[–] 1 point 6 hours ago* (1 child)

The conversion for eMPG (which yes, is possibly the most cursed of units) is ~33 kwh equals a gallon. My PNW home electricity prices are pretty low, but that puts an eGallon at ~$2.97.

If anything I think that number is misleadingly high, but that's part of why it's possibly the most cursed unit.

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  • [–] 6 points 9 hours ago (1 child)

    Thankfully in the US we won't get the choice because they're not allowed to sell here to protect our domestic producers from competition so we can just give them more money the next time they need to be bailed out.

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  • [–] 8 points 5 days ago (1 child)

    Most of the things I've seen basically say 'no'.

    There are commercial displays that don't have spyware / connectivity, but they tend to have significantly lower refresh rates / HDR / etc. even if they are 4k. And they're several times the price of consumer TVs, at least in part because they aren't being subsidized by selling them at a loss to make money on ads.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 week 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 3 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 4 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 1 month 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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