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Definitely easier and better than just writing the copy..

I don't get the connection between a subscription and getting a user hooked, making the service worse, or ensure worsening of the service.

All of these things can be true, all without a subscription.

Not having revenue certainly makes it impossible to sustain a business to work on a service, without some other kind of monetization path, like ads, or data harvesting and sale.

True, but I can't help but notice how far agents' capabilities have grown in just the past six months, so I assume they'll continue to improve to the point where I tend to, unfortunately, agree with Schmidt. I mourn it also — but I suspect 'code' will take a more representational form. So we can describe it to agents, at least in codebases that mix human and AI written code.

How is the math wrong?

Had to look this up : https://github.com/rxhanson/Rectangle/wiki/Todo-Mode Interesting!

The thing is, in many cases, these products and teams are very siloed from each other. I suspect, having worked in one of these teams, that some of the issues comes from this siloing. Lessons learned aren't shared, and it can be difficult to build integrations.

It says right there in the article: "The bill would require internet service providers in Michigan to use filters to prevent people from seeing the prohibited material. "

VPNs do exist, but still.

I've gotten the sense that many of the doctors I've encountered in Germany, who are busily typing at their computer, are frequently documenting their billing items.

I started to think this after seeing the bills from multiple visits, where it's often broken out, in detail, what they had done. It's probably not as bad as that, there probably is some record-keeping happening in there. But considering how overworked most doctors are in the public health system, and how little time is commonly allocated for each patient, it can feel a bit like you didn't actually interact with a human doctor.

Can you elaborate? I don't know, and would like to know.

Agreed. I'm trying to find the logic in the versioning, other than the #.x series being a particular model type (text, multimodal, reasoning..). I want an AI before my AIs, to tell me which AI to use.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deportation_of_Kilmar_Abrego_G...

* In March 2019, Prince George's County, Maryland, police arrested Abrego Garcia and three other men in a Home Depot parking lot, where they were seeking work as day laborers.[2][19] One of the men claimed Abrego Garcia was a "gang member," but The Atlantic reported that, according to court filings, the man offered no proof and police said they did not believe him.[19] Abrego Garcia was never charged with a crime in connection to his arrest.[20]

Police handed custody of Abrego Garcia over to ICE for deportation proceedings. In those proceedings, the government claimed that he was a member of the MS-13 criminal gang because "he was wearing a Chicago Bulls hat and a hoodie" and a confidential informant claimed that he was active with an MS-13 group based in New York,[2] where he has never lived.[16] ICE relied on information from a form that was filled out by a local police officer who was suspended not long after for "giving confidential information about a case to a sex worker", and thus was unavailable when Abrego Garcia's lawyer sought more information.[21] Roger Parloff of Lawfare notes that since neither the officer nor the informant were cross-examined, the accusation went through two layers of hearsay to reach the immigration court. An immigration judge determined that the informant's claim[22] was sufficient evidence for the purpose of denying Abrego Garcia's bond request; another judge upheld that ruling on appeal, saying the claim was not clearly wrong.[18] However, no court has ever made a "full adjudication" of this issue.[18] *

The evidence of him being a member of MS13 is dubious at best, and suspicious since he and his brother had fled to the US to escape gangs in El Salvador.

He didn't fail to deport, he applied for asylum and withholding of removal during the process. Asylum wasn't possible because it needed to be applied for within a year of arriving, but he was granted withholding of removal, which he'd maintained by checking in yearly with ICE since 2019.

This is only a problem if you treat employees in a way that makes them want to go rogue and sabotage some systems.. maybe don't fire them without warning or cause, or clear reasoning? I suppose if someone is actually able to tangibly impact some critical system, limit their access to that, but beyond that, it's just an excuse to make it sound OK to abruptly dump someone from a social and professional context. Maybe it's legal, but is it necessary? No. Is it traumatizing? Yes.

I think for some, it's really fun to have a collection of something.. I'm a fan of stores like Amoeba, because they do tend have a really excellent selection of second hand records, and it can be fun to hunt for something. At any given time, I have a handful of records I'm searching for, and.. and it's a real thrill to find it cheaply.

Source?

Unfortunately, peaceful secession isn't really a thing.

Nope. Lars Ulrich got a lot of hate for his stance against piracy, since Metallica were unlikely to suffer much from it. But, I think his perspective came from the time they spent as an independent band where they would not have survived without record sales.

I'm a bit surprised you couldn't imagine how it didn't lift all boats. Not at all. Consider a band on an independent label, not a subsidiary of one of the majors. Maybe they're earlier in their career, and haven't yet broken through.

For most bands in these cases, their primary revenue came from record sales, touring at this level was very expensive, and was usually promotional rather than a revenue stream. They weren't renting big buses, they didn't have roadies. They're touring to promote their new record.

For these bands, this period was devastating. Before there was a Bandcamp, before streaming services. Yes, it could be seen like radio where some people used Napster as a way to preview artists.. but not everyone did.

Major labels were able to live through the transition, they're like venture capitalists, as long as they have enough huge and profitable artists, they can offset losses. But that's not true for anybody but them.

I saw it. I was working in the music industry from 1999 to 2010, as a musician, working with independent record labels, and in recording studios. It did not lift all boats, I promise you.

To take an example of the permissionless culture, Napster really didn't hurt anyone, but did upset a lot of the entrenched asymmetric power structures in the music industry..

This is demonstrably false. Napster and it's ilk did hurt people. It did not focus it's upset only on the 'entrenched asymmetric power structures in the music industry,' it also affected small business and independent musicians, arguable more so, since they weren't as well funded to adapt to the disruption.

In terms of the 'crucial development leading to iTunes.. Spotify,' how have these not become the newly entrenched asymmetric power structures? Bandcamp is a notable exception, and I don't think Napster in anyway contributed to it's development, except for the fact that it might have been a way to distribute your own music. But that wasn't it's primary use.

Can you explain more about this. I've been curious about them, and hadn't heard anything specifically negative.

I'm about to do this. I had finally gotten a job at my dream company, and unfortunately, it turned out to be a dead end, and I got laid off. Luckily, I had been there long enough to get a reasonable severance, and I'm eligible for unemployment (60% of my salary) and health care while unemployed (I live in Germany).

I realize this is incredibly fortunate, and I'm going to take the opportunity to do something a bit different. I'm going to try to pursue a new direction in my career, with the goal of starting my own mini-company. But, I'm also trying to be very realistic, and setting some contingency goals. Since I'll be focusing on learning some new skills, Plan B is to build a portfolio as I learn, and if I can't meet the goal of starting my own company, I'd like to start contracting with my new skills. Or.. Plan C is to get a job using my new skills, and at least I'm able to pivot my career in a new direction.

I'm not too worried about the lack of a line in my resume, I'll plan to document what I'm doing this year in public, on a blog, and on Github, and find some way to describe it on my resume.

Citation needed.

They are: https://www.statista.com/chart/26773/profitability-developme...

No, it says "their two daughters have given an undertaking in court that they will take full responsibility for the child.."

and

"She added that the family was considering using his sperm in surrogacy and that a relative had agreed to be the surrogate. “We will keep it in the family,” she said. Under Indian law commercial surrogacy is illegal."

So it seems the daughters agree to take responsibility, but there will be a surrogate.

This looks like a really fun way to experiment while learning Verilog!

I'd be happy to write a carefully crafted, specifically tailored cover letter when recruiters are willing to respond with a detailed, individualized rejection letter.

I can understand this perspective, but I think it can work both ways. I'm 44 years old, and would also rather work from an office than from home, primarily for social interactions, and wanting to work outside of my house. My experience has been the inverse of yours, that most of my younger colleagues, who have spent the majority of their careers working from home, would rather continue to do so, and either hadn't had positive experiences working in an office environment and don't crave a return to it, or have focused their needs for social interaction elsewhere.

I've been curious to check out https://www.flux.ai/, but haven't played with it much yet.

Not much info to go on here..

From the FAQ: "How does App Backend work? App Backend utilizes a database to store and manage table data. It offers APIs and tools to perform CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) operations on tables and their respective records. This allows developers to easily handle data organization and manipulation in their small projects."

A.. database you say?

"Is App Backend secure? Yes, security is a top priority for App Backend. It incorporates authentication and authorization mechanisms to ensure secure access to data. Additionally, it follows best practices for data encryption and implements measures to protect against common security vulnerabilities."

Both authentication AND authorization. Definitely secure.

What? Can you elaborate on that?

There is also Note (https://www.ableton.com/en/note/), if you have an iOS device.