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What's new about that? Any bullshit product is bullshit.

I think this is hyperbole, and similar to various techno fears throughout the ages.

Books were seen by intellectuals as being the downfall of society. If everyone is educated they'll challenge dogma of the church, for one.

So looking at prior transformational technology I think we'll be just fine. Life may be forever changed for sure, but I think we'll crack reliability and we'll just cope with intelligence being a non-scarce commodity available to anyone.

The Canadian news media tried this with facebook. Ended up with them crying about how they lost all the ad dollars from traffic from FB when FB said fuck off.

Why doesn't Google need licensing to scrape and reproduce NYT snippets in their results? OpenAI doesn't even quote the sources its consumed to produce it's output. It seems totally fair use to me. Any given content site has authors that read stuff that is copyrighted and produce their own take.

I can't directly quote shit, and I am useful.

Well you'd need to know if the customer or the bot is connecting. Both are on the same IP which was my point. Rationally I'd want to block any compromised device regardless of the customer, but it's a complex problem for sure.

I have had no problems with this, but I use an iPad Mini for all my sketching and my palm is often off of the screen to the side as it's a small surface.

Don't bots also get covertly installed on regular folks machines? And those machines will be running from domestic ISP IP address blocks which are commonly shared/cycled between the ISP's customers. Block those and you are blocking legit customers.

All the "fringes" stuff is where the magic is. The author suggests that no one notices some of the refinements, well this may be true on day one, but people discover these touches as they grow more familiar. Those subtle thoughtful additions are what makes the difference between an app I like using, and one I love using. They help me feel a couple of things:

1) A connection; I feel like I noticed something just for those who care 2) Assurance the product is well cared for 3) A feeling that the dev understands me

This stuff is gold for a product. I am thinking of Procreate when I think of the king of this sort of thing. That app is just so ridiculously clever. I don't know how they managed to take the plethora of UI that other illustration apps have and squeeze it down into ~6 menu items. Somehow it works beautifully and there are so many subtle touches and hidden workflow gestures just waiting to be discovered. It's usable out of the box, and the more you use it the more you naturally learn how to use it more efficiently.

But CSS isn't "fun again" if it wasn't fun before. And it certainly was not fun before, it was a horrible nightmare of non-standard implementation and an ill fit for what designers wanted to do.

BS, the reason we have sensational opinion pieces goes back before the internet. People are bored with mundane lives and love drama. Drama sells, 90s newsrooms found this out and cable news out competed established real journalism. The rest is a race to the bottom.

The internet simply exacerbated this as anyone could publish news on an equal platform to the big boys. Then we get paid-per-click, and that drives click-bait.

Stealing information absolutely is not responsible for that. People pay for junk, and that's the reason. We don't eat junk food because it's given away.

The news on a website is paid for by someone, else they would not be in business. And I only have one screen, I don't share it. The difference is physical vs. digital copies. A physical copy costs $.10 a digital copy costs $.0000001 (made up numbers), the business can take a loss of numerous digital copies before hitting the cost of one copy of the physical paper.

The problem is really that their business model sucks. They are working with fewer and fewer advertisers and much more competition and expecting business like they had before. And so we have a business that is attempting to fix itself with paywalls which don't work 100% of the time, but good enough to get the found newspaper analogy.

People used to leave newspapers in the trash, on the train, all over the place. Anyone could pick them up and read for free. I think it's reasonable for folks to carry this attitude into the digital age. People feel like news is something to share, it's not the source of creative expression, it's facts and as such we feel entitled to know the facts about our world and what is happening that might affect us.

I don't think this person actually worked with CSS in the early days. The clearfix trick was back then, not now. It was back "in the day" that we had to do shitty workarounds like clearfix. Like CSS wasn't fun back then, at all. CSS wasn't fun, then not fun, and now fun again. CSS has been on a steady trajectory out of awful but it works, to predictability, and much more fit for purpose. React and the like have allowed for tight namespacing which makes collisions a thing of the past, and so the "cascading" element is less of a problem.

> I am shocked that everyone is so shocked by the sheer existence

Huh? It's not being shocked, the legitimate question is what is Apply going to do? Saying you are shocked does not answer the question, if people buy into Beeper how likely is it that they lose functionality due to an Apple lock out?

I rarely support Meta, but in this case I do. I think it was a total dick move on the Canadian govt's side. Poorly understood their position, poorly understood the implications, poorly understood the problem space overall.

What I find incredible about this overall controversy is how Canadian news outlets begged for this law, and now they are all butthurt that they have no traffic. I have no idea why they thought they had leverage.

Haha, those two devices are so different it's not really a useful comparison. One is a sampling groovebox, the other is a sampler module. Use Cases are also totally different. If you want a cheap sampling groovebox with a thoughtful workflow, portable, mic, speaker, battery operated, fun to play with there aren't all that many choices other than maybe the Korg Volca Samples. It's around 3x the price, but it easily has 3x the functionality.

No way do I care enough about the quality of my laptop cam enough to spend more money and have another cable and device to carry around. I can't think who this is designed for. I guess they have a target audience, I just can't think of one.

England is full, there is no room for new holiday spots in the popular areas.

Can you explain why -160c is a measure of success when the claim was room temperature? A super conductor functioning at -160c would make MRIs simpler, but it's not world changing.

Except for the military sensors which seem to be reporting more than we've ever seen before.

How did you know it was a TR-3B??

I don't think any military captains, and colonels will be testifying on oath to the existence of Bigfoot in front of Congress. So no, that's not next.

What's actually happening is pretty crazy and anyone who has a small amount of curiosity should give it some consideration. It seems foolish just to dismiss this with a scoff.

I don't know what to make of all this stuff that's started to percolate through the media and now congress.

I don't know if they are just chasing their tales, have another agenda, or if these guys are actually onto something and sincerely trying to move it into the public purview.

Interesting times we live in.

Clancy and your text editor don't scale though. LLMs can crank out wide and varied convincing hate speech rapidly all day without taking a break.

Additionally context matters. Clancy's books are books, they don't parade themselves as factual accounts on reddit or other social networks. Your notepad text isn't terrifying because you understand the source of the text, and its true intent.

Just because you are wealthy doesn't change anything. How are you supposed to know that the fact the pressure vessel isn't certified is a massive red flag, and not just a way to innovate more quickly? Rush painted industry safety as holding everything back and did not properly communicate that you should probably have an independent engineer review the risks. I mean, he was willing to go to the wreck with you, isn't that a hard endorsement of the risk being mitigated?

Again, watch some videos, he downplays the risk all the time. It's a form of manipulation, like buying a junk car from a used car salesman. Yes you could have a mechanic look at it, but it's such a great deal, if you walk away someone else will snap it up. All along the salesman is neglecting to mention the wheels are glued on because the bolts sheared, and the brake lines are held together with duct tape.

$5 a month for just 300 searches? Who is their target audience??

It's not reasonable for regular people to understand the scale of those risks. I've watched video of a previous paying customer talking to Rush about the risks noted in the waiver, and he downplays it so much, almost mocking the very notion that the risk is unreasonable.

Imagine being told that the gluing of titanium to carbon fiber is a risk, but the guy telling you that is saying it's no big deal - just innovation. How are you supposed to have any meaningful understanding of that risk? Like is it a huge red flag or just a YOLO issue? I wouldn't know, I'd have to defer to the "experts" who I am entrusting my life to.

> might have been called that in major media outlets -- but within the tech community it had been widely acknowledged...

There is a huge UAP community of believers. I don't see why a community belief makes it more legitimate. It's speculation until you have hard evidence, for the NSA thing that evidence was a whistleblower, what's the difference here??