codeduck

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by codeduck 6d ago
if it walks like a duck and talks like a duck...
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by codeduck 6d ago
I feel like potential suffocation is not what I'd be most concerned about if I were in an atmosphere with high concentrations of gaseous ammonia.
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by codeduck 7d ago
"most of" being the key words.
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by codeduck 7d ago
Now show me an AI coming up with General Relativity, or Integral Calculus, or Chopin's wrong note Etude. AI builds on what comes before. Humans have an uncanny trait for creating things that are truly new.
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by codeduck 7d ago
> But also humans can not provide that. Every bard, every writer, every poet, every band rises every morning to compete against the beatles. Most of them loose and thus abandon the craft to win bread elsewhere. Most, but not all. For ev
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by codeduck 8d ago
Actually, the third possible state is Bloody Furious.
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by codeduck 12d ago
Not just Greenland. I imagine a lot of people here in Blighty will not take well to the US meddling in the sovereignty of the Falklands. I do wonder if the sudden noise is due in part due to to Peter Thiel's move to Buenos Aries.
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by codeduck 12d ago
> Genuinely, what is the legal framework here He who controls the Spice, controls the Universe.
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by codeduck 13d ago
Will there be cake or Velociraptors?
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by codeduck 13d ago
The sign of an area with a dense population where people operate within close proximity to people-squashing-machines, and the people have rightly decided that reducing the severity of any potential people-vs-people-squashing-machines incide
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by codeduck 14d ago
Christ, this is exhausting.
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by codeduck 15d ago
And I'm just going to link the obligatory link to the video of a Viggen landing, reversing, turning around and taking off again, because that's just how cool the Viggen was. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBE41A9V
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by codeduck 16d ago
I spent an hour on Friday restraining myself from swearing at Kiro, which was loudly and sarcastically convinced that the "network" issues it was having talking to a local MCP server were due to a misconfigured proxy server and it
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by codeduck 19d ago
how is this any different to naively running a webserver or database server or, in fact, anything as yourself? People are forgetting the basic rules of operating systems. Do not run sensitive programs as a user account - especially not a
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by codeduck 20d ago
Nice try, Drop Bears.
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by codeduck 27d ago
> Our Chief Product Officer is four. She saw the headline and screamed. The board interpreted this as a mandate. Chef's kiss
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by codeduck 29d ago
Doesn't it? The technology exists to build it. The pipelines exist to populate it. The marketing engine exists to leverage it for targeted delivery of content. And yet, somehow, nobody's built it? How sure are you of that?
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by codeduck 29d ago
and if all the jobs that are available are for bashing puppies on the head with a hammer, you'll do the noble thing and watch your family starve to death, right?
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by codeduck 1mo ago
> It seems that the only people who are hating on this aren't even writers themselves. I will gladly be the counter-example, then. I program. I'm grumpy. I also, however, write fiction - and have for well over twenty years n
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by codeduck 1mo ago
In accordance with the prophecy.
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by codeduck 1mo ago
We're setting ourselves up to the be the humans on the ship Axiom from WALL-E
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by codeduck 1mo ago
The reaction is not because the OP used AI to create software. The reaction is because OP's software facilitates the outsourcing of creative writing to a agentic content mill, and many HN users take issue with that.
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by codeduck 1mo ago
AI feels like a Faustian bargain that has been struck on my behalf by others who do not know me. "Tools" like this make me feel nothing but a profound sense of sadness and despair.
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by codeduck 1mo ago
easy on, easy off, easy to fence.
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by codeduck 1mo ago
why are you resubmitting something you submitted 78 days ago?
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by codeduck 1mo ago
Believe it or not, the UK already does this to people for whom there is no plausible asylum claim. The problem , if you want to think about it as such, is that the UK currently believes in treating potential asylum claimants as such rather
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by codeduck 1mo ago
Believe it or not, they actually already do this.
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by codeduck 1mo ago
I was thinking earlier that a traditional spring-based pocket watch seems far more intricate to me than a wodge of glass and silicon. I know the phone is far more complex, but intricate? Nah.
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by codeduck 1mo ago
Not the RSI I was expecting it to be.
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by codeduck 1mo ago
Bad news, budget cuts mean we can afford a flounder with a paper fan. His name's Steven and he lives about twenty yards east of Lulworth Cover, but we reckon he's okay to commute to work.

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