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I am not bothered or anything of the sort.

Not sure if I agree. Until people started getting technical, they weren’t really passing the bucket to anyone. It was only partially with the LANDR lie, and then with the final acc…

A bit outdated, but IME never copies things verbatim because of limitations in context. Even when you want it to be a verbatim copy, like in a migration, it struggles a bit to reme…

IMO in D'addario's case, the analogy would be like using CGI and illustrations to illustrate a painting. Also, I think when judged by the court of public opinion, the overwhelming …

That's a good point. Interestingly, the person working for D'addario who made the video is in a self declared "east coast's best cover band", and most of the artwork is AI-based, p…

I'm not upset, that's not the important part of my message.

The new Harley Benton Jazzmaster-style is crazy good and the distressed/relic looks amazing IMO.

I dunno. Fender USA and Squier Jaguars and lots of pedals are for ppl in original bands. But the money is in Custom Shop Gibson, Fender and PRS, which are for ppl in the older gene…

Marketing has become so disconnected from reality that such things have been normalized and trivialized. For example: since a few years now, it became extremely common for apps and…

In the late 2010s, the order (literally) from investors was to "hire as many devs as you can". The order now is to position the company somehow as being AI-centric or AI-powered.

I don't understand why you're getting downvoted, but you're correct. That's the reason for the complaints and the company has already taken an anti-AI stance precisely for this rea…

Lie and doubling down. And a lot of employees and endorsers fighting people in the comments, and calling people names. Not a good look.

In this case, the author exchanged messages with someone, and he indeed claimed as such, according to the screenshots.

It was interesting that his first retraction was due to a post being critical of Apple. Not that there hasn't been other critical posts, but he's very positive about the brand.

> I am not buying it. Coincidentally: Just in the last few weeks, D'addario, one of largest guitar string manufacturers, posted on Instagram what is clearly an AI-song to advertise…

Even commercial design was interesting and eye-catching back then. Print designers were adapting to the web and there was a tremendous amount of technique, experience and hard work…

Strangely, I kinda see it being the first thing where "everyone must get into". Before that, the web was a mishmash of communities, websites, shops and services. Even instant messe…

I think translators will predict what will happen with developers. So far, what I see: I have a few friends making a proper living translating AAA games from when I worked in the a…

Unpopular opinion, but Mastodon is part of the problem as much as Twitter or Facebook, unfortunately. It's just another riff at something toxic, with the difference it's open sourc…

I really dislike PKGs and I have bought an app called Pacifist app to specifically know what they're doing.

What I normally do is: only storing the byte position during the parsing itself, and then extracting the line + column when/if displaying an error. This allows the error report mec…

I don't think anyone finds this specially nice or compelling, even the people implementing or asking for it. The usage of AI here is just a way of doing things for cheap to satisfy…

A lot of this is from non-tech workers wanting to expand their repertoire as well. They have no clue what they're doing programming-wise, and in some cases this is perfectly fine, …

I can draw a very good bicycle compared to most, but I attribute that to my obsession with building, fixing, painting and reading non-stop about them as a teenager.

I've found that the rule-following in Germany is way more consistent than in the country I grew up at in Latin America, plus people is much more willing to help you actually follow…