It does sort of solve the 'blank page problem' though IMO. It sometimes takes me ages to start something like a boring insurance letter because I open up LibreOffice and the blank page just makes me want to give up. If I have AI just fart out a letter and then I start to edit it, I'm already mid-project so it actually does save me some time in that way.
Yeah that's how I use it, essentially as an office intern. I get it to write cover letters and all the other mindless piddly crap I don't want to do so I can free up some time to do creative things or read a book or whatever. I think it has some legit utility in that regard.
And I mean he was also sentenced for 34 different felonies 4 days ago and it amounted to the judge just saying "off you go, you rascal" and sending him on his way scott-free. Why would another conviction be any different?
My main issue with the first game was that I felt like it didn't respect my time. There were some missions where the game would send you miles away to get something or find a person, only for you to arrive there and have an NPC go "Nah it's not here" and send you miles in the other direction and do the same thing, and sometimes arbitrarily dump like 6 bandits on you along the way that you had no hope of defeating, so you'd die and go all the way back to square one again. I had to bail on eventually because of that.
Hypothetical alternate reality: Bernie Sanders has won the presidency but hasn't taken office yet, George W. Bush has just died and there's just been a massive fire in Texas.
Sanders refuses to fly the flag at half mast for his inauguration, someone from his not-yet-in-power cabinet has told Texas it can fuck off for aid unless it becomes socialist, there's a publicly published plan for an ultra-left-wing takeover of the country that he swore he'd never heard of until the day after he won the election when he suddenly went "Oh yeah we are doing that lol" and also Bill Gates is living in his house, has a cabinet position and is openly provoking friendly countries with overthrowing their governments.
How chill do we think the MAGA crowd would be in this scenario?
Yeah I would classify it as sort of like if they released a new version of Windows where they removed all the bloat, made it not look hideous, and fixed every annoying decision they'd made over the last 30+ years in all aspects of everything across the entire OS lol. So basically if they removed literally everything that made it identifiable as Windows and replaced it with something not shit.
Yeah I literally just close the tab. Same if anything comes up with a paywall or login or weird capcha thing. Just like "ah fuck this" and move on lol.
IIRC Julian Assange had something like that set up. There used to be a file you could download from WikiLeaks that was encrypted and supposedly contained something very spicy, and if anything happened to him the password would be released somehow.
Him stepping aside after the debate really was the smartest thing he could have done IMO, for him personally I mean.
That way, if Harris had won he could take credit for selflessly stepping aside and putting country first. And now that she lost he can just say "well I might have won, but you all forced me to quit" and there's no way to prove it definitively either way.
Personally I think Trump won the moment that assassin clipped him and he stood up doing the fist pump in front of the flag. That photo was pure 80s movie cheese and people eat that shit up.
My theory: since all the big tech companies seem to be making "donations" and bending over backwards to do favours for Trump before he's even in power, I suspect it's going to eventually come out that he's been selling exemptions to tariffs for companies who bend the knee.
Those companies will then only raise their prices by 50% instead of the 65% their competitors will have to do, and they'll try to play it off as altruism.
Yeah now that MAGA is fully in charge and getting more popular, I feel like we're about to really see which companies are full of shit with their pride marketing and which ones actually stick to their principles.
I suspect he won't do another two full terms, but not because of any inherent virtue in the system. I think it'll just come down to biology. He's 78, not in good health anyway and about to enter a very high-stress job. If he's still going at 86 I'll be surprised.
And that's assuming the cabal of demented fascists he's assembled around him don't tear him apart the second he shows any sign of weakness or of no longer being useful to them, which they definitely will.
I bought a quite expensive piece of animation software (that cost over $1000) to use professionally. The specific term it was sold to me under was a "perpetual license." I took this to mean "never ending", which is the dictionary definition of the word "perpetual." You can probably guess where this is going.
A few years later, in the middle of a professional project, it stopped working. I contacted support, and was told that they changed the way they were doing licenses so I'd have to buy a new one (at almost double the price) or eat shit. I'm paraphrasing, but that was the gist of it.
So yeah, if you're thinking of buying a Toon Boom Harmony perpetual license, maybe save yourself a lot of money and hassle and just pirate it instead. Or tell them to get fucked and use their direct competitor. I have done both.
Reading between the lines a bit, I get the sense that maybe because Musk is a big name the corporation that owns the paper may not have given them the option to not post it? The article also describes her as the editor of the opinion section, so maybe not the overall editor of the paper.
I think that the AI industry is particularly harmful to writers, journalists, actors, artists, and others. This is not because AI produces better pieces of work, but rather due to misanthropic viewpoints of particularly toxic and powerful individuals at the top of the tech industry hierarchy pushing AI as the next big thing due to their general misunderstanding or outright dislike of the general public.
I'm a writer and my work is increasingly making me use AI to do things. I'm 98% sure I'm just training this thing to replace me at this point, and am planning accordingly.
Yeah for me the inescapable fact seems to be that humanity is currently facing a series of somewhat existential crises (climate change, looming authoritarianism, a global pandemic etc.) and we've utterly failed to meet each one by backsliding into selfishness and idiocy. With climate change especially there doesn't seem to be any fixing or avoiding it now, it's just a matter of how bad it's going to be, and a lot of predictions seem to be pointing towards "worse than we thought."
So I dunno, for me the logical response to that would be depression and cynicism. We knew it was coming, we had every chance to avoid it, we didn't, now we're fucked.
As with most irritating Windows features, I assume there'll be an option to turn it off hidden in some obscure place, which will either not work, or it'll turn back on after a random amount of time.
It does sort of solve the 'blank page problem' though IMO. It sometimes takes me ages to start something like a boring insurance letter because I open up LibreOffice and the blank page just makes me want to give up. If I have AI just fart out a letter and then I start to edit it, I'm already mid-project so it actually does save me some time in that way.