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Ok clearly it's not literally about making CDs and people saying "just make your own streaming service" are both missing the point and vastly over estimating the capacity of the average person.

The important part that's largely missing from today's music environment is the personal touch and investment. Many people, as the author says, just comfortably coast through an algorithmic smoothie of familiar music. That is inferior to a friend saying "I made you this mix" and then you actually listen to it, attentively, more than once.

It doesn't have to be a CD. It can be a zip file. But the intention and focus was important.

I'm an outlier in that I never let "the algorithm" choose what plays. Sometimes I still make mixes for friends, though lately they've just been a collection of links. That process of choosing is meaningful. My friend still listens to the mix I made for them when their job laid them off, sometimes.

I feel like a lot of companies don't do things the good way not because the good way is hard, or the bad way is cheaper, but because management is stupid. Stupid or sometimes apathetic.

I think it's like that dunning-kruger idea. People who are bad at things don't know they're bad, and are poor judges of quality.

So someone who's kind of bad at coding isn't going to know or understand what the LLM puts out, so they won't fix as many issues.

Also humans are lazy, and when presented with something that looks good at a glance, we don't really want to dive deeper.

I saw a PR from someone today at work. Guy's nice but I don't think he's much of a programmer. He asked copilot to fix a warning. It did, and generated a linter error. So he asked it to fix that. It did, but for whatever reason decided to delete an entire function call.

Unfortunately that part of the code has no unit tests, so he just pushed it up for review. I look at it and I'm like if that call is important, don't delete it. If it can be deleted, remove the now-unused code around it. We'll see what he says.

He probably spent more time fussing with copilot than it would have taken to do it right in the first place.

This is a horrible idea and everyone involved in its conception and implementation should be barred from working in technology ever again.

Well I'm not on Windows anymore so I can't test it out. Does it still have the option to only show text raw and uninterpeted? I absolutely would not want it to, like, show bold instead of **bold**

I wouldn't want it to do anything other than show the literal text, and anything in that direction is a loss via added friction.

Notepad was supposed to be the simplest lightest weight text editor. It didn't need to change.

I've been saying that for years. Now I have about 250 albums drm-free on Bandcamp. A good chunk of that money went to the people making the music, too.

I know there are people out there paying a subscription to Spotify who listen to the same dozen albums over and over, too.

Please start live streaming your actions in public for us all to watch. You don't have any abusive exes or family members, I hope. Also I trust you've never said anything to irritate right wing fanatics. Maybe if it's a little more personal, you'd have a little more empathy.

Also, of note, not all limits are from the law. Peer pressure and private businesses saying "You can't do that in here" are also tools.

Something being legal doesn't make it good.

People want to be able to go out into the world without being filmed. That was the case for thousands of years. It is not unreasonable to expect limits on recording in public.

Now one of the worst organizations on earth (meta) wants to record everyone and everything for their private benefit. People are mad.

I'm an outlier I guess. I don't think I have any subscriptions.

I've heard good things about kagi, but $10/mo is pretty steep

I also blame search engines. I type like "python file open parameters" and I really just want the official docs. They're not even on the first page of DDG.