Don't despair; new tool rollouts are always a hard sell -- especially when replacing a beloved classic. For me, the killer feature would be "ease of use." Sure, I _can_ make rsync do any number of rarely-used…
They chose a license that is _explicitly designed_ to allow people to profit from their work without paying. There are many other licensing terms in common use. They chose that one. That's fine, they can do what they…
So.... Since they explicitly chose not to require any payment, there is no moral obligation to pay them. That's the point. Would it be nice? Sure. But "not donating" is also fine. "Donations" are, by definition,…
"It's the right thing to do" in reply to a moral query is the "begging the question fallacy". The question at hand is of the form: Is it right to do X (to donate, in this case)? Your reply amounts to: yes, because X is…
You believe you know better than the authors themselves about how they ought to be treated? They chose -- explicitly, voluntarily, knowingly -- to give the thing away for free. That's their right for their own creation.…
Surely "the right thing to do" includes some element of the authors' explicitly stated preferences about how they wish to be treated. In this case, they chose -- explicitly -- to NOT require any payment or contribution…
The AI product doesn't fall apart (at least, not a good AI product.) The proposition is that is functionally indistinguishable from a human product to the extent that _there is no way to tell_, absent a formal and…
The fact that these same people can't tell whether it was authored by a human or an AI without a seperate disclosure is strong evidence that human authorship as such is not what they value at all.
The makeup of the numbers is shifting radically. 20 years ago, ~all Facebook users were organic real life social networks chatting with each other online. It's not gone yet, but for many years, that "organic social…
Has it occurred to you that _all_ model providers are actively trying to shape their models' replies to fit their preferred political narratives?
The case of Sweden entirely falsifies the theory that "it would've been much worse without government action." No government action whatsoever was taken in Sweden. None. Death rates were no better or worse than adjacent…
ICE agents arrest _people who committed crimes_ at green card interviews (including "entering the country illegally," which is a crime.) As I said, the United States is very welcoming to foreigners who are willing to…
Yes. The United States. Despite the whirlwind of media to the contrary, the US is very welcoming to foreigners who follow the laws (that is, don't enter illegally) and make an effort to integrate by learning the…
He's coldly rational: The investors gave him $5 million. Large commitment, large risk. Each customer gives him 15k per unit. Even a rare large customer who buys 100 ovens gives him 150k. Small commitment, small risk. If…
Yes. 99% of things just worked, zero modifications. The few cases where something was not directly translatable was <10 minutes with a coding agent to make some minor config changes, and then it just worked.
I generally agree, but it's a bit overstated to say "nobody talks about Oracle now" -- they made a profit of about $17 billion dollars in 2025.
More specifically, 0 dB is the loudest sound the audio system is rated to produce without distortion. It's common to be able to actually drive systems harder than their specified engineering limits, which is why meters…
Over 99% of students who attempt your "mostly quiet" strategy are managed entirely out of academia long before tenure. You won the lottery, which is great for you, but it's not a strategy to promote to others as life…
The problem is not a presumption that government can't ever be good. The problem is that the team you personally think is "good" won't be in charge forever. Everyone loves enabling broad government authority when people…
You are glossing over the fact that Japan severely punishes crime, and acquittals are almost unheard of.
Sure, but those are cherrypicked cases where a technology became obsolete. There are many counterexamples of decades-old technologies that are still actively chosen for greenfield work today, in 2026. SQL was first…
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Isn't your whole post "just a complaint" too?
Yes, in the same sense that it is still technically possible to ride a horse to work instead of using a car. You can code in assembly instead of using a compiler, too.
You used a lot of fancy words to say "fashions in interior design change over time," making much of little in the process.
Don't despair; new tool rollouts are always a hard sell -- especially when replacing a beloved classic. For me, the killer feature would be "ease of use." Sure, I _can_ make rsync do any number of rarely-used…
They chose a license that is _explicitly designed_ to allow people to profit from their work without paying. There are many other licensing terms in common use. They chose that one. That's fine, they can do what they…
So.... Since they explicitly chose not to require any payment, there is no moral obligation to pay them. That's the point. Would it be nice? Sure. But "not donating" is also fine. "Donations" are, by definition,…
"It's the right thing to do" in reply to a moral query is the "begging the question fallacy". The question at hand is of the form: Is it right to do X (to donate, in this case)? Your reply amounts to: yes, because X is…
You believe you know better than the authors themselves about how they ought to be treated? They chose -- explicitly, voluntarily, knowingly -- to give the thing away for free. That's their right for their own creation.…
Surely "the right thing to do" includes some element of the authors' explicitly stated preferences about how they wish to be treated. In this case, they chose -- explicitly -- to NOT require any payment or contribution…
The AI product doesn't fall apart (at least, not a good AI product.) The proposition is that is functionally indistinguishable from a human product to the extent that _there is no way to tell_, absent a formal and…
The fact that these same people can't tell whether it was authored by a human or an AI without a seperate disclosure is strong evidence that human authorship as such is not what they value at all.
The makeup of the numbers is shifting radically. 20 years ago, ~all Facebook users were organic real life social networks chatting with each other online. It's not gone yet, but for many years, that "organic social…
Has it occurred to you that _all_ model providers are actively trying to shape their models' replies to fit their preferred political narratives?
The case of Sweden entirely falsifies the theory that "it would've been much worse without government action." No government action whatsoever was taken in Sweden. None. Death rates were no better or worse than adjacent…
ICE agents arrest _people who committed crimes_ at green card interviews (including "entering the country illegally," which is a crime.) As I said, the United States is very welcoming to foreigners who are willing to…
Yes. The United States. Despite the whirlwind of media to the contrary, the US is very welcoming to foreigners who follow the laws (that is, don't enter illegally) and make an effort to integrate by learning the…
He's coldly rational: The investors gave him $5 million. Large commitment, large risk. Each customer gives him 15k per unit. Even a rare large customer who buys 100 ovens gives him 150k. Small commitment, small risk. If…
Yes. 99% of things just worked, zero modifications. The few cases where something was not directly translatable was <10 minutes with a coding agent to make some minor config changes, and then it just worked.
I generally agree, but it's a bit overstated to say "nobody talks about Oracle now" -- they made a profit of about $17 billion dollars in 2025.
More specifically, 0 dB is the loudest sound the audio system is rated to produce without distortion. It's common to be able to actually drive systems harder than their specified engineering limits, which is why meters…
Over 99% of students who attempt your "mostly quiet" strategy are managed entirely out of academia long before tenure. You won the lottery, which is great for you, but it's not a strategy to promote to others as life…
The problem is not a presumption that government can't ever be good. The problem is that the team you personally think is "good" won't be in charge forever. Everyone loves enabling broad government authority when people…
You are glossing over the fact that Japan severely punishes crime, and acquittals are almost unheard of.
Sure, but those are cherrypicked cases where a technology became obsolete. There are many counterexamples of decades-old technologies that are still actively chosen for greenfield work today, in 2026. SQL was first…
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Isn't your whole post "just a complaint" too?
Yes, in the same sense that it is still technically possible to ride a horse to work instead of using a car. You can code in assembly instead of using a compiler, too.
You used a lot of fancy words to say "fashions in interior design change over time," making much of little in the process.