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I'm guessing they acquired it mostly exchanging stocks. Which I guess is an indication that their stock is overvalued right now if they're willing to overpay by that much.

They are trying.

Yes but it depends what you want. I didn't want to spend 8k (or now 11k) for a video card that I couldn't run without turning my home office into a boiler room and pay through the …

Yeah it isn't worth it, but comparing a server with a laptop is also not a relevant comparison. I didn't get a Strix Halo laptop because it was the best bang per buck, I got it bec…

You are comparing US pricing with EU pricing. EU pricing includes 21% VAT and currency conversion "rounding up". The cheapest 128GB Macbook Pro here costs €7.949,00. No doubt a bet…

I had a Strix Halo laptop with 128GB which unfortunately died last week. I paid 2800 euro for it. If I buy the same machine today, the sticker price is 7899. The device was not per…

> I have yet to see a documented example of a system prompt leak that was NOT the real system prompt. Have you seen one? I have yet to see a convincing proof that there is a teapot…

Posts like these happen every other week with people thinking they've got some magic sauce. Every time it turns out to be hallucinations.

To consumers. You can sell to businesses.

OP, the Badger Badger link is leading to a wiki page about the dead Internet theory. Here's the correct link for all to enjoy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIyixC9NsLI Used to b…

There is precedent for this kind of trickery being played. For example, Honeywell acquired Garrett AiResearch, a well known manufacturer of turbochargers for combustion engines, th…

What is the point of hosting a GitHub repo[0] with nothing in it but some links to your domain? There's no code, no license, no nothing. [0] https://github.com/ctxrs/ctx

It's wild that none of these are set by default. I know 90% of people I've worked with will never know these options exist.

The controllers which support ECC are usually a lot better and able to handle more channels. They also typically require active cooling.

It's a common issue on consumer boards with DDR5 and more than two DIMMs installed. Doesn’t affect soldered memory or lower speed memory (like DDR4). Many memory controllers fail t…

I bought 192GB (4x 48GB) of DDR5-6400 for 299 euro in September but returned it because I couldn't get 4 DIMMS to run at decent speeds in the system. 6 or so weeks after I returned…

It's been a long time since I came across Nim. I thought it was really interesting about 12 years ago. What made you land on Nim instead of any of the more obvious alternatives?

I haven't bought an 8GB laptop since probably 2012 when I got a Sony Vaio that they upgrade to 12GB for free because of a delivery delay. I wouldn't buy an 8GB device in 2026, but …

Kristoffer Ericson was the driving force behind JLime Linux. Along with OpenZaurus, these early hobbyist efforts to run Linux on embedded devices formed the basis of what became Op…

I used to run Linux (JLime Linux) and NetBSD on those. I did prefer the bigger NEC MobilePro competitors though, but I spent so much time on those Jornadas in college.

Same. I was on macOS for work for about 3 years. Never gelled with me. I was on an M2 Macbook Pro with Asahi and it was great. It's really hard to fault Apple's hardware for most u…

I'm fine with providing my identity for online banking and other finance platforms for legal & taxation purposes. I can't think of a single other use case in which I'd be willing t…

Most modern manufacturers disallow unlocking the bootloader and flashing unsigned firmware, which is a requirement for this kind of thing.

It turns of any features that introduce latency - it will still mess up the colour space/brightness/saturation/... on most TVs.