jcadam

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by jcadam 23d ago
Unacceptable. I live on the Kenai Peninsula and I take exception to my home being used as a laboratory. I'll be writing my state reps over this.
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by jcadam 3mo ago
I've had to stop using em-dashes in my own writing :'(
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Show HN: Snarl – Fast Shacl Validator(github.com)
2 points by jcadam 3mo ago|0 comments
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by jcadam 3mo ago
Well, the crazy thing I'm working on (100% self-funded thus far): https://trivyn.io . The main idea is moving most of the reasoning to the symbolic layer so the "neuro" piece can be a small model able to be self-h
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by jcadam 6mo ago
True. Sometimes I'll run front-end and backend work in two different claude instances, but always on the same project/product. I'll have "reviewer" instances in opencode using a different (non-Claude) model doing
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Show HN: Growl Owl 2 RL Reasoner(github.com)
3 points by jcadam 7mo ago|0 comments
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by jcadam 8mo ago
Yea, my issue with Opus 4.5 is it's the first model that's good enough that I'm starting to feel myself slip into laziness. I catch myself reviewing its output less rigorously than I had with previous AI coding assistants. A
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by jcadam 9mo ago
https://trivyn.io Trivyn: Ontology-first knowledge platform. Runs on a single machine, via a single executable. I wanted a simpler alternative to the large complicated enterprise products that tend to dominate this space. I&#x
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by jcadam 10mo ago
I've been getting some good results from sqlite-vec on my current project. I need to look at geospatial extensions next.
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by jcadam 10mo ago
I tried to do it in emacs lisp one year. Made it about halfway :)
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by jcadam 1y ago
I've found most LLMs I've tried generate better code in typed, procedural languages than they do in something like Clojure. From the perspective of a primarily backend dev who knows just enough React/ts to be dangerous, Claud
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by jcadam 1y ago
Yea, my house is on Starlink... so at the moment I'm working in the back room of my wife's restaurant (she has cable internet). At least I get free coffee here.
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by jcadam 1y ago
Most US citizens applying for software engineering jobs can't even get a response to their resume, and then I read stories like this.
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by jcadam 1y ago
I worked in defense contracting for most of my ~20 year career up until a few months ago. So I'm experiencing this culture shock the other way around. Being the oldest person on a team is... strange. Still have my clearance for a cou
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by jcadam 1y ago
Been coding on the JVM for a good chunk of my career. Though the last several years has been in languages other than Java - Scala, Clojure (my personal favorite), and Kotlin. Finally managed to get a job offer (after being unemployed for a
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by jcadam 1y ago
It's not just software -- My wife owns a restaurant. Operating a restaurant you quickly learn the sad fact that quality is just not that important to your success. We're still trying to figure out the marketing. I'm convinc
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by jcadam 1y ago
I actually had Grok throw a bunch of practice interview questions at me.
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by jcadam 1y ago
I simply can't get interviews now (I've had two so far over the last 6 weeks). A few years ago I would be getting absolutely slammed with interview requests to the point I'd have to be selective. Now, I'll talk to anyo
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by jcadam 1y ago
So Microsoft is about to do to Nvidia what Nvidia did to SGI.
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by jcadam 1y ago
I was recently laid off from a startup and I've never seen the job market this dead. And I was unemployed for a few months back in 2008.
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by jcadam 1y ago
Never used monads with Clojure (the only Lisp I've done "serious" work in). Haskell introduced them to me, but I've never done anything large with Haskell (no jobs!). Scala, however, has monads via the cats or (more re
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by jcadam 1y ago
Location: Soldotna, AK Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Clojure, Scala, Java, Python, Ada, RabbitMQ, Postgresql, Docker Resume/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Bz7ucV
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by jcadam 1y ago
Never experienced the dive-and-save myself. Usually a wince and a sigh, followed by "oh... when's your last day?" Your first line supervisor is upset, but resigned that he's powerless to do anything substantive that mig
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by jcadam 2y ago
Jason Isaacs was doing the best he could to hold the show together, but once he left it was all downhill.
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by jcadam 2y ago
Studs added about $150 (for the set) vs the price for the studless version of the same tire. Truck tires are definitely more expensive than those for passenger cars, though.
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by jcadam 2y ago
Absolutely. I was stationed in Germany for 3 years while I was in the Army. You could be in the left lane of the Autobahn, doing 90+ passing a truck, and suddenly a Ferrari that wasn't there 5 seconds ago is right behind you, flashin
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by jcadam 2y ago
Winter tires are not cheap. I'm in Alaska and recently paid $1400 for a new set of studded winter tires for my F-150. And the tires I chose were one of the lower cost options available. So I totally understand why folks who can barel
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by jcadam 2y ago
First programming language for me was Apple Integer Basic on the ][e. Got me hooked on coding.
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by jcadam 2y ago
A raise would be nice, I'm making exactly what I made in 2021. Wage growth for software engineers is stagnant because demand for senior software engineers has fallen off a cliff the last few years.
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by jcadam 2y ago
All you did was say you like Little Rock. What is this place becoming, Reddit?

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