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New comment by erfgh in "DuckDuckGo search saw 28% more visits after Google said people love AI mode"

erfgh — Wed, 27 May 2026 21:11:23 +0000

For those that don't know, DDG already has an AI mode: duck.ai

New comment by erfgh in "AI is wiping out entry-level jobs"

erfgh — Fri, 15 May 2026 13:59:27 +0000

The whole article feels like AI slop.

New comment by erfgh in "Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like"

erfgh — Thu, 07 May 2026 05:42:55 +0000

Where does this certainty that LLMs will get more intelligent stem from?

New comment by erfgh in "AI should elevate your thinking, not replace it"

erfgh — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 13:22:43 +0000

Even if AI does automate some jobs (or even most of them) then people doing them will just do something else. It's not like the world has a limited demand of computer code.

New comment by erfgh in "AI should elevate your thinking, not replace it"

erfgh — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 13:13:30 +0000

If the complexity of your mathematical problems was down to arithmetic then your problems were not at all complex.

New comment by erfgh in "Scores decline again for 13-year-old students in reading and mathematics (2023)"

erfgh — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 07:21:08 +0000

This is like asking "why having a car does not make you run faster".

New comment by erfgh in "Scores decline again for 13-year-old students in reading and mathematics"

erfgh — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 20:42:58 +0000

Covid, smartphones/screens, social media, AI have an enormous impact on the students. A slight school defunding (if it really exists, which I doubt) cannot compare.

New comment by erfgh in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

erfgh — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 12:45:15 +0000

I hate bombing as much as the next guy but areas close to military structures, especially to ones that have already been bombed during the last 24 hours, should have been evacuated.

New comment by erfgh in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

erfgh — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 11:47:25 +0000

Countries that send their oil through the strait of Hormuz will build alternative routes. But for such routes to be ready a few years will be needed. Once alternative routes are in place, and since Iran will likely not have a nuclear weapon by then, full obliteration of Iran will ensue.

New comment by erfgh in "Sweden goes back to basics, swapping screens for books in the classroom"

erfgh — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 12:36:14 +0000

There are books with written solutions.

New comment by erfgh in "Bringing Clojure programming to Enterprise (2021)"

erfgh — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 12:33:06 +0000

Can someone enlighten me about the REPL that lispers keep raving about? Isn't it more-or-less the same as the Python REPL?

New comment by erfgh in "EVi, a Hard-Fork of Vim"

erfgh — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 12:29:06 +0000

What is AI-taint and why is regular vim tainted?

New comment by erfgh in "IRS Tactics Against Meta Open a New Front in the Corporate Tax Fight"

erfgh — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 15:32:51 +0000

The income tax would be less but so would be your salary. The corporate tax is another cost for the company.

New comment by erfgh in "Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month"

erfgh — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 14:45:54 +0000

Well your solution includes handwritten signatures and everyone being a handwriting expert so that they compare handwritten signatures. I wouldn't call this an elegant solution.

New comment by erfgh in "Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month"

erfgh — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 14:14:22 +0000

I bet they expect the canceled payments. Management will push through.

New comment by erfgh in "How to carry more than your own bodyweight (2025)"

erfgh — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 10:24:58 +0000

Unless you get all your information from movies construction work does not train strength that much.

New comment by erfgh in "PlayStation 2 Recompilation Project Is Absolutely Incredible"

erfgh — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 09:32:06 +0000

You don't play Zelda because your kids are grown? What kind of logic is this?

New comment by erfgh in "There's a ridiculous amount of tech in a disposable vape"

erfgh — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 11:59:15 +0000

It will raise the costs and the prices, people will be unhappy and this will result in far-right populist parties taking over.

New comment by erfgh in "Network of Scottish X accounts go dark amid Iran blackout"

erfgh — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 12:41:34 +0000

Russia didn't lose its veto when the USSR collapsed and neither would the UK lose it in such a case. If the UK was in danger of losing its veto it would never allow Scottish independence.

New comment by erfgh in "Vietnam bans unskippable ads"

erfgh — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 13:23:27 +0000

So what? People hate lots of companies but still they give them their money.