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> massive overspend until someone notices and has to painstakingly go round checking what all your instances are for.

and when you reduce your companies AWS spend by 30% (which is usually easy) you get a good review/bonus/promotion. So not really much incentive to pay too much attention to cost until you can get recognition for doing so.


If copyright was shorter blockbuster movies could still recycle comic book characters from the 50s. It just means that any filmmaker could do it rather than just who can afford to pay Marvel/DC

Except that the timezone in British Columbia has now changed. Lets say you stored the appointment for November in UTC.

So you set the time to 10pm UTC to match 2pm British Columbia. But because the timezone for BC has changed that 10pm now matches 3pm in British Columbia

So the Dentist is expecting you at 2pm and you come along at 3pm


Because traffic laws work for cars and pedestrians. Anything else in between in fuzzy and hard to define or legislate

Did you read the article. Half the problem is the government regulations ( stairwells, elevators, parking ) that force the developer to build things worse.

I've also seen people using the term "slop" for low quality human-generated content (lowbrow movies etc)


It's a cultural affectation like attaching -maxxing to any adjective.

I smile when I come across the term 'qualityslop', which is an oxymoronic term to indicate very good human content.

https://i.redd.it/uvgtw725asfg1.jpeg


I don't mind it, because there already was a lot of slop before AI, which a lot of people seem to forget. But that's also because they weren't the consumers / target audience so it's off their radar.


This is my other problem, people calling things that aren't even AI as "AI slop" which cracks me up but is also concerning.


Now that AI is here, why read Hacker News comments? I bet you can generate quality content with AI! Do we even need to write anymore?


One of my favorite tunes ever is from Northern Exposure: Expeditions

The Silence by Mike Koglin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHDdM_0sotY

Yeah, I was/am a Depeche Mode fan


Definitely agree in some cases. eg where I live ( Auckland, New Zealand ) plenty of people read stories in the local paper or facebook that highlight every single incident in the Central city. So they are scared to go there.

Reality is thousands of white-collar workers (including me), normal locals and many tourists of all ages. Small number of homeless. But no more dangerous than any other city (and a lot safer during the day and early evening )


But if you did the exercise 10 years ago you'd find the lyrics were originally about the songwriter's daughter and the band tweaked it to be able the the band manager's hypochondriac ex boyfriend.

Then they hired a session singer to sing it and mixed in several takes and then adjusted the sound with various tools to produce just the right sound. Plus the Chorus was actually from some country song from 1972 that had been completely changed

and the actual "band" is actually just two guys who hire session players to do most of the music while they handle the keyboard and mixing


I'm using it too. Unfortunately their Android support is a little rough these days. Their official client stopped being developed and while there are options it isn't straightforward


SyncthingFork and also BasicSync both work without any issues on Android 16 for me.


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