It actually kind of did for a lot of people. Streaming was cheap, available, and convenient.
Now it's none of those three. Once again, choosing not to pirate is just an objectively wrong choice. It's a worse experience, with worse quality, worse availability, and at a higher price tag.
> Choosing not to pirate is just an objectively wrong choice. It's a worse experience, with worse quality, worse availability, and at a higher price tag.
Choosing not to pirate and not to consume simultaneously is not necessarily a wrong choice. A difficult one? Yes. But I propose that it could be beneficial for your mental (and maybe physical) health.
This is the approach I took with most things, so you're right. But still, TV can be some of the highest quality and engaging media you can find. I mean, it's not short form slop or thinly veiled advertisment... If you look in the right places.
I went almost 20 years without sailing the high seas. It was the death of DVD Netflix that really did it for me.
With DVD, Netflix if something I wanted to watch wasn't on any of my streaming services, it was almost guaranteed to be on DVD Netflix. That fallback doesn't exist anymore.
Yeah, once I grew up and started making money, I quit pirating. Just didn't have a need for it anymore.
But when streaming started to really go down the toilet I already had a homelab so I spun up radarr and Jellyfin behind seven proxies for family-scale piracy. It's wonderful. This is a new golden age for piracy.
This. If the lead has no power to suspend people without pay, or to fire people, then he is not a lead. It's okay for this power to be indirect so long as it can be wielded when necessary.
He plead to a crime, which must’ve cut him off from most government work.
He seems to be on a PR tour now, I guess to try and get other work. Some people blast every connection on LinkedIn, he seems to take a different approach and guest on every testosterone fueled and non-fact checked podcast.
There's only one podcast that could conceivably fact-check him, and that's the official CIA podcast, and somehow I doubt very very much that they'd be interested in having him on.
I've thought about the same thing. My company specializes in blocking candidate fraud and we have yet to see anyone who's sentiment isn't "get these people out of here".
Employing a North Korean can create sanctions and criminal risk, so it's not worth it.
From what I've heard from people who have accidentally hired them though, many are great engineers.
I've been experimenting with "vibe coding" recently, and it's been interesting.
I was playing around with v0, and was able to very quickly get 'kinda sorta close-ish' to an application I've been wanting to build for a while, it was quite impressive.
But then the progress slowed right down, I experienced that familiar thing many others have where, once you get past a certain level of complexity, it's breaking things, removing features, re-introducing bugs all while burning through your credits.
It was at this point I remembered I'm actually a software engineer, so pushed the code it had written to github and pulled it down.
Total mess. Massive files, duplicated code all over the place, just a shitshow. I spent a day refactoring it so I could actually work with it, and am continuing to make progress on the base it built for me.
I think you can vibe code the basis of something really quickly, but the AI starts to get confused and trip over it's own shitty code. A human would take a step back and realise they need to do some refactoring, but AI just keeps adding to the pile.
It has saved me a good few months of work on this project, but to really get to a finished product it's going to be a few more months of my own work.
I think a lot of non-technical people are going to vibe-code themselves to ~60-70% of the way there and then hit a wall when the AI starts going around in circles, and they have no idea how to work with the generated code themselves.
> I think you can vibe code the basis of something really quickly, but the AI starts to get confused and trip over it's own shitty code
Or you can get back to vibecoding after fixing things and establishing a good base. then it helps you go faster until you feel like understanding and refactoring things because it got some things wrong. It is a continuous process.
Dunno man, I’m on a 17 and there are a ton of context menus that were clearly not tested properly on a screen this size (6.1” or something) - the “delete” option is nowhere to be seen for example, you have to scroll down to find it.
Guess they’ll want us to carry iPads in our pockets for these UIs to actually work :)
Regarding typing on the iPad - Apple has removed the landscape split keyboard on the iPad, making it even more awkward to use, but not on the iPad Mini.
AI just automates that
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