Gold is fluctuating wildly in price. It is meaningless to talk about measuring commodity prices in gold.

along with depleted inventories

Well, what do you think is causing the depleted inventories? Surely the lack of foundry availability.

a) is it BS

The tobacco plant is a model plant, the go-to for genetic engineering experiments. So often when scientists want to test creating a bio-factory, they will try to modify a tobacco plant.

I am knowledgeable in ethnobotany and psychedelics and I cannot see what this might produce other than nausea and delirium.

The idea is not to smoke the resulting tobacco plant with some funky mix of psychedelics. But to extract and purify the compounds from the bio-factory. Resulting in a better production chain than however the compounds are typically made today.

Please tell us where your window is - how can we avoid climbing through your window, if we don’t know which window we are not supposed to climb through.

There has been a disproportionate amount of “fuck windows” chatter on social media recently. It could be real.

Linux users on Steam used to be a rounding error. It is relatively massive.

This is a reminder to all AMD fans that NO company gives a damn about any of us.

Foundry costs have gone through the roof, because demand is greater than supply. So AMD’s production costs have surely increased.

So while companies are not our friends, it is surely quite reasonable for AMD to raise enduser cost, when AMD’s production cost increases. And not necessarily some conspiracy against the user. Right? Cartels and illegal monopolies are absolutely a thing that can happen, but you have to actually argue that is the case here, before saying AMD is acting badly.

Is Mimi the cat’s servant? In that case yes, it is valid to question “Mimi thinks she owns the place”.

Sony loves making their own custom formats.

Stuff is just getting more expensive, because of demand competition with AI. There is no reason to think that production for non-AI computing will ever hit literally zero.

Wikipedia says:

Vibe coding involves accepting AI-generated code without reviewing it,

If you are using LLMs to write e.g. small components, then you are typically understanding the structure of the program, and reviewing it.