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If they want to pay me to not build wind farms, I'll not build them for half that.

Someone who likes Shakespeare is going to be able to talk about what they like about Shakespeare, his impact on language, his works, and so on. Someone who likes Austen is going to…

... Is that so difficult to imagine?

> There will come a time, very soon, where you wont be able to tell the difference, and what then? We'll stop buying new books, sticking to things written before 2022.

> I hated the question of teachers asking: What does the author wanted to tell us with this story." Because -> The author never wrote that down. And deriving their intentions from …

English teachers around the world have loathed that "The curtains were blue" meme, and are absolutely right to do so, but what happens when you ask what an author meant by the blue…

Unionization of the industry is long long overdue, if for no other reason than professional ethics. A small town lawyer can fuck up paperwork badly enough that they lose their abil…

They really shouldn't be people. Birds are fine, but I like the bridges, why are the moving away from those?

Anything short of declaring them a proscribed organization is insufficient.

I think back to the first covid lockdowns. All of society was reorganized in a matter of weeks! Oil is worth negative money if they don't make us consume it! Work from home became …

His crime was allowing media be distributed to the masses. Had he done the same to create LLM training sets he'd be worshipped.

Its simply unreal that the EU is pushing that in order to participate in society that I must accept the TOS of Google or Apple. God help you if you need to try and fix a serious pr…

By not teaching the younger generations the virtues of piracy, millennials have failed them. It'll be all the more critical in years to come when we get more and more AI remastered…

> I feel uneasy, and I do not enjoy the work I deliver using LLMs. I have basically stopped writing code in my spare time since the advent of AI. Before I felt like I was working o…

This is unironically why the AGPL3 is the best license. No need to worry about "virality" or derivative works or any of that, just set it and forget it. On top of that, corporation…

A lot simply wouldn't be able to. You could be a senior dev with over a decades experience at this stage doing nothing but chucking react slop over the fence, performance may have …

If they were really concerned, they'd be doing something about the algorithmic feeds pumping right wing vitreol into everything and Elon constantly begging for race wars to start. …

Clamping down on adblocking was always the plan and anyone who suggested differently was knowingly lying.

That's fine if "gamers" are my age, but 3 years for a 12 year old is an eternity. This isn't a thing which can be handled like the cookie consent popups.

Oh yeah, my mental health is only improved by sitting in commuter traffic.

The Guardians role in modern UK society is to launder right wing talking points through a few layers of progressive sounding rhetoric so that the average person on the street can s…

Doesn't matter, as soon as they can they'll shove it into the indexes, meaning pension funds all over the world will be let holding the bag.

I have been working since 2008, in that time the only periods my manager has been within a hundred miles of me has been between 2010-2013 and 2015-2017. Even if I pretend for a mom…

I have definitely found my enjoyment of coding in my spare time is lessened now that AI is on the scene. I know very few if any were going to use the code, but it felt like working…

People don't use web tech because they care about quality, they target it very specifically because its one of the places where quality doesn't matter. If your native app crashes, …