Yeah, cheating with resources or vision is disappointingly common. I remember the Green Tea AI for Starcraft 2 being pretty hard, but it looks like above "medium" it cheats (but the TL wiki does say "very easy", which will give you 10 minutes to set up, is equivalent to Blizzard's "harder").

I've seen standing desks that let you hang a hammock from the frame, but I have a feeling it makes for the worst hammock experience ever.

"meant to survive rain storms" doesn't really mean the same as "meant to survive flooding", especially not "meant to survive flooding with salt water". For example, a car survives outdoor weather year-round, but you probably wouldn't want to buy one that was submerged in a flood zone. This plant seems to be floating, though, so they stay above water regardless.

Do you have any specifics about the implementation that makes you say that the engineers have not considered this?

Putting aside the salt water, you'll also just have lots of crud and debris on the panels if they get over topped, which then requires cleaning. Unless the rain in that area is strong and consistent enough.

Seems like a weird location to me, but what do I know.

No, it's more like advertising asbestos-free talc.

Aerolamp insists that it's supposed to be pointed directly at "where people will spend time in the room", including tilting it down.

If it's mounted at the recommended 8.5 feet, it's ~impossible/extremely unlikely for the people in the room to get a dose that exceeds the 222nm threshold limit values set by ACGIH (see here https://uvmedico.com/research-and-publications/acgih-2021-th...). You can be standing around in the lamp's hotspot literally all day and still be fine. Check out this sim tool: https://illuminate.osluv.org/?preview_lamp=Aerolamp%20DevKit

But if you're itchy about direct exposure you can also just leave it horizontally on a high shelf or something and it'll still work pretty well. I see lots of people doing that just because they don't feel like buying mounting equipment. It'll just be more dependent on vertical air currents circulating in the room to work well so be super sure that you have a ceiling fan/HVAC/air filter running while using it. Doesn't need much air movement, just a bit, as long as the room air isn't totally still/stuffy.

I had the same experience until this year, when a shirt I got in the airport on the way home from Philly suddenly became a present for my girlfriend.

That's not the real Suno site.

> One day soon many musicians will be using AI assistance, and many won't tell you for fear of judgment.

Word on the street here in Nashville is that it's already the case. The songs getting published aren't AI-made, but there's AI assistance.

Auto tune uses a form of "AI", and has been used by most pop singers for a decade.

Auto tune is not what makes a song a hit. What make a song a hit is the fact that the person who injected the use of auto tune has taste.

This seems to fly over the heads of many. art is about taste.

The same argument applies to AI generated or assisted music. Anyone can write a prompt and get a song. It takes judgement and taste to pick a good song and choose to publish it.

"New technologies have the tendency to replace skills with judgement – it's not what you can do that counts, but what you choose to do, and this invites everyone to start crossing boundaries." - Brian Eno

> I assume that some of the music that's showing up in my Spotify feed is AI-generated but I've never noticed.

A lot of it is now, and it's frustrating to me. The worst part is that I'm not actually anti-AI-music. There's one or two "groups" ("producers"?) I've found where it's clearly AI but they've put a lot of work into making something worth listening to, but Spotify seems to have a "this sucker will listen to the cheap stuff" flag and now I'm drowning in tracks from people who paid for Suno and think that's enough.

I'm not sure about the flag :D but I've had pretty good results with always making sure to flag every artist in AI suggestions with "don't play". You have to visit the artist profile pages to do it though, so it remains a cat and mouse game, but I think that as long as they don't prevent it by force, doing this tends to improve the AI suggestions (of non-AI music).

Similar to YouTube slop.

If that would stop working, I'd cancel Spotify again.

Speaking of YouTube slop, I think Spotify has had its own system of preferring cheap muzak from labels they support since before GenAI music even took off, I think. Example label: Firefly entertainment (IIRC)

> Is it just me? I always felt like half of the people were stupid no matter what the situation. Did I miss a more complex part of Dilbert?

No, a lot of characters were clearly meant to be unlikable, but based on a kind of person that exists in real life. I don't think you were meant to care much for e.g. Topper.