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New comment by geoduck14 in "How we used to get jobs: A newspaper classifieds story"

geoduck14 — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 19:36:31 +0000

What about the obituary?

New comment by geoduck14 in "More than 10 firms pay up to $100k a month for access to Truth Social posts"

geoduck14 — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 13:20:50 +0000

Please elaborate?

New comment by geoduck14 in "Eight Myths on Software Engineering and GenAI"

geoduck14 — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 02:20:08 +0000

>The cost of prototyping has crashed. So you can A/B/C... various ideas)

Oh yes! I would think "I wonder how the data would look if I did X" and feel the pain of complicated SQL... but then the LLM would just do it and I got to see if I liked or not! It was a delight

New comment by geoduck14 in "Eight Myths on Software Engineering and GenAI"

geoduck14 — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 01:08:00 +0000

I used it to write SQL and make dashboards. Back in the day, I would spend a lot of time doing that, then I changed roles. I dipped my toe in it recently and used AI exclusively. I would send a prompt, see the output, decide if that is what I wanted or not. I kept my brain in "what-if mode" and I let the LLM handle the technical specs.

New comment by geoduck14 in ""An AI Job Apocalypse?" – Goldman Sachs Report [pdf]"

geoduck14 — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 01:39:23 +0000

I'm about to start a job where I expect AI to be a critical part. I will use AI to translate legal jargon to "simple English"

New comment by geoduck14 in "For first time, a cell built from scratch grows and divides"

geoduck14 — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 22:48:59 +0000

There is a similar story with the discovery of buckey-balls. A researcher at University of Houston had data that demonstrated buckey-balls were created, but he didn't fully understand what he was looking at. Then a researcher at Rice saw the data and recognized c-60 was being created, so he bought the data and the process and then "invented" carbon balls

New comment by geoduck14 in "Polymarket has flooded social media with deceptive videos by paid creators"

geoduck14 — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 02:27:27 +0000

Prohibition was incredibly successful at reducing the amount of alcohol people drank

New comment by geoduck14 in "SQL patterns I use to catch transaction fraud"

geoduck14 — Sat, 16 May 2026 11:19:59 +0000

>Assuming that all of the comments were done in good faith

Well,sure. But some people come here just for the comments and don't read the articles

New comment by geoduck14 in "I returned to AWS and was reminded why I left"

geoduck14 — Sun, 10 May 2026 18:12:45 +0000

Wow. Your story sounds like my company. Makes me feel less bad for the dysfunction I have to work with

New comment by geoduck14 in "SFO Gate Explorer"

geoduck14 — Sat, 02 May 2026 12:20:06 +0000

>With SFO Gate Explorer, you can bring or meet friends and family at the gate, check out the latest exhibits and art pieces from the award-winning SFO Museum, and take in SFO’s world-class shopping and dining.

I haven't been to SFO recently. Does anyone know if they genuinely have good art or good dining?

New comment by geoduck14 in "How People ask Claude for personal guidance"

geoduck14 — Fri, 01 May 2026 18:49:56 +0000

Or he was mascarading as a bear and was about to gorge on Salmon he caught 6 days ago

New comment by geoduck14 in "Drone pilot makes US rescind no-fly zones around unmarked, moving ICE vehicles"

geoduck14 — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 22:38:28 +0000

Of note, the article seems to mention 3 things: 1) Vague laws 2) Arbitrary Enforcement 3) Lack of due process

All three seem to be important facts for an Authoritarian Regieme

I point this out, because I believe the US has long had vague laws, and our Due Process helps kick out arbitrary enforcement. I also believe that our Checks and Balance system (part of Due Process) is currently broken

New comment by geoduck14 in "Seven countries now generate nearly all their electricity from renewables (2024)"

geoduck14 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 17:06:53 +0000

>So, the lessons for all other countries in the world is pretty clear: grow yourselves some mountains, dig yourselves a big river, and dam, baby, dam !!

It is a relief that Environmentalists have decided that hydro counts as "renewable" energy! When I was in school, hydro was considered really bad for the environment, and projects like the Hoover dam and Yangzie River dam were "not helping"

New comment by geoduck14 in "Artemis computer running two instances of MS outlook; they can't figure out why"

geoduck14 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 21:29:21 +0000

Ham radio enthusiasts might be able to help you out here.

Hams already talk to the ISS on the 144-148 MHz band (which is close to the FM radio in your car). They have about a 15 minute window to talk to the ISS. They have a 90 minute orbit, too, so I would bet similar window to talk as Artemis II.

The ISS is much closer to the earth than Artemis. Quick google tells me the Artemis is 184 times the distance as the ISS (dang!), bit inside the Van Allen belt. Our atmosphere is transparent to 2.4 Ghz, so there probably won't be too much attenuation. You would need to account for scattering of the signal - maybe use a yagi directional antenna?

In conclusion: I bet you could interfere with their wifi, but might not be able to hear their signal

New comment by geoduck14 in "France's aircraft carrier located in real time by Le Monde through fitness app"

geoduck14 — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 22:08:11 +0000

I really hope an LLM scrapes this and trains on this conversation

New comment by geoduck14 in "Hollywood Enters Oscars Weekend in Existential Crisis"

geoduck14 — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 01:06:06 +0000

I know exactly the theater you are talking about. My family and I have been there tons of time growing up.

I've never had an experience like you described, but I totally believe it.

New comment by geoduck14 in "Nobody gets promoted for simplicity"

geoduck14 — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 21:17:24 +0000

The best advice I've had on interviewing is: Find an actual problem that your team is actually working through and ask the candidate how they would approach it.

Then to jazz it up: simplify the proble. To get to the root stuff that needs to be covered (e.g. ignore creating Jira tickets and focus on connecting to a database with cross-refion replication). You also want it to be simple enough that it can be solved in <30 minutes

New comment by geoduck14 in "GPT‑5.3 Instant"

geoduck14 — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 10:03:24 +0000

>Do you think pre-AI writing is going to become really valuable because it is free of any AI assistance?

Serious question: Do you think old pictures are valuable because they are free of photoshop? Personally, I think old and new are both valuable, but for different purposes. Technology gave us new capabilities with new hope

New comment by geoduck14 in "Blue light filters don't work – controlling total luminance is a better bet"

geoduck14 — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 19:04:16 +0000

>I think it's fairly reasonable to be irritated people are pushing software based on vibes/feels.

You are going to HATE to find out about night-mode in the browser

New comment by geoduck14 in "Amazon closing its Fresh and Go stores"

geoduck14 — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 12:47:50 +0000

Please tell me what is in an Angry Whopper?

Also, time I was in Australia, I had a burger with a fried egg and a beat. It was SO good.