> And surprise surprise, the blog post in question appears to be very thinly disguised marketing for one of those third parties.

To be fair, there is no official Google announcement to link to. They seem to have announced this very quietly and it is easy for someone to go to the Widevine docs and build something around the server without realizing it’s going away.

For me it’s Ctrl + C / V. I will frequently hit Ctrl + C when I want to paste, and some software helpfully copies a blank line to the clipboard if nothing is selected, thus erasing whatever I copied.

Get a clipboard manager. Being able to access my last 20 copies instead of only 1 is definitely something I wish I set up a decade before I did.

Not only useful for mistakes but also just if you jeed to eg copy someone's bank info to separate fields without doing 4 switches from invoice to bank app

It’s builtin the OS now, via Spotlight.

It's buggy, had to go back to third party application.

Ha? Never had an issue personally. I’m not a heavy user of this feature anyways, so that does not mean much…

I miss shift-insert/shift-delete.

From the days when both hands were on the keyboard.

I think it can make sense for user-facing services. I host my web and database servers with AWS because unmanaged DBs can be a PITA, Amazon is peered with basically everyone, AWS is way more generous with network speeds than many dedicated / colo providers, and it’s easy to scale capacity up and down. Backend servers are hosted with cheaper providers though.

The government raised taxes, consumers paid the costs, and companies will take the spoils. I don’t think this is what people voting MAGA intended, but will they realize that they got screwed?

Most likely they will put the blame on the 'disloyal' supreme court and not on Trump.

> If he'd used Bic pens to write his plans for mass shootings, should Bic be held responsible?

I think the scale of the assistance is important. If his Bic pen was encouraging him to mass murder people, then Bic should absolutely be held accountable.

Tesla’s FSD has a storied history of problems with emergency vehicles.

I think “Make America Great Again” was effective because it means whatever the person hearing it wants it to mean, and there’s no obvious metric by which to measure its success.

The policies on the left tend to have a lot more nuance, which is much harder to fit on a hat.

I really hope the US electorate never forgives the Republican Party for the damage it’s done to this country, but I suspect that people’s memories will be short.

If the US public was inclined to “never forgive” those kind of offenses (or even to really fully reject them even once they no longer had dominant support) then the Democratic Party would have been destroyed for its role as the party of slavery and insurrection instead of surviving long enough to reject the bigotry that motivated those stances only to have the Republican Party immediately pick it up.

But if you already know how to 3D model manually, like the author does, why would you spend all that time trying to fix the AI output? For users capable of creating such outputs themselves, the time saving is the point.

If you don’t know how to do it manually then of course that time is well worth it.

It’s about getting to 90% more quickly and getting the job done at 80-90% quality in less time. Potentially an order of magnitude less. If you can do that you can do it again and end up making way more stuff and hopefully more money.

There’ll always be people you can buy handcrafted goods from, who swaeat over every detail. In fact that is my preference when I can afford it - but often I just need a job done so I’ll buy whatever is cheapest and gets the job done.

With AI what’s emerging is a category of “good enough, but way cheaper” products thanks to this mix of AI generated, then human-polished work.

It’s the same idea as using a video editing tool to splice together a bunch of AI videos into an ad, having never gone on site. And it’s quite often exactly what’s needed.

I understand that the market for hardware is insane right now, so it’s logical for prices to increase. But in a few years, when hardware prices are hopefully at a more reasonable level, will these providers reduce prices again or will we be eating these costs forever?