| ▲ | jdprgm an hour ago |
| I just checked amazon and I paid $350 in Nov 24' for 96GB (2x48GB) 6800MT DDR5 which at the time felt quite expensive and a bit of a splurge but I figured I had my DDR4 kit for almost a decade so probably similar lifespan for DDR5. That same listing is currently $1300!!! When RAM prices are increasing like a crypto currency we have a real societal problem. |
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| ▲ | geodel 34 minutes ago | parent | next [-] |
| I don't want to live in a society where RAM inflation is higher and food inflation. Future generations will ask me where were you when Computer prices were rising, internet bandwidth was rationed and people had to wait overnight to continue vibe coding because vendors blocked further API calls for many hours at a time. |
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| ▲ | xtracto 24 minutes ago | parent [-] | | > people had to wait overnight to continue vibe coding because vendors blocked further API calls for many hours at a time Tangential but this is funny. Back in the early 90s, I did a lot of BASIC programming in the family computer, this was before we had Internet. I could spend hours.and hours in front of the computer doing stuff. Fast forward to around 2010 I remember a distinct feeling one time the internet went off at home. Sitting in front of the computer and feeling that it was "useless" because it wasn't connected to the net. We are getting to that point in coding apparently: 5-10 years ago, everyone programmed just by typing commands, looking at S.O. and thinking. Now, if we open our "IDE" and it doesn't have access to The Brain, we are left just standing there looking in awe at the machine. Sign of the times... | | |
| ▲ | bpavuk 4 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | dunno, I have electricity problems (especially on winters when Russia strikes the hardest on infra) but I usually have this time as a downtime for lightweight C coding in Termux and retro gaming, all on Galaxy Note 8 (Android 9!!) + power bank. I guess it feels less like a problem when you have that problem regularly and are forced to adapt. and I guess I'll just HAVE to switch to Pixel 10 when Pixel 11 comes out - the integrated Linux terminal right there is awesome. or maybe just get a MacBook like most around me did | |
| ▲ | bjtitus 5 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | | To be fair, there are plenty of local models you can run. Seems surprising that in 5-10 years those models wouldn't match state of the art today. |
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| ▲ | Ardren an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Wow, I bought a 128GB Strix Halo machine for $2000 USD in September. Same model is currently on special for $4,399. Insane. |
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| ▲ | jeffwask 19 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I think I've lived through three separate RAM boom cycles at this point. Two for sure... |
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| ▲ | utternerd 7 minutes ago | parent [-] | | They were a fairly common occurrence in the late 90s. I worked at an OEM at the time and we would stockpile it during gluts for that reason, then make a killing ~6-9 months later. |
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| ▲ | kevinqi 38 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] |
| don't think it's a societal problem; it's just a direct result of capitalism. and while capitalism causes all sorts of huge problems, it might also be the best of the options we've got |
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| ▲ | thesuitonym 27 minutes ago | parent [-] | | > don't think it's a societal problem; it's just the direct result of our society's economic model. |
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