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spirulin4

there is a pain inside me so stupid that i'm not going to communicate it to anyone

the-korova

Harry Potter is trending at #1 on tumblr so I thought I’d take the opportunity to say fuck JKR, fuck transphobes, fuck her stupid books, her theme park, her endless landfill fodder merch slop, and her fucking castle on a hill. Read another book yall!! Read another book!!!!!!!

ms-demeanor

I'm Going To McFucking Lose It.

angryraptor13

Did the manufacturers stop making them to create artificial scarcity or something??

ms-demeanor

In like September RAM manufacturers created an agreement with OpenAI to sell like 40% of the global manufacturing capacity for RAM to them, and then in like October Crucial announced that they were shutting down their consumer RAM division to focus on enterprise manufacturing but yeah in like 2022/2023 the manufacturers intentionally limited production in order to 'correct' for low prices so long story short there are multiple issues causing scarcity in the consumer RAM market and they have gotten WAY worse since September.

turbozarky

The reason RAM prices went up 4x is that a massive amount of not-yet-manufactured memory was bought with money that doesn't really exist to be put into GPUs that haven't been made yet, to be installed in data centers that haven't been built, powered by infrastructure that may never exist, to satisfy demand that isn't actually there, in order to generate profits that are mathematically impossible

andmaybegayer

the, like, "bought things that didn't exist for a future project" is totally normal and happens all the time in tons of industries. The bad part here is not "made a contract to buy something in the future" almost everything from steel to oranges to batteries can be bought like this and you do that if you're a big customer because buying at spot prices when you need something is too risky especially if supply completely dries up. The scale here is the weird part.

Memory manufactures have previously run an actual cartel on memory pricing a few times. but this time it can be pretty easily explained from AI companies flush with investment and worried about anything standing in the way of their megaprofits creating contracts to buy up huge amounts of storage and memory.

And the last part of the puzzle is that memory manufacturing capacity for the world is basically fixed in the medium term, spinning up new manufacturing takes years so even if the memory manufacturers did want to increase supply, we wouldn't see it for a few years. If the memory manufacturers think that crazy massive memory purchases like this might be a one-time, AI investment frenzy fueled impulse, they aren't going to scale up at all because then they'll just get left holding the bag.

unclefather

psych-is-the-name

shinekocreator

Okay, this is actually funny

michellechang

that one diva with the dandelion crayon collection got crayola to permanently bring it back

casismybestfriend

screaming-at-moss

Ok but imagine if your quirky internet famous/questionably employed emo son comes home with a boyfriend he met off the internet, and it’s a twink 4 years younger than him who won’t take off his winter hat, has his ass entirely out, appears to be illiterate, stays until Christmas Eve and when you click on your son’s new fun YouTube project he’s there again making sex tape jokes AND he took all the batteries out of your clocks

owenology

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doggirlhen

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watery-trash-dragon

gerardwayspostnutclarity

wounded

ratzinmyattic

mall goth dan made american horror story: coven their entire personality in 2013 and wore a tshirt from hot topic that said on wednesdays we wear black