I used to get EVGA bstock which was reasonable but they got out of the business 😞

I swapped to AMD this generation and it’s still expensive.

I mean if you were hoping for some gotcha on them being hypocrites you should know by now that they don’t care and neither do their supporters.

Yeah yeah I’m sure they will do all sorts of gasping and then confirm him anyway. Despite what they say the lot of them are just Trump sycophants at this point.

I’ve yet to get a clear answer on how they correct for the fact that no one answers the phone or wastes time talking to pollsters for free. I keep reading that " they take it into account" but not the methods used.

People who have fallen for one grift are prone to falling for others.

Tossed it in the microwave and here we are

I mean it’s basically the same thing at this point.

Fair enough it was a 2.5 nvme but 8tb m2 2280 disks have been on the market for literal years. You could get them in PCIe gen 3 …

The reason it costs so much is because the chip industry is limiting supply again again to drive prices up after a few years of over producing. Not because there is something fancy in this drive.

This isn’t bleeding edge at all. Just put a 15tb drive in a machine the other day and they are a couple years old at this point.

You know I’ve not seen a bonzibuddy in a long long time.

People are tried of “taking the high ground” when Republicans have spent the last 20 years taking the low ground.

For reference Bing chat is still confidently sure there are 2

Yeah this is just what is happening when a bunch of sycophants humor an Alzheimer’s patient.

Ask an LLM how many Rs there are in strawberry

Maybe check out Kagi’s ultimate tier. They let you swap between some of the different options to see which you might find useful. As a bonus you also get kagi search which can be useful.

https://help.kagi.com/kagi/ai/assistant.html

So… Just another Tuesday for consulting then?

Ah yes the dumpling pie spectrum

They can be tracked back one by one but if you have any amount of traffic it’s a constant game of cat and mouse.

You can block entire ASNs until they start using residential proxies provided by less ethical companies. Then you end up blocking all of France or destroying user experience by enforcing a captcha on everyone.

The type of request is not relevant. It’s the cost of the request that’s an issue. We have long ago stopped serving html documents that are static and can be cached. Tons of requests can trigger complex searches or computations which are expensive server side. This type of behavior basically ruins the internet and pushes everything into closed gardens and behind logins.