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I listen to a lot of ambient and other genres that are AI-amenable. I still try to avoid listening to AI generated music. Knowing I'm sitting there consuming the uncaring out of a …

Going forward, I suspect one of the main employment opportunities left for humans in the AI era is "scapegoat". Corporations don't want to take any responsibility for anything. AI …

> Where will we be in another 4 years? Possibly somewhere amazing, but see also: https://x.com/pronounced_kyle/status/1768852493092680036

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As a user and consumer of objects, sometimes I want a meaningful experience with a thing made lovingly by human hands. I will take a dinner cooked by my friends over take-out any d…

Why bother having Copilot write documentation ahead of time? For the people who need it, they can just ask Copilot the one targeted question they have in that moment and it will se…

"Musician" is the obvious answer but so many people who make electronic music are hesitant to call themselves that, maybe because they think you have to have mastered some physical…

Oh yeah, Quincy Jones was a genius. I listened to the whole "Off the Wall" album a while back with headphones on and it's just a sonic masterpiece.

I make electronic music as a hobby, and I feel the same way about the term "producer". I understand the history behind where that term came from. (The people who were making musica…

I think you may be underestimating how much photographers and cinematographers also compensate for this by choosing subjects and lighting carefully to re-convey a sense of depth lo…

Yeah, something the article doesn't mention is that videogames have to overcompensate with things that provide the illusion of depth because the viewer is missing their usual stere…

Your comment is very assertive, but also doesn't offer much in the way of science. Being able to compile ML quickly in the 90s tells you little about being able to compile Roc or s…

Good article. Some related bits that other languages do: Swift is able to avoid monomorphizing even when the type arguments have different GC shapes and allocation strategies. To d…

My restorative mode is also "turn self towards sun, don't do anything unnecessary".

Dueling is a very different phenomenon. Duels were typically done away from urban centers and involved only the participants. They were not done to annoy other random people. I'm n…

How is it possible for deciding whether or not to build on the labor of some other organized group of people to not be politics?

> Someone putting performance exhaust on their cool car isn't likely to disturb me in my home. We are not all so lucky. I live one door down from an avenue that does sometimes get …

> they will finally get the respect they deserve. I believe this is a big part of it. With the rise of corporations and media, we have seen a loss of any sort of public commons. A …

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This is a good time to point out that slippery slope is a fallacy. Saying, "Experiencing some friction is good for building character" is not equivalent to saying "We should demoli…

I mean, he's 83. No one's battery runs forever.

Everyone lives in a world deeply affected by social media. Even if you've never looked at a screen your entire life, you have spent thousands of hours talking to and being informed…

> Anyway, telling agent to NOT do something is always worse than telling agent to do something. > That's why you should say something like "Use constants instead of magic strings/n…

> and the latter is neither unique nor particularly widely used (hot reloads have to tangle with state and patching, so resetting the world for ease of reasoning is considered a be…

When you buy a book, it doesn't include the typewriter it was written with.