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> Will my kids be an ethnic minority in their own country in the next generation - and if so, what's that going to be like for them? It occurs to me that an effective solution to t…

> Why would the US ally with Russia, who is a Chinese and Iranian ally? I don’t think the comment above you is suggesting that is a possibility, but rather saying “things are so ba…

Humanity is richer because photography outgrew painting? How do you figure? I’m not judging or disagreeing, I’m just interested in the argument. On a utilitarian sense, no doubt a …

And that scenario is covered in the post, in the seventh paragraph. Nowhere in it is Scalzi saying Guitar Hero can’t give you an interest to pick up the Guitar, quite the opposite …

None of that has anything to do with creativity, which is what the post is about.

> Likely because he feels it's harmful to the way he earns his living. Absurd. Scalzi fans are not going to stop reading his works because LLMs exist. If anything, established auth…

I know someone—who doesn’t even use LLMs all that much, I don’t think—who has verbally told me numerous times “you are absolutely right”. I never said anything, but the comment alw…

> "We? What, do you have a mouse in your pocket?" Suggested response: “I do, but the poor thing is not strong enough. No no, I meant one of us needs to do it. Please do go ahead, i…

> they claim to speak for all software engineers. I have reread the post and see no such claim. They are using “we” to refer to the significant subset of humanity which fits the de…

The second story made be think of XKCD 1172. https://xkcd.com/1172/

> What harm could a box that only broadcasts plain, ephemeral text do to me? You're thinking the same thing I was, I'm not crazy, right? Not right. As soon as I saw the box (when t…

> It's kinda weird that you can shoot yourself in the foot so much when picking your kart in this game. Nintendo optimises for fun, not competitive play. Infamously, to curb the co…

It might still be the best option, depending on your play group. For example, if you’re in a play group with a bunch of novices and you’re destroying them, like finishing a full la…

The tilt is fun, but makes it uncomfortable to read. Adding some whimsy to your website is a positive thing, but please add a simple way to disable the slant. After the novelty wea…

No doubt many (I don’t think you can conclusively say “more likely”) did. There’s a crapton of blogposts out there and no one has verified them all. That doesn’t matter one iota fo…

> In fact it is kind of stupid to insist someone slavishly draw something by hand that could have been done an easier way. That is not at all what the author wrote. They said they …

What made you give up on it? Lack of time, or did you just not find it fun? “Season 2” of games came out last year. I’d really like the chance to play with one and maybe even try t…

> If you wanted to ship a feature you had to get explicit approval from leadership and the bar was high. What was defined as a feature? The first new thing I noticed in Snow Leopar…

> Taking arguments seriously doesn't necessitate agreement. I agree. That’s what I’m saying, so I don’t think I understand what you mean. Mind clarifying the point you’re making? T…

The word “cope” shows up nine times in this short post. It was frankly annoying to the point it’s hard to take the arguments seriously, because it’s starting from an obvious base o…

It’s an exceptionally bad idea (I agree) because the ones with a vested interest are controlling the narrative. We can make this clear by simply inverting the roles. Imagine that c…