No, it’s actually not because of the AI demand. AI is a demand metric but not enough to cause the hikes we’re seeing and (as the manufacturers want us to) even preparing for.

You may hate AI, but it’s not the reason we are seeing RAM costs skyrocket.

Looking at the manufacturing data and the historical strong-arm tactics used by Samsung, Micron, and SK hynix, who collectively control about 96% of the global DRAM market, AI just gives manufacturers the perfect public justification to stop chasing cheap bit growth, starve low-margin consumer channels (our RAM products), reprioritize wafers toward premium products (data center RAM), and force customers into multi-year contracts at shortage-era prices.

Sure it lets them make more money off us, but they really love locking in these rates with their data center-based customers.

Subsidies have always been about fostering new technologies and innovation.

1. Electricity in rural homes: In the 1930s, private utilities often would not run power lines to rural areas because it was not profitable enough. The Rural Electrification Administration used federal loans to help local electric co-ops build out rural power infrastructure. Before that, only about 1 in 10 farms had electricity, while most urban homes already did. Today, obviously, electric service is a basic expectation almost everywhere.
2. The internet: The internet’s roots trace back to ARPANET, a Defense Department/DARPA-funded research network created to connect computers and share digital resources. That publicly funded networking research laid the groundwork for the modern internet: email, web browsing, cloud apps, phones, business systems, and everything else that now runs daily life.
3. GPS navigation: GPS was developed by the U.S. Department of Defense and remains a government-owned system. It was later opened for civilian use, which is why we now casually use it for maps, delivery routing, fleet tracking, aviation, farming, construction layout, timestamping financial systems, and finding the nearest pizza place.
4. The Interstate Highway System: The Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 created the Interstate Highway System as a massive federally backed infrastructure project. That public investment helped shape modern commuting, trucking, suburbia, logistics, road trips, distribution centers, and the way stores stock everyday goods.
5. Microchips and semiconductors: Early integrated circuits were privately invented, but government demand from defense and space programs helped create the first major market. The U.S. military and NASA were early buyers of integrated circuits for missiles and space guidance systems, helping push the technology forward before it became cheap enough for consumer electronics. That helped lead to the chips in phones, cars, thermostats, routers, controllers, appliances, and BAS equipment.
6. Phone cameras and digital imaging: Modern phone cameras owe a lot to NASA/JPL work on CMOS image sensors. NASA describes the CMOS image sensor as one of its most widespread spinoff technologies, enabling cell phone cameras, HD video, and modern digital imaging.
7. Medical research and everyday medicine: A lot of drugs, vaccines, diagnostics, and medical knowledge start with publicly funded basic research before private companies commercialize the final products. NIH describes itself as the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research and says decades of NIH-funded work have driven advances in health and science.

The government absorbs early risk, funds infrastructure or basic research, creates a first market, and then private industry scales it into something ordinary people use every day.

I’m thinking this is really because you don’t like your job.

Does the constitution say that states must turn over absentee voter data in order to vote?

That’s awful

Damn shame

Why would anyone use WhatsApp when there’s Signal?

Cousin Nicky!

It still also sounds like it could be used as an adjective in the headline. But, yea, they’re sensationalizing things.

Art of the Deal

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Well that’s fucking depressing

They believe whitehouse.gov/aliens is about actual aliens from outer space

It depends on what size you currently have. If you have the series 4-44mm, you could go for an 11-42mm, which is smaller and weighs less. But basically all the latest models are technically bigger than their older variants, so you’d have to change your size class. If you’re currently at 44mm, the latest size class for that would be 46mm. If you have a 40mm Watch 4, that’s already as small as it gets really - although the latest models do have a way of feeling better on the wrist.

The move goals are just that, trying to remind you to keep moving for your daily health awareness. If it feels foreign then you likely don’t need the watch for health reasons. Many folks that get an Apple Watch are trying to take advantage of the health features and make it part of their life; counting steps, burning calories, watching their heart rates (especially if you have a condition), measuring their exercise progress, etc. The move goals are the most basic of functions on the watch and the most common metric users keep an eye on throughout the day.

I would say either go all in or get a standard watch if you’re simply looking to tell time and/or add some aesthetic.

Which model do you have?

Have they looked into middle-out lossless data compression developed by Richard Hendricks?

I don’t play Magic, but totally get this lol

Please tell me there’s a source for that