Madmallard

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by Madmallard 24d 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 24d 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 25d ago
where do u work that even hires juniors lol
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by Madmallard 28d ago
Because they're literally the devil
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by Madmallard 1mo ago
what? why? seems pretty apt
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by Madmallard 1mo 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 1mo ago
First it was "The End of Programming" two hours ago. Now this one. Lol
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by Madmallard 1mo 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 1mo 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 1mo 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 1mo 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 1mo ago
Because it's more reliable? They can use Claude better than you can for that matter
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by Madmallard 1mo 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 1mo 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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by Madmallard 2mo ago
Saying AI can do all the code isn't even accurate either though that's what's weird about all these takes As soon as the context builds up high it just starts doing things straight up wrong I've been trying to network a
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by Madmallard 2mo ago
Engagement farming has found its way to Hacker News.
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by Madmallard 2mo ago
it's not really comparable IMO Eventually AI will be able to just bootstrap solid security, payment, accounts, DB management, backups, customer support services that automatically link to the correct department or sub-system I think th
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by Madmallard 2mo ago
Too bad. We'll have to deal with it. There is no way to stop the weaponization of models now. But more people having access to the potential tools for defensive is the best possible scenario. Every other scenario is worse off for every
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by Madmallard 2mo ago
Not open source Not interested
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by Madmallard 2mo ago
Boris here. This post does not give us good publicity so I will refrain from commenting. Please wait for another demo thread of a new feature of ours or AI appraisal blog post and I will gladly go into as much detail as I can to give us as
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by Madmallard 2mo ago
How exactly would they even shut off Chinese open weight AI?
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by Madmallard 2mo ago
Man that's depressing to read someone defending this

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