From the quotes in the article, I have to agree with drawing that line. On the one hand, making a non-profit mod using AI-generated voices has no opportunity cost to the actors since they wouldn't have been hired for that anyway. On the other hand, and this is why I am leaning against training AI voices off people at all without permission, it can cause actual harm to the actor to hear themselves saying things they would otherwise be offended by and wouldn't ever say in reality. In other words, the AI voices can directly harm people (and already have, according to the article at least).
I don't remember saying otherwise. I just found it odd that everyone was talking about Discord (at the time of posting), and there was very little discussion around Nintendo's involvement in encouraging (and participating in) such toxic behavior.
without allowing any sort of measure.
This is what I find unacceptable in Discord's case. Options should have been given to the devs/server admins.
Everyone here is saying not to use Discord, but what are they expecting the server admins to do after moving off Discord when Nintendo's lawyers send them a letter? Like sure, hate Discord, but the problem here clearly lies with Nintendo.
I gave FreeTaxUSA a shot this year and it was a really good experience overall for me. I was able to do everything I needed, and since I don't live in a state with state income tax, the whole thing was free since I only needed to file a federal return. I almost considered buying one of their services just as appreciation for how much money it saved me.
For context, the year prior, I tried a CPA (my taxes were much more complicated tbf). That was certainly quite the expense...
Be careful relying on LLMs for "searching". I'm speaking from experience here - getting actually accurate results from the current generation of LLMs, even with RAG, is difficult. You might get accurate results most of the time (even 80% or more), but it can be difficult to identify the inaccurate results due to the confidence models present their output with when hallucinating.
Also, if your LLM isn't doing retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), then it isn't actually a search and won't find results more recent than the data it was trained off of.
people like me don't want him to work with a guy with a history of oppressing our rights
Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but what search do you use that relies on a more ethical index? I don't use SearXNG, but as far as I can tell, even something like that relies on other indices, like Google, Bing, and Brave (which seems to be configurable). Are you suggesting you use a different index that comes from a more ethical company, or do you just not like Vlad's response?
To add, from what I understand at least, Kagi does build its own index for accessing smaller sites. To some extent, results are also served by a custom index, meaning some percentage of results do not come from [your disliked companies] and instead come directly from Kagi. It doesn't seem like a significant percentage of results come from that index, but it supposedly is still >0%.
Personally I mostly use Kagi for the ability to put Reddit on the bottom of the results, MDN to the top, and otherwise prioritize sites in ways that I want but which I know are purely based on my own opinions. It works well for my usecase, and I don't have to scroll through a bunch of sponsored links before finding my search results. Also, the recent integration with Wolfram|Alpha has been convenient with a couple of searches, like one where I needed the prime factors of some numbers.
On mobile as well, and it looks like a complete mess. Image captions seem even more important when it comes to ASCII art, hopefully those become a bit more normalized at some point.
The main issue comes from someone trying to build a library for this. For example, try answering the question "what time was it 2y 46d 2h 15m ago on the moon in lunar time?" (assuming it was asked on Earth, in some known timezone). Needing to look up from some table on a time server to answer all these questions sounds like a nightmare.
As a software developer, the last thing I want to see is another obscure timezone to deal with. It does seem like it'd be important to set a standard here though, and it's unlikely to affect most software engineers anyway unless we start seeing colonization at some point.
Also, in general, I can't imagine how relativity will work with this kind of timezone conversion.
I'm surprised this is even legal. I mean, of course it's fine to scam a bunch of desperate people looking to pad their resumes. Why wouldn't it be?
Unless you have no other source of income, then I don't see these making sense. Even then, consider if retail or food industry might be a better use of your time until you can find something better (unironically - they can be great experiences).
I'd imagine doing this for a simple website project only for npm to tell me there are over 2000 packages installed. Donating even $1 to each of them would be unsustainable (as myself, for a company that's another story). I think what we need is a more scalable way of supporting these projects. For example, should is_even get the same amount of support as zod?
Imagine changing your file extension from .js to .ts and calling it a fad. JS is TS. The difference is that TS does more (by actually doing stuff before runtime as a static analyzer, similar to eslint). If TS is a fad, then modern web dev is a fad.
I was "forced" to make an account by my mom at some point, so I did. I set the profile picture to something completely random and promptly logged out. The only time I've logged in since then was to accept my wife's friend request (or whatever they call them) after we'd been married for over a year, since apparently her friends were confused why we weren't labelled as "in a relationship" or whatever.
Look, we're married. I don't need Facebook to tell you that. >_>
This advice mostly applies to people who are less experienced and less familiar with just how complex HTML can be. As for other languages - if you're doing regex on markdown, you'll probably be fine (but you should verify if you're writing something for the general case that must not fail). But in HTML's case:
You have nested languages (CSS and JS)
You have tag-specific rules (img and link end in />, but div must end in a separate closing tag)
Browsers use error correction to try to make sense of invalid HTML, like inserting missing tags. Many websites rely on this behavior.
If you're trying to use Regex to parse a specific website's HTML, you'll be able to get what you want eventually, but as a general HTML parser, there will always be some website that breaks your assumptions.
If you're writing C#, you could take a look into Source Generators. They're supported directly by Roslyn I believe, and are pure C# instead of t4's syntax. They're often used with attributes to augment types, but I believe they can be used to generate sources on their own, and even read from a config file if you want to (or maybe even query the DB, if that's something you want to do at build time for some reason, though I've never tried this).
It had me at the start. About halfway through, I realized it was written by someone who needs to seek mental help.
I hadn't heard of Gab AI before, and now I know never to use it.