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Where is all this wonderful visual self expression that people are now free to do? As far as I can tell it's mostly being used on LinkedIn posts.

You may want to think about allowing the hash of the email to be sent so that PII isn't being transported.

That's correct, I don't think you can seperate the output from the process used to produce it.

As someone who occasionally writes a bit of music, I've had trouble putting into words exactly my feeling around AI generated art. One of the best takes I've seen on it which perfectly captured my feelings was by the Oatmeal: https://theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

It will undoubtedly get enshittifed in its own way, probably higher prices, but at least it will be reliable when booked. Ubers seem to be a crap shoot these days if they're actually going to come and get you.

> If you wanted to play a multiplayer game on the internet, either you needed to have explicit host & port information, or you needed to use an online multiplayer gaming service.

Technically true, although tools like Kali existed which could simulate IPX style networks over the internet. I know this because I played a substantial amount of Mechwarrior 2 online when it designed only for local network play!

Australia has taxed cigarettes so much that a thriving black market has started that nobody seems interested in policing.

Alcohol appears to be going in the same direction.

I also experience this. We were lucky enough to do a three week holiday around Japan, which felt very long. Three weeks of getting up, going to work, and while I enjoy what I do, it flashes by.

I think the driver for me is routine. The more routine, the faster everything seems to fly by.

Lots of music producers fall into this trap too. So much so that I'm convinced nearly the entire synthesizer industry is setup to exploit this.

I find it so hard to reconcile using Chat-GPT to write some Terraform code which hallucinates the way of using the timer provider, tells me that it's right because it "simulated" the rest on an AWS staging environment that it has access to (can I see it? No.) then when confronted with the evidence that this doesn't work in a GitHub issue tells me I've found the "smoking gun" of evidence with what I read in the news articles and my LinkedIn feed about how programmers are out of a job in six months.

I feel like I'm taking crazy pills here, is anyone else getting this?

I can tell you're not an artist

I've owned the domain name richardson.co.nz for some 25 years now and since then someone started a Richardson's realestate and registered richardsons.co.nz (note the additional "s").

I left the catch-all on my domains email going for a year or two before I had to disable it. The sheer amount of house blueprints, sensitive information about transfers etc was overwhelming.

This is my dream office setup - small pods of developers where you can close the door if you need to focus. Kit the room out how you like it.

> It's stuff that is masterfully communicated without the need for corny expository dialogue

This is the scene I'm thinking of: https://youtu.be/70FLqFWJMNk?si=0faCWRS9aNpVTil4&t=68

You don't need to know that the character is a mentat. The story works perfectly well without that knowledge. But if you do then it adds a second layer to the scene. Much like watching something like the early Simpson's is even better if you have a grounding in the novels and movies that they're parodying but isn't required to get the show.

> A masterclass in "Show, don't tell" is the intro to Pixar's "Up". If you haven't seen it, you absolutely must.

I have seen it quite some time ago, please point out some clips where you feel the show don't tell is executed well.

In my opinion that's what makes Villeneuve's so great. For example, I think almost any other director would have had an info dump about what Mentat's are in the Dune universe, motivations and they they are important. Instead in Villeneuve's version, you simply see the results. For those watching the film without the context you simply chalk it up to a weird and wonderful way that the universe works. For those that have read the book, you get to do the information dump about Mentat's on your poor unexpecting wife who's watching the film with you.

This embodies show don't tell and it works amazingly.

Was chatting to someone last week who was using AI to help teach their kids. A young ladies illustrated primer.

You do good work Dang. I'd love to buy you a beer sometime.

My layman's understanding is that most locations that are suitable for pumped storage already have pumped storage built on them.

Yes. These are countries, not individuals. Short of aliens taking over control of earth, this is the best we have.

Yes, the classic "if it's legal, it's moral" position. It was also legal to turn in Anne Frank.

Reporting partial outages all over the place but I can't even load the homepage.

Should have had a food delivery rider.

I visited this ship when it was in Melbourne. Heartbreaking.

Yeah, it's known as the em dash!

As a musician, the things I want most from generative AI is:

1. Being able to have the AI fill in a track in the song, but use the whole song as input to figure out what to generate. Ideally for drums this would be a combination of individual drum hits, effects and midi so I'm able to tweak it after generation. If it used the Ableton effects and drum rack then that would be perfect.

2. Take my singing and make it both sound great and like any combination of great singers (e.g. give me a bit of Taylor Swift combined with Cat Power)

I've had a play with the style transfer between singers (bullet point 2 above) but when I last tried it, it was garbage in / garbage out, and my singing is garbage.

What I don't want: To just generate a whole song. Adobe does this style of assistive AI well in the photo editing space but no one seems to have brought it to audio yet.

It did in New Zealand in the late 90s

Something tells me that if this succeeds, I'm not going to be living in a Culture-esque utopia.

It's amazing how AI has caused people to completely lose their minds. I think it's something to do with the fascination humans have with things that embody human-like characteristics (parrots / crows being a good example) coupled by it lighting up the parts of our brain normally reserved for religion.

Is AI useful? 100% - I use it as an aid all the time. Is it going to continue to grow exponentially? Well, it's already slowed down quite a bit compared with gpt2 to gpt3 to 3.5 to 4. Is it going to replace every worker? This is crazy talk.

Haha, I forgot I had played this back in the day when it came out. I remember it being very grindy. It also had some PVP in it which you could enable by removing some inhibitor chip?

I think of it as an equivalent to drinking alcohol. If someone is "waking and baking" every day then they have a substance abuse problem just as if they were waking up and driving half a bottle of scotch.

Undernet on the #zeraw channel is where I spent a bit of time hanging out. You'd trade open FTP servers, I assume sysadmins had misconfigured them, that other users had uploaded games to.

Games used to be split by disk files, i.e. 1.44mb individual files, and I would download 1 - 10 overnight while my friend would grab 11 - 20. We'd later call each other and use Zmodem to build a full set each.

Fun time to be on the internet.