Madmallard

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by Madmallard 5d ago
I think every one of these companies is just trying to get away with as much information theft as they possibly can get away with
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by Madmallard 5d ago
If the companies weren't trying to destroy trust and take everything away from everyone these things would never have much traction but now they deserve to have more than ever.
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by Madmallard 6d ago
I play Dance Dance Revolution. Doing hard songs in that game is basically the definition of high intensity interval training. And it's fun!
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by Madmallard 6d ago
Let's see: 1.) The tool they made is only possible by stealing the assets of everyone on the planet that published them in a consumable fashion online or even in written form 2.) They are destroying books they use to train with 3.) The
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by Madmallard 10d ago
Interesting how we got frank propaganda on the front page now. Pretty sad. There are no jobs. Not real jobs.
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by Madmallard 15d ago
This a covert op to buttress LLM support by planting this article and having people say it's just like compacting. The hype is getting more elaborate.
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by Madmallard 15d ago
yes i have written a jillion lines with AI as well i'm a worse programmer now because of it
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by Madmallard 15d ago
Probably is. Unless you're the top 20% you're probably on the chopping block via RNG and sometimes just whole departments are getting sacked for 'automations'.
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by Madmallard 15d ago
Yup and the industry is worse than ever. Maybe you forgot that important tidbit? People are using them because they're being shoved down their throats and they're complacent. Software quality, maintainability, exploitability, mora
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by Madmallard 15d ago
Is it? They're borderline useless and certainly potentially inadvertently malicious for writing, customer service, speech to text, writing large amounts of complex code, therapy, medical diagnostics... the list goes on Sounds like you&
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by Madmallard 16d ago
where do u work that even hires juniors lol
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by Madmallard 19d ago
Because they're literally the devil
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by Madmallard 21d ago
what? why? seems pretty apt
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by Madmallard 22d ago
The fact that we had "The End of Programming" then "No one wants artisanal code anymore" and now "It's not the end of programming" Getting a really really artificial vibe about the content being pushed to
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by Madmallard 22d ago
First it was "The End of Programming" two hours ago. Now this one. Lol
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by Madmallard 23d ago
yes top of hacker news and loaded with tracking information and a popular game so likely to garner lots of attention
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by Madmallard 23d ago
I showed them my battle arena game in XNA at Amazon and it seemed to be a key thing that swayed the hiring manager
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by Madmallard 23d ago
I never understood this: 1.) restrooms for paying customers only 2.) defecating/urinating in public illegal How can both be true at the same time? I really hate how adversarial our society has become.
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by Madmallard 23d ago
I meticulously described the netcode structure for my tactics game and it's simple enough to just send over on web sockets and fable was still giving me an endless hydra of sync issues
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by Madmallard 24d ago
Because it's more reliable? They can use Claude better than you can for that matter
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by Madmallard 28d ago
Why would a dev be less likely to give you exactly what you ask for lmao that's completely wrong
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Ask HN: What are independent software contractors doing now?
15 points by Madmallard 29d ago|10 comments
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by Madmallard 1mo ago
If you haven't made games and can't show them on the spot you won't get hired in the gaming industry depending on role
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by Madmallard 1mo ago
Someone pin this and keep it mind for the actual weather patterns that happen later this year and compare the two.
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by Madmallard 1mo ago
The language is still ambiguous enough to cause issues. That's why Louis Rossman said just download Librewolf and be done with it.
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by Madmallard 1mo ago
Yeah, nah. From your own google search: https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/s/wo3T5ZB8ig https://youtu.be/-8bTquKjzos
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by Madmallard 1mo ago
proof?
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by Madmallard 1mo ago
okay and AI makes that easier than ever?
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by Madmallard 1mo ago
Do people not remember Firefox changing their terms of service last year and allowing them to sell your data to third parties? I don't get it did people forget? I switched over to LibreWolf and other browsers like that then and never l
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by Madmallard 1mo ago
Can't they just modify the browser itself with an injection into the executable surely there is a way around that

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