Hacker News: kasabali

New comment by kasabali in "DRAM pricing is killing the hobbyist SBC market"

kasabali — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 09:51:56 +0000

Dell Optiplex 3040 or some configurations of Lenovo M700 may be using 6th gen Intel CPU with DDR3.

New comment by kasabali in "DRAM pricing is killing the hobbyist SBC market"

kasabali — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 08:48:50 +0000

that was like $80 last year.

New comment by kasabali in "DRAM pricing is killing the hobbyist SBC market"

kasabali — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 08:32:56 +0000

iPhone 12 wasn't low end

New comment by kasabali in "Oracle slashes 30k jobs"

kasabali — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 08:49:30 +0000

I mean, as an outsider, this is exactly how it seems to be working.

New comment by kasabali in "TSMC is reportedly sold out until 2028"

kasabali — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 16:54:48 +0000

Damn, Rapidus couldn't come soon enough.

New comment by kasabali in "Apple randomly closes bug reports unless you "verify" the bug remains unfixed"

kasabali — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 15:54:54 +0000

https://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html

New comment by kasabali in "Debunking Zswap and Zram Myths"

kasabali — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 21:24:17 +0000

THIS. This boggles my mind ever since zswap landed in the kernel.

Actually, forget zswap. Why the fuck swap's on disk format hasn't been compressed in the last 2 decades when processing power has been abundant and compressors like lzo/lz4 has been in kernel tree.

New comment by kasabali in "Microsoft's 'unhackable' Xbox One has been hacked by 'Bliss'"

kasabali — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 08:23:29 +0000

What a huge sin. God forbid I could install whatever the version I want on the device I paid for.

New comment by kasabali in "The MacBook Neo"

kasabali — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 10:04:08 +0000

> 15.6"

eww

New comment by kasabali in "Apple's 512GB Mac Studio vanishes, a quiet acknowledgment of the RAM shortage"

kasabali — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 12:38:17 +0000

I'm pretty sure there were more DRAM manufacturers back then, and spinning up a new fab probably didn't require as much know-how, capital or even time.

New comment by kasabali in "Mozilla is working on a big Firefox redesign, here is what it looks like"

kasabali — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 07:55:15 +0000

Firefox 4 was peak design, anything they've did afterwards is to keep designers employed.

New comment by kasabali in "10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips"

kasabali — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 08:25:52 +0000

> Bugs in MSI Afterburner.

Do you mean the OSD?

New comment by kasabali in "10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips"

kasabali — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 08:13:44 +0000

were they 3-bit flips?

New comment by kasabali in "RAM now represents 35 percent of bill of materials for HP PCs"

kasabali — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 11:04:26 +0000

> stop antagonizing blocs like the EU

Who antagonized who first, again?

New comment by kasabali in "Debian Removes Free Pascal Compiler / Lazarus IDE"

kasabali — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 11:50:08 +0000

Bigger issue here is they're removing everything that depends on gtk2.

New comment by kasabali in "Hetzner Prices increase 30-40%"

kasabali — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 16:48:53 +0000

> That CPU is ancient, though. Over a decade old. That DRAM is 2-channel DDR3.

6700 should be DDR4 unless they're using some weird-ass setup.

New comment by kasabali in "27-year-old Apple iBooks can connect to Wi-Fi and download official updates"

kasabali — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 19:11:58 +0000

> The only people complaining about skeumorphism was designers chasing latest fad.

You're just proving my point. Notice how all of these were posted after Zune/Metro/Windows Phone/8/whatever it's called flat design craziness started.

Just look at this quote from Gruber's blog post:

...these hallmarks of modern UI graphic design style are (almost) never used in good print graphic design. They’re unnecessary in print...

No shit, guess what also wasn't needed in print: Buttons to be pressed and radioboxes to be selected. The whole fad just built on "old design is old and designers need to be employed".

New comment by kasabali in "Nvidia and OpenAI abandon unfinished $100B deal in favour of $30B investment"

kasabali — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 18:45:48 +0000

You sure about that?

https://www.mooreslawisdead.com/post/sam-altman-s-dirty-dram...

New comment by kasabali in "Nvidia and OpenAI abandon unfinished $100B deal in favour of $30B investment"

kasabali — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 18:03:24 +0000

I don't know where this myth comes from, DDR4 prices have quadrupled since July.

New comment by kasabali in "Nvidia and OpenAI abandon unfinished $100B deal in favour of $30B investment"

kasabali — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 17:59:46 +0000

Nah. Even goddamn 8GB DDR3 modules have tripled in price. SSD prices, similarly.