SonicSoul

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not entirely sure what your point is, but i think you are saying that art is just a commodity we use for cheap entertainment so it's ok for computers to do the same?

in the context of what i was saying the definition of what is art can be summed up as anything made by humans. i have no problem when its used in memes and being open sourced etc.. the issue i have is when a human invests real time into it and then its taken and regurgitated without their permission. do you see that distinction?

SonicSoul

2 tahun yang laludiscuss

great comment!

imagine being a photographer that takes decades to perfect their craft. sure another student can study and mimic your style. but it's still different than some computer model "ingesting" vast amount of photos and vomiting something similar for $5.99 in aws cpu cost so that some prompt jockey can call themselves an AI artist and make money off of other peoples talent.

i get that this is cynical and does not encompass all ai art, but why not let computers develop their own style wihout ingesting human art? that's when it would actually be AI art

SonicSoul

3 tahun yang laludiscuss

astrology ignorant here.

are those light rings portrayed this way because its debris orbiting at a very long exposure ?

SonicSoul

3 tahun yang laludiscuss

heh.. here is the response i got.

  Hi there,
 
  Thanks for taking the time to write in to Dropbox Support. My name is Ross, and I will provide assistance with your case.
 
  From my understanding, you are inquiring about being opted into Dropbox AI by default.
 
  Thank you for alerting us to this problem.
 
  Dropbox engineers are aware of the problem and are working on a solution.
 
  Also, please note that no files were shared in this case.
 
  Sorry for any inconvenience this is causing.
 
  We'll update you shortly on this issue.
 
  Don't hesitate to reach out to me again for further questions!
 
  Best regards,
  Ross

SonicSoul

3 tahun yang laludiscuss

it blew my mind when i logged into dropbox that sharing my data with third party "vetted" AI companies was enabled by default.

i just wrote a WTF email to their support, but most likely i will be discontinuing my account. can't imagine what they can possibly say that will make this OK

SonicSoul

3 tahun yang laludiscuss

oh wow.. refactoring is an art form. just because your code "works" doesn't mean you have to leave it alone. your working code will likely be copied into 5 other projects and will not scale well.

ideally you're investing into creating shareable code libraries and into infrastructure that makes the process of maintaining/referencing shared components easy enough for engineers to want to dedicate their precious sprint time to it.

SonicSoul

3 tahun yang laludiscuss

engineer, being a logical man, refused to believe that this man's car was allergic to vanilla ice cream. He arranged, therefore, to continue his visits for as long as it took to solve the problem.

the moral of this story, the engineer being a logical man refused to try reproducing the problem and devoted infinite time to watching the user shop every night. that way he gets paid to hang and eat ice cream

SonicSoul

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damn i missed this! do you know if its possible to still get one of those???

SonicSoul

3 tahun yang laludiscuss

original article has audio read by a human

SonicSoul

3 tahun yang laludiscuss

https://medium.com/@bobbyrsec/the-dangers-of-googles-zip-tld...

SonicSoul

3 tahun yang laludiscuss

interesting, what are your use cases?

SonicSoul

4 tahun yang laludiscuss

looks cool

tried the code playground, but seems there is no intellisense?

i think that would be very useful to learning

SonicSoul

11 tahun yang laludiscuss

all of these lists sound nice and all, but think back to the people that you really respect that have taught and influenced you to become who you are today.

what was the most important part? for me it was the person who was many degrees smarter than the rest of the team and pushed everyone to be their best. In my case he was not the most diplomatic or encouraging, hell he yelled at me a few times (and trust me, i don't appreciate being yelled at even by my parents). but anyone who was interested in software engineering was in awe of his skill. He devoured tech books and prototyped things on the train to work so that he always had good ideas and answers. I was sold right from the interview where I could tell he just knew his stuff inside and out. My point is that having the necessary knowledge to actually teach people is so much more important than all those other things. For most of us that means a lot of hard work in the trenches during free time. New technology? there goes Saturday and Sunday. It's the only way to have all the answers to the ones above you, and the ones you're leading.

Additionally try to get your team the best development/infrastructure tools money can buy and the best learning resources (such as pluralsight, egghead.io, all-you-can-read online books subscription)

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