bobalot
Refugee fleeing the shittiness of reddit
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China (at least for now) has adopted a policy of fierce internal competition.
The Chinese are moving aggressively into this market.
If shortages last until the 2030s, they will catch up and dominate the market.
I will have no sympathy for Western companies if that happens.
It’s like saying adding more steps to a ladder will make it fly.
Fundamentally, LLMs are not AI.
On and off.
Never played Runescape.
Brighter Shores seems a bit grindy for me.
It’s warm and hilarious.
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Technology•Thanks a lot, AI: Hard drives are already sold out for the entire year, says Western DigitalEnglish
20·10 days agoHow can you doubt the Invisible Hand? Have you not seen how much it jerks?
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Technology•Nvidia might not have any new gaming GPUs in 2026 — and could be 'slashing production' of existing GeForce modelsEnglish
5·17 days agoYeah, luckily in Australia, we are getting Chinese stuff without massive tariffs.
I see BYD cars everywhere.
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Technology•Nvidia might not have any new gaming GPUs in 2026 — and could be 'slashing production' of existing GeForce modelsEnglish
7·18 days agoThese Chinese are catching up very quickly on GPUs, RAM, etc.
This would be a massive own goal for the existing incumbents.
Van Helsuck is what I remembered people calling it.
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Technology•Inside Xiaomi’s near-fully automated factory that assembles a smartphone in 6 secondsEnglish
3·1 month agoI’m assuming there must be downtime for maintenance and quality checks.
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Technology•Trump Is Obsessed With Oil. But Chinese Batteries Will Soon Run the WorldEnglish
1·1 month agoOil prices are already plunging.
Supply is about 5 million barrels per day more than demand.
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Technology•AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory DoctorowEnglish
1·1 month agoThe last bailout was required because the banking system was the artery of the economy.
As irresponsible as they were, they needed to be functional to allow the economy to function.
It is hard to see how the government can afford to bailout the “AI” sector.
It is also not critical to the economy. In fact, you could argue the bubble is costing the economy in terms of opportunity costs, increased energy prices, consumer prices for laptops, hard drives, etc.
My view is while they may want to bailout their tech bros friends, I’m not sure it is possible.
Such innovation
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Technology•Trump Is Obsessed With Oil. But Chinese Batteries Will Soon Run the WorldEnglish
1·1 month agoYou reckon they will just promise Trump to buy lots of oil but then do nothing like their soybean promise?
People have been playing down Nazi dog whistling so long that Nazis have become emboldened to do Nazi stuff.
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Technology•This CEO laid off nearly 80% of his staff because they refused to adopt AI fast enough. 2 years later, he says he’d do it againEnglish
3·1 month agoPrivate Equity is finding it increasingly difficult to offload the companies they have taken over.
With some luck, this dickhead will go broke.
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Technology•Discord in discussions of going Public Trading, economics expert discusses how that might change thingsEnglish
9·2 months agoThe real question is how do you enshittify a product that is already shit?

















What was the name of the story?