user_7832
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Joined 5 years ago
Just like you just need to ask the LLM to "make it bug free".
(At this point even I'm more sure if any of this is sarcasm.)
1. Apple is the largest buyer of flash memory in the world
2. It used the leverage to force nand manufacturers into deals that ensured it was the most favored customer and no other customer got a better deal
3. $0.80 of every dollar consumers paid apple for memory upgrades went to apple's profits, only $0.20 were spent on supplies. Apple was making big money by squeezing not just the manufacturers but also its customers
4. Apple would order memory at already rock bottom prices and refuse delivery without communication, leaving manufacturers with loads of unused inventory which forced them into voluntarily lowering prices again
5. Apple schedules negotiations so that competing manufacturers would run into each other and dragged these evening meetings past midnight without dinner as a form of psychological tactic
6. To enforce this it forced expensive and lengthy audits on memory manufacturers to look into their books to reveal how much competitors were paying and how much each manufacturer was outputting to identify the struggling companies so that they could be squeezed even harder
7. Apple once threatened to have sandisk's ceo "crawl on his knees" when sandisk sold to higher paying customers instead of apple. When western digital required a fee for capacity reservation, apple sent a picture of the date written on a whiteboard to western digital and promised "payback"
8. As revenge, apple demanded that western digital pay them "testing fees" if they wanted their products considered, without any purchase commitment. They then got the security to escort the western digital executive out to humiliate him
9. Apple's spending on memory has quadrupled since the rampocalypse as manufacturers have rejected apple's past negotiation tactics. Apple was caught off guard because they were drunk on their leverage power over memory manufacturers and didn't expect them to push back. Memory manufacturers are now "gleeful" at apple's state
Is this really so/could you give a rough example please? I've not used a lot of Claude or ChatGPT, but 3.1 Pro always feels most grounded and intelligent. 3.8 Flash (in my very limited testing) isn't bad, but it feels less nuanced.
(Fwiw I don't use it for code, but ask maths and real world logic based questions.)
Our human brains unsurprisingly still default to that, and it is quite understandable imo.
Fun fact, now that you're here: adhd is severely over represented in prison populations. Several times the baseline general population rate.
There's this video (1) that I found, and my understanding is that flash next can be very efficient wrt ram needed, by using a "dictionary" (or something similar).
In my experience (mainly claude and Gemini argon, less so with gemini 3.1 pro), it's a bit worse. A junior dev won't hit "yes, delete" so confidently and think "I can just remake it" and proceed to ~~lie through its teeth~~ apologize 2 seconds later.
Ofc I know this isn't your fault in person, but I really wish Google would get its shit together.
...As a long time tech enthusiast I should probably stop being so delusional. Heh (cries internally)
1: lol I know who cheers for a trillion dollar company but I'd rather not cheer for OpenAI
It's terrible if you're a labourer in India who buys phones under 10k INR (~100 USD) when your salary is 20k INR per month.
Unfortunately there are way more in the latter category than the former, and most of them won't know what ram is. They'll just be paying more and getting less going forward for a few years.
(Source, the salaries and phones I've seen of the staff at office. And we're in a major region you've likely heard of, not some tiny rural village.)
I really don't know why, but it feels very satisfying. It's like the LLM telling me "good job buddy, you've worked hard enough. You deserve a break now."
(For context I write a lot of text per message it sends. I'm not asking it to one-shot an app to solve world cancer, I'm just working with mathematical stuff with a lot of back and forth.)
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