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The memory shortage is causing a repricing of consumer electronics

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Re: The memory shortage is causing a repricing of consumer electronics

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Post by yuriks »

inglor_cz wrote: post #240
yuriks wrote: post #215

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Health care, education and housing have been getting worse and more expensive in the US over the decade also. Must be all that nationalization.

I can buy "more expensive", but as far as "worse", can you provide the relevant metrics? I don't think that your chance of survival of a heart attack or lymphoma got worse since 2016.

I don't have concrete metrics/sources to give right now, but my general perception from reading the news is that there's been staffing issues pushing healthcare systems in the US towards increasing workloads in individual providers, leading to less time/attention given to individual patients, lower availability of appointment slots, and offloading of patients onto alternative app-based telehealth platforms, which have been trending up alongside aquisition/consolidation of independent private practices.

Re: The memory shortage is causing a repricing of consumer electronics

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Post by inglor_cz »

coldtea wrote: post #252
inglor_cz wrote: post #240

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I can buy "more expensive", but as far as "worse", can you provide the relevant metrics? I don't think that your chance of survival of a heart attack or lymphoma got worse since 2016.

If you can afford less (lesser treatment, drugs, procedures, quality of doctors and hospitals you can pay for), then your chances of survival also got WAY worse. Doesn't matter if the 1% has now access to better versions.

Sure, if actual availability of healthcare to an average American has grown worse, that would be a bad result. But that is something you should demonstrate with data instead of just asserting it.

Re: The memory shortage is causing a repricing of consumer electronics

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Post by inglor_cz »

yuriks wrote: post #271
inglor_cz wrote: post #240

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can buy "more expensive", but as far as "worse", can you provide the relevant metrics? I don't think that your chance of survival of a heart attack or lymphoma got worse since 2016.

I don't have concrete metrics/sources to give right now, but my general perception from reading the news is that there's been staffing issues pushing healthcare systems in the US towards increasing workloads in individual providers, leading to less time/attention given to individual patients, lower availability of appointment slots, and offloading of patients onto alternative app-based telehealth platforms, which hav…

Staffing problems are absolutely everywhere, regardless of the particular healthcare system or even political system. Czechia, the UK, China, Japan. It seems to be a global trend, much like falling birthrates.

Re: The memory shortage is causing a repricing of consumer electronics

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Post by sokoloff »

account42 wrote: post #202
WalterBright wrote: post #154

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> Nothing fair, or just, about this world we live in We all make different choices, and so have different consequences. For example, I squandered the proceeds of a business deal on a new car. If I'd bought MSFT instead, I could have bought 100 new cars.

So what you're saying is that we all just need to become better gamblers? That doesn't exactly scream functional society to me. Besides, this can't work for everyone - if you get 100 cars without an equivalent amount of more work put in then someone else has to do that work without being properly compensated for it.

It shifts the gains away from the marginal investor in Microsoft who was only willing to pay a penny less for those shares (probably an eighth of a dollar when this anecdote happened). Instead of them getting the 100 cars, the buyer who was willing to hit the ask earlier gets them.

That profit comes from owning a piece of a productive company, productive companies often spring from early-stage losses that require investment money from somewhere, seed stage money comes from the high likelihood that later stage money will come in if the venture appears successful.

Re: The memory shortage is causing a repricing of consumer electronics

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Post by LatencyKills »

Havoc wrote: post #239

Amused by all the comments about optimisation. If anything the vibe coding era will lead to the opposite

I have a friend who is VP at a major telecom company. He has no technical experience but has been using Claude to create data analysis apps. He was complaining that it took three hours to process certain datasets, so I took a look.

He had Claude essentially create a 300MB json file and was doing all of the data processing on that data directly.

It never occurred to him, or Claude, that there were other ways to operate on that data. It took me less than 10 minutes to get that processing time down to under a minute.

These are the type of issues that worry me about vibe coding.

Re: The memory shortage is causing a repricing of consumer electronics

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Post by imtringued »

WalterBright wrote: post #171
richforrester wrote: post #34

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That has little to do with what I said. A third of the world lives in poverty. That's the fault of capitalism.

About 90% of the world lived in poverty before capitalism. Besides, America's poor have a higher standard of living than medieval kings.

People living with room mates working 80 hours a week have a higher standard of living than kings?

Do you even listen to yourself?

Re: The memory shortage is causing a repricing of consumer electronics

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Post by sokoloff »

account42 wrote: post #209
WalterBright wrote: post #171

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About 90% of the world lived in poverty before capitalism. Besides, America's poor have a higher standard of living than medieval kings.

> Besides, America's poor have a higher standard of living than medieval kings. Only if you define the standard of living in a consumerist way.

Would you willingly swap your life (or the life of your child) for that of a medieval king?

I sure wouldn’t.

Re: The memory shortage is causing a repricing of consumer electronics

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Post by transcriptase »

inglor_cz wrote: post #241
coldtea wrote: post #187

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If you have no practical experience living in a totalitarian country, don't wish that upon yourself and your family. That momentary feeling of triumphing over your enemies won't compensate for what you'd lose. This is a mistake that was made by numerous intellectuals in history.

Everyone thinks they’re getting the cushy office job working for the party, until they’re handed a shovel by someone with a gun.

Re: The memory shortage is causing a repricing of consumer electronics

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Post by sokoloff »

LatencyKills wrote: post #275
Havoc wrote: post #239

Amused by all the comments about optimisation. If anything the vibe coding era will lead to the opposite

I have a friend who is VP at a major telecom company. He has no technical experience but has been using Claude to create data analysis apps. He was complaining that it took three hours to process certain datasets, so I took a look. He had Claude essentially create a 300MB json file and was doing all of the data processing on that data directly. It never occurred to him, or Claude, that there were other ways to operat…

What would have happened five years ago? I suspect this VP would have gone entirely without analysis tools for these datasets or would have a department of people slowly grinding away at his long list of tickets, tickets that were poorly specified and hard to get clarity on because by the time they were worked on, he’d lost some of the context of his original request.

Now, he makes small apps that scratch his own itches, while everything is fresh in his mind and he can clarify or learn “hmm, that’s not actually what I want” and the cost is some tokens and the occasional job that runs in 3 hours instead of not existing at all.

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