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RAM is so expensive that stores are selling it at market prices (www.pcworld.com)
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Generative “AI” data centers are gobbling up trillions of dollars in capital, not to mention heating up the planet like a microwave. As a result there’s a capacity crunch on memory production, shooting the prices for RAM sky high, over 100 percent in the last few months alone. Multiple stores are tired of adjusting the prices day to day, and won’t even display them. You find out how much it costs at checkout.

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[-] vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org -1 points 2 weeks ago

The only thing I got from your text is that text editors load an entire file into memory, which has been the case for decades unless you go with a special purpose editor.

Holy crap, and these people think they have right to talk about computers.

You can have a 12G text file, logs, suppose, you are going to load the entire file into memory? And you think it's normal?

You might want to proof read that.

I think you might want to put more effort into reading. This seems to be your weak side.

[-] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 weeks ago

I can't load a stress how bad your proofreading is. Don't blame that on others.

[-] vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org -1 points 2 weeks ago

So in how many languages do you write, and in which of them do you write better than I sometimes do in English? Other than your first one.

[-] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 2 weeks ago

So you bring out "this is my second language" after telling someone else "you might want to put more effort into reading". No, that does not fly. You put "sorry, English is my second language" first. Lashing out like that is not a good look.

[-] vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org -1 points 2 weeks ago

But it's funny

[-] stevedice@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 weeks ago

No, buddy. English is also not my first language and you write like shit. You're also an asshole about it, have a victim complex and are a hypocrite. You're just an all around shitty human being.

[-] vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org -1 points 2 weeks ago

You’re just an all around shitty human being.

Says some anonymous moron.

[-] markz@suppo.fi 1 points 2 weeks ago

You really should put more effort into proofreading.

[-] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

You can have a 12G text file, logs, suppose, you are going to load the entire file into memory?

That's actually done via journalctl today, most of the time. Which extracts the logs out from a database instead of a text file. It has some useful features, such as slicing a specific time interval from the logs.

[-] vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org -1 points 2 weeks ago

Yes, that's very nice when you are already storing that something in a database. I said "suppose".

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