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Exactly; their flesh, blood, energy, etc. does matter. This is my argument for it, not for your argument against it, lmao. There's nothing more remarkable about my planted potato row vs the tractor planted rows, and my energy can be spent elsewhere. I am not entitled to making a living hand planting potatoes if there's not a market for it.

People have the choice to continue making stories and they'll have a fanbase for it and always will, because that's ultimately apart of freedom and choice. Many are less what I'll call purists here, and don't care about how it came to be, they just want a quality story.

What you're loosely proposing is art being a protected class of output, when we have tools that can match and soon with the potential to surpass. Is that not a terrific way to stunt what you're trying to defend?

For transparency, I am an advocate for human made art, but I am against stunting tooling that can otherwise match said creativity. I see that as an artform in itself.

It's an interesting predicament. Assuming these stories between person and machine are indistinguishable and of same quality, then the difference here is the ability to scale. Without giving bias because of humanity reasons, why should we give entitlement to output derived from a human over something else of same quality?

I hate making analogies, but if we make humans plant rows of potatoes, should that command a higher price and seen more valuable than planting potatoes by tractor 20 rows wide?

Not to mention... a car, as there's a car theft crisis nearly everywhere in the past 2-3 years. I consider the garage just another room in my home. I consider entering my garage akin to entering my house

Finish it off with an AI picture of him holding the cup. Complete with 8 or 9 fingers on each hand and a warped inhuman half-smile

Eureka! If only it was this easy...

It's simply not intuitive in the way it was presented that the line of text was a footer for the picture. The text and pictures are mistakenly read as belonging to the same "layer", sequentially, which is not what the author intended. It's obvious what that intent was, but it's not structured correctly to be properly interpreted.

We're not stopping until I can plug my phone directly into my stove outlet

It looks like it's a live doc? And it's being changed in real time

A British accent is often perceived to be more gentle

Yes. Central Canada is where 'eh' is said the most; I say and hear it a lot. Atlantic Canada certainly has the most distinctive dialect, and you can immediately hear it's gaelic roots. When a Canadian accent is being poked fun at, it's usually an extreme version of how the prairie provinces speak.

Then splash in some Quebecoise and that will really diversify things. Much of rural Quebec may not even speak English altogether. But you can tell the difference between Quebec French and France French pretty easily, with the latter sounding smoother. I've never been out west but I assume that BC and Alberta is the most 'normal' of the Canadian differing accents.

Yes, and if the comment implied a purely electrical connection, it is likely not the case either, as there is electrical to optical and vice versa transitions throughout.

Now in a post-covid(ish) world, taking back some parking real estate space would be quite beneficial for a lot of cities I imagine. Would it bite cities later on in years to come?

I loved playing Aardwolf years and years ago. I was a big fan of godwars type mostly. What a flashback!

Your first sentence about loneliness hurts to read. I'd immediately have a few beers with any friend if I knew they were feeling this way, just to talk, vent, whatever. I hope things look up for you.

Spouse and I are mid thirties. We're both a smidge on the introvert side, but have a very healthy social circle. We love to host and generally are the household that brings people out. Others seldom do and when it happens, it's somewhat lackluster. If no one steps up to be host, relationships fall to the wayside and people increasingly feel like you do currently. Be the proactive one because these are few and far between in friend groups. It needs those few who organize and keep things moving; and keep getting people off their couches to get out and have fun. No one gets (too) drunk, no ones belligerent, no one stays to the early morning hours anymore, no one sleeps over, and everyone is just looking for an easy, good time. It's great.

Caveat: we're fortunate and have an open concept house that makes any party very easy to manage. I've noticed that a crammed home full of walls everywhere is a big social turn off. People often come to be stimulated by the atmosphere. Winter can be a slog, but it may be best to do it in a backyard if that's the case.

A hard thing to overcome is removing the fear of inviting people you've lost touch with over the years. This isn't to say where relationships ended poorly, but rather ones where time or a busy life eroded what once was. I saw a friend a couple weeks ago that I haven't seen for 4 years because I reached out and invited him to a poker night party and it was great to catch up. Our last text was in 2018 at that point.

My parents are mid sixties and despite myself feeling fulfilled socially, I don't hold a torch to them. They have huge gatherings constantly and always on the go. Always been that way, even through covid (to my known disapproval...). The parties I saw as a kid were eye opening. My parents own some land and at the end of the night when a lot of people left, they would have large bonfires that were still 3 circular rows deep of lawn chairs. So much chatter. Hearing about their life is exhausting in a positive way. I hope I carry that forward into my later years.

I think work events are definitely in dire need to start up again. I miss them, but they're slowly making a comeback. Cherish your personal friends though, and don't be discouraged to keep arranging things. Friend groups need those types

My understanding here is regulation would open the door for many more institutions to pour in, solely from a confidence perspective. Ergo, "to the moon"?

But isn't that a great description of our current banking system as it is today? Not everyone knows everything, somehow it works, complex, etc. However, still so woefully insecure.

Same situation here. My 2015 is still going, and I've put that little guy through the ringer. Awesome laptop. I caved and bought an M1 Air last year and it's just amazing. I seem to have luckily missed the problem years of the Macs in between.

I've built and maintained a small series of iOS apps since early 2015 to learn Swift at the time. My latest release was 2020 and they're all quite simplistic functionally, albeit filling a niche. Monthly proceeds vary around $800-1500 now and I'm approaching the lifetime proceeds of $30k. I have no clue what the Android environment would be like now, but likely not as successful.

Exactly this. I can't think of a better way to punch yourself in the groin as a recruitment activity. Be transparent because it's respectful.

I work in this space and although true (this is called modal dispersion), there are compensation techniques always used in termination equipment to 'handicap' or mitigate these occurrences. Not perfect, but very, very, very small deltas. Unsure if it's enough to act upon without knowing the length from output to next input.

In other words, a try-catch-finally statement right out of the PR handbook

Yep, that part just seemed so condescendingly dismissive.

The sc:bw scene in early to mid 2000s was absolutely awesome. I only hope I can find that sense of community and competition in something during my retirement years in a few decades.

Can't really speak for desktop or web, but I have a series of mobile apps that I have a 'contact' button that pops up the email client with some prefilled data and lets them fill anything in. I find if people are enthusiasts, they'll reach out to share. It's a mixed bag of emails. I get maybe 20-25 emails a month of suggestions, appreciation, and mostly questions on the content. It contains an in-app purchase for almost $50 and if the user simply asks, I'll give the unlock for free (and ask for an honest posted review, well worth it imo). Past a certain point, I don't really care about the money, just to make it better without being confusing. They do quite well without marketing or ads anyway.

I used to deal with and include all the tracking, analytics, logs, etc., but it's all just bloatware for me since it's relatively small apps. I don't require login or accounts and don't want to spam and make everything voluntary in the end, and not force it. It will take time, and the focus is on being as non-predatory as possible. I keep things slim and simple and people seem to like that. Making sure a user has a good experience with software that I write is always #1. All of these points collectively I feel is inviting for people to socialize their thoughts to me.

Alas, the modern ad industry

It's showing an in-game mountable horse that is called "Torrent", which when searched upon, is also what someone who wants to torrent the game in the context of piracy.

How do you know there aren't already a hundred copycat apps that already support Swedish?

Even if OP is first and only (very unlikely), this isn't what racist means btw...

Unfortunately, they're obviously not distinct enough in Apple's eyes. Also, Swedish or any nationality is not a race, I would drop that train of thought altogether.

We have no indication of the many, many other copycat apps that were let through may also already support Swedish. So if that low hanging fruit is covered, scratch that as a distinct feature...

Apple cited rejection by copycat, not rejection by copycat due to legality. I don't think the legality argument has any relevance here. I for sure would agree with that if so.