The reason why RAM has become four times more expensive is that a huge amount of RAM that has not yet been produced was purchased with non-existent money to be installed in GPUs that also have not yet been produced, in order to place them in data centers that have not yet been built, powered by infrastructure that may never appear, to satisfy demand that does not actually exist and to obtain profit that is mathematically impossible.
The reason why RAM has become four times more expensive is that a huge amount of RAM that has not yet been produced was purchased with non-existent money to be installed in GPUs that also have not yet been produced, in order to place them in data centers that have not yet been…
This is the cleanest summary of the AI hardware bubble. We’re pre-paying for a future supply chain, future workloads, and future profits that may never converge. It’s not RAM scarcity it’s speculative coordination failure at industrial scale.
Speculation is fine until the entire supply chain starts optimizing for a world that only exists on pitch decks. At some point, physics, cash flow, and grid capacity pull everything back to reality.
The final version of HP-UX has, as of 3 days ago, officially hit “obsolescence” and is no longer supported.
While most versions of HP-UX had hit “end of life” some years back, version 11i v3 (specifically for Itanium servers) was still supported. At least… until the clock struck midnight on New Year’s Eve.
HP-UX joins the likes of IRIX (support ended in 2013).
Luckily there are still a few classic style UNIX systems in production… but the list is growing smaller with each passing year.
De gemeente Hollands Kroon dreigt voor ruim 600.000 euro het schip in te gaan door het ruimen van zo’n 4000 scooters van het failliete deelscooterbedrijf Go Sharing. De Noord-Hollandse gemeente probeert de schade te verhalen op het bedrijf. Maar omdat Go Sharing enkele malen van eigenaar wisselde en in november failliet ging, is de kans op succes gering.
With the permission of Adobe Systems Inc., the Computer History Museum is pleased to make available, for non-commercial use, the source code to the 1990 version 1.0.1 of Photoshop. All the code is here with the exception of the MacApp applications library that was licensed from Apple. There are 179 files in the zipped folder, comprising about 128,000 lines of mostly uncommented but well-structured code. By line count, about 75% of the code is in Pascal, about 15% is in 68000 assembler language, and the rest is data of various sorts.
Most of my Fritz!Boxes are configured as switches, have a unique and strong password, are hung up in hard to reach spaces, do not have phone handsets attached or Fritz app connected. Which means that every time you want to do something sensitive operations (like backing up your data or generating support information from a URL like 192.168.178.1/support.lua) you get a nag screen, so this escape is golden to remove that nag-screen:
The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 