drdabbles

drdabbles , 1 day ago

To rip off investors. If they pretend to be on the same hype train as everyone else, and lie about what their product does, there's a chance some idiot will give them more money.

drdabbles , 7 days ago

Not a huge surprise, they've got a long history of doing all kinds of scumbag shit. Nobody should be surprised when the leopard eats their face.

drdabbles , 7 days ago

Pro tip: Don't waste your time over there.

drdabbles , 7 days ago

Not just "this case", there's been countless cases like this with CF.

drdabbles , 6 days ago

You can google for cloudflare issues ranging from providing hosting for actual nazi sites to extorting customers by threatening the exact scenario se saw in this blog post. Feel free to google "cloudflare account suspended" to see many posts about people having not just DDoS mitigation disabled, but everything related to an account deleted and disabled. Many of those people had the audacity to, get this, rely on DDoS protection! The nerve, right?

drdabbles , 6 days ago

I'd suggest they're just as wrong about programming languages and maths as any other topic.

drdabbles , 6 days ago

It’s the Pravda of the VC-centric tech scene and has been for a very very long time.

At least someone else gets it.

drdabbles , 6 days ago

I told you how to find them so you wouldn't have to bitch about my cherry picking. I can't help if you'd rather bury your head in the sand, and it makes no difference to me what you believe.

drdabbles , 1 month ago

Tesla isn't a tech company.

drdabbles , 1 month ago

Except that the manufacture shitty products. Manufacturing something makes them not operate like a tech company, which is why Elon is desperate for people to repeat that they're a tech company. You're doing his work for him.

drdabbles , 1 month ago

The difference is that "tech" companies can produce more of their software with minimal or no additional cost. This is why their values tend to be higher than traditional companies manufacturing things. Tesla can't do that. Their revenue is their shitty cars, without them there's nothing to run their shitty non-working software on.

drdabbles , 1 month ago

iPhone actually works. Also, which generation iPhone weighs two tons?

drdabbles , 1 month ago

Tesla isn’t valued like a car company.

The market being stupid doesn't change the fact that they are a manufacturing company. The fact that they can convince people to repeat this nonsense is how they keep the market stupid. Keeping the market stupid is how they continue pumping cash to stay afloat.

drdabbles , 2 months ago

They identify people in public that should probably be robbed. So they're useful for that I suppose.

drdabbles , 4 months ago

All scams come to an end when they run out of marks to steal from.

drdabbles , 4 months ago

The missiles at night

Are big and bright

Launched at the heart of Texas

Anyway good luck being a large economy with no trade partners and ports blockaded.

drdabbles , 4 months ago

Demand is way down, so they raise prices. This is the cycle that keeps repeating, and nobody should be surprised.

drdabbles , 4 months ago

By cut supply, you mean several fabs have suffered catastrophic losses and turned down production for nearly a year? Because that's what happened.

And yes, nobody makes products when there's no demand for them. It's the basics of how they turn the screws to buyers at all times.

drdabbles , 4 months ago

It's exactly how this works, and during a quarterly review with Samsung, they literally told me they were doing this. Nobody in the industry is surprised by this.

Not sure why you'd deny what you literally see happening.

drdabbles , 4 months ago

Yup. They control the entire market and there's a decreasing number of fabs. They raise prices to ensure revenue doesn't drop and they can keep showing investors lines going up.

It's idiotic, and it's how the industry has worked for decades at this point. Just wait till people figure out the games played by fabs, substrate manufacturers, and component suppliers...

drdabbles , 4 months ago

What?

drdabbles , 4 months ago

Ok. Well, people are buying all the production. But production is down. And they control the price so they raised that too.

Welcome to free market capitalism.

drdabbles , 4 months ago

I'm not the one complaining

drdabbles , 4 months ago

I have information directly from the three main manufacturers. Demand is down, production is down, so in order to not show losses on the balance sheet prices went up.

TSMC did the same thing last year- raised prices by around 27% for all customers. Because demand is way, WAY down. Sadly their increase wasn't enough to stave off a drop in revenue.

When you have the whole market cornered, normal supply and demand economics don't apply.

drdabbles , 4 months ago

Customers are fairly inflexible. If you need storage or ram for 10k new servers, that's it. You have to have it. And since all manufacturers raised prices, you're going to spend more. Making matters worse, if you have to onboard another vendor to safe a few tens of thousands of dollars, you can easily spend hundreds of thousands on time and resources to go through a qualification cycle alone.

Home computers make up a significantly smaller portion of the computer component space. So while this might prevent a person from upgrading their SSD or building a DDR 5 equipped gaming computer, that's small percentages of sales. A single corporate relationship account will buy thousands of devices at a time, larger accounts will buy tens of hundreds of thousands. A cloud operator building 10k servers with 12 channels of RAM will buy 24 dimms per server. It's a totally different game.

drdabbles , 9 months ago

There is a second way, legend has it. The ancient ones tell a tale of the one that does not use the service, and does not train someone else's shitty models for free.