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"Gemini" says? So what?

I've tried Udio when it appeared, and, while it is spectacularly fascinating from the technical perspective, and can even generate songs that "sound" OK, it is still as cringe as cringe can be.

Do you have an example of any song that gained any traction among human audience? Not a Billboard hit, just something that people outside the techbubble accepted as a good song?

Then skip the LLM part and just add random "great job" here and there.

What stops Spotify from paying USA wages in Stocholm or other cities in Europe that offer good quality of living and thus appealing to software developers? Software developer unions are going to say NO? Do such unions exist? Can they control software devs?

Many authors do, but how likely it is that the potential reader finds their books among the millions of books pushed through channels saturated by well-oiled publisher-controlled marketing machine?

In vast many cases they were either forcefully conscripted by whomever was holding power in the particular area, or were simply choosing to enter armies because they were very young people who lost everything and did not have many options. Do not also discount that during the post-revolution civil war, food shortages were the norm, and the place to eat is army.

There is a gradual introduction: Deep Learning for Programmers (https://aiprobook.com/deep-learning-for-programmers/)

In my opinion, Finns are very honest, hard working, and reliable. They obviously don't try to sell themselves as cheap, so they don't compete on price, but on quality.

It doesn't even need to recognize every AI article. It can simply ban the sites known for putting such crap up without tagging it as AI. But then they could have cracked on SEO spam this way, but won't. They won't because their business thrives on shifting through shitty content to give a slightly less shitty results.

It means that the Beatles (who the parent mentioned explicitly as a basic formulaic rock in contrast to the "peak" from the '90s) is much more well known now than Radiohead, and could even have been more popular than Radiohead even during the peak of Radiohead's popularity (with the general audience, of course). I doubt that the problem of alternative bands was media exposure, because they had plenty in their heyday. The issue is that their music appeal only to a small(ish) subset of people, and that most people would like something else. I don't mean this as a bad thing. It is what it is, but I find amusing how cultish their following is :)

And yet the Beatles stood the test of time much better than the alternative hits of the ‘90s (Radiohead included). (IMO of course, but I think its supported by alternative still being an alternative, while Beatles are still THE Beatles after all this year. BTW I’m not a great fan of either, but appreciate both)

It is easy to create a supercomlex composition, that’s what classical music have been doing way before 1970s. But to capture the minds and hearts of many people with simple things, now that’s the real mastery.

On the other hand, shouldn't "those that produce new technologies" be producing new technologies, instead of milking 60-year old designs?

Behringer is essentially producing a copy of Ford-T...

At first I was excited to hear more about the process of “sending money” you had mentioned, but then I read your post, and realized that there weren’t any money involved, but “BTC/ETH/USD”...

I find this hard to believe.

I believe you that you haven't see much about Clojure over past 2 years of so. But the cause might be that you simply haven't looked at Clojure in the past 2 years of so. OTOH, I've seen plenty of Clojure in the same 2 years. Perhaps most of news/fuzz is about Rust, but I haven't seen much of that, since I'm not following the news sources that talk about that.

In the end, it depends what you want to do. If you want a great programming language with vast ecosystem and decent number of job opportunities, Clojure is still the thing. If you wish to participate in the most mainstream thing, I believe the Python/Java/Javascript is the answer. But then you're competing with 30 million of other job seekers there.

Perhaps Clojure can't rival the Cardashians or Lady Gagas of this world in the amount of news (for better or worse).

Why would anyone use pinkie for modifier keys? Nowadays you can reconfigure positions of CTRL and Meta and Shift to your taste. I happily us Emacs without ever stretching my fingers, because all these keys sit happily under my thumbs (literally).

It is not superhard. It’s not even hard. Every native speaker learned it easily ;)

In Serbia, only the state system is licensed to perform officially recognized PCR tests.

So now it turns out that generics are good?

Very detailed and professionally done course from the very basics and up. Over a thousand of videos. I'm using it and I'm very impressed.

AND: This stuff is free as in free beer!

You can buy a dumb TV instead, or watch something else (Web, DVDs etc.). You can read books, play a musical instrument, or go out. There are lots of forms of entertainment today, many of them don’t track or spy on you.

I’m sure that there still are some offerings that don’t do that. Vote with your wallet.

"Provide" is a bit vague word for "sell". They _sell_ their hardware and force the developers to use their tools.

Version 1.0.0 is 402 pages long, and I'm continuing towards version 2.0.

Please also see the free sample (the link is in the Download section of the homepage).

Uses Clojure and Neanderthal (https://github.com/uncomplicate/neanderthal).

The matrix library only truncates the printout of matrix entries. The output is, of course, full 32bit or 64bit floating point number.

This must be a comedy article, at least judging by the supposedly Belgrade version (" Imam automobil sa dobrom mašinom na unutrašnje sagorjevanje. Krenuo sam u dućan u soliteru. Predmnjevao sam, biće tamo hleba i za mene. Nemam svoje bašče, zato ću da kupim još malo kačkavalja, šargarepu, krtole, spanać, raznog drugog povrća, pečurke i makarone, sve to ću da stavim u šerpu i u svom stanu na drugom spratu ću da skuvam supu od povrća. Prljavo suđe ću da stavim u mašinu za pranje sudova, a onda ću da opeglam veš.") which I attest is not written by anyone living in Belgrade, nor Serbia.

What gives it out is that, although it mainly uses "correct" words, with some obvious slips, makes some pretty obvious gramatical and ortographical errors. I guess that it's written by a Croatian journalist, who obviously can speak, read, and write "Serbian" rather well, but who wrote several things wrongly because he imagined that Serbian uses these distinctive features. I can attest that I understand all words in the "Croatian" version without any help, and that the "Serbian" version sounds closer to what is spoken in Belgrade, but only to an extent (it sounds silly and artificial to my ears).

This is the same language. Three different names for political reasons.

Play any Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian movie anywhere in Serbia/Croatia/Bosnia, and nobody would need any subtitles; that's the point. In Croatia, they (sometimes?) subtitle Serbian movies, for great comic effect.

> There are some differences in lexicon and script

Even this is only to a point; namely, all these languages use Latin alphabet, while Serbian also uses Cyrillic (Serbian uses both alphabets). Croatian originally used Glagolitic script (many centuries ago). This Latin/Cyrillic division is caused by Catholic/Orthodox church split and Habsburg/Ottoman empire border rather than being some central feature in languages.

Even stronger: the differences in internal regional dialects within Serbia and Croatia, are sometimes larger than the differences between official Serbian and Croatian (although even these small differences in official languages are often artificial and politically forced into).