Oh, god no. There was this girl I knew years and years ago who wasn’t even a 10/10. She was cute, but wasn’t even under consideration when I found out how dumb she was.

We were friendly, but I’d have to stop the conversation to define what I thought were basic vocabulary words.

Words like “consideration” and “vocabulary”.

One of my favorite artists has his gear list on his website:

https://smither.com/etc/gear-bag/

"Pickup
Who knows what they put in those things?

DI
Who cares?"

LOL.

It’s part of the creative process, but it’s also it’s own rabbit hole. 😉 I do like having 42 simulated amps and 56 simulated effects pedals on tap without spending 10s of thousands of dollars, but fiddling with them is it’s own deal aside from playing and is, apparently, never ending. LOL.

But OTOH, if I want to try my hand at a specific song, I can get there without having to research every last bit of tech that went into it.

You’re right though, locking in “my own sound” is still do-able. The manual selection is all still there.

There is an AI angle that COULD work it’s just unfortunate that nobody is using AI in this way.

Instead of replacing creatives the way it does now, it could be used as a tool to inform creatives.

For example, not linking the product because they aren’t paying me to shill for them, but there is a brand of AI enhanced guitar amplifier. You use the prompt in the app to tell it what sound you’re looking for and it will do all the amp and pedal settings to make that happen.

“jazz guitar tone with a touch of reverb” or even specific bands and songs.

You STILL have to be able to play the guitar, it’s not going to do that for you, but it will save you hours of knob twiddling and pedal swapping to get the sound (or an approximation of the sound) you’re looking for.

Applying this to other creative fields, a novelist could use it to generate character names, or an artist could use it to come up with a color palette. I don’t think either of those would be objectionable because the creative still controls what happens after the fact.

It’s when the slop starts writing, painting, or playing for you that it becomes a problem and that’s where we are now.

Think of all the AOL discs eliminated! 😉

The ICE agent PLACED HIMSELF THERE. You don’t get to claim self defense when you create the danger.

What an officer “feels” is (supposed to be) irrelevant. They aren’t supposed to make fatal decisions on feelings.

And, again, you’re misrepresenting the videos. None of them show contact with the agent. Common sense should tell you that he couldn’t get 3 shots on target if he’d just been hit by a vehicle.

He fired the first shot, which hit the left hand edge of the windshield, and as the vehicle was turning away from him, more shots through the open drivers side window.

Again, you’re completely incorrect as shown literally over and over again:

1/2 hour analysis jumped to the relevant bit:

https://youtu.be/7AQbhes-Ntw#t=5m2s

He was not in danger, he was not hit by the car, he drew his gun before it was moving forward, the first shot was off to the side and the other shots went through the open window as it was turning away from him.

Make it harder. Remove the gui. Require UNIX knowledge. Command line only.

Keep the mouth breathers out.

Video links are not allowed.

The question I put to management is “What do you want me to use AI for?”

I can’t get a consistent answer. Lots of stuff unrelated to my job duties. “Well, it’s so easy to make Facebook ads!” - “You know that’s not a thing I do, right?”

Released to FBI custody.

Into the Heart of Borneo and In Trouble Again by Redmond O’Hanlon.

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/123474/into-the-heart-of-borneo-by-redmond-ohanlon/

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/123475/in-trouble-again-by-redmond-ohanlon/

To be clear, O’Hanlon was a natural history book REVIEWER, before all this. His editor decided, in a fit of whimsy, to pack him up and send him to Borneo for two months.

"As a former academic and a natural history book reviewer I was astonished to discover, on being threatened with a two-month exile to the primary jungles of Borneo, just how fast a man can read.

Powerful as your scholarly instincts may be, there is no matching the strength of that irrational desire to find a means of keeping your head upon your shoulders; of retaining your frontal appendage in its accustomed place; of barring 1,700 different species of parasitic worm from your bloodstream and Wagler’s pit viper from just about anywhere; of removing small, black, wild-boar ticks from your crutch with minimum discomfort (you do it with Sellotape); of declining to wear a globulating necklace of leeches all day long; of sidestepping amoebic and basillary dysentery, yellow and blackwater and dengue fevers, malaria, cholera, typhoid, rabies, hepatitis, tuberculosis and the crocodile (thumbs in its eyes, if you have time, they say)."

The book is an absolute delight and when he survived, returned, and submitted it, his reward was to be sent to the Amazon for FOUR months.

He did a third book in the Congo which is not a light and friendly read. I’m glad I read it, but it’s absolutely horrifying on multiple levels.

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/123476/no-mercy-by-redmond-ohanlon/

His 4th book, Trawler, isn’t as morose as No Mercy, but it’s not light and friendly either. Basically “Deadliest Catch: The Book”.

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/123477/trawler-by-redmond-ohanlon/

I’ve said this for years… There was no “gaming crash”, people just started playing games on the C-64.

No, it didn’t. The wheels were cranked all the way over to the right, the agent was standing in front of the drivers side headlight, so when the car pulled forward, it was turning away from him.

We know this because only the first shot went through the windshield, the others went through the open drivers side window.

So as the vehicle turned away from him, and he was firing, one hit the very edge of the windshield, the others went through the open window, killing her.

You buy soccer flops too? The wheels were turned away from him and no contact was made.

https://youtu.be/cTIuzGRkunQ

The ICE agent was not hit by the car, you can see that in the footage he recorded himself. Why are you lying for them?

https://youtu.be/rwwgUiNVSmc#t=5m19s