Companies don't make structural mistakes. They are famously individualistic and unorganized and all illegal acts are by lone wolves and bad apples. All good work is done by CEO or the board. The rest of the individuals are parasites

/s in case someone needs

You got the fucking receipts

No one is hoarding RAM (or DRAM aka what we call as RAM)

Instead it has mostly been a supply side crunch, and none of the individual steps are "illegal"

1. AI servers use a special memory called HBM
2. HBM is good at what it does but it has a very 'high wafer area per server' (it is stacked, and each level is lower density than normal DRAM)
3. OpenAI (and apparently others) skipped middlemen of supply chain and directly negotiated with the fab to get priority for their HBM fabrication.
4. This crunched supply on the open market for HBM
5. Other people followed up
6. Fab companies pivoted other manufacturing lines to HBM because of so many orders (and because it is really profitable to manufacture)
7. That caused crunch on DRAM
8. Other memory manufacturers pivoted to more expensive segment of their expertise (eg Flash memory fab)
9. This caused crunch on other common memory segments
10. Expensive memory means you try to move to higher segment for your own products (eg: laptop, mobile) else you don't have any slack in your BOM. This is causing the consumer good crunch
11. Once stuff becomes expensive, people hedge and buyout inventories. This is causing the Covid era style supply chain shock. The impact radius is expected to increase in coming months even if RAM situation resolves.
12. "Special mission" against Iran is blocking critical supply chain for chips (speciality chemicals, helium, etc.)

Is it playing into the hands of Russia it was not unintended but very very intentional

It's sad to hear, but at this point those soldiers are just collateral damage. Their presence was enough to make them a target. Condemn US attacks, don't provide them with any logistical, moneyary or material support and then this whining would be a real complaint.

Email address spec is convoluted and this is indeed the best way. Noobs and ninja do it this way, normies try to validate before sending email

A credit card that only works domestically is not a deal breaker. Most of the time, people don't travel abroad. So, using a more advantageous card (more perks, less fees, etc.) domestically makes sense.

Domestic providers are a thing in several countries which are smaller than EU. Some of them don't operate internationally so this news isn't that weird

The banana republics? The monoculture? The fact the ones in supermarket taste bland and it costs and arm and leg if you want one that tastes good?

Take your pick

Top 1% by wealth. Not the 1% of outliers by sexuality/gender identity

For this, bike friendly cities have good public transport (bus/tram/metro) and bike shares

We need a new framework, one that allows universal lookup, and makes life easier

x = _.dialog.file.open
y = _.open.file.dialog
z = _.file.open.dialog
a = _.file.dialog.open

Once done, the formatter simply changes everything to _.open.file.dialog

Let's get this done JS peeps

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Same with Switzerland