barkingcat

There is no depreciation on memory these days, heck ddr4 and ddr3 even are resurging to 10x pricing. Ram is an investment vehicle this year.

Also spinning hdds… insane amounts of appreciation.

I guess they spent all their money on AI

Is an llm able to explain to itself what these parameters do, and change its own parameter settings?

classic use case for gamification.

every time I see any startup run "games" on some aspect of daily life, it's going to go into killer robots in the end.

Firstly, apple doesn’t compete on price. Even if icloud is priced more than google people would always buy apple just for the ecosystem integration. It’s not even a competition to be honest.

Look up “buy or build” which is the industry term for this kind of evaluation: buy product and use it/resell it or build your own.

Apple has gone for different strategies in various areas:

Build own Apple silicon chips, do not buy off the shelf chips from intel or nvidia or amd.

Buy and resell google storage but don’t want to build their own distributed data store for end users.

It’s about what matters more for the company and the core products. Apple’s laptops, cell phones are considered core products. Icloud is a value add.

This is also why apple is making their own cell phone broadband chips. For most companies, this is a “buy from qualcolm” but apple needs to build their own for independence for their number 1 core product: the iphone.

get LLM to write ADA and have it use SPARK for verification.

one issue is that modern ransomeware groups are also being hunted themselves - there are many ransomeware orgs that are themselves being ransomed so are not reliable.

even if you pay the ransom to the 1st group, the 2nd group will leak.

at this point Anthropic/OpenAI have enough equity to buy out the entire Visa and Mastercard ecosystems.

It's all fake venture capital money, but they are the big cheese.

waiting for month for a refund (and having lost access to the pro plan immediately but no immediate refund) is definite grounds for chargeback.

there is no human on the other end of the chain, and I bet that chargebacks are how they issue refunds (ie relying on the "nuclear" option as the standard practice of how refunds fundamentally works at their company.

ie "don't need to answer emails about refunds, because if they really wanted their money back, they'd issue a chargeback" as part of the regular procedure.

a lot of companies do this, and it's a common way of minimizing customer support budgets.

good target for the Louvre thieves!

the indiana jones warehouse.

American economics doesn't allow fabrication of semiconductors even if there is the know how.

Think about how Intel, who pioneered the know how, can't build cutting edge nodes in the levels that they need to make it profitable.

IBM had to sell their fabs to cater to the whims of "shareholders".

It's the greed of stockholders that you need to blame.