Jemaclus

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by Jemaclus 7mo ago
I'll go the opposite direction: if your Sr Release Engineer will use AI assistants (Claude Code, etc) on the job, let them use it in the interview. The best interviews test critical thinking and problem-solving, not recall. AI makes ge
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by Jemaclus 7mo ago
Love it! I ran into some trouble installing it (`/plugin install nerdflair@...` didn't work), but ultimately got it in. Great upgrades, though. Nice job!
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by Jemaclus 7mo ago
Sure, but the author is presenting it in the present tense ("I don't know anyone who writes code anymore") which isn't grounded in fact or reality, but wishful thinking about the future masquerading as current reality. A
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by Jemaclus 7mo ago
This is a pretty wild take. "They don't know what DevOps or SRE is" is not the flex the author thinks it is. That's just ignorance of the consequences of shipping. There's a huge load-bearing assumption in it, as we
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by Jemaclus 7mo ago
how can i structure my income to avoid income tax? asking for a friend.
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by Jemaclus 7mo ago
Same!
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by Jemaclus 7mo ago
Legend of the Red Dragon (LoRD), Solar Realms Elite and Barren Realms Elite, and Tradewars were the best. When I want to learn a new programming language, I always try to recreate Tradewars in it as a language. I know Tradewars like the bac
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by Jemaclus 7mo ago
I think about fidonet all the time. It was a magical concept.
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by Jemaclus 7mo ago
Not affiliated, just a fan, but if this is a topic you're interested in, I highly recommend Michael Livingston's "1066: A Guide to the Battles and Campaigns." I https://www.michaellivingston.com/non-fictio
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by Jemaclus 10mo ago
"Better than JSON" is a pretty bold claim, and even though the article makes some great cases, the author is making some trade-offs that I wouldn't make, based on my 20+ year career and experience. The author makes a statemen
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by Jemaclus 1y ago
IIRC, AvatarMUD (avatar.outland.org) has 20,000+ rooms in it. It's been a long time since I played, but it's absolutely massive!
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by Jemaclus 1y ago
That's exactly what the pin-pen merger is! As you know, it's not limited to pin/pen, and hearing ability (in my case, profound hearing loss) is not related to the ability to hear the difference. I don't understand the li
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by Jemaclus 1y ago
I'm also deaf, and I took 14 years of speech therapy. I grew up in Alabama. The only way you would know I'm from the South is because of the pin-pen merger[1]. Otherwise, you'd think I grew up in the American Midwest, due to
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by Jemaclus 1y ago
This is WILD. I love it. Congrats on shipping!
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by Jemaclus 1y ago
Oh, interesting. Well, TIL.
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by Jemaclus 1y ago
Does that even exist? It's basically what they described but with some additional installation? Once you install it, you can select the LLM on disk and run it? That's what they asked for. Maybe I'm misunderstanding something.
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by Jemaclus 1y ago
You should install it, because it's exactly what you just described. Edit: From a UI perspective, it's exactly what you described. There's a dropdown where you select the LLM, and there's a ChatGPT-style chatbox. You jus
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by Jemaclus 1y ago
Probably because it's intentional. There are many theories why, but one might be that by saying "You're absolutely right," they are priming the LLM to agree with you and be more likely to continue with your solution than
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by Jemaclus 1y ago
Sort of in the same vein as "you don't need to understand gravity to recognize that it's important," you not understanding what the answer is doesn't mean there isn't an answer and that the answer isn't im
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by Jemaclus 1y ago
But the larger point is still true: For every "why don't they just do X? It's so obvious!" you can look around and note that [almost] /nobody/ is doing that, and that should be a pretty big signal about the ide
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by Jemaclus 1y ago
I think you should ask yourself that last question again, and this time really think about it. Why /do/ all companies seem to have managers? (Tone clarification: I'm not approaching this in a condescending manner, but more of
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by Jemaclus 1y ago
I'll second this. It's fantastic.
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by Jemaclus 1y ago
I don't think I'm making the case that you shouldn't test things or care about the results, but rather a matter of degree of risk that should be acceptable. In medicine, if you get it wrong, people /die/. In softwar
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by Jemaclus 1y ago
Absolutely. If you're the business owner, selling fewer widgets is Very Bad! But in my post, I specifically called out a line in OP's article that I disagreed with: (paraphrasing) "Your startup deserves the same rigor as medi
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by Jemaclus 1y ago
I think you're being overly pedantic here. I'm not a data scientist, just an engineering manager who is frustrated with data scientists ;) That said, I do appreciate your corrections, but I don't think anything you said funda
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by Jemaclus 1y ago
Excellent response. Thank you!
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by Jemaclus 1y ago
I think there's a pretty big difference between QA (letting bugs go by) and A/B testing, and your post appears to me to be conflating the two. I would argue that you are better off spending your time QAing a feature that you have
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by Jemaclus 1y ago
> This isn't academic nit-picking. It's how medical research works when lives are on the line. Your startup's growth deserves the same rigor. But does it, really? A lot of companies sell... well, let's say "not i
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by Jemaclus 1y ago
Certainly. There are many paths to victory here. One thing to consider is whether you _want_ your producers to be aware of the clients or not. If you use SQS, then your producer needs to be aware of where it's sending the message. In e
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by Jemaclus 1y ago
Absolutely, if you only ever have one client, SQS or a message queue is perfectly fine!

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