I would rather prefer the good old days with wonky WordPress sites and mailing lists. It is true that most business owners moved to Facebook at some point, but the price to pay is having all content undiscoverable and inaccessible, unless your user has a Facebook account.
This probably depends on the label and artist, Spotify is also missing lots of stuff. Just wanted to clarify that YouTube Music is not monetizing on old user uploads. Yes, YouTube still has tons of uploads of varying quality by normal users, but it doesn't really make part of "YouTube Music", sometimes it's rare and obscure stuff like 80s cassette tapes or limited edition records that don't risk any copyright strikes, and I'm happy it's there.
I perfectly understand you from the beginning, and I still think that the blog post that you mention is nitpicking on a minor detail. I mentioned the paper by Rice (that is indeed elementary) as an example of someone citing Turing without making a big deal from the difference in the definitions. Let's agree that Turing's definition is "inconvenient", but not really "wrong".
I skimmed through the page that you linked and I am familiar with computability. When defining "computable reals", Turing defines a subset of real numbers, the only flaw is that he doesn't prove that this subset is closed under addition and multiplication. A proof appears in [1] where Rice indeed gives more convenient definitions and also cites Turing's paper for an "intuitive definition". Saying that Turing was wrong is a big stretch based on a deliberately introduced confusion.
Turing's definition of computable reals can't be wrong, because listing decimal digits is equivalent to giving rational approximations. The problem here is a confusion between real numbers and Turing machines that compute them.
Nowadays YouTube Music has separate accounts for artists, the music is uploaded through the same mechanisms as to any other streaming platform (by big labels or digital distributors), it does not rely on users uploading videos with music.
Yes, they are not dropping scripts completely, at least because of Gradle, but they are removing some parts of scripting support and advise against using Kotlin for scripting. And I would prefer a true command line REPL instead of the notebooks. IIRC they were promising various improvements in both scripting and REPL for several years, and now they just gave up, I guess because of shifting the focus to K2 and KMP. I find this quite disappointing.
> Kotlin scripting is unfortunately not necessarily very user friendly (e.g. imports can be a bit tedious and IDE support is a bit meh). But it can be a nice way to embed some kotlin stuff in a script. Generally, Jetbrains could give this topic a lot more love and attention and it wouldn't even take that much to level up the experience.
Kotlin has been pretty bad at scripting and REPL, and unfortunately the team decided to drop both:
Of course not, but there are different kinds of microphones, recording techniques, processing and editing. Some achieve interesting results. An example of field recordings of nature that I like very much is [1].
I think many bird recordings are made to showcase songs of different species, it would be more relaxing to listen to field recordings that capture the whole soundscape.
Disney also used "Le Sacre du printemps" in "Fantasia" after meeting Stravinsky, who was offended by the idea. However, Disney informed him that he would use it anyway since it was not protected in the US. Stravinsky was paid pennies.
If I share my texts/sounds/images for free, harvesting and regurgitating them omits the requested attribution. Even the most permissive CC license (excluding CC0 public domain) still requires an attribution.
I'm not sure if this is a good idea, especially in code; apart from adding unnecessary confusion for the reader, this will also confuse some monospaced fonts.
There are various countries that optimize the number of time zones for administrative purposes, but this is much easier and sensical to implement within one country than globally.
UTC is used globally when it makes sense, e.g. for the schedules of international radio broadcasts.
No, I wasn't suggesting that Rust is better for prototyping, the only thing I said is that Kotlin and Rust (that you mentioned yourself) are better than JavaScript because they were designed much later and more thoroughly. TypeScript is a different thing to me, it makes part of this new generation of languages, its only problem is that it works on top of JavaScript.
I do 100+ searches a day, but that would easily drop to ~10 if I don't count searches where I know from the beginning that I am going to click on the link to Wikipedia / GitHub / some other familiar website. With the rise of AI-generated content and low-quality content farms, I am turning to the old habits of keeping bookmarks to reliable sources anyways.
There are lots of use cases when you want references to reliable sources written by real people instead of AI slop. Science, law, technical documentation, etc. If you ask an LLM for the sources, it is happy to generate bogus citations for false claims, and the only way to verify the answer is by using the good old web search. I hope real search engines never die, only those that turn to AI slop like Google.
> social shaming that cut so deep that the message you wrote is still burned verbatim into their memory after all these years
Oh my, this reminded me how some 20 years ago I was a high school kid and dared to install a more nerdy Linux distro (which I won't name here) on my home computer. After some big upgrade, the system stopped booting, and when in panic I asked for help at the official forum, I got responses that were shaming me for blindly copying commands from their official website without consulting some README files. That's how I switched to Debian and never looked back.