As a fan of tools like this and Eternal Jukebox, I cannot wait for the ones that have an option to request a cut specifically, like "from approximately this point, jump back to around this other point", while using the 'smart' features to line up the audio cuts (I'm sure stuff like that is built into the CC suite but I'm not springing that kind of money to recut a few of my tunes for personal listening ).
With Eternal Jukebox I was able to emulate it by setting the jump percent very high manually at the right time (but had to be paying attention + had to get lucky with which branch it took), whereas here I'll see if I can get it going by calculating what the cut I want would set the song length to, and requesting that length and fewest cuts. (Edit: didn't work)
Sometimes the simplest features are the easiest to overlook but most useful
> Over the last couple years, authorization (AKA “authz”) has become a hot topic of debate. Proponents of various authz frameworks, libraries, and philosophies have voiced their opinions on how it should be implemented, jockeying for position to become the de facto way to implement authz
As a developer of a tiny internal webapp - this is fascinating to read! I like to keep things as simple as possible, but as with anything our scope and use cases have grown over time.
Our authzn can handle some of this stuff - our rules, built atop our org's existing IAM, are very similar to these directed relationship tuples - but as we need to grow that out any further I'm excited to look into which aspects of ReBaC we're still missing.
> This one takes the cake. They're dangling a carrot: hey, any low-ranked mod interested in taking over the subreddit for yourself? And they're still insulting everyone's intelligence
It's transparent, sure, but it doesn't mean it won't be effective. They're counting on a few people's greed plus most people's apathy.
reddit seems happy to go all in on the low-effort content mill market, and those users are the kind to get more upset over the protest than losing nice third-party apps or tools.
Good joke. MS has always been in the 'incompetent evil' quadrant, Newcomers just keep inexplicably giving them the benefit of the doubt or assuming/insisting they've "changed".
For me it was Google Talk. It hit the sweet spot of a lightweight chat app that didn't take any configuration or convincing for my non-techie friends. I still miss it.
> There seem to be two kinds of people: ones who see the mistakes ChatGPT makes and the ones who don’t
Agreed; it quickly became apparent once I found myself entering the 'seeing its rough edges' camp.
Once you've _tried_ breaking it and can see the limits of an LLM you'll find yourself wishing for an AI assistant, but knowing what is and isn't possible makes managing one's expectations with new technologies easier.
I'm still generally an optimist with these new techs because they're still very cool and potentially useful interfaces to existing technologies, but I agree with you in that it's too easy to get caught up deferring to it like it's some techie oracle (and that the tendency for people to want to do so is concerning).
I used to think people wouldn't "simply accept" the types of systems in _Minority Report_ or _Psycho-pass_, to the extent that I found it to be immersion-breaking. But, concerningly, it seems folks are happy and willing to give up that deference (in what's probably a well-studied sociological observation I'm simply unaware of the term for). Scary stuff.
You're just describing being well connected, which is nothing new. It's not 'a magical sequence of accounts', it's being part of a community.
> if you're in XYZ group you'll get proper treatment
This still beats "XYZ group" - in this case, someone who is
> stressed about the situation and being without electricity due to the war
being ignored by us as well as by the company that's meant to be the middleman (to clients who had no issue paying them directly - so clearly a problem with UW and not any other party)
> I "deserve" to get screwed
No one does, which is the point. Highlighting when companies' customer service fails users (and how they deal with it - sweeping the pattern under the rug versus resolving to address it) helps people make informed decisions about the companies they do or don't choose to work with.
While 'anecdata', it's still a more far useful metric to me than advertising in picking who I support, as patterns tend to arise (both positive and negative!) resulting from a company's culture.
> I don't think you can fairly compare XP and Windows 11 given how much more Windows 11 does than XP
Considering how much work it took to get wrangle 10 LTSE into a usable Win environment I'd much prefer the simple OS that stayed out of my hair than one that "does so much more" I didn't ask for.
I hope someday software is regulated as tightly as other consumer goods. Abusing one's position as the issuer of security updates to force choices, undesired changes, and bloat down user's throats shouldn't be possible; users should have the option to separate the two.
I'm aware that that seems like a tall ask given the state of "modern" software development, but that's its own can of worms.