had no haggling power.

But I'm driving my current car until it falls apart. And I won't be buying another new car. My next car will not be one that tells constant stories about me to data brokers: