[–] 2 points 6 hours ago

Agreed.

I strongly remember a CompSci professor ~2005 being disgusted with auto-generated Java GUI. And yes it was clunky and more memory intensive than it could have been, but also, I really don't care about how GridView is defined most of the time.

Bad code is bad code, touched by AI or not. For working code, a volunteer group spending resources to determine if it might have been touched by AI is at the very least an incredibly frustrating standard to try to meet. And very likely impossible to verify in any meaningful way.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago

    Absolutely, it's not their problem or their business.

    But the 2025 tax cuts saved just Facebook ~$11bn in 2025 alone. Meaning across all US mega-corporations there are trillions of dollars not being allocated in whichever way voters want, but going to pet projects and yachts because they have more money than they can reinvest in their business or know what to do with.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    Just Facebook spent $80bn over ~10 years while paying less of their income in taxes than anyone reading this.

    The WHO estimates $7-8 billion a year to end world hunger.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 weeks ago*

    RAM has not come from China, and China isn't exporting much of it yet. Unless Canada and the EU and Japan and everyone else is also handing out tariffs on Taiwan, Korea, etc like the US is, their point was the price of RAM doesn't have anything to do with tariffs.

    The price of RAM is high globally because the AI companies have bought future-RAM with money the RAM producing companies gave them to build data centers that don't exist yet.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    If we can reduce the shockwave from sonic booms that could directly lead to more efficient plane engines. The main current impediment they have is the tips of the turbine blades can only get so close to the speed of sound before they explode from the forces they're experiencing.

    Which could have knock-on effects for anything involving an airfoil moving through a fluid. Helicopters, boats, wind turbines, hydro-power, etc.

    Better understanding and control of the physics / materials science at the sound barrier would be very good news.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (2 children)

    They're publicly traded companies. Their investor meetings point out that HBM is not more profitable.

    It is in theory more guaranteed profit because it's a smaller number of bigger contracts. But that's the gamble they're making.

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