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New comment by marcosdumay in "The RAM shortage is bringing back DDR4"

marcosdumay — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 16:08:55 +0000

It's only "artificial" in the sense that getting this much money on the AI companies that don't even make a profit is not normal.

New comment by marcosdumay in "The tilde in your PATH may not be your HOME"

marcosdumay — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 15:53:34 +0000

That's important only for the people that add relative names (like '.') to their path.

Most people know better.

New comment by marcosdumay in "Has the Autonomous Trucking Revolution Arrived?"

marcosdumay — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 03:22:00 +0000

Good (or bad, IDK) thing only level 4 is required for autonomous trucks to run everywhere.

New comment by marcosdumay in "Programming Isn't Special"

marcosdumay — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 17:36:24 +0000

A lot of arts can be done as a job.

And it's always a mixed blessing.

New comment by marcosdumay in "Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash?"

marcosdumay — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 17:18:55 +0000

AFAIK, no. For Claude, many people have reported that it's not including the training costs. But I didn't personally look at the data.

For OpenAI, absolutely not, that's not including training costs. But I do personally accept that it can be actual marketing costs.

New comment by marcosdumay in "US imposes sanctions on ICC hours after former judge wins Nobel Peace Prize"

marcosdumay — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 16:38:28 +0000

> By your logic, every other country "impinges on US sovereignty"

Trump has claimed exactly that several different times.

New comment by marcosdumay in "Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash?"

marcosdumay — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 13:57:43 +0000

Claude financials leaked last week, they are running with about -200% operating margins.

We also have OpenAI numbers, where people speculate that the about 150% of the margins spent on "marketing" is a fake line used to hide operational costs.

New comment by marcosdumay in "GitHub Incident with Git Operations, Pull Requests and Actions"

marcosdumay — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 16:19:34 +0000

You'd use tramp... What is way better than the vim's solution.

New comment by marcosdumay in "Car is a smartphone on wheels. Here's who's listening"

marcosdumay — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 17:21:39 +0000

Any opinion online about anything that involves large corporations is almost entirely astroturfing.

New comment by marcosdumay in "So you think you could be an electrician?"

marcosdumay — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 16:03:06 +0000

> barring some niche edge cases

If by "supply and demand" you mean all supplies have positive and reasonably sized elasticity, and all demands have negative and reasonably sized elasticity, through all reasonable price ranges...

Some niche cases include any kind of labor, anything that comes out of a factory with economies of scale, and anything that involves land or extraction of natural resources.

New comment by marcosdumay in "Why don't more developers “use the platform”?"

marcosdumay — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 15:33:54 +0000

> The webcomponent code seens quite sane to me

If that's a joke, it passed over everybody's head here. I can't imagine it's serious, but it still doesn't sound like a joke to me.

New comment by marcosdumay in "Treachery in the Rodin Museum 3D scan verdict"

marcosdumay — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 01:06:09 +0000

It can't be completely self and cross consistent, it's not possible. But that is exactly the goal, we just can't achieve it.

How do you know if you are breaking the law or not if it's inconsistent? And like the sibling points out, any inconsistency can be abused to declare you guilty or innocent on any behavior depending on the partisanship and interests of the judge.

New comment by marcosdumay in "Federal judge calls Flock 'indiscriminate mass surveillance'"

marcosdumay — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:47:57 +0000

Does the tower where Gandalf is kept in Lord of the Rings have a name? Is the .com still available?

New comment by marcosdumay in "What is going on with ceiling fans"

marcosdumay — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 16:28:40 +0000

Except that it doesn't.

All of the stuff available is basically a mix of the elements the author puts on his 8 images on the beginning of the article. Where only 2 of them have fans that can actually vent a room.

New comment by marcosdumay in "Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel"

marcosdumay — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 16:45:56 +0000

There's nothing malicious about the CVE. It lets people use it to index issues, like it was supposed to, and stops dumb people from using it as an indicator of work done or vulnerability level, things that it was never useful for.

New comment by marcosdumay in "Big Tech ruined the cloud, so we're renaming ours"

marcosdumay — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 16:32:23 +0000

And it's the thing responsible for opening your doors...

New comment by marcosdumay in "Micron CEO Says Memory Supply Will Be Much Tighter in 2027 and 2028 Than in 2026"

marcosdumay — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 17:22:23 +0000

Until governments stop printing money and sending it directly to people that have nothing to do with it but investing, people will keep inventing random useless stuff to invest into.

New comment by marcosdumay in "Memory Companies Have Destroyed the Consumer Market"

marcosdumay — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 21:30:55 +0000

Well, the best way to solve this problem keeping it a market system is if consumers band together and create a fab that will supply them.

Since almost everybody is a consumer of those companies, I do suggest we reuse the governance system we have that solves other "everybody problems".

New comment by marcosdumay in "U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve Falls to Lowest Level Since 1982"

marcosdumay — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 04:40:25 +0000

Mix a spoon of oil in a couple of glasses of water, add salt, put it a few minutes in a blender, and tell me how easy it is to retrieve the oil.

Now scale that to millions of barrels of oil every day.

New comment by marcosdumay in "U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve Falls to Lowest Level Since 1982"

marcosdumay — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 04:25:14 +0000

Not exactly "not physically extractable", but extractable only slowly, probably contaminated by water, in a way that is very expensive to refine.

People jump over the details in normal times, but then times get abnormal and impossible things start to happen.