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by kjellsbells 33 days ago
AIUI for volatile parts the buyer can agree a contract to secure supply, but the price is only set at ship time. And the buyers can't complain about that imbalance because there is always someone else that the seller can offload their stock on to at the higher price.

Maybe now we'll start paying attention to why software is so incredibly bloated. That giant webview runtime doesn't seem such a great idea any more.

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> Maybe now we'll start paying attention to why software is so incredibly bloated.

That would be a wonderful silver lining. It's incredible how slow ~all software I use feels.