codeduck's comments

On: Unauthorized Experiment on CMV Involving AI-Generated Comments

[codeduck]

I'd guess it's karma farming so that they can be used to steer sentiment in subreddits that require positive post karma to comment / contribute.

On: How to Make a Longbow

[codeduck]

Shout out to Archery GB - https://archerygb.org/ - because if you're going to be firing arrows, you really really should know how to do it safely. Bows are not toys.

[p_ing → codeduck]

And for the US - USA Archery https://www.usarchery.org/

On: Doge Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase in Months

[codeduck]

I like your optimism.

On: Doge Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase in Months

[codeduck]

Tell me you're an inexperienced developer without telling me you're an inexperienced developer.

On: ‘Bluey’s World’: How a Cute Aussie Puppy Became a Juggernaut

[codeduck]

Bluey learning to ride her bike to the slow building of the Ode to Joy was a moment of profound and innocent joy for me.

On: The Floppotron 3.0 (2022)

[codeduck]

This hurts me in so many different ways, and yet I love it.

On: The Recombobulation Area (2023)

[codeduck]

> So in 2008, the wise and good-humored manager (who retired in 2014), did what no other airport manager in the world thought to do: he invented a word and a concept, "recombobulation."

Except that Piers Anthony used it in a book in 1983.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Citations:recombobulate

[dr_dshiv → codeduck]

With a word like that, it’s more like a discovery than an invention

[emchammer → dr_dshiv]

Still perfectly cromulent though

[cwmoore → emchammer]

Cromulent as a library pastry

[xg15 → dr_dshiv]

I call parallel evolution!

[Thorrez → codeduck]

Those quotes are recombobulate and recombobulated. Here's a quote from 1970 with recombobulation:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/recombobulation#English

On: The Microsoft 365 Copilot launch was a disaster

[codeduck]

> why such a rush

First mover / Fear of missing out.

Frankly, inclusion of "AI" in a tool is a great way to ensure I don't use it.

On: Hey, wait – is employee performance Gaussian distributed?

[codeduck]

> There’s no such thing

This is your opinion. I have worked with and managed 'toxic' employees. They are very much a thing.

On: Meta Movie Gen

[codeduck]

those penguins are incredibly buoyant.