He paid me to create the icon for it, which was my first paid graphic design job: https://www.noio.nl/2012/10/pass-creator-app-icon/

Thanks Paul.. good times!

It's a good thing then, that corporations have such a good reputation for never externalizing the costs their products inflict on society & the planet.

Spending some time in Germany from Holland I notice there is a significant difference in cycling etiquette :)

Especially regarding “passing a cyclist” which also touches on the essential difficulty with having only one “ring” sound.

Always when Germans pass me on the bike and they ring I get slightly annoyed because I interpret it as a “get out of the way” ring, and I feel like there is enough space. But perhaps it’s just the cautious “don’t do anything unexpected” ring.

A Dutch person would rarely ring at another cyclist in the former way. But they also might be less safety focused while cycling (see also: helmet usage). Or we have safer infrastructure already.

On a road bike, however, I too ring at pedestrians “preemptively”. For sure GPs remark of “if you need to ring you’re going too fast” applies here but that’s the essence of road cycling.

Ironically I’m also annoyed when road cyclists ring at me for the same reason.

Just shows the case for having 2 clearly different types of rings.

(Also for cars to have a “thank you” horn, haha)

Which is unfair of course. A) I don’t even know whether it was actually was written by AI and B) even if it was, it still encapsulates a human’s potentially worthwhile thoughts and experiences.

But.. undeniably genAI will lead to a much greater volume of text being written so we’ll all have to be even more selective in what we read and what not?

Is this comment ridiculing critique of AI by comparing it to critique of writing?

Or.. is it invoking Socrates as an eloquent description of a "brain on ChatGPT".

I guess the former? But I can easily read it as the latter, too.

This is what I’d call ‘programming’. Which you’ll still be doing even if the AI is writing the code.

The question is whether you can become good/better at programming without writing code?

There was a part of the suggestions that I liked! The algorithm was working for me!

Now it’s 100% pure toxic outrage bait.

I.e. reducing compatibility with Excel to make it harder to just leave with your data.

I could be wrong.

I use print to PDF to generate a version that it can handle.

(That does not say anything about whether it removes metadata though, just that it’s not the same file)

Thanks for chiming in :)

I’m actually working on a plug-in for Blender to enable some of this workflow where you can just straight paint on your models :)

I don't really care if they sell my phone number, it's already out there, I don't consider it private data anymore.

Why not take the revenue they have and provide a good, sustainable service for that income? Why does it always have to be growth or bust?