chefandy

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by chefandy 26d ago
It sounds dramatic because it’s dramatic. You’re combining two things — whether something is, in fact, completely lost, and if it is something that should be kept. Something that should not be kept is still completely lost if it’s destroyed
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by chefandy 26d ago
> But, that little bit of data is a bit more data than existed before, No, it’s not. Undigitized data is still data. Wording, style, nuance, type, artwork, binding, metadata, attributions, citability… all of these things are permanently
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by chefandy 2y ago
I’m talking about problems a lot more broad than music, hobby artists are a completely different entity than commercial artists and conflating them is targeted willful ignorance. And frankly, developers comprise the most coddled, overprivil
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by chefandy 2y ago
I get it, but the anguish of people who were paid dramatically less and treated dramatically worse than software developers whose livelihoods are being deliberately harpooned by the software business is not "sour grapes." I'd
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by chefandy 2y ago
I’ll get right on that
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by chefandy 2y ago
You don’t understand how the ‘bonkers’ cost of creative worker relates to businesses that make creative products?
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by chefandy 2y ago
Sorry no. Here on HN, your having a vested interest in some market makes your opinion entirely invalid. That is, enless you're interested in one of the correct markets such as software or AI services.
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by chefandy 2y ago
That's why corporations that have made creative products have traditionally never gone anywhere. They all just went out of business. And all the artists got rich.
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by chefandy 2y ago
Yeah-- in a professional workflow, at best, these tools are for getting ideas rather than creating output that will be used directly. Lots of folks use them for actual creation because they're just so enamored with the ability to creat
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by chefandy 2y ago
It's incredibly elitist to gatekeep people having their plans, actions, opinions, and philosophical ideas taken seriously just because they haven't trudged through the onerous process of considering what humanity has already learn
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by chefandy 2y ago
Yes, there are a TON of free tools and endless instruction on using them. If you move your budget up to making one-time payments for things that cost less than one month using a subscription service, you get an astonishing breadth of new
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by chefandy 2y ago
People that never considered the value of artistic process until it was the topic du jour unilaterally decided that it was inefficient, oppressive, complex, frivolous, and unfairly inaccessible to those that hadn't put any sustained ef
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by chefandy 2y ago
The selection definitely changed. As soon as "Slashdot Video" started happening-- obviously a bunch of advertisements presented as news-- I was done. Initially, the aggregation was only part of it-- the discussion was the best par
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by chefandy 2y ago
Yeah— I hate coming across a doc that’s less like a technical reference, or even a tutorial, and more like a treatise on the philosophy behind their technical decisions. I know it’s a bit controversial, but I find Python’s docs like that. T
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by chefandy 2y ago
Yeah I did a brief scan and a brief search for opinions on their practices when I saw the comment I initially replied to and didn’t find anything concerning. Doesn’t mean there isn’t anything, but it either wasn’t serious enough to be surf
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by chefandy 2y ago
If you’re going to post albums of high-res photographs on the internet… why not Flickr?
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by chefandy 2y ago
That’s right. Things are changing and it’s going to be a really tough pill to swallow for a lot of people that only think they understand what work looks like for nearly everyone else in the world.
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by chefandy 2y ago
Ask the nurses how much they got for severance when steward health closed. Or what my severance was when I got laid off in 2009 working as a fine dining line cook as a culinary school graduate. Or the career concept artists replaced by AI.
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by chefandy 2y ago
Well, we could ‘maybe’ ourselves to a lot of admirable explanations but lacking specific evidence that any of them are true, Occam’s Razor is the most reasonable way to evaluate this. In the very recent past Altman had shown no meaningful a
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by chefandy 2y ago
Right right. I imagine it was much the same for mechanical engineers during the Industrial Revolution.
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by chefandy 2y ago
Right. There’s obviously a totally valid market-based reason for it, and I am absolutely not implying that developers should receive less of that than they do. However, its an external factor which gives many developers a very skewed unders
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by chefandy 2y ago
As someone in the US that’s bounced in and out of tech, including some longish stints in blue collar jobs, it honestly blows my mind that the tech scene is so all-encompassing that many in it feel like it is representative of… anything else
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by chefandy 2y ago
I’m not saying you’re wrong because I have no idea how to rigorously evaluate the merit of your financial advice. That’s why I have a financial planner instead of going by the most credible sounding comments on the internet.
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by chefandy 2y ago
Considering that’s the exact opposite of their strategy to date, and they haven’t done anything to indicate that was the case, and they talked about how huge and expensive the model was to run, that is the less reasonable assumption by a mi
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by chefandy 2y ago
I also lack any inside info, but that seems like the kind of thing they’d clear up pretty easily if it were that innocuous. And if you were going to slip something unpopular into a foss project policy, wouldn’t you want the public updates t
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by chefandy 2y ago
That $7 trillion dollar ask pushed me from skeptical to full-on eye-roll emoji land— the dude is clearly a narcissist with delusions of grandeur— but it’s getting worse. Considering the $200 pro subscription was significantly unprofitable
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by chefandy 2y ago
He earns his undies. My returns are almost always modestly above index fund returns after his fees, though like last quarter, he’s very upfront when they’re not. He has good advice for pulling back when things are uncertain. I’m happy to de
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by chefandy 2y ago
I’m not an expert or anything, but from my vantage point, each passing release makes Altman’s confidence look more aspirational than visionary, which is a really bad place to be with that kind of money tied up. My financial manager is prett
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by chefandy 2y ago
It’s a metaphor .
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by chefandy 2y ago
Sure they do: stock assets are the most obvious market that AI is taking direct aim at in games development, and the AI tools on the game dev market were largely trained on stock assets. If you need anything from a sound library to a 3D mod

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