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IMHO, before the end of the decade you will absolutely be able to generate entire long form movies just by writing a paragraph in a prompt. And people will not be able to tell the difference.

Hollywood might save money on the short run but they are doomed to irrelevance on the long run, because you'll have access to the exact same tools as they do.

Is it good or bad? I don't know, it just is...

> RIP. It still suprises me that people with resources die so early (he died at 74).

You don't know for how long he did have that disease, if anything, resources might have afforded him many more years of life at first place.So your comment strikes me as odd, given the fact that you can't judge how long did he live with such disease.

One of my friend's dad died from the same kind of cancer. Between the diagnosis and their death, 2 months passed, and that person had plenty of "resources"...

> If you want it to stop then we need AGPL software and a decentralised internet. We are in a local optimum so it will seem worse at first before it gets better.

But we already have a decentralized internet, it's just that most people will go for convenience rather of freedom...

Furthermore, some people here keep claiming that they are willing to pay for ad-less services, yet learned nothing from cable TV... even paid streaming services have ads...

I did prefer the Amiga, but I still got an Atari ST for an very obvious reason: It had MIDI DIN port and was way cheaper than most digital sequencers at the time.

It's funny how some young producers today wonder "how did people do it without a computer before the 2000?"...well guess what, we did used computers! I cannot however remember what software sequencer I was using, I know it had MIDI effects (like MIDI echo), that's all I remember.

And by 1998, Logic was fairly advanced anyway and even had plenty of plugins.

> Emphasis on progressively. Tax is just a placeholder word, we can call it fee if that helps and just burn the money if you don't trust anyone to handle it well. Your first domain is $10/year, your 1000th domain could be $100k/year.

More taxes isn't the solution to every problem, that's reasoning is absurd. Who's going to force every country to apply a tax on domain names? Which government? That whole idea is stupid.

> Domain ownership should be progressively taxed. House ownership too for that matter. With houses it's easy to prevent tax evasion by splitting the ownership between multiple entities (because companies shouldn't own housing), but it would be almost impossible with domains...

Taxes aren't the answer for everything. And they are already taxed in the EU, it's called VAT.

I remember that word "Boids" from Blender Physic simulation menu, to mimic a flock of birds in 3D, I also remember understanding nothing to its settings, but it kind of worked well.

Very good read about your experience developing an Audio Player for Iphone. thanks.

> It doesn't make low value-added goods like TVs, it doesn't employ a lot of people, and it's not growing as fast as other sectors, but we still manufacture more than ever before.

Yes, aerospace and military tech are the biggest manufacturing industries in USA... Quite profitable these days with all these conflicts...

> The US isn’t forcing anyone else to use USD.

I disagree. The petrodollar is a thing.

> C# is a very highly underrated (and oft misunderstood) language that has become more terse as it has aged -- in a very good way. C#'s terseness has not come at the cost of its legibility and in fact, I feel like enhances it in many cases.

C# and .net are one of the most mature platform for development of all kind. It's just that online, it carries some sort of anti Microsoft stigma...

But a lot of AA or indie games are written in C# and they do fine. It's not just C++ or Rust in that industry.

People tend to be influenced by opinions online but often the real world is completely different. Been using C# for a decade now and it's one of the most productive language I have ever used, easy to set up, powerful toolchains... and yes a lot of closed source libs in the .net ecosystem but the open source community is large too by now.

I used to be a designer back in the days with no formal education, I learned to code via Action Script 2 and it was fantastic, to be able to add interactivity to design, we created really crazy stuff. So I was already manipulating objects without understanding them.

Yet the biggest hurdle for me was actually trying to grasp OOP. I understood what function is, a loop, an condition a variable, a record, but I had very hard time to understand why I needed to write classes, instantiate them, make property private... Now I get it: polymorphism, encapsulation. But still. These are not easy concepts for people with no formal compsci education.

SVN, I got it, MYSQL I got it, but OO? fast forward 10 years and I was all about Symfony 2, design patterns, IoC, ...

My point being that anybody can learn to code and write programs. I just feel like higher abstraction like OO, while they are certainly elegant and useful for maintaining huge codebases, are not necessarily something people wanting to learn programming should be obsessed about (though obviously, all most successful modern languages tend to be OO now, so they have no choice). I don't think PHP would have been that much of success if it forced OOP everywhere when it started.

I mean people programmed without OO for decades before it became really mainstream, therefore most programmers did not have to understand the concepts it carried to work.

> You'll be surprised to learn that neovaginas are also possessed by cis women. Trans men requiring vaginoplasty and receiving a uterine transplant are the nichest possible edge case, your "gotcha" is pure distraction.

> Trans women will receive the modern* uterine transplant operation, this I can state with certainty. Birth is done via C-section as a requirement of the UTx operation, the vagina is required for discharge. I haven't been able to pay attention to the operation for a few years, but it is clear that you are operating from uninformed conjecture.

> *The first uterine transplant was performed on a trans woman in Germany in 1930, Lili Elbe. This pioneering surgery lead to her death, as transplantation medicine was not adequately developed at that point in time.

Not all transmen require a vaginoplasty, not all transwomen have had a vaginoplasty or even have the desire to do so.

No biological male has ever birthed a child so far, so all that's speculation about what is or isn't needed from you is just that, speculation, based on nothing since it's technically not possible for now.

The desire to birth a child doesn't depends on anybody's gender identity nor anatomy.

Now stop trying to put people in boxes and keep an open mind.

They can all converts to Islam. Not much changes since the 7th century. It allows wealth, polygamy and slavery. Now the Jacobin wont dare do some kind of exegesis... it would be deemed blasphemy.

> Unless the procedure has changed dramatically, it requires a functional vagina. Neovaginas are qualified but I would not expect most male-identified people to opt for vaginoplasty.

First, male-identified people can be born biological female. It's an identity.

Second, the procedure doesn't exist for biological males to begin with right now, neovagina or not. A neovagina is physiologically not a biological female vagina to begin with anyway so I wouldn't help at all with the gestation. Birth can be done via C-Section.

> Trans men having babies is not strong evidence for cis men having less of a desire to give birth than trans women. If you have the equipment for it, it's going to happen some percent of the time.

It's strong evidence that the desire to birth child has nothing to do with gender identity, which latter will be pretty much pointless by the time science allows human fœtus gestation outside the human female body.

> I guess trans women would have more of a desire to give birth than men.

No, since plenty of trans men have babies. All these considerations would be completely irrelevant.

> I can't help but wonder if there is any hope of this working for trans persons in the future?

why just trans? it would work on any male regardless of what they identify as if it were possible. No need for penis removal either, C-section would work.

It's useful to convey architectures. The problem is that UML has been abused by some vendors that implemented bad software based on "Rapid UML Development" and it soured a lot of developers. Also it is very old java OO oriented. But Sequence diagrams are still in use.

> Except, the game designers were paid a flat salary, not royalties, unlike the rock stars in Warner’s stable. In late 1979, four defecting Atari designers and one music industry executive disrupted the video game console business model by aligning it with the recording industry’s: Hardware would be just hardware, and content would now be supplied by third-party content providers. Activision was formed, with a little business and legal help from the Sistine Chapel of Silicon Valley law firms, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati.

I wasn't aware of that story, a lot of irony in there...

What would be the point? Why would it even need real members?

OP probably is Peter Kirn himself.

> Isn't it a running joke that the Jannies don't get paid?

You're think about reddit and why it is the way it is from an editorial perspective and what kind of people have the time to mods 100+ subs for free...

But that ceased to be true long ago. While some of the supermods aren't paid by reddit directly, they might be paid by other orgs to mod and influence reddit, corporate or 'grass root'...

Some others simply hijack subs to sell their own products.

> Harvard has a 50 billion endowment, what do they need federal funds for. If they value their intellectual independence so much, then cut the cord.

I agree. Gulf monarchies will probably come in a give even more billions to these institutions anyway to make up for the losses. No strings attached of course...

Harvard probably already secured some more funding from Qatar and what not.

> So, not unlike every single protestant country 30 years ago.

This is a straight out lie and you know it. 30 years ago was 1995.

But nice try rooting for a bloody dictatorship like Iran, led by people stuck in a 7th century mindset, allegedly the paragon of "progress" according to some here...

> Also in Iran there's more female engineers than men. It's quite unlike Taliban ruled Afghanistan.

Also in Iran if you happened to be male & gay and get caught you have the choice between the death penalty and getting a forced "sex re-assignement" surgery.

> What we are labeling as AI today is different than was thought to be in the 90s, or when Asimov wrote most of his stories about robots and other ways of AI.

Multivac in "the last question"?

I used Bottle in the past and I must say I was quite surprised of the software I managed to run on Linux... For instance, Cinema 4D (up to R24 I think?). The hardest was to install flatpak on Porteus to install bottle...

So it is bottle but for Mac? Never heard of it before. I used crossover once on a Macbook 2010 to Run Deus Ex,... anyway these are great projects. I guess booting linux from a USB stick should work on a modern mac too? rather than emulating it.

I was there since around 2015 and the evolution of that forum and its population/opinion has been very interesting, to say to put it mildly...

Remember when the biggest disagreements were about ORM & Frameworks? I miss those days. I didnt even mind the discussion about the ethics of Uber or Airbnb, but now, now it is different, & not for the better.

I'm fine with LLM as long as it sources its responses. It is true however, that LLM interpretation of the source links can be wrong.

The problem with search engines like Google now is that they stopped giving people the results they want, but it often shows things Google thinks people want, or whatever SEO trickery Google stopped trying to fight (especially when the links are full of Google ads...).