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by whstl 2mo ago
Not sure if I agree. Until people started getting technical, they weren’t really passing the bucket to anyone. It was only partially with the LANDR lie, and then with the final accusation that they really “passed the bucket”. Blocking comme
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by whstl 2mo ago
A bit outdated, but IME never copies things verbatim because of limitations in context. Even when you want it to be a verbatim copy, like in a migration, it struggles a bit to remember everything exactly from memory and always has to cross-
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by whstl 2mo ago
IMO in D'addario's case, the analogy would be like using CGI and illustrations to illustrate a painting. Also, I think when judged by the court of public opinion, the overwhelming answer was "yes, it's fraudulent",
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by whstl 2mo ago
That's a good point. Interestingly, the person working for D'addario who made the video is in a self declared "east coast's best cover band", and most of the artwork is AI-based, plus a few background songs in the b
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by whstl 2mo ago
I'm not upset, that's not the important part of my message.
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by whstl 2mo ago
The new Harley Benton Jazzmaster-style is crazy good and the distressed/relic looks amazing IMO.
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by whstl 2mo ago
I dunno. Fender USA and Squier Jaguars and lots of pedals are for ppl in original bands. But the money is in Custom Shop Gibson, Fender and PRS, which are for ppl in the older generations playing mostly in 70s cover bands, or just hanging i
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by whstl 2mo ago
Marketing has become so disconnected from reality that such things have been normalized and trivialized. For example: since a few years now, it became extremely common for apps and games to be advertised with fake screenshots, fake gameplay
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by whstl 2mo ago
In the late 2010s, the order (literally) from investors was to "hire as many devs as you can". The order now is to position the company somehow as being AI-centric or AI-powered.
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by whstl 2mo ago
I don't understand why you're getting downvoted, but you're correct. That's the reason for the complaints and the company has already taken an anti-AI stance precisely for this reason.
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by whstl 2mo ago
Lie and doubling down. And a lot of employees and endorsers fighting people in the comments, and calling people names. Not a good look.
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by whstl 2mo ago
In this case, the author exchanged messages with someone, and he indeed claimed as such, according to the screenshots.
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by whstl 2mo ago
It was interesting that his first retraction was due to a post being critical of Apple. Not that there hasn't been other critical posts, but he's very positive about the brand.
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by whstl 2mo ago
> I am not buying it. Coincidentally: Just in the last few weeks, D'addario, one of largest guitar string manufacturers, posted on Instagram what is clearly an AI-song to advertise its new line of guitar strings. After being calle
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by whstl 2mo ago
Even commercial design was interesting and eye-catching back then. Print designers were adapting to the web and there was a tremendous amount of technique, experience and hard work in that first batch. Then the dictatorship of the sameness
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by whstl 2mo ago
Strangely, I kinda see it being the first thing where "everyone must get into". Before that, the web was a mishmash of communities, websites, shops and services. Even instant messengers were way more open and utilitarian, and more
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by whstl 2mo ago
I think translators will predict what will happen with developers. So far, what I see: I have a few friends making a proper living translating AAA games from when I worked in the area. So far there's been a lot of talking but AI hasn&#
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by whstl 2mo ago
Unpopular opinion, but Mastodon is part of the problem as much as Twitter or Facebook, unfortunately. It's just another riff at something toxic, with the difference it's open source.
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by whstl 2mo ago
I really dislike PKGs and I have bought an app called Pacifist app to specifically know what they're doing.
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by whstl 2mo ago
What I normally do is: only storing the byte position during the parsing itself, and then extracting the line + column when/if displaying an error. This allows the error report mechanism to be decoupled, and the hot path of the parser
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by whstl 2mo ago
I don't think anyone finds this specially nice or compelling, even the people implementing or asking for it. The usage of AI here is just a way of doing things for cheap to satisfy some sort of minimal requirement in the content, proba
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by whstl 2mo ago
A lot of this is from non-tech workers wanting to expand their repertoire as well. They have no clue what they're doing programming-wise, and in some cases this is perfectly fine, but after years of SaaS, some people are taking it to e
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by whstl 2mo ago
I can draw a very good bicycle compared to most, but I attribute that to my obsession with building, fixing, painting and reading non-stop about them as a teenager.
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by whstl 2mo ago
I've found that the rule-following in Germany is way more consistent than in the country I grew up at in Latin America, plus people is much more willing to help you actually follow those rules. This helps reduce the amount of (bad) cha
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by whstl 3mo ago
I would say they're great until they aren't. Which means at some point in a session or in a long-lived-project they will resist very hard being steered like it would be done by another developer, product manager, a designer, or ju
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by whstl 3mo ago
My first pro job in gaming was in porting. In my experience, while it does require knowledge in OS and rendering APIs, the platform/RHI-specific code is quite small compared to most other subsystems of a moderately-sized game. Unless t
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by whstl 3mo ago
I dunno if I agree it's doomcoding. I have worked briefly in the game industry long ago (not in engine teams though) and ended up writing a few engines for myself after leaving, a couple quite complete. It’s just a hobby like another.
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by whstl 3mo ago
True! It just burned though other forum contributors patience! I miss the Terry from back in the day (early 2000s?) though.
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by whstl 3mo ago
That was half memory-loss, half joke, since Terry was always changing the OSs name. Wish he was still with us, renaming it every year!
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by whstl 3mo ago
I think this is perfectly fine. If you explore Github, you're gonna see thousands of abandoned game engines, compilers for made-up languages. And that has been happening since before the LLM era. I used to be part of an OS messaging bo

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