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The whole notion that AI can replace search is nonsense. It yields no benefit to the creators of the results it scrapes and the models hallucinate. It's worse for users and it's worse for everyone producing anything of note online.

Perplexity is already looking to include ads. Free is a hook to get users invested before they trap them and extract all the value for themselves.

They're more interested in eliminating jobs than creating them.

How are you supposed to trust "journalism" from a text generator that hallucinates? The information ecosystem is bad enough without running it through a text blender that's already hitting compute, power and data limits.

Google surfaces data — or it used to — LLMs and AI companies actively exploit it with zero benefit given to creators or users of the platforms they're now cannibalizing.

Frankly, it is and should be treated as such. The fact that they're dodging questions about their data sources is a red flag and a pretty clear indication that they know they're in the wrong and are fighting to become established enough to be in a position to, at best, ask for forgiveness after the fact.

All the more reason for comprehensive privacy/data protection legislation and a refusal to provide data to these companies wherever possible.

Interesting! This was a relatively new apartment building in Hollywood with similarly aged cable — maybe he was right and I'm altogether wrong. They ran the cable up through vertically adjacent units as well which left you at some degree of mercy of your downstairs neighbors.

I once had a Time Warner tech blame the moisture content of the air for impacting the copper cabling to explain outages at our apartment. This both makes more sense and, I suppose, is more interesting.

Reddit going public meant reclaiming value they provided for "free" for users. The platform will only get worse for users as they try and claw their way to profitability.

A tool to generate spam content becomes plagued by it. Seems predictable.

Ah yes, hubris.

Why do we need to waste infrastructure and capital to produce mindless output of questionable value?

Much as nobody is entitled to live from tech trained on stolen content and works, I suppose.

No, this is filler generated by and for people that never appreciated music in the first place.

I don't. No. I can understand drum programming, which is leveraged by one of my favorite solo death metal artists (though he hired a live drummer when budget permitted).

There's a thought and intentionality to what's being created — I don't want what comes out of a prompt.

I want to follow artists and their output, not an algorithm or AI that mimics ones and is trained by questionably feeding on their output.

No, none of this is appealing. I can't control what anyone else does, but for me? No, no thanks.

Couldn’t be less interested — art is interesting for its human qualities. This is pointless dreck.

This was the approach one of my first mentors recommended and it's served me well. Learn the core language and its features and then add tools/frameworks as needed. Lately it feels like we're teaching new devs popular frameworks and completely ignoring the fundamentals.

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Eh, leave them down.

I’ve never seen this before — love it. Thanks.

Also a fantastic choice — I love so many of his albums for different reasons.

An undeniable classic, but I remain partial to Bitches Brew.

They _can_ engage in the behavior and the tactics, we can't control that — we can opt out at each turn and I'd argue we should given how invasive it's become.

It should be — it’s an accepted standard and would make their behavior even more dubious should they ignore it.

Reagan was a categorically awful president and governor.

Having spent years driving there and the complexity/lackadaisical traffic patterns and enforcement — I quite doubt it. I'd expect them to have their own Cruise moment.

No thanks — driving in LA is dangerous enough.