A_Duck

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by A_Duck 2mo ago
Analogous statement: Evian use 1.25 million litres of water per employee per year. When can we expect other non-bottled-water corporations to rise to this level of water usage?
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by A_Duck 3mo ago
There is a real problem here to be solved. Whenever I speak to someone who's planning to vote Reform (UK hard-right party) their views are primarily shaped by seeing AI slop videos on TikTok/Instagram, showing immigrants doing c
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by A_Duck 4mo ago
$1 removing the slash, $11,999 knowing where to remove the slash from
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Ask HN: Anyone replaced enterprise email marketing with something self-built?
2 points by A_Duck 4mo ago|0 comments
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by A_Duck 5mo ago
Substack?
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by A_Duck 5mo ago
If your competitor is dumping (selling for an unsustainably low price) then competing your way to bankruptcy is not the right option
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by A_Duck 5mo ago
What's the author trying to say here? It's good that the law isn't the only line between good and evil. A bit of stigma is a bottom-up way for people to shape society. If nobody invites you to dinner parties because you run a
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by A_Duck 6mo ago
Payment links still seem to be working. Just the dashboard?
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LaGuardia crash resulted from government shutdown and 3,500 missing controllers(deanblundell.substack.com)
7 points by A_Duck 6mo ago|1 comments
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by A_Duck 6mo ago
Crypto isn't bad because it failed to make early adopters rich — it did make them rich. It's bad because it has horrible externalities in scams, war crimes / sanctions evasion, organised crime — which most of those early adop
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by A_Duck 6mo ago
I'm upvoting because it's useful to see and debate this viewpoint — shared by many engineers I know I do think it's a bad take though. Not all new trends are the same: the metaverse was an obvious flop and crypto hasn't
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by A_Duck 6mo ago
What a lovely article. There's a strong correlation between the energy you put out into the world and what you get back. I often think that as I end up confirming a grumpy/aggressive person's expectation I'll be a bad cu
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Who's a Better Writer: A.I. Or Humans? Take Our Quiz(nytimes.com)
1 points by A_Duck 6mo ago|1 comments
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by A_Duck 6mo ago
Interesting to see more of this thinking on Hacker News Perhaps one of the secondary effects of AI replacing developers will be mobilising a group of smart, motivated people to the left (It's always interesting to think of the secondar
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by A_Duck 6mo ago
A platform where bots-pretend-to-be-humans and another where humans-pretend-to-be-bots. A match made in heaven!
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by A_Duck 7mo ago
Is this correct — HGVs can go faster on dual carriageways than motorways? "UK speed limits for heavy vehicles are also more complex than most car drivers realise. Articulated trucks over 7.5 tonnes: 60 mph on dual carriageways, 50 mph
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by A_Duck 7mo ago
The idea is to discover new things you didn’t know you wanted to know - not consume more of the same
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Ask HN: Where Are the AI Communities?
2 points by A_Duck 8mo ago|1 comments
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by A_Duck 8mo ago
The 'Aerospace Corporation' job ad! "These are excellent opportunities for men ... An equal opportunity employer"
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by A_Duck 8mo ago
For fully remote workers, that few minutes chat before the meeting starts is one of the few opportunities for unstructured chat with their colleagues
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by A_Duck 8mo ago
In my own reasonableness spot check, what measures as 37dB on my phone is showing as 49dB on my laptop
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by A_Duck 8mo ago
Congratulations on building a nice-looking app that addresses a legitimate need. I'd like to see some proof that this is able to accurately measure noise level across a range of devices. The CDC have a sound meter app [1] which has bee
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by A_Duck 8mo ago
One thing we know is that few of the people debating this have actually read Plato's Symposium A thing you can right now do is read it (1-2 hours): https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1600/1600-h/1600-h.htm#l
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by A_Duck 8mo ago
Yes, it's potentially a case of a country taken in by their own propaganda We do a lot of important and meaningful work around the world to support democracy, peace and stability. This isn't selfless — it's to create a market
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by A_Duck 8mo ago
The real motivation isn't geopolitical, but signalling to domestic voters that Trump is truly 'America first' and will sabotage any other country if it gets American voters an extra dollar The resource question is a red herri
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by A_Duck 8mo ago
Also discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46513173
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by A_Duck 8mo ago
Programmable logic toys like this formed the way I see the world — a system of states, conditional flow between states and the chance to design, understand and debug the system. I had Lego Mindstorms and Gen X had Logo/Turtle. With AI
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by A_Duck 8mo ago
The way to ensure good code quality is: have engineers who are secure in their jobs to push back, who get time to develop and benefit from a good reputation, and who feel a strong ownership of the code Spoiler: AI isn't going to help w
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by A_Duck 8mo ago
I expect a second-order effect of cheap GLP-1s ending obesity will be to relieve the pressure on food manufacturers to make their products actually healthier There are many other risks* than obesity from consuming UPFs, and we may find we&#
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by A_Duck 9mo ago
Explain Like I'm Hacker News

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