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Pretty sure this is just AI writing style, and yes it's a huge turnoff.

Without knowing your tastes, hard to say; so here's a selection of mine...

Classics:

Busdriver - Me-Time (With The Pulmonary Palimpsest): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1a0Y-CRx4nE

Kendrick Lamar - reincarnated: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ek7UvQPCQnE

Black Star - Re:Definition: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yt2lLWxxV9w

Leftfield:

Themselves - Each Ant in Their House: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjkZDGZ5SB8

Sole & Dose - Human Races the Tortoise: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RP52H9bdag

Last 12 months:

Little Simz - Lotus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2BplWSCZpY&list=RDZ2BplWSCZ...

Jim Legxacy - idk idk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZzvQP2fV-c&list=RDsZzvQP2fV...

Not a valid comparison, I feel. I may be hindsight, but rap and electronic music came from vibrant underground scenes and to many critics and music fans of the time was seen as at least interesting and at best ground breaking.

AI music on the other hand comes not from the underground, but from corporations. You'll be hard pushed to find any critics or music connoisseurs singing its praises.

I hope you're trolling.

That is awful, sorry. You need to clean your ears.

I think that you're probably right here - it's the granularity. We'll probably see that improving as things move along and hopefully get something interesting out of it at some point. Quite frankly the alternative is too depressing to think about.

I do wonder why AI music is so lame. Every previous technological advancement in music produced amazing new sounds and styles but AI music seems to just be emulating lowest common denominator pop sludge. Where's the Bruce Haack or Kraftwerk of AI? Surely there's a previously unimaginable sound palette out there that we could be pulling from. Why is it all so BAD?

That is indeed the point I was making.

My issue with AI-generated OSS contributions is:

If an AI improves developer productivity so much, why would maintainers of an OSS project want unknown contributors to sit in between the maintainer and the LLM? They'd be typing these queries into Claude Code themselves. To quote my colleague:

We do not need a middleman to talk to AI models. We are not bottlenecked by coding.

This. GP is just old. I'm 51 one now and almost everyone I know seems to think the same thing. Unless you work at it, music later in life will never evoke the same emotions as those from when you were in your late teens/early 20s. Thing is though, it's really not true and if you work at it you realise pretty quickly that music today is just as good as it was at any time in the last 50 years (though I will concede that we'll probably never get the highs of the late 60s and early 70s ever again - if you were a teenager then, ok. Music now is definitely better than in the 80s though dude).

We're very aware that we need to balance our need to make money with the need to make Avalonia accessible for everyone. For this reason, for 12.0 we've made our VS Code extension totally free to use with no account needed and no usage restrictions.

Does it support submodules yet? That was the thing that stopped me using it last time I checked.

Lol, I never in a million years expected my project to get 100 users never mind the tens of thousands it now has. Sometimes others make the decision for you ;) it's still your baby though.

Or maybe ask yourself why are you doing open source in the first place?

I, like everyone started work on OSS because it's fun. The problem comes when your project gets popular - either you try to make it your job or you abandon the project, because at a certain point it becomes like an unpaid job with really demanding customers.

I also made a horrible life decision in starting a company around developer tools, and I agree. Taking one of the comments from the PR:

It's insane to blame everybody else for not being able to create a viable business model from an OSS project. Everybody who is using Tailwind is actually SUPPORTING Tailwind. Everybody who is reporting bugs properly is SUPPORTING Tailwind. Everybody who is collaborating and PRs changes is SUPPORTING Tailwind.

Tailwind grew a lot due to community acceptance and support, and collaborations.

The only person to blame here is the CEO/Main maintainer of Tailwind. They've made bad decisions, hired coders without knowing how to make enough money to pay them.

If you want to monetize a free service, you either know what you do or you make mistakes and lose what you've built. It was always a risk; we are not at fault.

@adamwathan I respect you for everything you've done, but you need to take a few breaths, take a walk, think, sleep, and come back, ask apologize of the community, and start working on solutions/crisis management.

And you always know that when you open the GH profile of people saying such things, you'll see an empty timeline. This particular user has a single repository which he's committed to a handful of times over the last year and has setup a GitHub sponsorship for it.

I try to remind myself that these types of people are a (loud) minority but it's absolutely soul destroying.

Racism has increased, yes. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp3vg33nje4o

A lesson for the ages: that cultured (or not) rich person over there isn't any more intelligent or prescient than your neighbour or colleague, and most certainly no more than your partner. They just have more money.

At least Leibniz is still famous for the biscuits https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leibniz-Keks

It's also impossible for a new user of macOS to show hidden files without an online search. Iirc it's a non documented (in the UI) keyboard shortcut. Very discoverable.

Not by Microsoft, but Avalonia has a commercial fork of WPF which runs on Linux and macOS:

https://avaloniaui.net/xpf

I'd recommend not incorporating in Estonia if you're going to need a bank account. They're not easy to get.

Pretty sure that's not true. Here's one of the words in a rap song title for example https://genius.com/Busdriver-me-time-with-the-pulmonary-pali...

Only tangentially related to the post, but I don't see it mentioned there: what do people use to run benchmarks on CI? If I understand correctly, standard OSS GH Actions/Azure Pipelines runners aren't going to be uniform enough to provide useful benchmark results. What does the rust project use? What do other projects use?

Maybe because you value your employees being able to copy an image from your chat platform?

(Teams still can't copy images, instead you get a massive base64 block of text iirc)

https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia

If you actually wanted to do something about the US murder rate, it's very obvious where to begin fixing things. Nobody wants to talk about it, it's not a national discussion at all, it just keeps getting swept under the rug (while the dead bodies pile up, year after year).

Gun control, you mean?

Nope, I know from experience that peeing in public is very common in piazzas in the center at night because everyone is driving beer and the are no public facilities and bars generally have a single (often filthy) toilet for all their customers to share :)

But that's different. This was near Lunetta Gamberini in broad daylight :) To be fair it's not something I've seen since.

When I first arrived in Bologna ten years ago, I vividly remember an old man at the side of a main road peeing into the bushes.

I went to visit a friend's parents a few years ago in Calabria. They don't have running water after 8pm, houses have home-made water tanks that they fill during the day that they use to supply water after that time. Bear in mind that this wasn't the countryside, it was in a reasonably sized city.

Walking around the neighborhood I noticed that there were no wifi networks at all.

The roads hadn't been resurfaced since the 1970s according to the locals and I totally believe them.

There's a reason Italians call it Calafrica. It definitely doesn't feel like western Europe.

I've been wondering - would it be possible that something like HIV comes along, only airborne? This would be a nightmare scenario obviously, but is it possible?