OpenStack already exists

Photography also works, or hell you can even photograph birds.

> That the dogs are just about always subordinates and subservient makes the relationship easier to work

You've clearly never lived with a border collie.

It is much more than that, egalitarianism is fundamental to French culture.

I guess software licenses are meaningless now since anyone can decide their llm clone is not derivative.

Currently some act like it is fine to translate a project and change the license.

Recently Casey Muratori said in a adjacent context that the microsoft AI push may be related to the fact that they have a long standing and elaborate codebase. A large historic software company could have advantages to train models. They could provide extra value with their IP.

Now their IP is potentially in their models and accessible to anyone. If they actually train models on their IP, anyone could implement their APIs and slap a GPL license on it.

At that point, things will get very interesting.

A lot of their IP has been leaked over the years anyways. Source code of Windows XP is easily available, and there was the 2022 leak that contained the sources of Bing, Bing Maps, Cortana, etc

Yes but it's illegal to replicate it.

A different story if LLMs lift license restrictions.

More is better.

They were already quite meaningless since nearly every FOSS copyright owner doesn't sue violators.

A legal fund would help?

People still use tea bags even though what they contain is a byproduct of tea production and barely counts as tea.

Then where does the real stuff go? The arabs, indians?? Tea bags are the mass market in Europe for example. Hardly anyone uses tea leaves (are they different?).

I know an Iranian in the Netherlands who says the tea there is mostly coloring.

India, China and Japan are the largest markets for quality whole leaf tea. Tea bags contain fannings and dust, the lowest quality byproducts of tea production. Try a single estate TGFOP and you’ll never want to drink tea from a bag again.

Chinese tea is again a whole different world from Indian tea, and has a much broader spectrum of complexity. You could spend a lifetime learning about Chinese tea.

I've heard the exact opposite about India, which is that they export all their best quality tea.

But you're evidently talking about green tea, and maybe not black tea. That might explain the contradiction.

In central Europe I have at least one shop that sells loose leaf tea in walking distance, and multiple ones in ordering range but still local(ish). Prices per 100 grams are about twice as gourmet coffee, but you use less quantity so it lasts longer. So check your neighbourhood internet. :)

My knowledge of this from a long time ago and narrow, but I can give you a rough picture.

Different countries do buy different types and qualities of tea. The US is big market for low quality (dust, stalks) tea for tea bags.

Countries that like strong sweet tea with lots of milk buy tea that is low grown (i.e. lower elevations) and processed using the "cut, torn curled" process rather than the older "orthodox" process. High grown (on mountains) tea is better for those who drink it without milk.

Leaves do tend to be higher quality and they have grades reflecting the size of the pieces. There is a standard system which is marked on some types of tea.

It is usual to pluck two leaves and a bud. Plucking more would add a lot of stalk which lower quality. Plucking or using just a bud produces a very delicate flavour (sivlertips). High grown silvertips is good with

Most tea is blended so will contain a mix of different things.

To me, sounds like it's a great thing that we waste less agricultural output and have goods available at different price points.

Yes, there’s a huge market in the UK, Australia and New Zealand for low quality tea.

Most tea bags aren't trying to be tea as in camellia sinensis but rather herbal infusions. Nothing wrong with that.

Capitalism subsumes all culture, even counter culture, destroys its essence and commodifies it.

Well said.

I think the only reason I remain staunchly independent is because I've never found anything that has had enough common ground with enough people to allow me to profit (to any degree whatsoever) in such a way as to corrupt the core of "me". Oddly I find that the less my venn diagram overlaps with others, the more I like my venn diagram and the more committed I am to it. If other people start agreeing with me, I tend to question where I might be wrong.

UC Berkeley just banned the use of AI for conceptualising, outlining, drafting, revising, translating, or editing student work.

How about critiquing? Like, the moral equivalent of an editor pointing out issues and/or suggesting alterations? I think it would still be the student doing all the things you pointed out, but I suspect there's a fair amount of leeway in the interpretation of each of those.

> LLMs to drive NPC dialog

Far more interested in dialog and characters developed by a writer - simulation is boring

>Far more interested in dialog and characters developed by a writer - simulation is boring

It entirely depends on the situation. Background NPCs that just have conversations among themselves would be a great use of LLMs to make the world feel more immersive. Obviously you never want to directly engage the player with LLM generated writing.