Live shows are the biggest part of music anyway

Maybe I'm just old (definitely I'm just old) but the live music experience has been completely destroyed for me, between bat-shit-crazy high ticket prices and the absolute collapse of concert-goer decorum. Who would have thought that a bunch of high, adolescent punks in the 80s or 90s would be more appropriately behaved than the 35-yr-old mom pushing past only to stand directly in front to film the entire show over her head on her iPhone, with a few breaks to live-tweet her awesome experience on social media?

AI music is generally not going to be copyrightable unless they can show genuine human creativity was involved. So if a song is 100% AI, you could just go around performing it or straight up selling copies yourself and there's nothing* they could do about it. Though I do wonder if a human writes the lyrics, but AI generates all the music parts, if it becomes sufficiently human for copyright. Because the lyrics at that point would be actual creativity.

* I am not a lawyer, and this won't stop them from possibly trying to sue you or even winning depending on the situation. Or trying to prove there is human ingenuity involved. Do at your own peril.

Every time I end up trying an app for things like this, I end up missing tabs.

There is no reason they can’t have a native tab navigator. It kills me that Google maps app doesn’t have tabs.

I try to explain it as trying to shape your mouth as if you were saying e but say o instead.

> I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one.

First known use in English comes from a 1658 translation of Blaise Pascal in 1657

> Je n’ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n’ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte.

translated to

> I had not made this longer then the rest, but that I had not the leisure to make it shorter then it is.

(note the archaic then)

This was a popular piece of wit at the time.

Mark Twain wrote something similar a hundred years later

> You'll have to excuse my lengthiness - the reason I dread writing letters is because I am so apt to get to slinging wisdom & forget to let up. Thus much precious time is lost.

But it's still quite different.

There is a great article about this one on quoteinvestigator! https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/04/28/shorter-letter/

Hmm… this started as an admonition for using then and than interchangeably. I see folks get it wrong unintentionally a lot… then i re-read your parenthetical and pulled up etymonline and had my mind blown a bit.[0]

Seems everything old is new again.

[0] https://www.etymonline.com/word/than

Agreed this is not even 4d Wolfenstein but still a really neat concept

the string is lowercased before the regex is run, fwiw

Smart, that way they will never know when you're shouting at them.

Trivers hasn't been relevant since the 70s.

I hadn't even seen the details of the Epstein emails and related comments of his, that are objectively pretty awful.

One of my favorite things from ATL/WTL was the _ASSERT_E macro which additionally converts the source expression to text for a better message to be logged

> A long time ago in the Microsoft C (and later C++) dev envs there were macros named "min" and "max", which I thought were terrible names for macros.

Yeah, this is still in windows.h unless you #define NOMINMAX

I remember having to guard against this in some inline code by surrounding the c++ calls with parenthesis, eg `(std::min)(a, b)`

Yep. There's tons of others as as well. 16-bit x86 enjoyers will be happy to know there are `near` and `far` macros whose primary purpose in 2026 is to break my projection matrices. And of course every Win32 function that takes strings has a macro that resolves it to either the UTF-16 or ASCII variant, so your custom CreateWindow is now a CreateWindowA, tough luck buddy.

I usually wrap Windows.h in a header followed by 100 #undefs to contain the disease.

I actually just put some wood in the backyard for them so they can chill out there and they stopped burrowing in my house and porch etc. I'm still not sure why they stopped rather than just do both, but I kept patching up their holes so maybe we have an understanding somehow.