The reason we have so few RAM manufacturers in the first place is that was (until just a few months ago) an extremely low margin business.

New production capacity takes years to bring online, and manufacturers are rightly cautious of the current demand bubble bursting, leaving them billions of dollars out of pocket.

AI isn’t replacing anyone, rather the money previously used to pay those people’s salaries etc is now being spent on AI.

While not ideal, it’s better than the usual situation with new RFCs etc, where no implementation actually exists, and the specification is unusable for the purpose of properly defining how an implementation should actually work.

It's less about "opening it up" and more about the tanker companies feeling there is enough safety. With the Red Sea instance, they didn't start running ships until the Houthis said they were done.

The feeling of safety in this scenario would be provided by the assurance that anyone who tries picking on a tanker would be stomped into the ground by a destroyer.

except that history shows otherwise, as relayed in the submission

Google found, on their 100,000+ machine Linux desktop fleet that sticking with “stable” releases and doing major upgrades periodically was far more work than rolling releases.

https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/developers-practitioner...

Someone who should be immediately fired.

I would genuinely enjoy Windows (with WSL) if Microsoft didn’t go to special efforts to make the experience horrible by shoving useless AI functionality, or advertising down my throat.

You won’t see any Lenovo in the defense industry.

Defense industry is a small fraction of the notebook market, meaning Lenovo is still no. 1 globally even when missing the global defense market

You are aware of the existence of the Chinese defence industry?

This explains why China's defense capabilities are outpacing the west in 2026. The defense behemoth who castrates users by denying them the all-powerful TrackPoint will be doomed to irrelevance very soon.

The US spent trillions of dollars, 20 years and countless lives in Iraq and has nothing to show for it.

The two in Alexandria are of course just down the road from the airport. A widebody jet cratering in that location will put them both out of business.

None of the runways point towards them, its hard to imagine that scenario.

34R does. The immediate right turn in the 34R ILS and RNP missed approach procedures takes you pretty much directly overhead Equinix.

Aircraft routinely overfly the location either on departure from 34R or approach for 16L.

They're also below sea level.

Theres an Energex office building in Brisbane that has a backup generator below sea level. (Guess when they need to use the generator lmao.)

If it's a once in 25 year flood then it won't be a problem for the person who made that decision!