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>> "At the very least, this research doesn’t appear to be a reliable indicator of people’s willingness to pay for human-created art." It's no secret that what does well commerciall…

I got the occasional A/B test with a new image generator while playing with Dall-E during a one month test of Plus. It was always clear which one was the new model because every as…

How much of this is the bicycle, and how much of this is that it enables less conscientious people to go more miles at otherwise normal cycling speeds? The e- part is limited to sp…

That was back when everyone was trying to make a "portal" to compete with AOL. It seems like browsers are headed down the same path now with replacing the simple search box new tab…

Most people will never personally encounter more than 0-1 of any rare or uncommon way of thinking or living. The loudest people are the most self-sure and radical, which makes them…

Probably in the /r/battlestations/ sense. https://www.reddit.com/r/battlestations/

That is the sneaky thing about rewrites. The "Ship of Theseus" rewrite is reasonably safe based on the article and what I could find of people sharing their experiences with rewrit…

There's a parallel universe where someone convinced you to rewrite it in something else from the start and you spent years on the rewrite instead and it never went anywhere. Could …

A classic: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-... >> "The idea that new code is better than old is patently absurd. Old code has been used. It has been tes…

What's the % look like for people who use password managers? There's probably a reason they all support Linux.

The existence of a port does not guarantee future support of a port. Safari used to run on Windows. They're also somewhat notorious for trash quality Windows ports.

Can confirm. I bought Freespace 2 in 2009 and it's still there in my account with no DRM.

A good comic on the difference between what most people think when they hear wheelchair vs what wheelchair users need to be independent: https://www.tumblr.com/calvin-arium/1843418…

Context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiders_Georg

“average person has 7400 tabs” factoid actually just statistical error. average person uses bookmarks. Tabs Hazel is an outlier and should not have been counted

RSS is fine. A thing doesn't have to make headlines with VC rounds and take over the world to be alive and well.

You and I know very different artists. "Logical" people have their woo, too.

Tech is also full of delusional hacks. You find them everywhere. Delusional hack artists are more fun.