RAM is so expensive, Samsung won't even sell it to Samsung

Re:RAM is so expensive, Samsung won't even sell it to Samsung by gr4vityWall on Thursday December 04, 2025 @09:49AM (#46148255)

> maybe $250/month (...) which you can then use to go and earn 100x that.

25k/month? Most people will never come close to earn that much. Most developers in the third world don't make that in a full year, but are affected by raises in PC parts' prices.

I agree with the general principle of having savings for emergencies. For a Software Engineer, that should probably include buying a good enough computer for them, in case they need a new one. But the figures themselves seem skewed towards the reality of very well-paid SV engineers.

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Re:RAM is so expensive, Samsung won't even sell it to Samsung by Dibby053 on Thursday December 04, 2025 @10:45AM (#46148878)

>Most developers in the third world don't make that in a full year

And many in the first world haha

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Re:RAM is so expensive, Samsung won't even sell it to Samsung by willy_k on Sunday December 07, 2025 @06:25AM (#46180952)

25k annually (before taxes) is $12/hour with a 40 hour work week, how many software developers in the first world are working for that? There are probably some, but I’d be surprised if there were “many”.

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Re:RAM is so expensive, Samsung won't even sell it to Samsung by londons_explore on Thursday December 04, 2025 @10:03AM (#46148430)

> But the figures themselves seem skewed towards the reality of very well-paid SV engineers.

The soon to be unemployed SV engineers when LLM's mean anyone can design an app and backend with no coding knowledge.

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Re:RAM is so expensive, Samsung won't even sell it to Samsung by genewitch on Thursday December 04, 2025 @01:22PM (#46150940)

and you can code from an rpi / cellphone and use a cloud computer to run it so you actually don't really need an expensive PC at all

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