Rubber Ducking
Transcript:
A comic in four panels:
Panel 1. Cepper, the Gothic Sorceress, is at her iconic desk with a quill, she was writing in her big personal project: her book of incantation at university. She is thinking with intensity bringing the quill to her mouth, looking up and frowning. On a stack of book, nearby, stands a yellow static rubber duck.
Cepper: "Avian Intelligence, what is the correct incantation for a fireball? Hmm... You know, something Pyro... Ball..."
Panel 2. Cepper is now excited, the rubber duck is still silent, staring happily in the void.
Cepper: "PyroBolus! Perfect."
Panel 3. Amall, the small blond elf sorceress appears in the frame from one side, she is puzzled at what she probably saw before. Cepper is laughing a bit of embarrassement.
Amall: "A rubber duck!? But it can't answer you! Are you okay, Cepper?"
Cepper: "Haha, don't worry Amall, I'm fine."
Panel 4. Cepper is happy and proud of her invention, Amall scratch her head but with a smile, considering the discovery of her friend.
Cepper: "I just figured that formulating my questions out loud helps me to solve them, and finally that's all I needed."
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andnull@social.nouveau.community
She's finally free, I have been dying for this part of the series
★dragonfi@social.jsteuernagel.de
@andnull I'm also happy for it. I needed something positive.
By the way, compared to regular LLMs, Rubber Duck has excellent security and privacy. It is also free from most copyright issues.
I should have made an April's 1st webpage...
★VANTABlack2000@mastodon.gamedev.place
Great Comic. I remember accidently using tutors as rubber ducks when I was in college lol. It really is a good way to figure things out.
Artanux
: I often use a forum to explain my technical problem and to receive help. Regularly, it helps me to clarify the problem and I find the solution myself...
7 ★stefan@akko.lightnovel-dungeon.de
Works everytime! Solved many different issues! Would rubber duck again!
:neobun_llenn_heart: lovely comic
velvet@zoner.work
@davidrevoy@framapiaf.org Cepper has come so far :bunhdaww:
lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me
Cepper? First time we hear about her name I guess?
davidrevoy
@lanodan Yes! It's official, it's ... 🥁 ... Cepper & Parrot! 😆
35 ★lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me
Haha :D ★
nartagnan@mstdn.fr
@lanodan
Owi 😍😍😍
I was wondering "why this name".
Merci !
★ozzelot@mstdn.social
That's cerfept.
@lanodan
f4grx@chaos.social
@lanodan thats a cepstral projection I guess (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cepstrum)
baltakatei@twit.social
Most everyone has more than one mind since they have more than one brain hemisphere. Sometimes we just need a quiet moment to hear our second thoughts speak above the cacophony of our first thoughts.
odysseywestra@linuxrocks.online
I don't know why, but this gif was just going through my head when I was reading the comic.
But yeah, sometimes all we need is a muse to help jog our memory.
📎 f3ee827d6e77accc.mp4 ★zaire@fedi.absturztau.be
happy ending
Lisseuse@fnordon.de
i cannot boost this as often as it deserves to be boosted.
KwaaCity@piaille.fr
Sometimes, it's works.
yonerf@maly.io
https://blog.codinghorror.com/rubber-duck-problem-solving/
14 years ago it was a reference article to me !
Glad to have a modern revamp !
David, Jeff, thanks a lot for how inspiring your are !
@codinghorror
farbenstau@infosec.exchange
Gee, and I thought it was "IGNISME!" Whoopsie!
ticho@mas.to
@farbenstau The true ancient incantation is "Ful Ir".
farbenstau@infosec.exchange
@ticho Yol Toor Shul!
f4grx@chaos.social
FINALLY
davidrevoy
@f4grx Yes! Good to reach this part of the arc for Cepper: a closure, a solution... she grew. I'll probably end the Avian Intelligence arc here and move on.
9 ★Firestarter_OL@troet.cafe
*Sad*
Would like to see more from Cepper!
@f4grx
COMPU73E@retro.pizza
I hope this isn't the last we see of her
★Tealfuleyes@mastodon.art
I love this because this is pretty much exactly how I handle programming in most cases. I say out lout the logic I want and at most I look up the syntax to accomplish each part. Other times I write/draw out a diagram (which feels like summoning lol)
GoteerTxuria@derg.social
@davidrevoy@framapiaf.org plus the duck fools the school into thinking you've got the ai they asked for!
NullTheFool@mastodon.gamedev.place
for a moment I read Creeper instead of Cepper lol
dmynerd78@lasersare.fun
@NullTheFool Glad I wasn't the only one >.> Too much Minecraft
mcpinson@mas.to
But... but.. where are the profits? I was told there'd be so much profit!?
Owlor@meow.social
The wisdom of the ancients 🦆
ToonLink@fandom.ink
Ooooh, Amall looks intrigued. Maybe it's the start of something good!
It doesn't get more sandboxed than that, too. XD Rubber duck keeps all your secrets!
theodorus_75@mastodon.social
I always keep one on my desk
★eowyn@pouet.chapril.org
@theodorus_75 i have the cheap diy alternative the origami paper grue ✨
2 ★davidrevoy
@eowyn @theodorus_75 My cats sleeping around the desk are also very good at listening my scenario problems :neko_nyaan:
sm4llth1ng@mamot.fr
ah rubber ducks -- sharing my coding life for years :)
★notyourfanboy@kolektiva.social
★Very impressive alt text.
davidrevoy
@notyourfanboy Thank you!
★AnguaDelphine@mk.absturztau.be
@davidrevoy@framapiaf.org
★How does the saying go?
"You're Never Alone With A Rubber Duck"?
Kampfdiestel@mastodon.social
★i like the duck more then the bird.
pls do more duck and less bird comics
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