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Why instead?

All those should absolutely be addressed (especially taxes), but organizing labor could be both a powerful way to push for those changes, as well as a force to maintain better labor/capital balance going forward.

The Klon was never $3k new.

That happened on the used market after they were no longer manufactured, and the original was seen on a few idolized players' boards.

And there have been Klon clones for ages, including a follow on version by the original designer.

Use, yes. Or with pretty much any JDK. It just isn't included as part of the JDK like AWT & Swing anymore.

TIOBE rankings are meaningless.

Yep, and heck, on occasion we even enforce them.

When we do, it can be pretty effective.

I just wish we did so more frequently, and, more importantly, that the consumer welfare principle hadn't emerged as the prevalent antitrust standard.

I support this.

I also support No GenAI every day ending in a Y, but I support this, too.

> Can't buy a tesla without the app.

Works for me. No Tesla it is, then.

Not the only reason, but one of several.

Because the negative externalities of GenAI are great enough that the majority will soon recognize them and demand action.

But I don't expect that to slow down any of the main drivers for now. Some have too much invested monetarily and emotionally, others have been caught up in the hype cycle.

Are you trying to dismiss Flock and the like as not worthy of outrage?

The industry needs to come to grips with the fact that many, many people either have no use for or actively despise GenAI.

Yeah, exactly.

Who can expect smol bean Meta to not act like rapacious vultures when all the other social media corporations get to?

Raises or asks, not begs, but in response: no friends.

AI is not capable of being my friend, as it doesn't pass the first, most basic requirement: it isn't a person.

Would I welcome more people into my life as friends? Sure. But while I cherish the friends I have, I certainly don't need more. Not just to "have".

And I sure as hell have no need or desire for the empty "friendship" of spicy auto complete.

A website being used in a web browser seems to you like an edge case?! Really?

If that's really a common view, we really did lose the plot.

> I do miss silence!

Yeah, me too.

Mine is most likely from cumulative exposure to loud noise w/o protection before I was 20 (power tools, firearms, fireworks, live rock, punk, & heavy metal, etc.). That or the time I had a bad ear infection with a perforated ear drum (possibly cause by a Cacophony show in a little dive bar).

I used to hear my own pulse, especially when I would meditate, but no chance of that now, with my constant companion high pitched whine.

Stress, excessive alchohol, loud noises, or extended use of earplugs as noise suppression are all sure fire ways for it to make it more severe, but at least the latter isn't as bad, helps avoid the effects of loud noise, and usually the levels go back to "normal" soon after. Excessive alcohol is easy enough to avoid, so that just leaves stress. That's ... less easy to avoid.

Sorry to hear about your particular affliction. At least if it were just one sound it'd be a little easier to occasionally mask or tune out.

One thing that happens to me during particularly bad flare ups (like right now -- is it just me or does thinking about it make it worse?) is that I think I hear things nearby, but it's either mishearing something faint or complete audio hallucinations. One annoyance on top of another!

And yes, the best time to start wearing hearing protection is before your first exposure to potentially damaging noise, but the next best is now!

It's almost certainly my own damn fault I have it, but after at least 35-40 years dealing with it,tinitus sure as hell isn't my friend.

Mine is high pitched, and varries in intensity but has gotten worse lately. Sometimes it makes jus existing down right hard, but usually it's only moderately annoying and I can mostly ignore it.

I've tried an assortment of sound based methods to mask it or train my brain to tune it out, but nothing has worked more than fleetingly.

The only thing that reliably gives me a break is if I can really focus on something. Music (passive or active), cooking, and programming are the most reliable, but sometimes reading, gaming, or good conversation works. Usually, though, everything is done with a constant backing track of flyback transformer whine.

Wear hearing protection, kids, or you may well live to regret it!