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.

Too expensive, too big, and too military were all arguments for computers, radio (/radar), and GPS to never have widespread adoption.

It’s a cool experiment/technology. Why so down?

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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.

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.

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.

Yes.

Which is why it’s bad that the only 3 companies with capacity currently are colluding.

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.

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.

I get a lot done with physical buttons and time / condition automations but sometimes it’s nice to just do a one off action from the couch.

I’ve built some md5stack little speaker things and they work okay. Weird audio artifacts sometimes though.

GPS is a passive receiver.

There’s processing going on, but you dramatically decrease energy use by just updating less often.

It’s not like you’re sending a signal to space.

The Honeywell ones are nice and simple and have instructions for whichever number of wires you already have. With stickers for easy labeling as your removing the old one. They have a few models for whichever network you prefer.

The different wires can be intimidating, but they’re all standard colors. And your dumb thermostat is already wired with everything you need. The smart one mostly just adds a radio.

The wires are basically: power to the thermostat, ground, and a number of different signal wires for “AC on”, “furnace on”, etc that when the respective wire gets 5v(?) that device turns on.

Thermostats are very simple devices that just regulate when the high voltage devices should turn on. Things do get a bit more complicated if you have a bigger house with multiple HVAC zones and stuff but most people don’t have those. And even if you do, that’s mostly just more wires to connect that will already be there.

I agree they’re overblowing it for comedy, but holy hell do I hate ‘magic links’.

Have them as an option sure. But for everyone with a password manager they’re multiple extra steps that make the sign in process clunkier.

If you have 2FA they’re actively useless security theater.

Even without the FOMO, some people just want a working device.

It’s why leasing cars is attractive to some. They don’t care about the specs, they want one that works “well” and looks nice and are willing to give up nebulous "ownership"of a device that they don’t know or care how it works, that they can’t repair, so they can stop thinking about their choice and just always have a one available.

The number of people that click through to disable that prompt might surprise you.

Hell at least half of AI influences are trying to just run models blind with full file permissions.

If a modern high speed SD card is good enough for 60fps 4k done footage, or whatever they’re shooting now, it’s probably fast enough for whatever you’re doing on your phone.

It may not be much but it is something.

They already run on crude instead of more refined fuel for very small percentage point gains in fuel cost.

5t less fuel over 2 weeks isn’t nothing, and this is the first one. With visibly a shit-ton more room for more panels.

They’re joking, but most of the US are “Right to Work” states. Meaning, on paper, you have the ‘right’ to quit your job without reprisal, but in practice the company can fire you without compensation. They owe for anything you’ve already done, but that’s about it.

I was thinking their package was pretty generous but you’re right it’s very basic for other places.

Actual question. Can you revert git to a prior state without the remote repo?

They don’t have the literacy / abstract thinking necessary to understand themes and like the ‘vibes’ of nerdy things being cool now.