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I haven't seen functionality to view multiple channels at the same time in any modern chat application, so I can't exactly blame discord for not having that.

Right click on the server icon or header, then per-server profile. Completely reasonable to me, and I don't think it has ever not been there since they introduced it.

Shop is where they sell customization stuff.

Quests let you earn currency you can use to buy customization stuff or nitro instead of real money.

I don't think there's a significantly better way to do whatever they are doing, and I don't see anything particularly objectionable about any of it.

Add custom emojis and stickers to that.

Kind of baffles me that people still make chat apps without those.

I've been using it since 2016, and none of the new features that I don't use have negatively impacted me.

Discord is by far my favorite communication platform across anything I used in my entire life, nothing else comes even close in terms of feature set. It also helps that almost everyone I like is there. I'm forced to have whatsapp and telegram to communicate with the general population and I wouldn't use them if I didn't have to.

I have never felt sense of accomplishment from paid work in my entire life. The only times I got anything resembling that was from unmonetizable hobbies.

I find it unlikely that governments will just let majority of people starve to death. Both due to unrest and because someone has be able to buy stuff for the economy to function. UBI seems inevitable to me.

But also, I'm an antinatalist for unrelated reasons so would not have children either way.

I would never consider any functional piece of software or its source code art. Something like brainfuck language and programs in it can be art-adjacent to me, but they don't fall under functional.

Some buildings are works of art, but there are plenty that are clearly not. I doubt anyone considers a typical big box store or a commieblock art. To me, all functional software is equivalent to a mass-produced building on art scale.

Completely disagree. Programming is engineering. Almost all software in existence exists to solve problems, and almost all interaction with software are with the end product, rather than the code. For code to be qualify as art, the definition of art has to be diluted to the point of meaninglessness. Is an Ikea cabinet art too?

Even when models are capable of producing convincing illustrations in any style, it's still generally easy to tell what's AI generated most of the time due to lack of unique artist's style, taste, and meaning. There's nothing that makes an AI-generated piece of software worse than a human-written one.

Personally, I also hate my job less because of AI. I get to focus on solving actual problems, architecture, and code quality. Almost all pre-AI code at my company was just layers of hacks upon hacks. With AI, I actually get to write code that's up to my standards because doing things properly is nearly free in terms of time and effort.

I subscribe when there's a project I want to work on. I don't bother with local models because there's nothing worthwhile I could run on my machine (16GB+32GB RAM) with enough left for a development environment and a browser.

OpenCode Go is only $10 a month, so it's a no-brainer.

Russians won't storm anything, but if you observe their actual behavior, it's easy to see that they don't attribute their problems to Ukraine. No one is volunteering to go fight there without very high signup bonuses and salaries.

Russians may believe a lot of bullshit from TV, but when it comes to decisions that impact their own life, they act surprisingly rationally, and become very skeptical of anything the government says.

Ukraine has backups and redundancy in allied countries. Russia has been doing the opposite recently, trying to reduce their dependence on foreign infrastructure, which now bites them in the ass since it concentrates them into a small number of physical locations in strike range of Ukraine.

OpenRouter is full of inference providers for open weight models that are only months behind models like Opus, with a fraction of their price per token. And those inference providers don't do charity.

If optimizing inference was a priority, OpenAI and Anthropic could also focus on it and get the prices down. They are just focusing on their dumb AGI race instead.

>Any if you are lying about the process - well If Google doesn't like your App or anything about you in the future, they can just delete whatever your App is citing false claims on your side.

They could do that for any reason or no reason at all anyway even without the testing requirement.

>Then why have it in the first place?

The inconvenience/effort is probably the point, likely to discourage people who aren't willing to put at least that much effort.

>and hope I don't get banned for using unauthentic testers.

I doubt Google cares about this, since they let apps for these testing groups into play store. Those apps organize people into groups, provide play store links, and buttons to open other people's apps, so all you do is just open and close each app once a day.

Since this takes like 30 minutes total over 14 days, I'd rather do that than pay $100 forever since I'm not made of money and it's less time than it would take me to earn $100 at my job even once.

It sucks, but it's more of a time gate and an inconvenience than an actual barrier. There are communities/apps where people do this for each other in an organized way, so you're pretty much guaranteed to pass after 14 days.

I published my first app a few months ago, and I hated 14 days part more than 12 people part.

Google take $25 once, Apple takes $100 every year. For hobby projects, the former is reasonable, and the latter is a dealbreaker.

I'm surprised Apple doesn't make you scan your ID since there are laws that force both Apple and Google to publish real names of developers on app store pages. And address too, if you charge money.

Russia isn't slow because it's methodical, it's just throwing all of the bodies it can buy at the problem, and the small advancements they get is what they buy with tens of thousands casualties per month. This is doing significant macroeconomic damage to Russia.

Years to capture Donbass is an absolutely pathetic rate of advance for an army that was supposed to be second in the world, fighting a war on its border.

Ukraine is large and conquering all of it would be a massive challenge for any army, but relative to resources Russia has available to it, its performance is awful.

Russia is on equal footing with a country third of its size that is supported by a small fraction of NATO's GDP. You can barely tell the difference between a territorial control map from 2023 and 2026. Neither side is capable of achieving its goals through military action.

Ukraine us unlikely to get back most of the territory it lost in 2022, but Russia is also unlikely to even finish capturing the remaining parts of the Donetsk oblast, let alone the rest of Ukraine. It's taking Russia months/years to capture settlements with just thousands of prewar population. Donetsk oblast still has a heavily fortified urban area with a prewar population of 500k under Ukrainian control.

The way it looks to me, the set of people who know what dots/muse actually do and why the are useful, and the set of people who don't use computers, don't overlap much.

I don't think you'll be able to make most non-tech savvy general population understand what those services do that a regular chat window does not.

I considered getting a Snapdragon X2E laptop, but the prices were so unattractive for otherwise similar specs that I went with X86.

Firefox reading mode works without issues for me on that page. But can confirm I see the same thing in Chrome.

We'll probably get there, once frontier labs RL the fuck out of AI agents sitting in meetings and interpreting incoherent ramblings of business majors into actionable requirements. That's the biggest value human devs currently provide.

Yes, AI for now has significant code quality issues, but that's mostly because it lacks agency to take care of code quality unless you explicitly tell it to. It is good at refactoring its own messes when you even vaguely ask for it. So while something like Astra still needs supervision to produce decent code, I expect that in a year or two it will be unnecessary.

I have seen a decent amount of clearly AI generated software that's useful, would likely not have been made without AI, and is better for for being AI generated. With AI, people make improvements that they would have never have bothered spending time to do manually. If anything, having uncharacteristically good "production value" in a clearly hobby project is how I typically spot AI use in projects that aren't obvious vibe coded slop.

The code itself may or may not be spaghetti. Not that I care as a user. User experience and code quality had never a particularly strong correlation even before AI.

No. Before AI, I have never wrote any code outside of work because nothing I could do in a reasonable time would be worth the effort.

With AI, if there's software I wish existed, I can make it happen without making it an unpaid second job.

Isn't the main issue that the audio you're compressing over bluetooth, like spotify streams, is already compressed? As far as I know, compressing already compressed audio compounds artifacts in the same way re-saving a JPEG does.

I switched to Firefox when chrome announced manifest v3, and I'm still happy with it. Not only I get a browser with a real adblock, now that I got used to multi-account containers, I can't go back to chrome since it has no good equivalent. And I'm also using it on mobile since it's one of the few mobile browsers with extensions too.

Noise reduction benefit is marginal. Most of the noise comes from tires rather than the engine. At 30 km/h tires are louder than the engine, so an EV driving at 50 km/h, which is the typical city speed limit, isn't any quieter than an ICE car.

In this particular case, it would be harder to produce a fake signature from a non-existent person if the signatures in questions were digital and backed by a national identity number. The kind of that I'm submitting when signing documents at work.

I'll have you know I started picking salads instead of fries in combo meals the moment they became available.

Not that I'm a frequent customer, either before or after.