Oh I am naughty... Might be using some RAM right now ๐
NovaVeles
You know in a small way they probably do. Nothing raises nationalistic pride quicker than an attack on the home land. They can yern for the good old days of 15 flags on the front porch while rabidly defending the Raytheon powered death cult raining down on the middle east.
Because many of them never grew beyond the age of 8 and they will not have anyone else telling that they cannot eat whatever they want. The only fibre they will ever touch is the fibre in the wood of the coffins from their early grave indiiced by nonstop beer and hot dogs.
Sure they have a rally of toddlers at the local daycare everyday. Probably smarter as well.
Live your life as an inverse Altman. What ever he says, do the opposite.
Fair point. I will say this, the low quality of Chinese goods isn't entirely their fault. They enable it but it also comes from higher up.
I knew someone that was building some device, I forget was it was, and they were in China sourcing parts. That is when you see the game and they know exactly what is going on. You are after a specific capacitor, they will bring out 10 of the same product ranked in terms of price and quality. The 5 cent part, that will last 5 years or 1,000 hours, the 50 cent part will last 30 years or 10,000 hours.
Most producers will just go for the cheapest parts available to get the prices at the end down or to increase profit margins. China can make brilliant high quality parts, just those that control the pricing will always go for the low end and then blame it on Chinese manufacturing.
But also, many Chinese manufactures offer these parts knowing this, so it goes both ways.
slop@home
I don't eat meat but will consider giving that up briefly to a fine Bezos steak with some Altman jus.
... ewwww. I need a shower after that.
Wolves are tired of the forests and year to frolic in the cities.
A big part of this is Nvidia twisting their arms. "Buy this many billion dollars of GPU's or we cut you out of future GPU purchases. This way we can both look like hyperscalers.".
Intel used to do that same thing to OEM's. Force them to buy junk like Pentium D chips so that they could have priority access to Core 2 Duo/Quads of the time.
This was the idea of Sun Microsystems 'Sun Ray' desktop in the late 90's.
A thin terminal that ran almost entirely on the network. Maybe this is why Ellison ended up buying them all those years ago.
It might have its issues but what about Wetherspoons?