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throw46106186today at 12:22 PM5 repliesview on HN

It's kind of depressing to see that it takes just one asshole to screw the entire electronic market. If you read this, Sam, FU.


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MisterTeatoday at 1:02 PM

I got one of the Newegg circulars in my email advertising a sweet little uATX AMD server board and got to thinking that my home FreeBSD server could use a CPU bump and more memory. As soon as I saw how much 128GB of DDR5 ECC would cost my jaw dropped and noped the fuck out. The cheapest 32GB modules are around $300 and upwards of $500. Thought I was going to gift myself early this Christmas. Depressing indeed.

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baqtoday at 1:30 PM

literally every market is like that. if you've got market-cap amounts of money and place a market buy order for all of it, you'll quickly learn what slippage is.

KeplerBoytoday at 2:10 PM

That really isn't unprecedented. We need high RAM prices for manufacturers to expand fabs, supply overshoots demand because the AI bubble will contract to some extend and then we'll have cheap RAM once again. Classic cycle.

b00g13boredtoday at 12:25 PM

The proles will get dumb screens tethered to their sanctioned models; and we will be grateful!

Glemkloksdjftoday at 2:15 PM

I understand hating at people like Musk who destroys human lifes but what is Sam Altman doing?

Because of (c) of images or just because he bought ram?