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If you are a student or maintain a popular open source project, they give it to you for free. I’m guessing you might fall under that category.

AI-generated videos are a mild amusement, not a replacement for video creators

If you seriously think this, you don’t understand the YouTube landscape. Shorts - which have incredible view times - are flooded with AI videos. Most thumbnails these days are made with AI image generators. There’s an entire industry of AI “faceless” YouTubers who do big numbers with nobody in the comments noticing. The YouTuber Jarvis Johnson made a video about how his feed has fully AI generated and edited videos with great view counts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDRH4UBQesI

What you’re missing is that most of these people aren’t going onto Veo 3, writing “make me a video” and publishing that; these videos are a little more complex in that they have separate models writing scripts, generating voiceover, and doing basic editing.

What do you mean non-feature? What do you mean force-fed? It’s literally just themes my dude, they just had a first run dialog for users to select one.

Well, they moved on despite both other major engine vendors having a negative position on this spec, so is the standards process really doing anything?

This makes no sense and people are giving it too much credit. What does “produced” mean? How do you “tariff” a movie? When is the movie crossing the border and who’s doing the valuation, customs check, and so on? There’s literally no substance to this and people are tying themselves into knots to make sense of this.

“Here’s why it’s YOUR fault I’m breaking the law!”

Especially after the recent actions canceling visas for legal, free speech and minor traffic violations, I cannot in good conscience recommend anyone to come to the US to study. It's the US's loss more than anything else - a good portion of the cutting edge research that happens in US Schools is done by international grad students.

Yeah, they found another way. The Court said they couldn't do it one way, so they found legal ways to cancel debt. That's not ignoring a court order.

It’s amazing how not only can you decide what others can and should buy, you can also decide the quality of that item for them sight unseen. You should reach out to TV producers - this skill would be very entertaining in a show!

It isn’t all or nothing, products from Temu/Shein/AliExpress are not all “crap”; (and the idea that Chinese products are crap is also seriously outdated). Yes, there’s a lot of shovelware on those websites, but if you know how to navigate them you can get the same products that you’d get from Amazon for a third of the price. I’ve bought bags, tools, hobby equipment etc from aliexpress that has lasted me years and saved literally 50% on average.

None of my Indian friends who have applied for and received Japanese visas had anything negative to say about the process, so I don't know what you're alluding to.

Yeah, tourists like to go to places with low crime rates. In fact, when I’m a tourist, I pick where to go solely based on the crime rates!

I've had very similar experiences in India. Incredibly expensive, well-furnished homes surrounded by streets filled with trash. The people living in there don't even walk outside any more, it's too hot/polluted/dirty for that. They get everything delivered to them or go for work/events in their fancy car.

Apple is actually really fast with repairs. I got my MBP back in about a week when I sent it in under the limited warranty, not even Apple Care.

Yeah, I like using LLMs when I code, but every time I've tried "vibe coding" (i.e. letting the LLM do the whole thing start to finish) it's never written a full, functioning app that doesn't have bugs in the basic functionality. I tried this just a couple days ago with the SOTA Gemini 2.5 Pro - it wrote itself into a corner and when I gave it the logs from my bugs it literally said "this doesn't make sense" and got stuck. That finally prompted me to take a look at the code and I immediately knew what it got wrong.

Yeah, the people with a vested interest in AI say AI is good, news at 9.

A model that is better on Aider than Sonnet 3.7? For free, right now? I think I'll give it a spin this weekend on a couple of projects, seems too good to be true.

You can succeed despite poor taste, but that doesn't make your taste any less poor.

I've heard this said often, but is there any proof BYD is selling their cars at a loss? And note that I'm not saying R&D loss - is BYD ever selling a car below what it cost to make and sell that unit?

I saw BYDs on the road in India. There's a 110% tariff on foreign EVs in India - and people are still buying them.

You're European - you don't understand what it's like as an immigrant from the third world.

Smart immigrants shouldn't migrate to US anymore, period. Not if you have more than just very short-sighted dollar signs on your eyes. Its just plain out stupid thing to do, to be treated worse than garbage. This is how institutionalized xenophobia looks like.

No. The US is still the best place in the world for immigrants. There's no other place in the world (barring maybe Canada) where as many people from as many other countries and ethnicities can feel welcome and a part of society. I have several friends who move to European countries (mostly Germany but also the Netherlands) and they never felt like they belonged, while in the US I feel like everyone else. What's going on right now is a temporary shift in this policy, but hopefully the pendulum will swing back.

Genuinely. Are they all Trump fans that say "finally we can do what we always wanted to do" or what?

Yes. It's trivial to tell if you're not a citizen and go through customs.

Apart from sub-Retina resolution monitors being unusable without BetterDisplay, these are all just Apple-isms. The inverse feels just as foreign when you go Mac to Windows, and as a long time Apple user I find the Windows ones strange.

Not about cold plunges, as I'd expected, but interesting nevertheless. The author of the book reviewed also wrote one of the best (and my personal favourite) books on The Reformation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Reformation:_A_History

That's not the same thing. You can call a shell command from any language. The log4j problem was that you could load arbitrary classes from the internet into the memory of the current process, which is a much more severe problem.

Getting upset that USAID spent the government equivalent of pocket change on programs that nominally helped other countries and practically bound them to US soft power is (1) cutting off your nose to spite your face and (2) not equivalent to deleting data that money was already spent on.

I have a lot of fun just posting a function into R1, saying "Improve this" and reading the chain of thought. Lots of insight in there that I would usually miss or glance over.

Except Pierre Poilievre is likely to become Prime Minister of Canada and is explicitly taking cues from Trump, so it's unlikely to be much different a few years from now.

You make broad assumptions about someone, talk down to them, and then claim they need to grow up?

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