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New comment by slyall in "YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos"

slyall — Thu, 28 May 2026 01:12:12 +0000

I've also seen people using the term "slop" for low quality human-generated content (lowbrow movies etc)

New comment by slyall in "Magical Realism: “Northern Exposure” 25 Years Later (2015)"

slyall — Mon, 18 May 2026 02:31:18 +0000

One of my favorite tunes ever is from Northern Exposure: Expeditions

The Silence by Mike Koglin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHDdM_0sotY

Yeah, I was/am a Depeche Mode fan

New comment by slyall in "The locals don't know"

slyall — Mon, 11 May 2026 03:52:42 +0000

Definitely agree in some cases. eg where I live ( Auckland, New Zealand ) plenty of people read stories in the local paper or facebook that highlight every single incident in the Central city. So they are scared to go there.

Reality is thousands of white-collar workers (including me), normal locals and many tourists of all ages. Small number of homeless. But no more dangerous than any other city (and a lot safer during the day and early evening )

How a $1k AWS Bill Made Me Redesign My ECS Architecture

slyall — Mon, 04 May 2026 11:50:43 +0000

Article URL: https://jch254.com/blog/lush-aural-treats-aws-cost-redesign/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48007509

Points: 5

# Comments: 2

New comment by slyall in "Spotify adds 'Verified' badges to distinguish human artists from AI"

slyall — Sat, 02 May 2026 04:19:44 +0000

But if you did the exercise 10 years ago you'd find the lyrics were originally about the songwriter's daughter and the band tweaked it to be able the the band manager's hypochondriac ex boyfriend.

Then they hired a session singer to sing it and mixed in several takes and then adjusted the sound with various tools to produce just the right sound. Plus the Chorus was actually from some country song from 1972 that had been completely changed

and the actual "band" is actually just two guys who hire session players to do most of the music while they handle the keyboard and mixing

New comment by slyall in "When your digital life vanishes"

slyall — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 08:29:41 +0000

I'm using it too. Unfortunately their Android support is a little rough these days. Their official client stopped being developed and while there are options it isn't straightforward

New comment by slyall in "Google Cloud customer wakes up to $18,000 bill despite $7 budget"

slyall — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 21:24:46 +0000

They charge for a lot of things "by the hour". Things like S3, load balancers, storage.

Deleting those when a customer hits a limit will lose customer data or remove things that might be hard to add back. The "I hit my AWS limit and they deleted all my data" headlines will result.

and excluding those things makes the limit soft again..

New comment by slyall in "Up to 8M Bees Are Living in an Underground Network Beneath This Cemetery"

slyall — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 07:29:04 +0000

20/68 is for human comfort/health.

New comment by slyall in "The "Passive Income" trap ate a generation of entrepreneurs"

slyall — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 21:58:36 +0000

Well it was bigger. But the people who used to get swept by MLMs are now selling drop-shipping, affiliate websites or blockchain.

New comment by slyall in "The peril of laziness lost"

slyall — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 22:08:32 +0000

A few do.

At the extreme end you'll get invited to conferences but further down you could have other products you are pushing. Even non-AI related that takes advantage of your "smart person" public persona.

New comment by slyall in "AI singer now occupies eleven spots on iTunes singles chart"

slyall — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:26:50 +0000

Pretty common for authors to get people to pre-order their books so when they go on sale they top the chart for that day (the book's release day) in their category.

New comment by slyall in "US reputation hits 'depths not seen this century' – and 'may never recover'"

slyall — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 23:42:23 +0000

There is a difference between "aligning with" and "trusting with your life"

New comment by slyall in "US reputation hits 'depths not seen this century' – and 'may never recover'"

slyall — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 23:36:47 +0000

The problem is that even if the US elects some nice centrist democrats for the 14 years every country is going to be thinking "What if they elect Trump v2?"

I mean the US already re-elected him after the first time so it wasn't a one off. US allies are already increasing defense spending and diversifying supply chains (especially for weapons) away from the US.

Would you bet the safety of your country on the US being stable going forward?

New comment by slyall in "Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer"

slyall — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 07:36:44 +0000

Where I live (New Zealand) Microsoft is a much larger percentage of IT infrastructure than say Bay Areas startups.

Companies are already used to working with Microsoft. Building on Microsoft's cloud feels natural.

New comment by slyall in "Wikipedia bans AI-generated content in its online encyclopedia"

slyall — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 21:43:26 +0000

This policy has been shared a lot by the anti-AI crowd over the last week. They are celebrating it as a major site saying no to AI.

It seems a smaller "win" than most think. Just discourages wholesale rewriting and creation of new articles using AI. Assistance with editing is explicitly allowed.

New comment by slyall in "The truth that haunts the Ramones: 'They sold more T-shirts than records'"

slyall — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 08:39:04 +0000

Today perhaps. But in the past the artists money from selling records. So the tour was to promote the album, rather than the other way around

New comment by slyall in "Afroman found not liable in defamation case"

slyall — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 06:07:08 +0000

So what happens to all the other cops that believe that but don't say it?

New comment by slyall in "Austin’s surge of new housing construction drove down rents"

slyall — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 02:41:20 +0000

Except you get exactly the same opposition in places where schools are funded by a higher level of government

and if anything you taxes will go down because they are now spread across more households.

New comment by slyall in "Terence Tao, at 8 years old (1984) [pdf]"

slyall — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 06:12:46 +0000

her?

New comment by slyall in "Grok Exposed a Porn Performer's Legal Name and Birthdate–Without Being Asked"

slyall — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 23:46:16 +0000

The same has played out with search engines like google for the last 20 odd years.

If some random person didn't like you they couldn't just casually (in 5 minutes) dredge up every controversial thing you ever said of that conviction from 15 years ago.