> Meta doesn't really know how to do anything else with any skill.
They don't know how to do Facebook very well either: it's been pretty much stagnant and enshittified to death for the past 22 years, and it feels like a forum for greying people whose greying friends haven't bothered to move on either, or to get the date of the next annual meeting of the bridge club.
one of those companies whose sole purpose seems to be annoying you by slapping their name as a watermark on a generic image you'd like to use in a meme, and force to spend 10 seconds finding somewhere else because you were never going to pay a stupid company to remove their mark on a bad picture you can find everywhere.
I wonder how those companies still exist, let alone make any money.
Anyway, the modern way to use copyrighted photos for free is to ask stable diffusion to regenerate it, because the AI companies have done all the data stealing for you and repackaged the stolen data into "models" you can use for free.
I think you're right as far adults go -- adults are having fewer children because children are unaffordable.
Teens, OTOH, were almost never making a conscious decision to try to conceive children anyway -- if they got pregnant, that was an unintended side effect of having recreational sex. So if the teenage fertility rate is falling, the most likely explanation is that teens are either having less sex, or they are using contraception more effectively (or both). It's quite plausible that teens are simply spending less time in each others' physical proximity, and therefore having sex with each other less often.
Trump ordered the immediate surrender of Iran as well. What Trump commands and what Trump is competent to actually make happen are two vastly different things.
At least we can keep those coal plants running our AI data centers.
I mean, we could, but when the total expenses for building and running a solar farm are less than just the ongoing cost of buying more coal for an existing coal plant (never mind the maintenance or environmental remediation costs), that's almost literally lighting money on fire. It takes a pretty dedicated idealogue to hold out against the capitalist temptation of making more money solely to show the libs who's boss, and anyone who does so is likely to find themselves replaced by someone else who can "better maximize shareholder value". Hence the shift; even Trump can't stop an idea whose time has come.
Maybe try to get out more.
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It's meant for the rest of the folks, who want to be seen as coooool.
Maybe I don't read the Zeitgeist as well as I should, but AFAICT anything AI-related is seen as extremely uncool these days (at least, outside of certain tech-topian circles). So if Visa thinks "Adopting AI means people will think we're cool", I suspect they are in for a surprise.
If the only goal is producing electricity at the current minimum price per kWh, then you have a good point.
OTOH if you also have a long-term goal of figuring out how to effectively design and build fusion reactors, then it's worthwhile to build them as best you can even if wind is currently more cost-effective.
As for why you might have such a long-term goal, I can think of several reasons:
1. Future fusion reactor designs might be much more economical to build and run, once enough hands-on experience has been gathered to make them so
2. Fusion reactors could be used in situations where wind power isn't available (e.g. space exploration)
Certainly the Secret Service would love to have an automatic head's-up on the true identity of anyone walking into the room. Not that I would expect this implementation to be reliable enough actually to be used that way, but someday one will be.
If I was deliberately trying to cause a nation-wide backlash against data centers, I'm not sure what I'd be doing differently from what the AI companies are currently doing.
Has nobody told them that people don't like having their lives disrupted, particularly when they don't see any compensating benefit, or even a convincing reason for having any of it? If they were to ease off the gas pedal just a bit, they could probably do a boil-the-frog and get a larger number of smaller/less-obtrusive data centers built over a longer time period, and without the voter revolts and strict legislation that are likely to hobble them now.
Ugh why the ObjC hate.
Objective C's syntax is objectively terrible; it mixes Smalltalk syntax with C syntax, confusing everyone. Its implicit heap usage makes it unusable for real-time programming (e.g. even Apple had to fall back to C to implement CoreAudio), and ARC is only a partial substitute for RAII.
Apple was right to switch over to Swift.
There is an answer to disingenuous pull requests. That is doing the work to review the code before it's implemented.
That's true, but when it takes Joe Random Hacker 10 seconds to generate a plausible-looking pull-request, which requires Joe Project Maintainer to spend 30 minutes reviewing the code-changes in that request, and Joe Project Maintainer isn't getting paid for his time spent doing the review, you've got all the ingredients for a distributed-denial-of-service attack on your project's maintainers. Perhaps AI code-reviewers can restore the balance, but I don't know how many project maintainers would trust their codebase's integrity to them (yet).
If they left them in place they might be used to collect data, which might in turn be used to show that climate change is a real problem. We can't have that, it gets in the way of maximizing oil companies's profits.
It's certainly possible to translate COBOL source into another computer language of your choice, although I'm not sure LLMs are the best tool for that job. An LLM might be able to give you more readable post-translation source code, but traditional machine translation would give you post-translation source code that works correctly, which is probably more important.
Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active. -- Leonardo da Vinci
