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Mea Culpa – Dark Hours

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Post by qarl2 »

jgruber wrote: post #272
qarl2 wrote: post #212

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No. You misunderstand my question. Again. I want to know if the human effort, per story, is the same as other publications. Does Gruber make a real fact checking effort, or does he merely trust his gut?

I make a real fact-checking effort. In this case, the developer (Godier) sent me a video of the app in action. It’s a real app. He couldn’t send me a TestFlight to run (he said) because TestFlight submissions are taking a week or longer to get approved. Obviously what I did wasn’t enough, but trust me, I try.

No - really - my question here is an important one.

If you did not ask for the rejection letter - that would indicate that you didn't even do the most basic checking to determine the facts.

And that would seriously color your statement above "Trust me, I try."

I hope you answer.

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Post by Forgeties79 »

whstl wrote: post #296
Forgeties79 wrote: post #294

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Whatever adjective you want to use, that doesn’t apply here like other sites. If it’s not important I’d say just don’t bother with it.

I am not bothered or anything of the sort.

I’m glad we agree it was a needless addition then.

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Post by minimaxir »

qarl2 wrote: post #292
Aurornis wrote: post #70

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> It then turned out that the developer forgot to mention that originally he did upload an astrology app for review. Gruber felt duped, and noted that it's unclear whether an updated build containing the new astronomy app was ever submitted to Apple for review I think it’s shaping up like he didn’t “forget” to mention it. This looks like an intentional play for attention. It worked very well. Too well, in fact, which…

Heh. The HN hivemind insists on censoring me without discussion. Does this seems like rational behavior, guys? Surely if I'm doing something wrong you can explain it to me with words, right? EDIT: WOW - the whole thread has been removed. Yikes guys - erasing the record is the opposite of transparency. You understand the value of transparency, right?

I did not flag you, but you clearly have a personal vendetta with Gruber that is best-case off-topic and nonconstructive, which is against HN guidelines.

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Post by IAmBroom »

tomashubelbauer wrote: post #52
whstl wrote: post #28

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> 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 its new line of guitar strings. After being called out on it being AI, they posted a mobile-recording of the song recreated in a DAW, but it didn't even match the timing or the notes played. After being called on it AGAIN, they blamed it o…

Reminds me of politicians and public figures saying they got "hacked" after doing/posting something stupid and getting backlash for it. I guess "AI did it" is the new iteration on that.

My favorite was the congresscritter who held a press conference complaining that Google was returning obscene links to ordinary queries.

He didn't understand that Google was remembering his own past searches, and self-owned on camera. Turns out his wife and kids were more performative than interest-based.

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