Painting that on a junction like this just seems incredibly dangerous.

Americans always try to paint British Indian food as not being British, but they’ll happily claim Tex-Mex as American. Same goes for pizzas and such.

Funny that.

Oh wow, tiktok? Must be true.

The only reason Britain still has that reputation is because Americans repeat it mindlessly in media that the whole world consumes.

Like the teeth thing. In the 2000s, the UK alongside Germany had the joint healthiest teeth in the world (although now they’ve fallen to 8th after the Scandinavian countries upped their game). Did it stop the “Brits have bad teeth” gag in US media? No.

The US, for whatever reason, has been engaged in a cultural pissing match with the UK for a long time.

Chip shops in London are always shit, I’ll grant you that. It’s rare you get good fish and chips outside of seaside towns.

As for Brits not liking spice… Lmao. Brits like spice more than anywhere else in Europe, how else would Indian food be so popular there?

British food is unironically great, and the stereotype is based on experiences during WW2 rationing. It’s made funnier that the people who say it comes from a country where people spray cheese from a can…

There’s so many good pies, pastries, puddings, roast dinners, breakfasts, etc that are very good. British-Indian food is often excellent. Even a basic dish like macaroni cheese can be lovely if you make it right.

To be honest unless you include northern France, I’d argue nowhere in northern Europe has better food.

Some of Mozilla’s AI integrations have been amazing, despite the community crying about it. Like private, offline translation (I don’t care what anybody says, this is much better than sending the contents of your web page to a proprietary Google Translate server), and enhanced screen reader functionality.

But this one puzzles me. They’re not being very descriptive, but it seems like it’s just integrating generic LLM stuff? Not really what I’m after personally. At least it’s opt-in, I guess.

I work in IT and have since 2011… most people are buying $800+ phones for no reason

I do actually agree, but it’s funny you say this in a post where you’re glazing the Galaxy S4.

Adjusted for inflation that thing would cost $876 today.

But yeah, people spend way more than they need to on phones. Midrange or used is perfectly fine.

If you look at the top sellers, SATA SSDs still occupy a few of those spots, including 3rd place.

There is still huge demand for SATA SSDs.

On the contrary people expect this to be a step towards a general redistribution of manufacturing capacity towards HBM for parallel compute products.

That is where much of the overall wafers are going. But that would be happening regardless of whether the Crucial brand is around or not. Even if Crucial was still a thing going forward, those same wafers would still be going towards HBM.

I think he hit the nail on the head when he said that Crucial being cancelled is just a symptom of our shit market, not one of the causes. It makes zero difference.

Who says the Samsung NAND couldn’t be bought by other OEMs to make consumer SSDs

His point is that Samsung (the manufacturer) is scrapping production, not that Samsung (the consumer brand) is stopping selling products that otherwise are still being produced and sold under different brand names.

Stopping production of something sold under many brands is obviously a lot worse than a brand stopping sales of something that other brands will still sell (albeit in lower quantities in previous years due to HBM production being ramped up at the cost of DDR5).

There are plenty of reasons to put SSDs in a home server.

He plunged his enlarged pleasure column into my glistening velvet chasm

And other such bizarre descriptors

Unless the dataset, weighting, and every aspect is open source, it’s not truly open source, as the OSI defines it.

OpenAI is pretty well established.

I know Lemmy users avoid it, but a lot of people use LLMs, and when most people think LLMs, they think ChatGPT. I doubt the average person could name many or even any others.

That means whenever these people want to use an LLM, they automatically go to OpenAI.

As for to the degree of $300bn, who knows. Big tech has had crazy valuations for a long time.

Oracle recently put out a ridiculously optimistic forecast that had them matching AWS within a handful of years. At first the market loved it.

Now I think people are beginning to realise that was a load of bollocks and that they were just overhyping the stock.

Brand recognition cannot be overstated.

If there was a better-than-YouTube alternative right now, YouTube would still dominate.

If there was a phone OS superior to Android and iOS, they would both still dominate.

If there was a search engine that worked far better than Google, Google would still dominate.

The average person won’t look into LLM reasoning benchmarks. They’ll just use the one they know, ChatGPT.

There are other even more dyslexic-legible fonts that IMO look better

The UK has among the lowest road deaths in the world.

I’m not quite sure why that is (although anecdotally as a pedestrian, you seem to be treated like royalty in the UK in comparison to other places I’ve been - so much as glance at a zebra crossing and cars come to an immediate stop).

Given how UK drivers often use summer tyres year-round, the weather is dark and cool, and the roads are usually damp, you’d logically expect poor results, but we see the opposite.

Perhaps it’s due to the rather strict yearly MOT safety check? Who knows.

I don’t really think it’s the same.

Micron just became like Samsung. Samsung also doesn’t have a consumer DIY market brand. Companies like Kingston or G.Skill can still buy Samsung/SK-Hynix/Micron’s RAM, there’s been no actual reduction in supply.

If Intel did the same as Micron did, it’d be more like third parties could sell the consumer stuff under their own names (say, the Corsair 5 XYZ), and Intel only sold Xeons directly.

The anger for the RAM shortage should squarely be on OpenAI - they’re the ones who bought 40% of the world’s RAM supply (and not even from Micron, mind you, just Samsung and SK-Hynix) and kicked off panic buying. Maybe throw Nvidia in there for handing them the money to do it.

I don’t like the killing of Crucial, fuck Micron for that, but OpenAI is who triggered the RAM shortage, and Micron is actually the least to blame of the big 3 RAM manufacturers for the issues we’re having.

OpenAI abruptly bought 40% of global supply, and announced it.

Other companies found out about it when OpenAI announced and thought holy shit, if we hadn’t heard of this massive deal, what else haven’t we heard of?!, and so they started panic buying.

On top of that, because of US tariffs and trade restrictions, the Chinese “B-tier” memory companies, who usually buy old machines from the big 3 (SK-Hynix, Samsung, Micron) and sell this lower spec RAM at lower margins, didn’t buy up these machines as much as they usually do. They weren’t sure they’d be able to make a profit given their lower margins, should tariffs suddenly change again or other restrictions get put in place.