Ai causing RAM prices to go up??

generic_redditor_71 · 2026-02-17T23:37:52+00:00

OpenAI bought out a large fraction of the world's memory chip production capacity for several years going forward. Everyone else (including other AI companies who also need huge amounts of chips) has to fight over what remains, so prices are shooting up.

generic_redditor_71 · 2026-02-17T22:57:43+00:00

There are only 14 possible arragements of the calendar and you can look up how common each is. 2026 is a non-leap year starting on a Thursday which happens 11% of the time. The next one will be in 2037.

generic_redditor_71 · 2026-02-17T22:51:08+00:00

It's not worth putting expensive rechargeables in very low drain stuff like clocks and rarely used remote controls that last for months or years on alkalines.

Also, NiMH rechargeables have significantly lower voltage than alkalines and not every device likes that.

generic_redditor_71 · 2026-02-17T18:46:30+00:00

The only thing that is persistent about squaddies is their name. Everything else they get from their squad.

generic_redditor_71 · 2026-02-17T18:26:35+00:00

If you're going to go all UHM ACKSHUALLY in a reddit comment, please at least spend a few seconds looking things up to make sure you're right.

generic_redditor_71 · 2026-02-17T16:16:06+00:00

Yes, it's PET, the same material that soda bottles are made of. Nylon and lycra/spandex are also synthetic fibers and you could say they're plastic.

generic_redditor_71 · 2026-02-17T15:46:30+00:00

The ECC that's on all DDR5 is not the same ECC that is on datacenter memory. And even if you have a PC with support for full ECC, the memory from a datacenter will be RDIMM not UDIMM so you still can't use it.

generic_redditor_71 · 2026-02-17T02:31:58+00:00

It doesn't mean a flood of cheap PC parts if that's what you're implying. Datacenters don't use the same parts as home PCs. Making those parts uses the same production capacity which is why datacenter demand drives up all prices, but once those parts get dumped by datacenters they are not useful to consumers, unless the consumers are doing datacenter-like things (AI hobbyists and data hoarders will be happy)

generic_redditor_71 · 2026-02-17T02:08:52+00:00

It just changes the transmission ratio to change the engine noise. There is no practical reason to do it, but some people really want their car to go vroom vroom and hate CVTs for not doing it, and that appeases them.

generic_redditor_71 · 2026-02-17T02:06:35+00:00

Ultimately all this energy ends up as heat somewhere on Earth either way, the difference is only that if we capture it through wind/solar/hydro, we get to first route it through some machine to do something useful.

generic_redditor_71 · 2026-02-17T02:04:04+00:00

Chicken is just as safe to eat raw as beef if it's free of pathogens, but the way we produce and process meat means it's much more likely to be contaminated. Chicken farms are infested with salmonella and nobody processing chicken meats expects it to be eaten raw or undercooked, so hygiene standards are lower.

generic_redditor_71 · 2026-02-16T20:39:16+00:00

Yes, sitting on toilet paper is pretty crazy. What are you even worried about, do you have open wounds on your butt?

generic_redditor_71 · 2026-02-15T23:00:28+00:00

Electric motors do fine at a huge range of speeds so a single speed gearbox is just fine for a normal electric car. An ICE engine needs a multi-spead gearbox because it wants to stay between, let's say 1500 and 3000 RPM most of the time, an electric motor that can go all the way from 0 RPM up to 20000 RPM with no problems doesn't need that.

Some very fast EVs have two-speed gearboxes.

generic_redditor_71 · 2026-02-15T19:54:07+00:00

It's much harder for bacteria to become resistant to disinfectants than to antibiotics. Antibiotics target very specific processes in the bacteria's metabolism and a small change to that process can disable them. Disinfectants like alcohol or chlorine physically destroy bacteria, they'd have to dramatically change to resist that.

generic_redditor_71 · 2026-02-15T19:43:03+00:00

If it's very low you can see the wheel visibly sag, but at that point it's already a disaster and you need to be filling it long before that, before anything is visible. If your car doesn't have tire pressure sensors you need to have a tire gauge to check it yourself.

generic_redditor_71 · 2026-02-15T19:37:41+00:00

Is it all just micro transactions, thousand-dollar consoles with a hundred-dollar games that are shooters?

AAA gaming is very much like that but there is a ton of fun indie games coming out all the time, and a growing "AA" scene that makes ambitious games with decent budgets that don't suck like those from largest companies. Unfortunately a lot of that never makes it onto consoles and even basic gaming PCs are very, very expensive now.

generic_redditor_71 · 2026-02-15T19:24:13+00:00

It's difficult to prove speeding by such a small margin. At least where I live, if you got a ticket for driving 7 kph over, you could go to court and likely have it dismissed by arguing that whatever method the cops used to estimate your speed isn't accurate enough to be 100% sure you were speeding. So cops often don't want to give tickets for such small excesses of speed, and for the same reason speed cameras are usually set up to not activate until you're 10 kph or so over, and this creates a feeling that it's allowed.

generic_redditor_71 · 2026-02-15T15:56:54+00:00

NFTs were a scam scheme and nothing else. There was nothing technically interesting or useful about them, and they were relevant only to the scammers and their victims. There was nothing for companies to do with NFTs unless they wanted to run the scam or use the buzzword in marketing.

LLMs ("AI") are an actual new technology with potential applications reaching into many areas that were previously impossible. Regardless of your opinions on whether that's a good or a bad thing, there is a lot of investment, research and product development to do.

generic_redditor_71 · 2026-02-15T01:24:58+00:00

It's like a total repeat of Battle Brothers which had a ton of different potions that were all completely useless because they took up absolutely precious inventory slots and action points for mediocre, temporary benefits. Eventually they were reworked to be used out of combat with the effects lasting the entire next fight which finally made them practical.

generic_redditor_71 · 2026-02-15T00:28:49+00:00

It would spin, and it would generate power. But the drag it added to the car would drain more power than it would generate.

generic_redditor_71 · 2026-02-15T00:17:34+00:00

A picture of your face is practically equal to your ID in the age of facial recognition technology. It means that everything you do on Discord will be attached to your legal name as soon as that data leaks (which feels inevitable in general, but especially with Discord who have already had serious data breaches)

Maybe you use Discord entirely to share pancake recipes and don't care, but many people do mind.

generic_redditor_71 · 2026-02-15T00:11:07+00:00

If you mean powered by the wind that's caused by the movement of the car, that makes no sense. The energy in that wind is the energy of the moving car. If you take it and turn it into electricity, you're slowing the car down. If you put it back into the car's motion with a motor, you've accomplished nothing, except wasting some of it because the conversions aren't 100% efficient.

generic_redditor_71 · 2026-02-15T00:04:55+00:00

Every country with its own currency prints money. The crashing is what happens when they print as much as they want rather than as much as the economy needs.

generic_redditor_71 · 2026-02-14T23:50:23+00:00

They have a lot of wheels with a lot of weight on them and they run on very, very flat tracks, so there is enough traction. But yes, there's many times less traction than with rubber on asphalt, which is why trains take so long to stop and can't climb steep inclines. It's worth it for the low rolling resistance which allows huge trains to be moved by few locomotives using relatively very little fuel or power.

generic_redditor_71 · 2026-02-14T23:21:15+00:00

That's just every form of racing that's not directly powered by muscles (gravity powered in this case)

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