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New comment by H4lcyon in "Historical memory prices 1960-2026"

H4lcyon — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 22:39:24 +0000

This is assuming that the wide variety of use cases are evenly distributed and that larger use cases are not mostly just a lot of duplicated smaller use cases. If I have a website I will need X amount of ram. If you run a much larger website offering a comparable service you will need some multiple of X, but you don't actually need much more ram per user (assuming you're also accounting for extra infrastructure and not just the web servers). It's the same task just scaled. Relative usefulness is not subjective, you could look at a variety of tasks in different industries. Windows server 2012 had a minimum requirement of 512 MB. Windows server 2025 has a minimum requirement of 2 GB. That's 4x for the same task which totally distorts $/GBs usefulness for being able to tell you anything helpful economically. It's obviously good to collect this data, but you need to pair it with some kind of demand data for it to actually tell you anything.

New comment by H4lcyon in "Historical memory prices 1960-2026"

H4lcyon — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 22:03:25 +0000

A perfect example of how graphs are often misleading. $/GB is a totally useless unit value because it's an arbitrary size. The unit needs to be tied to the relative usefulness for its time. The y axis should be something like $/average workstation memory or $/requirement for common compute task. It's obvious that ram is expensive right now, but it's not expensive per GB. It's expensive relative to what you need to accomplish a useful task.

New comment by H4lcyon in "Codex just found a "workaround" of not having sudo on my PC"

H4lcyon — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:27:04 +0000

Absolutely! Here's a great resource for learning that kind of stuff btw https://gtfobins.org/

New comment by H4lcyon in "Codex just found a "workaround" of not having sudo on my PC"

H4lcyon — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:19:09 +0000

Security engineer here :) Just a little side note, docker is also very often useful for evading EDR/XDR/etc. Want to talk to a domain controller with something like impacket but your EDR kills it? Try a container.

New comment by H4lcyon in "Santa Cruz restaurant changes logo after flurry of negative reviews for AI art"

H4lcyon — Sat, 02 May 2026 18:57:26 +0000

This is assuming that the owner is also the chef, and exclusively concerned with cooking. Being a restaurateur is a multi-disciplinary job. The owner's job is literally to have good taste in all areas of the restaurant business: food, interior design, hospitality, branding and marketing, etc. No one is saying that they have to be a graphic designer. The obvious answer here was to have the good sense to hire a local college art student for like $300 to make an endearing and meaningful logo.

New comment by H4lcyon in "Santa Cruz restaurant changes logo after flurry of negative reviews for AI art"

H4lcyon — Sat, 02 May 2026 18:07:44 +0000

This is such a deep insight—you're really onto something here! This isn't just about a particular restaurant, it's a microcosm of a wider societal issue. It begs the question, why even have logos at all? Or names? For maximum efficiency and expediency for the owner the optimal restaurant of the future is a 3d printed, fully automated food cart with an LLM cashier that accepts any order and delivers it out of its nutrition depositor directly into your hands (no waste, eco-friendly!!! :D ).

New comment by H4lcyon in "Banks hit with millions in fines for using Signal and WhatsApp"

H4lcyon — Tue, 08 Aug 2023 18:07:34 +0000

IMO it is in your best interest to not use banks at all for personal finances, WF is just the most glaring exemplar of why not to. A better alternative are credit unions which are non-profit organizations set up to benefit their members. Strange to think about, but depositors are a liability to banks. Unless you're taking a loan from the bank you are not really a "customer" in their eyes.