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New comment by TheMayorOfDunce in "US Military's cyber command unit grapples with cluster of deaths by suicide"

TheMayorOfDunce — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 15:59:46 +0000

Surely you've reached the conclusion by now that "resulting scandal" no longer steers policy, or even any noteworthy degree of public outrage.

New comment by TheMayorOfDunce in "Has the New Cocaine Arrived?"

TheMayorOfDunce — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 13:50:22 +0000

In 2014, the U.S. military distributed almost $85 million of Viagra to their ranks. More than 100,000 prescriptions to active-duty soldiers. I get what you are implying but there is usually a rational reason when armies are distributing ED medication.

New comment by TheMayorOfDunce in "The realities of being a pop star"

TheMayorOfDunce — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 12:39:59 +0000

I would bet you have encountered a much larger catalog of Charli tracks than you might think. I too was in the same position last year. Then I looked her up and she has actually produced like 30% of the songs played in Urban hat shops, in public places that allow swimming, and in office buildings in the hvac-safe entrance zone between the first and second set of automatic doors.

New comment by TheMayorOfDunce in "Agent design is still hard"

TheMayorOfDunce — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 12:26:11 +0000

Yeah, I avoid telling people about HN. It’s too rare and pleasant of an anomaly to risk getting morphed into X/Bluesky/Reddit.

New comment by TheMayorOfDunce in "Agent design is still hard"

TheMayorOfDunce — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 12:21:49 +0000

AI gives you either free expertise or free time. If you can make software above the level of Gemini or Claude output, then have it write your local tools, or have it write synthetic data for tests, or have it optimize your zshrc or bash profile. Maybe have it implement changes your skip level wants to see made, which you know they are amateurish, unsound garbage with revolting UI. Rather than waste your day writing ill-advised but high quality code just to show them how it’s a bad idea, you can have AI write code for you, to illustrate your point without spending any real work hours on it.

Just in my office, I have seen “small tools” like Charles Proxy almost entirely disappear. Everyone writes/shares their AI-generated solutions now rather than asking cyber to approve a 3rd party envfile values autoloader to be whitelisted across the entire organization.

New comment by TheMayorOfDunce in "What Is the "MFFAM" Policy?"

TheMayorOfDunce — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 09:03:03 +0000

Honestly that’s just embarrassing. I’m embarrassed for them in the way I’d be embarrassed for someone still injecting “Nope, Chuck Testa!” or “an arrow to the knee!” in human conversations in 2025. Oh wow, an internet crusader who especially hates “Nazis”. How unique and cool. I wonder if the writer also courageously boasts about “punching Nazis”, both in combat and even “in the street”.

If only I could be so brave (rather I am a mewling coward who dares not insult the mighty Nazi global hoarde, and certainly not publicly! They might throw me in one of their odious concentration camps!)