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It's bad enough seeing this kind of spam on Twitter, we don't need it here too.

Talking like a pirate will probably flag you up more than anything else lol

One of my favorite artists Grimshaw [0] used to use a camera in his paintings, at the time it wasn't considered 'real art' [1] much like the use of AI now isn't considered real art.

But time passes and now not only is it considered 'real art' but it's also (subjectively to me) some of the best art ever created.

Although it's hard to envisage I imagine the same is going to happen with AI art, it's hard to see now but in the future it will be considered 'normal'.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Atkinson_Grimshaw

[1] https://www.trinityhousepaintings.com/looking-back-artist-jo...

SQL is simple English? lol people just need to learn the damn language, tools like this are just a crutch that do more harm than good.

I mean it either is or it isn't. Either way it doesn't answer any fundamental questions at all. It's simulations all the way down.

> Lost 8th century Japanese medical text by Buddhist monk has been found

..by checking the local bookstore.

Seriously, modern 'researchers' need to just take their blinkers off and especially go cross-discipline.

I think everyone should turn off their power for a couple of hours (when convenient) just to see if and how well they'd manage. Because it's so easy to become reliant on something without realizing that it could go.

Powers gone off? Guess I'll put the kettle on and make some tea while I wait - no power. It's got a bit dark - put the light on. Listen to spotify? No songs downloaded and no data etc etc. And that's not even covering food preparation yet.

That's not a bug, it's a 'feature', tons of sites do it for whatever asinine reason.

What a time to be alive.

Who?

> Sometimes it takes months for regular new employees to do anything productive in some of these codebases.

Which is most probably why most of them were just kicked out. Twitter isn't complicated, it's literally just a micro-blogging platform.

Come on, a 'FAANG engineer' asking for help with this is like a gourmet chef asking for help boiling an egg. It's pretty much the most basic stuff imaginable, kids are learning this in pre-school pretty much.

You're falling for the 'No True Scotsman' fallacy [0]

Don't cripple your AI because of your lack of imagination.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman

It certainly seems that way.

This is the Emperors New Clothes [0] all over again, no-one wants to say straight up that based on what they've observed that Elon's a complete moron, so it's always got to be some kind of 'genius' that the rest of us can't see.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emperor%27s_New_Clothes

> and constantly snatches posts I'm looking at away from me in my timeline mid-scroll

Instagram and Reddit do this too, it's the most annoying thing in the world. And making the feed crap is actively harder than just leaving it as it is.

Isn't that kind of an imbecilic* thing to have on a site like this?

*in terms of usability (there's over 16 million hex colors), in terms of accessibility, the fact that it's a technical audience who don't need it, the fact that people don't even know about it etc etc.

Just have a color picker and be done with it

He HAS to be doing it on purpose, no-one is this retarded, especially when he just paid 44 BILLION for it.

It's like the Emperors new clothes, we're all trying to see some kind of genius that just isn't there.

They can dress it up all they like but designing a social site to be 'antiviral' and have 'friction' means it's literally not fit for purpose.

Creating a site that has friction, is ultimately trying to solve people problems with technology and doing it badly. The old adage of everything looks like a nail when all you have is a hammer.

Mastodon is needed, and I'm not knocking it, but the approach is fundamentally broken.

When you use a social site the experience should be so polished and seamless, that you forget the technology is even there and you're just communicating directly with people.

We should be long past the time of trying to fight our tools to get the experience we want.

I'm pretty sure Musk did this on purpose, and only 'legacy media' like this are whining and complaining to get those sweet ad clicks, everyone else is loving Twitter.

SBF takes "full responsibility".

Anyone think this was Musk's game plan?

Not Eli specifically but intentionally causing chaos.

"Both Musk and Calacanis agreed that Twitter Blue is “an insane piece of shit” and its features should be razed and rethought outright. “These dipshits spent a year on Twitter Blue to give people exactly… Nothing they want!” Calacanis texted." [0]

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2022/09/29/elon-musk-texts-discovery-...

> These are concepts which need explaining, they make no sense for beginners or especially kids.

They will be explained naturally as the lessons progress I expect, trying to explain all that up front is the easiest way to fail.

I thought the real purpose of markdown was to let your users use HTML on your site but without the security risks of letting them use 'pure' HTML.

Watching Musk "move fast and break things" at Twitter is fascinating, it's not like a small site with a few users, he's getting instant feedback from thousands (millions?) of users at once.

Exactly. Imagine 2,000 years from now "archaeologists" thinking "rinse, repeat as required" is some kind of ritual incantation on a shampoo bottle.

Funnily enough this was mentioned on Twitter yesterday [0]

So much time and thought is given to 'doing things at scale' but zero thought to the user experience as their notifications scale.

[0] https://twitter.com/ZubyMusic/status/1590073315011751936

A lot of times search is intentionally broken on websites to get you looking at more things.

All the "journalists" would need to do real work instead of just copy/pasting tweets all day.

> A week later she posted on Facebook and Instagram that she would be leaving the platforms.

And now we're reading about her on BBC News. These people need to stop talking and actually get offline.