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Samsung Investigating Whether Employees Accepted Kickbacks for Memory Orders(pcmag.com)
11 points by alecco 10mo ago|0 comments
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by alecco 10mo ago
> That's according to an analyst who purportedly spied a more-than-doubling in Samsung's contract prices. More than double .
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by alecco 10mo ago
I stand corrected, at least for gaming. I got burned in the past by 3.0 but it was for data processing.
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by alecco 10mo ago
> how can I utilize AI without degenerating my own abilities? "Coding in the Red-Queen Era" https://corecursive.com/red-queen-coding/ (2025)
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by alecco 10mo ago
Gen Z can't make it till end of month, can't get married, can't get a mortgage, many graduates struggle to get a job... Meanwhile they see pensioners having a blast and telling them they are lazy/stupid, and keep rising
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by alecco 10mo ago
NVIDIA models 4060/5050/5060 have only 8 PCIe lanes. Combine that with PCIe 3.0 and it becomes a problem.
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by alecco 10mo ago
The article mentions AM4 boards and many of those are PCIe 3.0. https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapc/comments/ilz8v6/which_am4_... Chipset PCIe Version Supported X570 PCIe 4.0 (both GPU/NVMe)
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by alecco 10mo ago
Be careful with these older boards. Some might be PCIe 3.0 making your GPU and NVMe dog slow.
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by alecco 10mo ago
Both are right. The chasm between proactive vs lazy people is growing exponentially. I predict it will bring a lot of drama.
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by alecco 10mo ago
I was a big fan of Claude. Even defending CC from all the haters on Discord. Then Anthropic started to play games and quality of the model dropped while the app became very unstable. (not about limits in my case as I'm not a vivecode
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by alecco 10mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46307819
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by alecco 10mo ago
Part of the stop-gap plan of the White House is for DCs to run those backup generators at peak hours. That would be for years until the new power plants get online.
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by alecco 10mo ago
I don't think there is MSRP. I guess the retail price will be $3000 if you are lucky to find stock for it. https://www.shi.com/product/49769688/NVIDIA-ConnectX-8-C8180 (prev model $2,347)
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Carnival of Slop [video](youtube.com)
3 points by alecco 10mo ago|1 comments
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by alecco 10mo ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/aivideo/comments/1po6u2h/the_ai_car... discussion
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by alecco 10mo ago
Meanwhile: "Amazon announces $35 billion investment in India by 2030 to advance AI innovation, create jobs" https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/amazon-35-bill... (Dec 9 2025)
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by alecco 10mo ago
AI? Ah, India. "Over $50 billion in under 24 hours: Why Big Tech is doubling down on investing in India" https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/11/big-tech-microsoft-amazon-go...
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by alecco 10mo ago
Most CEOs do what the board wants. And the board usually reflects shareholder primacy.
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by alecco 10mo ago
The gig economy is hiding the real employment problem in most of the West. How money Works "The Gig Economy is Full" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqmJN5z6Rjc (10 Dec 25)
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by alecco 10mo ago
Since 2004?? If anything, it's a terrible statistic. Meanwhile, since 2010: > House prices across the EU have soared by 48% between 2010 and 2023, according to Eurostat, while rents increased 22% over the same period. By 2023, nearl
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by alecco 10mo ago
"Some German manufacturers think once-symbiotic partnership has turned into abusive relationship and they want out" https://archive.ph/vPSUz IMHO: too little, too late.
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WSJ: Why Germany Wants a Divorce with China(wsj.com)
3 points by alecco 10mo ago|3 comments
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by alecco 11mo ago
> It just couldn't be exploited effectively until now. Are you saying until Elon Musk bought Twitter in 2022 there were no effective election interference problems?
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by alecco 11mo ago
* Athenian Democracy (c. 508–322 BCE) * Roman Republic (c. 509–27 BCE) * Dutch Republic (c. 1500?) * French and American Revolutions and constitutional monarchies (c. 1770-ish-present?)
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by alecco 11mo ago
Yeah. It's complicated. See Veritasium's "Why Democracy is Mathematically Impossible" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qf7ws2DF-zk And also Idiocracy. This one is becoming more relevant. In all countries
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by alecco 11mo ago
Hacked voting machines are a problem... unless our guys do it. Fake online accounts are a problem... unless our guys do it. Totalitarian measures like persecuting people for social media posts and forcing digital id are a problem... unl
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by alecco 11mo ago
Actual title: Multiple Chinese Nationals Indicted...
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by alecco 11mo ago
> Market forces will fix this. You can't print energy and you can't print infra. Nine women can't have a baby in a month.
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by alecco 11mo ago
All those are bold announcements by politicians. There are a lot of things to do and it takes many years in Latin America. Also there is no spare grid and electricity generation is kind of in the middle of nowhere. Good luck with constructi
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by alecco 11mo ago
US/UK/EU can barely supply energy as it is today. A little will be added for AI, slowly. But good luck re-industrializing without any energy left while competing with China at 1/16th of energy cost. This has been brewing for

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