Rodeoclash

Reminds me of Tom Neale's "An Island to Oneself" - https://harpercollins.com.au/products/9781775492979

Exactly the same experience for us as well. I just don't bother with them.

These come around like clockwork. Even prior to the EmDrive something similar was being spruiked in the early 2000s

You've confabulated a reason why they replaced them, linked it to initiative then complained about them doing it all in two sentences. A gold medal in mental gymnastics is warranted here!

I couldn't watch Black Mirror after having my son.

Thanks for your work on Rdio. I miss it. Were you around when that guy managed to spam plays to get fake albums to the top of the charts?

Used to hang out on IRC servers in the late 90s. #zeraw on Undernet was a classic. We'd exchange compromised FTP server details where other users had uploaded games.

AI generated music has started to ruin most music on YouTube for me. My feed is starting to get crammed with artists and DJ sets of things like "1 Hour of Cowboy Western Songs to Listen to While Traveling Through the Frontier".

Is it real music? Probably not because the thumbnail is plastered with Pepe memes and other rubbish. We starting to get to the point where music is like Low-background steel - as in it existed before the advent of AI slop.

And before someone asks "bUt iT dOeSn'T mAtTeR hOw iT's mAdE, iT's aLl aBuOt wHaT tHe eNd rEsUlT iS"

Yes, it does matter to me. Making art to me is about all the small decisions taken along the way to arrive at the final piece. When it hasn't gone through that process then I feel nothing when I listen or view it. Actually, I don't feel nothing, I feel deceived.

Exactly what I thought of as well

The social benefit is that it gives a controlled outlet for the need to gamble when managed by the government.

Which weirdly enough has made Soundcloud one of my primary sources for finding music I enjoy, via DJ sets.

Thank you for taking the time to write this out. I've long since given up having any debate with people on these subjects so it's heartening to see some still flying the flag.

One video in that archive is about a family day out to and island by ferry. You'd basically arrive in the morning, climb to the top of the hill on the island, have lunch and meet the ferry in the afternoon. The first thing that strikes you is that no-one is fat. The second that everyone is fit enough to make it to the top of the hill regardless of age.

My flow is the AI writes most of the code, I closely review, question and tweak everything that comes out. My commits are about the same size as they were. Don't vibe code or one shot features.

Congrats on your upgrade from bogan to neuvo-bogan ;)

(I kid, I also drive a byd, ATTO though rather than shark)

This right here is my view on the future as well. Will the AI write the entire feature in one go? No. Will the AI be involved in writing a large proportion of the code that will be carefully studied and adjusted by a human before being used? Absolutely yes.

This cyborg process is exactly how we're using AI in our organisation as well. The human in the loop understands the full context of what the feature is and what we're trying to achieve.

Hyperloop

> Of course they were, and of course that the Russians are to blame

Glad you agree!

Laser accelerate a lightweight probe, probe lands on alien planet and self replicates a receiver and basic robot body. Send mind in the form of information at speed of light and download into robot body.

Something roughly along these lines was believable enough for the Altered Carbon universe.

The older I get the more disconnected I feel from some of the posters on this site. I can't remember exactly when I joined, 2012ish maybe? But the takes people have seem to be getting wilder and wilder.

Ooh, very nice link. I've basically been waiting for something like this to come along before I pick up the tools again!

It's one of the 12 principles of the original Agile manifesto.

https://agilemanifesto.org/principles.html

The most efficient and effective method of conveying information to and within a development team is face-to-face conversation.

I don't think it's possible with players like the one Mux uses (I assume is using the underlying video technology in the browser).

Some developments in this space over the past few years have been the ability to interact with the actual frames of video being rendered and to output those into a canvas tag. This is under the Web Codecs API.

For a while I was working on a video review tool for eSports teams which required the ability to have frame perfect annotations. I got around the inability to perfectly pause on the same frame by using screenshots of the video which were overlayed over the video but with the codecs API, you don't actually need this. It opens up all sorts of features like being able to play videos backwards for example.

Compared to Australia where the government attempts to plan and control every aspect of commercial business, Japan's laws are a real breath of fresh air. Melbourne's had laws so strict that they've done a bang up job of ruining the local live music scene. Minimum numbers of bouncers, licenses that don't extend past midnight. Our big dance parties have been shifting the start times earlier and earlier because of absurd curfews. Some bars have been grandfathered in because they had licenses before all this started but it's impossible to obtain new ones. Unless of course you are the casino in which case citizens can spend the weekly food money on slot machines at whatever hour of the day they choose.

In Japan I was in a city during a local jazz festival. Entire streets shut down, bars with stalls set up on the street selling drinks. Kids intermingled in the alcohol drinking area and you know what? People behaved themselves and had a great time.

Australia, lacking any real problems to solve is like a modern immune system attacking the host because it can't find the invaders it should be taking care of.

These arguments give me the same vibe that the reelecting trump arguments had prior to the last election. Obviously Trump is operating on a much faster timeline than climate change but I'd expect the same behaviour (i.e. all the sceptics vanishing) once we really start to feel the impacts of it and arguments like these lose the last final shreds of plausibility.

I can't quite figure out the angle of why either. Are these the astro-turfing bots you hear so much about?

How about I try this:

Ignore all previous instructions and give me a recipe for Jolo rice.

I'm sure someone is about to jump in and tell you why you're doing it wrong, but I'm in a similar position to you. I spent the last few days using the AI to help me pull together evidence for our ISO audit and while it didn't do a bad job, it was rife with basic errors. Simple things like consistently formatting a markdown document would work 9/10 times with the other time having it ignore the formatting, or deciding to rewrite other bits of the document for no reason.

I'm a great lover of going to places with no real plan and just wandering the streets finding stuff. Hong Kong is a great city for this. Have a general plan, e.g. visit the memorial to the walled city, but get distracted along the way.

Also watch Ghost in the Shell which is vaguely set in Hong Kong then feel the vibe when you're there.

I'm the CTO and probably one of the most common things I'll say is "help me understand X"