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by mjr00 3y ago
> Honest question, what does Bandcamp provide? A place to purchase and download music legally, in lossless formats, mostly from smaller artists. In some ways it's closer to Patreon than iTunes. Most people don't buy music anywa
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by mjr00 3y ago
> I do understand this push, and honestly I'm surprised it took them this long. I'm not too surprised it took this long -- the % of viewers who are on a PC, not a phone, and technically savvy enough to install an ad blocker i
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by mjr00 3y ago
> Anyway my argument is that “ability to reproduce verbatim a copyrighted work is not a valid characteristic when determining whether something consumed the work fairly”. I agree with this. I only disagree with the assertion that AI or $
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by mjr00 3y ago
What about a file server which hosts only encrypted files, which are unusable garbage on their own, that happen to turn into exact copies of copyrighted work when supplied with the right decryption key? That's user-driven creation, rig
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by mjr00 3y ago
I'm not disagreeing with AI model training fair use, but this isn't the argument for it. "(new tech) does the same thing as humans, just better" has never been a valid defense. It's like saying a human could explain
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by mjr00 3y ago
I actually think Python's type system is pretty good, given the circumstances. It's got some nice features like Optional forcing checks for None values before use, and structural subtyping with typing.Protocol. Could it be better
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by mjr00 3y ago
> I wonder also how much of a driver new programmer productivity tools like copilot and ChatGPT are factoring into this. If your top 10% productivity workers just got a 30%+ productivity boost, that means you can easily shed the bottom 2
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by mjr00 3y ago
If that comes to fruition they'll just have one writer who is responsible for putting their name on a ton of AI-generated scripts. But at this very moment, AI generating anything suitable for something other than SEO blogspam isn'
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by mjr00 3y ago
Boltgun's alright. My favorite of the neo-retro shooters is Amid Evil. (Weird to call a game with RTX raytracing support retro, but that's 2023 for you.) But honestly, IMO, if you want to play Doom or Quake... I recommend just pla
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by mjr00 3y ago
> Doom, at the time, had great art. It hasn’t aged well. It's in the eye of the beholder, but I strongly disagree with this. The art is absolutely timeless; cacodemons, cyberdemons, the super shotgun and the BFG9000 are some of th
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by mjr00 3y ago
> 404 Media is not naming the account because TikTok has decided to not remove it from the platform. TikTok told me the account does not violate its policies; one expert I spoke to said TikTok should reevaluate that position. One expert
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by mjr00 3y ago
> I am confused by the "younger" denotation, because it seems strangely specific to just the last relationship, rather than all of the links. In many cultures you address someone differently depending on whether they are younge
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by mjr00 3y ago
> In regards to third party dependencies I agree with what Uncle Bob says, which is to keep them as far away from your stuff as possible. Only introduce a hard dependency if you have to. ... For example I can exchange the DI framework fo
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by mjr00 3y ago
> One of Unity's spokespersons actually said that Unity could add fees at any time, and customers could not do anything about it. Aside probably being illegal in most jurisdictions, this mentality shows a complete lack of integrity
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by mjr00 3y ago
> Lying is not an embellishment or puffery, it's a lie. Engaging a company for a 3 day pen test that's totally insufficient, that would be an embellishment. I agree, but if the RFP question was phrased "have you done penet
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by mjr00 3y ago
> 2/ Your director likely has DnO insurance. At a 10 person startup ? No, their director is most likely a 30-year-old sales rep with an inflated title...
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by mjr00 3y ago
ehhhh. Lots of hyper-conservative responses there (which is understandable, it's asking for legal advice). But assuming this is part of an RFP response, "embellishment" of answers is par for the course, and I understand the f
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by mjr00 3y ago
The white noise stuff is entirely different from this... the two problems with the white noise podcasts are 1) it sneaks into the recommendation algorithm. There's legitimate reasons to want to listen to white noise, but the likelihood
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by mjr00 3y ago
Botted plays are definitely real, but not typically used like this. Typically the scam for botted plays is either someone straight up selling stream purchases i.e. "buy Spotify 10000 plays for $10" or using them to boost perceived
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by mjr00 3y ago
Given my experience and knowledge of how Spotify deals with much-less nefarious uses of fake streams, I'm very skeptical of these claims. There's a significant (several month) delay between a Spotify stream and the artist getting
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by mjr00 3y ago
A more apt comparison would be seeing one of the many "we rewrote our Python app in Go and improved performance by 100x" articles, and pointing out that most of the improvement comes from the rewrite and not the language. Similarl
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by mjr00 3y ago
> ChatGPT synthesized its result from multiple sources and communicated that - no source existed which understood the connections between various symptoms. Is this true? Or is the source that had all of the symptoms buried under WebMD&#x
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by mjr00 3y ago
Not sure what's ChatGPT-specific here; patients discovering their own diseases has happened a lot since the internet has gone mainstream. Google has been the most prolific doctor of the 21st century. The only comparison given is >
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by mjr00 3y ago
> This should get mandated with fines for the city itself if it doesn't help the people who can't help themselves because the system's been designed to prevent them from getting help. The problem is that "help"
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by mjr00 3y ago
Yeah. Here in Vancouver you need 250k+ yearly household income to afford a very average detached single-family house (3 bed, 1 floor) anywhere in the metro area. A typical senior engineer salary here, for a local company, is $200k/year
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by mjr00 3y ago
That's likely because you engage with weather-related content. For all its problems, Twitter does do a great job at tailoring the algorithmic feed to your (expressed) interests. I just follow/engage with artists, so I rarely see a
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by mjr00 3y ago
Depends on the project, but if you're handling these client requests anyway, this is not the best solution IMO, at least not for cloud/SaaS. The best solution is to have a good deployment process in place that makes it easy for yo
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by mjr00 3y ago
What would make more money: Taylor Swift/Metallica/The Arctic Monkeys doing a concert that's entirely covers of other artists' songs, or me (a nobody) doing a concert that's a cover of Taylor Swift/Metallica&#x
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by mjr00 3y ago
In the context of a band with multiple members, the product is the band, which does occasionally have different members. But not the music the band creates, which is going to be available freely on the internet whether the band/musicia
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by mjr00 3y ago
> Also, notice that the usual line about "it's the merch, touring, etc that really makes money" is only true because of streaming. Given that "bands make all their money from merch and touring" has been true sinc

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