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New comment by schappim in "Raspberry Pi 5 – 16GB RAM"

schappim — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 08:49:21 +0000

There are generally lower-cost alternatives for sourcing the third-party products they carry. Their first-party products are usually more expensive, but they're of higher quality than the competition and come with better documentation and guides.

New comment by schappim in "Cybersecurity researchers aren't happy about the guardrails on Anthropic's Fable"

schappim — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 01:47:26 +0000

The guardrails are pretty tight. It is even refusing to decode morse code: https://x.com/Schappi/status/2064839631137546503?s=20

The prompt was: please translate .. ..-. / -.-- --- ..- / -.-. .- -. / .-. . .- -.. / - .... .. ... --..-- / - --- ..- -.-. .... / --. .-. .- ... ...

New comment by schappim in "Raspberry Pi 5 – 16GB RAM"

schappim — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 23:00:49 +0000

You'd have to imagine that the 500+ Kit's cost of goods is impacted twice, first on memory and again on solid state storage.

New comment by schappim in "Raspberry Pi 5 – 16GB RAM"

schappim — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 21:46:54 +0000

The US has a plethora of alternative authorised resellers who are lower priced:

https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/raspberry-pi-5/#:~:text...

New comment by schappim in "Raspberry Pi 5 – 16GB RAM"

schappim — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 21:11:17 +0000

Microcenter (another official US reseller) sells the Pi5 16GB at a much lower price[1].

1. https://www.microcenter.com/product/702590/raspberry-pi-5

New comment by schappim in "Raspberry Pi 5 – 16GB RAM"

schappim — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 20:53:53 +0000

Are Raspberry Pis (UK country of origin) exempt from the 10% baseline import tariff?

New comment by schappim in "Raspberry Pi 5 – 16 GB, $350"

schappim — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 20:49:59 +0000

The memory price rises are flattening. Prices are still increasing but not at the rate they previously were last year.

New comment by schappim in "Raspberry Pi 5 – 16GB RAM"

schappim — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 20:48:03 +0000

Raspberry Pi’s keep selling because the software ecosystem is solid.

New comment by schappim in "Raspberry Pi 5 – 16GB RAM"

schappim — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 20:47:02 +0000

Some folks might have missed that memory prices on the whole are up [1] 90% since Q4.

The memory used by the Pi 5 is up 700% [2]!

Raspberry Pi are working the issue by releasing new memory variants that are cheaper[2].

Edit: You can still walk into a Microcenter and get Pi 5 16GB for US $289!

1. https://au.pcpartpicker.com/trends/price/memory/

2. https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/a-new-3gb-raspberry-pi-4-fo...

New comment by schappim in "Raspberry Pi 5 – 16GB RAM"

schappim — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 20:38:38 +0000

Two things to note:

1) Apple had long term contracts for memory which will run out. Afterwards it will be very interesting to see what they do.

2) RPi uses older memory that is much much more expensive to buy in the market as manufacturers have dedicated capacity to newer formats used by AI boxes for KV caches

New comment by schappim in "Raspberry Pi 5 – 16 GB, $350"

schappim — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 20:34:49 +0000

This is because on a COGs basis it is memory with a side of compute.

New comment by schappim in "Is it possible to send a message in Morse code by un-following someone on x.com?"

schappim — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 23:14:10 +0000

I had the same thought.

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New comment by schappim in "Australia Four-Day Work Week Study Data Shows Boosted Productivity"

schappim — Sun, 24 May 2026 22:57:33 +0000

Speaking as an Australian, our productivity has been lagging[1] compared to the US, largely due to the availability of cheap labour (attributed by economists to foreign students)[2].

I heard one economist on the ABC give the example of carwashes[2]. From the 1990s to the early 2000s, car washes in Australia were largely automated and hand-wash car washes were relatively uncommon. However, the abundance of cheap labour has since led to a proliferation of hand-wash car washes.

1. https://files.littlebird.com.au/SCR-20260525-ietj.png

2. https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/abc-news-daily/the-pr...

New comment by schappim in "Why does it look like LLMs consistently overestimate implementation time?"

schappim — Fri, 22 May 2026 03:36:42 +0000

I've found that they declare estimates unprompted.

New comment by schappim in "Is Google down for anyone else?"

schappim — Tue, 12 May 2026 06:35:48 +0000

Google is down for me and others in Australia. No errors on https://status.search.google.com

Is Google down for anyone else?

schappim — Tue, 12 May 2026 06:35:48 +0000

Article URL: https://www.google.com/search?q=end+of+times&sca_esv=89f358ba4e2fcd04&rlz=1C5CHFA_enAU1082AU1082&sxsrf=ANbL-n7CRxmGUM30K3M29CCGtfJ_a4MWZw%3A1778567661032&ei=7ckCaoG2Aezl2roP_dfK6A0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48104949

Points: 2

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New comment by schappim in "OpenAI’s WebRTC problem"

schappim — Sat, 09 May 2026 04:46:18 +0000

We have browser-based HW used inside a construction site manager’s site office behind a random FW

New comment by schappim in "OpenAI’s WebRTC problem"

schappim — Sat, 09 May 2026 03:47:05 +0000

"WebRTC is the problem" is bait; his real claim is "WebRTC has annoying transport-layer characteristics that hurt cloud Voice AI scaling"...

Having just had to tackle this again for my own startup, I'm reminded about what you would lose by ditching WebRTC - the audio DSP pipeline, transmit side VAD, echo cancellation, noise suppression, NAT traversal maturity, codec integration, browser ubiquity etc.

John Ternus to become Apple CEO

schappim — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 20:39:32 +0000

Article URL: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/04/tim-cook-to-become-apple-executive-chairman-john-ternus-to-become-apple-ceo/

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New comment by schappim in "Why does it look like LLMs consistently overestimate implementation time?"

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Is Google down for anyone else?

New comment by schappim in "OpenAI’s WebRTC problem"

New comment by schappim in "OpenAI’s WebRTC problem"

John Ternus to become Apple CEO

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