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Also children probably don't care.

yeah, but zero chance of that happening unfortunately.

Now that I've read that link (well... a bit, I just couldn't at a certain point) I totally understand this comment.

Sadly, I'm seeing a LOT of this kinda of usage. So much so, I know a couple people that brag about how many they have running at time same time, pretty much all the time.

THIS, I can barely remember a time with lifetimes or the borrow checker caused me undue suffering but can recall countless times that abstractions (often in the async world) did and sometimes still do.

Hell yes, I love this and bandcamp so much more for this stance!

So many creator platforms are becoming slop factories.

Insert: "You were supposed to defeat the Sith, not join them!" meme here...

I agree with you here, it feels like management said: "well, we have to do SOMETHING!" and this is what they chose: push more of the burden on to the developers giving away stuff for free when the burden should be on the developers and companies consuming the stuff for free.

I used Codex and Claude with Obsidian recently for two tasks:

1. To migrate my hand-rolled HTML site over so I could publish it with Quartz.

2. To research a large multi-hundred git repo code base and build up personal. internal documentation I can search and reference.

SAME, I thought there was a bit flip in the files or something.

> We eliminated download cards a while ago because the redemption rate was so low.

Oh. my. gosh. This has been driving me NUTS recently. Please please please here me out. The first dozen or so records I bought were of albums I already owned digitally, as FLAC so I was one of those kinds of people that didn't redeem the downloads. I wanted to buy my faves, stuff that I knew I'd love to listen to on vinyl forever. Now that I'm buying brand new stuff, that I don't have digital copies of I've noticed they rarely, rarely, if ever include a download link and so I had to renew my dang apple music subscription to listen to albums I already own when I'm away from my record player and its started to really turn me off from buying any records outside of bandcamp (where you always get the digital version too.)

I listen to FLAC's mostly (high quality, loseless audio files - CD quality or better) most of my collection has come from ripping CDs I owned or checked out from the library or albums bought on bandcamp, quobuz, and ototoy.

I use Rhythmbox to listen to files on my PC (Linux) - I think they have/had a Windows port at some point. VLC works too but is more cumbersome for large libraries on desktop IMHO. But VLC is actually pretty good on Mobile (iOS/Andriod.) besides the pain of syncing files over to iOS.

I splurged on a dedicated DAP (Digital Audio Player) last year that I'm mostly happy with: a HiBY R1 (my two complaints are: 1. for whatever reason it refuses to pair to my car's bluetooth, no issues pairing to numerous other devices. 2. It doesn't remember what you were last playing when it shuts off.)

I don't smoke or consume nicotine usually, but a few times over the past decade or so I have picked up a pack of nicotine gum to help boost focus for long days. I never got addicted and have mostly replaced the practice with a brisk walk for a few blocks. I might have done this like... 5 or 6 times in the past decade.

The one place I would still use it, if I ever find myself in this situation again, is on long trips involving an international flight where after being shot across the ocean I'm expected to show up in a disoriented state in front of customers and work together on something.

> Chatgpt as a teacher is seriously a super power.

I think this is by far, my favorite thing about LLMs. As a person who prefers self-learning I can significantly increase depth, breadth, and speed of learning or researching any topic now. Its absolutely terrible for a large number of topics but in the very least it can usually point me in a general direction faster than anything else.

I worked on an legacy application that did this as a stop-gap as CSRF tokens were being implemented and it just kept both approaches.