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New Pornographers - The Fake Headlines?
"I wrote the news today in a tent outside the midway rides. And as my money flew, singing to their pockets, You could only know your shame knowing what the good ones do."
They once asked me if they could buy mushrooms from me, at a gig they played for a friend's art night.. I was not able to help them out
"(I’ve got a song still stuck in my head from a Canadian indie band that made its way onto my iPod via via and I’ve done all the searching in the world for the lyrics I remember and have never found the band. I love this that I’ve never found them!)"
Try the HN hive mind! Can you remember a year, +/-?
I'm hoping it will turn out to be Metric or The Murder Plans or The Constantines or.... Some other great 2000s Canadian indie act I can bond with a stranger over :D
Such slop.
Reverse Centaur https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jun/22/the-reverse-ce...
Same - I can sense the value here and I can see how I can transfer some of the ideas to my team (based on the image), but the volume of text diarrhea made me realise "this person took the lazy way out and didn't create something for their audience". I stopped reading at second paragraph.
What I mean to say is that AI ghost writing is fine (I see the comment by the author). Deciding not to read poorly written content is also fine (and there's a reason why writing style has been discussed as long as the printed page has existed).
With the speed at which HN readers can identify mass produced, AI-generated word salad, it is insightful to look at a what users aren't able to stand back from their outputs and view them from the intended audience perspective
All the low quality style hallmarks are there
Same. I was excited for a Pixel (assuming a much better Android experience) but had same experience as you
This.
Careful, you'll just make the output generators harder to spot! Www We need to keep their 'Tells' hidden from them..
I got to that and just stopped reading!
Needs this! Highly relevant for us geochemists
+1 please explain (and tell us your bet & final grade!!)
How did you figure out it was an AI response?
Racing towards average!
Definitely agree. If you look at comments posted in places like Slashdot - is is basically ruined forever (and at one time it was quite excellent for real comments, from real experts and experienced people)
Actually why is nobody in Cali just trying to join Canada - would be better for everyone in terms of more similar culture and values. Weird that it isn't discussed more
Similar for me. I asked for a retreat in Lima, Peru, and got one low star option in Lima and then places in Ohio, Mexico and Colombia... ChatGPT got it on first try
Add Canada! Every province has a GIS repository of mines
There is No Antimimetics Division by qntm is a great read
Really neat. I've often wondered about what the unexposed part of trees and plants are.
Like: am I walking on them? Are they tapping down somewhere deep or are they shallow.
The examples on a hill were interesting; I would have thought the extent would be skewed but it was fairly even
... Was likely written by AI
Sooo... Have you made that LinkedIn yet so fellow Canadians might see what you worked on in the past and can get in touch?
+1
So weird to see this comment. QGIS powering government GIS groups and used by major geoscience and mining companies.. working with national sized vector and raster data.
Arcmap is sooo janky. Looks like a refugee from Win 3.1 era with minor cosmetic updates (although I know the engine received big updates 2010-2020).
If people want QGIS to be pretty, just become a member and sponsor that initiative.
I totally disagree. I switched off this license, and also ALSO saved additional because Spatial Analyst costs extra (all included by default in QGIS)
If companies that use ESRI cancelled one license a year and instead sponsored qgis development with the money... https://qgis.org/funding/
YES. I made the switch 10 years ago and my professional life improved overnight
My wife did not appreciate this fun fact but I did