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by Silhouette 2mo ago
And what would happen next to ensure that von der Leyen was removed from office? It is worth remembering at this point how von der Leyen first became Commission President. She was controversially nominated by the European Council - who are
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by Silhouette 2mo ago
How should EU citizens vote at that next election if they are unhappy with von der Leyen's actions as President of the European Commission in order to remove her if enough other voters agree?
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by Silhouette 3mo ago
Innovation is compensated by being first to market. That argument works if you're talking about something like a patronage model where most or all of the compensation for the creative activity comes from a single source. But it makes
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by Silhouette 3mo ago
Also, what does "code quality" even mean in the age of agentic dev? If the code works, and is secure, what else matters? AI pricing is mostly based on tokens consumed right now. Shouldn't that mean being able to quickly and
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by Silhouette 3mo ago
Some developers also take an active interest in the design and feature set of the product they're developing. IME those developers can often produce good results once a general direction is set if they have access to real users to coll
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by Silhouette 3mo ago
I might not have much time to continue here in the next few days so I'll start by thanking you for the interesting and thoughtful discussion. I do agree with some of your important points. It is a problem that copyright works by crea
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by Silhouette 3mo ago
I don't know. But given that Beyoncé formed her own management company about 15 years ago I'm not sure the answer was going to make the point you were intending anyway.
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by Silhouette 3mo ago
This is demonstrably untrue. Today we have more access to far more works in more media on more subjects both entertainment and educational than ever in the history of the world. And almost all of them were ultimately built on the back of
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by Silhouette 3mo ago
Nobody has a right to have an economic value for what they sell. This is true. (It's true in every other industry as well.) But the opposite side of that coin is that if you want people to spend the considerable amounts of time and m
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by Silhouette 3mo ago
Does it though? The incremental revenue from customers renting something and then renting it again is going to be very small. The "loss" from providing them with a permanent copy instead would be a rounding error, especially for
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by Silhouette 3mo ago
No renting of copyrighted works for money. The customer owns a copy or GTFO. That immediately destroys several useful and viable business models that actually work in that they provide more access to more creative work to more people whil
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by Silhouette 4mo ago
Making all this (for example) work nicely together can be tricky: Vite, ESLint, Prettier, Typescript and React, especially if it's full stack with SSR. Although about 98%* of that is because ESLint keeps making breaking changes and g
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by Silhouette 4mo ago
This is global trade and comparative advantage at work. If someone outside the country can produce an equivalent product to what a local producer would make, they can supply it to our market more efficiently than our local producers, and th
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by Silhouette 4mo ago
Maybe it's triggering ad blockers? I have JS enabled and I see a few elements but it's obviously broken here too. In any case it's not a great look if they want to encourage adoption of their tools!
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by Silhouette 4mo ago
I agree that one doesn't preclude the other. But the sky high valuations we've been seeing for the AI industry recently can only be justified if they bring about a fundamental change in our society and those companies continue t
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by Silhouette 4mo ago
It might have been regulatory capture - though I have seen no specific evidence of that myself. It might simply have been the old story about a road and good intentions. At this point it doesn't really matter how it happened - it would
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by Silhouette 4mo ago
This is why I'm bearish on Anthropic, OpenAI, and friends. I am not confident that we will continue to see the same pace of improvement in frontier model capabilities as we have seen over the past year or two - not using similar mathem
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by Silhouette 4mo ago
Indeed. It's a triumph of consumer protection laws failing to protect consumers. Merchants here have to set their prices a bit higher to compensate for the fees and you still have to pay those higher prices as a customer even if you&
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by Silhouette 4mo ago
That would seem like a logical solution. So wouldn't it be convenient for the expensive payment methods if legalities prevented merchants from charging higher fees to customers using them?
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by Silhouette 5mo ago
The problem is that the medium term prospects are irrelevant to all the businesses that won't be around long enough to enjoy them. Smaller businesses in particular - not so long past the COVID disruption and already facing significant
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by Silhouette 5mo ago
If you apply those practice, then quickly you find yourself using the agent as merely a writing boost. I don't know what that means but I have seen no evidence so far that if you don't apply those practices then your code will
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by Silhouette 5mo ago
Your version sounds like it's potentially useful. The thing that winds me up is when the online chat that used to be talking with real support people gets quietly replaced with some LLM-backed noise generator and there's no way t
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by Silhouette 5mo ago
If there is one good thing that the generative AI tools have shown beyond any doubt it's that the classic "good programming" practices are still useful and effective. Self-documenting code. Modular design. Clearly defined arc
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by Silhouette 5mo ago
The big difference IME is that first-tier support at decent companies at least had the grace to recognise when they couldn't help and needed to escalate. I can count the number of times I've seen an AI bot automatically escalate w
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by Silhouette 5mo ago
I'm not sure FAANG does look good on a CV any more. The skill set to be effective in those environments is quite specialised and crucially it's very different to what you need in a lot of other software development organisations
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by Silhouette 5mo ago
I am also increasingly worried by the potential for violence here. This is a social experiment that is harming the daily lives of millions of people in very obvious ways already. The environmental costs for the data centres are not insignif
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by Silhouette 5mo ago
AI "support" bots that just attempt to read the published documentation for you are possibly the most annoying thing to have come out of the current AI plague. Even Stripe - once legendary for the quality of its support - has appa
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by Silhouette 5mo ago
It's not a matter of belief. Signal does not provide a way for me to download my own messages off my own devices and safely store them using my own secure backup facility. Obviously Signal don't owe me anything. I'm not payin
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by Silhouette 5mo ago
And presumably the instructions for this have been on display on our local planning department in Alpha Centauri? If a user isn't even aware that their local disk is being encrypted without their knowledge or consent then why would the
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by Silhouette 5mo ago
Signal won't let us download our own data and back it up using our own secure systems. Whatever its other merits it gets 0% for backup policy. Though I suppose then I have to give a negative % to all the systems that have insecure onli

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