Jemaclus

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by Jemaclus 3d ago
If it costs you nothing to maintain, keep it. But to be honest, it sounds like you haven't found your product-market fit. Couple of questions: 1. Why do you think many business owners would use it? 2. Who is your target audience? 3. Wh
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by Jemaclus 28d ago
I guess I'd turn the question around to you: what do you want to see in release notes that you don't already see? What information do you feel is missing? From my personal experience, the context of the fix lives in a dozen differ
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by Jemaclus 1mo ago
Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. Next question.
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by Jemaclus 2mo ago
I was also skeptical, but I started measuring quality (I'm using rework as a rough metric) and quantity (PR throughput), and I've found that, on average, LLMs are 60% worse at writing code (meaning they rework at a rate 60% higher
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by Jemaclus 2mo ago
The question is what your tolerance to this kind of thing is. If the job is fundamentally changing underneath you, then you need to ask yourself if this is still a job you want to keep. If the answer is no, then you find another one. If you
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by Jemaclus 2mo ago
Right. But OP's question isn't "do you need a chef?" the question OP posed is more akin to "why should chefs use knives when they have blenders?" or "why should I build an IKEA bookshelf myself when I can
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by Jemaclus 2mo ago
Sure. But this is a little pedantic, no? Let's go with your analogy: you would hire contractors to build a house, but not to put an IKEA bookshelf together. You would hire a professional chef to cook a five course meal, but not to heat
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by Jemaclus 2mo ago
Conversely, imagine only requiring carpenters to know how to use a chainsaw.
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by Jemaclus 2mo ago
Yes, exactly.
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by Jemaclus 2mo ago
I mean, it's the same idea, no? You hire contractors to build your house, but not to put together an IKEA bookshelf.
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by Jemaclus 2mo ago
It's like any other tool. Use it when you need it. We don't insist that HVAC installers use hand-powered drills to "feel closer to the work," but we also don't insist that they use battery-powered drills and impact
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by Jemaclus 4mo ago
Leaving aside the conflict of interest here ("EDA bad, workflows good, buy DBOS workflows"), this is a significant straw man. The author more or less picked the worst example of event-driven architecture, then says, "See? It&
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by Jemaclus 5mo ago
Ah, but you're talking about something else: hardware is quite different from software. Once your machine is out in the wild, you can't update it remotely. But with software, shipping MVPs and iterating is not only possible, it&#x
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by Jemaclus 5mo ago
Hey, this is very cool and creative! I like it a lot! Great job!
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by Jemaclus 6mo ago
I guess my question to you would be: does it matter if they're using AI? I don't think anyone in 2026 would criticize a candidate for using a calculator, and Googling syntax and so on hasn't been forbidden in any interview I&
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by Jemaclus 6mo 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 6mo 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 6mo 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 6mo 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 6mo ago
how can i structure my income to avoid income tax? asking for a friend.
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by Jemaclus 6mo ago
Same!
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by Jemaclus 6mo 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 6mo ago
I think about fidonet all the time. It was a magical concept.
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by Jemaclus 6mo 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 11mo 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 11mo 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 11mo 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 11mo 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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