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I don't assume any such thing, but then, I prefer to say "glassholes" rather than "pervert glasses". What I do assume is that they are recording me without my consent and sending t…

The lawsuit itself is clearly a loser in court, but I don't think the goal is to actually win. I think the point is the age-old tactic of dragging things out in court to maximize t…

Everything Trump touches dies.

So much this. I've spent my whole career avoiding being promoted into management because I don't want to be or enjoy being a manager. So it always amuses me when genAI advocates sa…

None of that is the reason I'm sad. I'm sad because I realized that this industry had grown from something that is a benefit to everyone to something that is the opposite of that.

Who says he hasn't already?

> Plenty of people hated while many loved it. I think this is a hallmark of successful art. The point of art is emotional communication. If someone reacts very negatively to a piec…

> I foresee an immense unavoidable shift in the music industry due to this. If this happens then I'll take some solace in that at least we have a very large existing collection of …

If the artist isn't one that I already know and trust, then this is how I do it. It's very sad, but I have to view any recently-created work from an unfamiliar artist with great su…

A little disclaimer before the rest of my comment: I think machine-generated art (fine art, anyway. Commercial and functional art have different nuances) is objectionable. Many peo…

I think it depends on what you value in art. For me, the value of art is that it's an emotional communication from a person. What the art actually looks/sounds/feels like is comple…

One of the great marketing successes in history is that these companies managed to convince vast swaths of people to feed candy to their kids for breakfast.

I never said beef was my preferred product, nor that I'm only buying pork because I can't justify buying beef. I like beef and pork equally, and have always bought both. What I sai…

This is an excellent point. OSS licenses only work because of copyright. The intention was to kind of "judo" copyright law to benefit sharing. If the work is uncopyrightable, no li…

> I come from the camp who believed that open source is super beneficial and a positive movement As do I. I've been very active in OSS for many years, because of the clear (to me) …

As soon as I learned that genAI companies were inhaling everything publicly available, this was my response. I removed all my code (and websites, blog, etc.) from the public intern…

There isn't really one single measure of inflation, despite what is often implied. There are many. The reason for that is that every measurement methodology distorts some aspect of…

> that sausages in the US are typically beef They are? That's not my personal experience, but maybe there's something unusual in the part of the US I live in. I mean, beef sausages…

> I imagine what will happen is that portions will shrink I wouldn't mind this up to a point. One of the things that I find really irritating about most US restaurants (I'm an Amer…

> We only eat out for dinner at great restaurants because I can cook better food at home in a lot of cases. I also rarely eat in a restaurant, but when I do I make it a great one (…

Wow. Here I thought HN was far too genAI-heavy in story selection, but it has nothing on that Digg page.

> “It” is what you’d call a toaster, and no toaster ever apologised to me twice in the one minute. “He” and “she” are anthropomorphising Avoiding the use of the correct pronoun "it…