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As a boomer, I had fun trying to decode your last sentence!

> Taste continues to be the single most important thing. The vast, vast majority of AI art out there is...not very good. It's not going to get better, because the lack of taste isn…

I'm sure author's company does good work, but the marketplace doesn't respond well to, "we're really, _really_ good,", "trust me," "you won't be disappointed." It not only feels de…

Eschew abbreviations!

Absolutely. And thank you for that.

Thank you. While abbreviations are handy for those in the know, it's so helpful for general readers if one takes a moment to spell things out.

Serious question? Good literature that's not sci-fi? Hard to know where to start. For (mostly) "Western" literature, here's a good list: https://thegreatestbooks.org/ I'm sure ther…

Do you limit your reading to sci-fi? There is a world of amazing literature out there with much better ideas, characters, and plots.

Are you saying this is what you'd like to happen? That you would like to remove the element of human creation?

I was waiting for the author to discuss actual strategies, like subtly herding new passengers toward a seat, sitting in your own row so you can get up when the right person comes a…

The finger trick did it for me. As mentioned elsewhere, I used to do this academically (looking at protein structures), but I couldn't easily get back in the groove here without th…

I spent weeks doing this, looking at stereoscopic (?) images of protein structures, while a grad student in molecular biophysics. I got so that I could see the overlapped images pr…

You may or may not be aware that Andy Warhol famously quipped that, "in the future, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes," back in the late 1960s. As media has gotten to be ever …

Oh yes, I grew saying "quarter past four." Probably don't anymore, but it was definitely in the vernacular in the US in years past.

Volume…sorry, should have made that distinction.

You're right about the "serving" thing. But in the US, at least, a cup in a culinary context means precisely eight ounces.

Allowing that I'm simply not sophisticated enough to understand this, I think he's overthinking things. :-) I mean, B3 D4 G4 in isolation probably does sound like G/B to western ea…

This is one of my favorite categories of HN posts. But hey, if it engenders some interest in ______ (fill in arts category), then it's all good.

(semi-professional piano player here) That's interesting. I've never heard that...not even sure what "lowest fifth" would mean. I would think that the root and the third contribute…

In the US, anyone can take the photo, including yourself.

I can see your point. I think I'm convinced. Thanks!

Not sure what that has to do with the point of medical care not ever being free.

You were completely justified in your botheredness.

Well, she paid nothing at the time. But she and you and your countrypersons paid for it, nonetheless. It's interesting to me that you think about it as free.

I'm generally with the author on this, but their examples are inconsistent. I think from a language perspective, the linked text should be a verb phrase. We want the user to do som…