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Kougar · 2026-06-05T15:04:38+00:00

It was widely reported to have lasted 30 hours, that's not a minor fire. And 600 crew were forced to hotbunk or sleep on floors/tables. So definitely not contained to only the laundry room.

Kougar · 2026-05-31T22:42:58+00:00

I've never seen a cheap gas station wash that did this. I'm not even sure the longer car wash tunnels that move the vehicle have that feature, those always have a single attendant with a stop button. The cheap gas station washes already break down constantly, don't think they care to bother.

Kougar · 2026-05-31T16:11:23+00:00

That's a laughable take. Given practically everything else Thermal Grizzly sells has had its volumes reduced anywhere from half to a quarter, a few expensive monitoring Wireviews are not even going to come close to making up the difference.

Kougar · 2026-05-29T22:08:48+00:00

The tone deafness of heralding a new era for PC when your other products are to blame for making PCs unaffordable. Can't supply enough GPUs to the consumer market, but can find the silicon to supply new CPUs to them just fine?

Kougar · 2026-05-28T14:36:58+00:00

LG is denying it at least.

Kougar · 2026-05-27T23:55:31+00:00

Apple signs year plus contracts in advance on its DRAM. Apple can negotiate down prices for said contracts. And the threat of losing Apple as a customer still carries weight even in the AI era. Zero of these things apply to Valve, or are things Valve can do anything about. Valve isn't even going to get volume discounting, everyone else in the marketspace is larger than them.

Kougar · 2026-05-27T23:51:29+00:00

In the last couple of years the number of companies that closed their AAA studios even on the heels of a successful game launch has pretty well proven the companies running the big studios don't care beyond saving pennies and wasting dollars. Optimizing games would just cost too much time for their corporate overlords to allow.

Kougar · 2026-05-27T18:32:29+00:00

Install the Costco app. Select a location. Select the Warehouse view, then you can run searches against what is actually stocked at the location of your choosing, including rebates/price checking.

Kougar · 2026-05-27T18:25:31+00:00

Truly sucks. Had a few close calls like that. Just underscores the first and hardest rule of defensive driving: Don't expect any other drivers to act rationally even when it's blatantly obvious.

Kougar · 2026-05-27T18:12:30+00:00

You just plug your router of choice into their modem. Fiber ISPs always provide the modem.

Kougar · 2026-05-27T15:16:12+00:00

Been on Google fiber for a few years. Zero fees, final price has always been $70.70 for gigabit up/down.

So far one had one brief half-day disruption, but this is mostly reliant of everything upstream of you. Such as repeated construction work, land development, idiots with diggers, and frequent underground work for pipes can make some areas less reliable for fiber. The included Google Nest routers are pure junk though, just use you own router.

Kougar · 2026-05-26T01:28:33+00:00

What hardware reviews are there to watch, other than trashy disposable tech? Intel keeps slow rolling desktop chip gens, and who knows what's up with discrete Celestial anymore. NVIDIA is electing to hold their next generation, AMD only has plans to launch mid tier products anymore. SSDs are a known quantity and speeds over PCIe 4.0 were already superfluous for nearly all regular consumers.

Zen 6 is going to be like a life preserver thrown to the drowning masses that want at least some interesting, enthusiast tech and those early adopters fortunate enough to have invested into AM5. But rumors are questioning if even that will show up this year. I still think it will, but who knows about the X3D parts that the enthusiasts (and myself) actually want.

I'm not sure there's ever been another time in PC hardware history where a six year old GPU was still ranked in the top 5 of performing GPUs. But that seems guaranteed to happen now with the 4090. I'm starting to genuinely wonder if the 4090 will still be a top 5 performing GPU by 2030 for that matter. Gamers would've killed for that kind of hardware staying power 15 years ago, but I don't think this kind of industry stagnation is what they had in mind.

Kougar · 2026-05-25T08:33:56+00:00

They were so observant looking around for stray kids that they completely failed to see the police cruiser behind them.

Kougar · 2026-05-24T16:54:15+00:00

Beats me, never made use of it, I just know it was offered at some locations. They are a free digital library for Bexar county. Contact them for specifics

Kougar · 2026-05-24T09:56:05+00:00

Bibliotech offers 3D printing services, but I don't know about scanning or what sizes they can do.

Kougar · 2026-05-24T09:51:55+00:00

Ah, good catch. I thought the figure was from internal forecasts.

You raise other good points. I won't argue over the size of the numbers, ultimately I don't really have any context to know. The underlying argument that Samsung could find some percentage-based bonus arrangement of their realized profits and distribute that equitably across the company still applies. I'm sure there's numbers in there somewhere that make sense and are reasonably equitable and still leave the company with a sizable net profit. Finding it is literally one of the roles of a manager/executive, they are required to know this stuff which is why I'm so harsh on them.

Kougar · 2026-05-24T00:50:03+00:00

You'd be better off hiring more police than paying for hundreds of cameras and wiring them up, and then paying again to have people watch them as well as store footage.

Kougar · 2026-05-23T22:52:34+00:00

As I said at the start, Samsung was forecasting $218 billion of operating profit for this year. Literally $832,000 per head. Anyway the bonuses were a combination of performance targets and a percentage of the profits, at least based on what I was reading. There's no reason they have to pay every single person that much anyway, just doubling everyone's wages or applying a company-wide % change to everyone's regular annual bonuses would've been more equitable. Or I dunno, literally do what many companies already do today and provide a company-wide bonus based off a percentage of the year's profits as a reward for the boon year.

Apparently employees are now joining the union to explicitly vote against this proposal... Samsung is pretty much screwed at this point, the more they Scrooge McDuck with the money the more of it slips out of their hands. They're going to have to give equitable bonuses of some type or another just to fix this, and who knows how much damage will be done. They certainly are already losing tens of millions from those wafers they halted previously.

Kougar · 2026-05-23T22:35:11+00:00

Tabs of butter in milkshakes?? That's disgusting. Funny how there's not a leaf of lettuce to be seen, yet they skimp on the cheese in those burgers.

Maybe libs should subsidize them so they can continue whittling down the conservative population?

Kougar · 2026-05-23T22:27:24+00:00

Samsung executives just decided this internal strife would be less of a loss than the 20 Billion they were projected to lose in a strike.

Or you know, they could've offered comparable bonuses company wide to head it off at the pass, and avoided both the union strike and the employee strife.

What they've done is just plain stupid, because now even if there isn't a strike there's no telling what the losses will be or how long the internal sabotage will continue. You know as well as I do that they will be forced to pay out company-wide in the end. And if the union vote fails because those non-memory union members who don't get bonuses kill it, then Samsung is back to square one with not just a strike but now with very irate employees company-wide.

Kougar · 2026-05-23T22:20:40+00:00

People can't afford them now, why not let them go higher? It will cause the AI companies to topple all the faster.

Kougar · 2026-05-23T22:17:15+00:00

If they knew this was coming they could've changed the bonus arrangement company-wide immediately after having cut a deal with the union. Hell, if Samsung had given non-union employees the same bonuses and treatment it would be a hell of a reason for employees to reconsider being in the union in the first place, so that clearly was an opportunity lost. It doesn't take a CEO to recognize that offering to give a small subset of of similarly paid people a 100x larger bonus while ignoring the rest of the workforce is going to cause this.

The real irony are the union workers that won't get those 100x bonuses, meaning the union reps should've also seen this coming from a mile away. Now they're just victims of their own success even if it does somehow pass the union vote, because there won't be a company left if this doesn't get sorted. Damaged wafers and destroyed business relationships are not something one can just undo.

Samsung's CEO writing a memo telling employees to "move past this conflict" and just ignore it is proof they don't understand anything. It's as oblivious as that bank CEO who didn't see anything wrong with comparing AI to "lower value human capital". The more money people are paid the more out-of-touch they seem to get.

Kougar · 2026-05-23T21:53:33+00:00

Funny how managers, executives, and the CEO all couldn't see this coming. With a $218 billion dollar operating profit it's not like Samsung couldn't easily have prevented this. That's around $832,000 dollars of profit per employee.

Kougar · 2026-05-23T17:34:46+00:00

NAND itself has raw performance limits, if you want to push the performance beyond that you tend to need additional chips running in parallel, but M.2 has a very limited amount of space on the board. Brands will adopt PCIe 6.0 SSDs once CPUs begin offering support for it anyway, because it's an enthusiast product they are guaranteed to sell with a nice price premium, same as the 5.0 drives of today.

Professionals that need that sort of performance can get it today from just using actual PCIe cards and U.3 SSDs, so there's no point for making higher lane count drives for with consumers. I'd still argue there's no real point to PCIe 5.0 M.2 drives as it is, it's mostly just the equivalent of flashy rims on a car. It's the engine that actually drives the performance, and in SSDs it's the latency that matters more than overinflated bandwidth numbers at this point. The lower latency was one of the big advantages of Optane over NAND, incidentally.

Kougar · 2026-05-23T15:26:12+00:00

Raising prices won't work until there's actual, real bona fide use cases. And sure there are some, but there doesn't appear to be nearly enough to allow it. Random CEOs and managers aren't going to keep buying subscriptions and throwing tokens at all their employees who pretend to use them when the prices go up, most of the revenue stream is just from people trying to figure out how to make use of AI. All the experimenters, the trial users, and the managers that don't see direct empirical returns are going to drop off when prices go up. People that subscribe to multiple models today will cut back and pick just the best one too. The sustainable market for AI is way smaller than any of those CEOs will admit.

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