God forbid someone needs to send a legally required letter like a bankruptcy or foreclosure notification…

Al Franken

Definitely agreed, but if AI can, I dunno, generate a list of pantone colors in a work, that leaves the actual art up to the artist.

That’s what I thought, it allows creatives to be creative.

Kind of like if you had an art program you could ask for “Give me a paint palette with the colors from Starry Night.”

You still have to have the artistic talent to make use of them, it’s not going to help you there, but it saves you hours of research and mixing.

I’m biased because of the work my kid does in the field. It’s paying his mortgage so… 😉

PERSONALLY, not a fan, I think it’s a dangerous abrogation of personal responsibility… BUT…

I do think I found a legitimate creative use for it.

There’s an AI powered app for a specific brand of guitar amplifier. If you want your guitar to sound like a particular artist or a particular song, you tell it via a natural language input and it does all the adjustments for you.

You STILL have to have the personal talent to, you know, PLAY the guitar, but it saves you hours of fiddling with dials and figuring out what effects and pedals to apply to get the sound you’re looking for.

Video, same player, same guitar, same amp, multiple sounds:

https://youtube.com/shorts/wsGj4zsfOuQ

I was a primary source for “The FAQ Manual of Style” in 1996.

Yeah, weird how he skipped the universally acclaimed game of the year.

It’s not #1, it’s alphabetical. 😉

So manufacturers can bill you monthly for the same features…

Always use the indefinite article… “a”, never “your”. 😉

“TADA!” for short…

So you had the Shazam! TV show based on the Captain Marvel comic book character…

https://youtu.be/9NLuRZ3A76U

Which spun off the Isis TV show…

https://youtu.be/FdBRLV6PGro

Which then turned into a new comic character…

“But on the flip side, my family and friends will see a scary looking command and immediately be put off.”

More to that… these are exactly the people we have all been telling “If you see someone on the internet telling you ‘type this!’ DON’T DO IT!”

ALT-F4 being the benign one.

rm -rf / --no-preserve-root - not so benign.

I remember a story of someone getting the recursive tag wrong on the chmod command and managed to chmod 000 themselves out of everything on the system… including chmod.

For years and years the barrier to entry was mom or gramma buying a clipart CD for $4.99 at the grocery store, bringing it home, and expecting it to work.

Now that’s not a thing anymore, but they still aren’t using it. So I guess the barrier to entry now is they see that ad for the casino app that “pays you real money” and they expect to download it and expect it to work.

Until mom and grandmom can load up the computer with all sorts of malware that breaks everything, they really aren’t interested.

When we start fighting wars over fresh water, Trumps plans for Canada and Greenland are going to be seen as genius…

Who defines “valueless”? In my opinion, anyone who says something like that has no value and so…

Freestyle Libre was my first CGM and as soon as I had the opportunity to switch to Dexcom, I did.

Each new sensor was wildly low or wildly high, with no option to calibrate. It was really only good for measuring changes, not the actual glucose reading itself.

So "Oh, it’s going up, +5, +10, +20… probably accurate, but is it 80, 180, or 240? Use a finger stick to know for sure.

The power differential makes it rape.