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by skwirl 15d ago
This was something I fully realized when I got married. Where is the official record that we are married? It’s a piece of paper in a filing cabinet in a small town two states away. Unless I provide a copy of my license, there is no way for
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by skwirl 2mo ago
Oracle also has a vested interest in defending an expansive view of intellectual property rights. They lean very heavily on litigation as part of their business model and will want to reserve the right to sue anyone generating software that
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by skwirl 2mo ago
The vast majority of what I see out there is relentlessly negative about AI. It is kind of absurd to call this the "alternative" unless the implication is that the rest of AI skeptical writing is not "well-argued."
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by skwirl 2mo ago
> The real question is, who can verify that what the AI built is good and true? Recently, there's a lot of talk about AI allegedly finding security flaws in software. That is an unsubstantiated claim. As such, it would need to be ve
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by skwirl 3mo ago
It is crazy to me that any parent of young children would let their kids watch YouTube videos on their own. Maybe this happened gradually enough that some parents didn't notice, but we had our first kid a couple years ago and I nope&#x
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by skwirl 3mo ago
You have joined a year and a half ago, have low activity, and 74 karma. OP has been here for over a decade and has loads of activity. You aren't in a position to post this.
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by skwirl 5mo ago
This is even more misleading. You have to eat to live, but absolutely not all water usage for food is mandatory. If you gave me a budget of how much water I could "use" water every year, and I was close to going over, I could easi
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by skwirl 5mo ago
This is a HN comment reply masquerading as a novel submission.
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by skwirl 6mo ago
It is wild that people are still posting this kind of thing in 2026. Some folks really are living in a different world.
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by skwirl 7mo ago
We’re reaching “Don’t Look Up” levels of denial about the impact of AI on this site.
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by skwirl 7mo ago
This thread is a great discussion and I have kept coming back to it over the last couple days to read more of it when I have a chance. I’m kind of disappointed that it artificially ended. I think at some useful comment threshold level you j
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by skwirl 9mo ago
>But it shouldn't matter if he gave 5 bullets to Chat gpt that expanded it to a full page with a detailed plan. The coworker should just give me the five bullet points they put into ChatGPT. I can trivially dump it into ChatGPT or a
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by skwirl 10mo ago
On this topic I think it’s pretty off base to call HN a “well insulated bubble” - AI skepticism and outright hate is pretty common here and AI negative comments often get a lot of support. This thread itself offers plenty of examples.
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by skwirl 1y ago
Surely we all know that when we post or upvote comments like this that we are being incredibly disingenuous.
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by skwirl 1y ago
The database is being reverse engineered and published anyways, as per the article.
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by skwirl 1y ago
They are useful for putting URLs in print materials like books. Useful for sharing very long links in IRC and some other text based chat apps (many google maps links would span multiple IRC lines if not shortened, for example). They are goo
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by skwirl 1y ago
Not when everyone logs in as ec2-user.
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by skwirl 1y ago
So not being able to download any of the games you have purchased ever again?
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by skwirl 1y ago
The major difference is that in the type of reading Joel Splosky is talking about, you are coming in not knowing the code's intent. It was written by one or more other people at some point in the past, likely with many iterative change
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by skwirl 1y ago
Again, implicit in this comment is the belief that I am out to or need to convince you of something. You would be the only person who would benefit from that. I don’t gain anything from it. All I get out of this is having insulting comments
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by skwirl 1y ago
It doesn’t really matter what this or that person said six months ago or what they are saying today. This morning I used cursor to write something in under an hour that previously would have taken me a couple of days. That is what matters t
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by skwirl 1y ago
Do you just mean within Amazon? Because outside of Amazon, there was major resistance to AWS/cloud computing in general from older devs highly invested in the status quo. I have spent a significant amount of effort in my career fightin
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by skwirl 1y ago
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by skwirl 1y ago
>This was given to the AI by having it watch a video that explains it. That is not what the article says. It says that was separate, previous research.
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by skwirl 1y ago
Nobody has any idea if they broke any EU laws until regulatory agencies and courts arbitrarily interpret the laws based on their political views pertaining to the companies in question. These are agencies that will suddenly have a new inter
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by skwirl 1y ago
It would mean no LLM-based AI chat products in Europe for the foreseeable future. So the cost to the companies would be net revenue in Europe and the cost to Europeans would be inability to use these products.
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by skwirl 2y ago
If you went back to 2004 and told people the NYT was trying to help re-elect George W Bush they would nervously back away slowly from you.
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by skwirl 2y ago
> Also, Hans Albert Einstein was born during Einstein's miracle year. This was in an era when fathers had little to do with childcare. I don’t know about Einstein’s specific situation, but even 40 years ago almost half of fathers ha
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by skwirl 2y ago
If you aren’t interested in the post, what compelled you to click into the comments and tell everyone about it instead of just ignoring it?
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by skwirl 2y ago
This is not a constant fact, though. In 2021 there were not enough qualified US work eligible candidates to go around. Right now is going to be a very different story for many roles.

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