jdc0589

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developer, devops, security stuff every now and then.
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Comment · 1 month ago
about once a year I try signing up for X after friends tell me I really should be on there for news in certain niches.

multiple times now I've signed up with a fake name/handle/email/etc..., sometimes from a VPN, and within 10 minutes a friend usually tells me they see me as a recommendation to follow (they can tell, by the handle).

Insta delete, every time.

Comment · 1 month ago
> Everyone Bought the Motor. Ford Rebuilt the Floor.

110% ai

Comment · 2 months ago
but a Bloomberg.com subscription is ONLY $39.99/month.......
Comment · 2 months ago
> For a language team, Go is a dream.

I agree very strongly. There's no debate about things that have 1000000 permutations in other languages. e.g. The correct format can always be checked by `go fmt` with no real config options. the end.

Comment · 3 months ago
jellyfin was pretty plug and play for me
Comment · 3 months ago
I'm keeping an eye on Tenstorrent for this. Pricing seems like its going to end up being in between a super memory dense unified memory platform, and a purpose built GPU.

Definitely on the edge of what would make sense at home, but its interesting.

Comment · 4 months ago
how exactly did you jump to the conclusion that American ?citizen? taxpayes are propping these two people up financially? They are presumably both paying income tax in the United States as well, probably a lot of it based on his wife's profession.
Comment · 5 months ago
some models do ok with instruction, some don't. You still have to review pretty thoroughly and make corrections or re-prompt.

For the most part I use claude code w/ opus plan mode + sonnet implementation mode, and it does pretty well. I go through the planning process for anything other than the most basic changes.

Comment · 5 months ago
> You go from formulating unique solutions to flagging things that look wrong and then just picking an alternative LLM generated one.

totally depends on how you use the tools. Plenty of people fall in to that scenario, but plenty of others explicitly tell the LLM tools what and how to build something.

Comment · 5 months ago
A good generic terminal UI app for reviewing git diffs, making comments, etc...

Lots of these have started popping up, but almost every single one of them is a TUI interface for github, or gitlab. What I'm building is for local git by default, but has an extensible plugin system to support integrating with github/gitlab/azure ado/etc... for their PRs and approvals, but forced in to a single consistent UX and workflow.

Its good enough for basic diff reviews that it has become my daily driver for about a month for reviewing my own stuff before I push changes remotely.

Comment · 5 months ago
I kind of disagree. You are describing a kind person who is extremely valuable, a person who is proficient in SWE but also has domain specific skills in some niche.

That's great, but its nowhere near the norm, and people have been doing generalist software engineering for decades. There has been a sufficient amount of work for a long time to be performed by generalists that it has been a very reasonable career.

IMO AI is the first thing that has ever actually challenged that.

Comment · 6 months ago
I dont need to see stuff like this. I have too many hobbies already
Comment · 7 months ago
I wish it made sense to do residential solar where I am. It probably does technically, but i hate the idea of spending a ton on a system and then STILL have to pay my power company; if you are connected to the grid at all where I am, you pay the power company $5/kw/month of solar capacity and your excess sell-back rates are insanely bad (0.03/kwh, vs billed usage rate at $0.17/kwh)
Comment · 8 months ago
I use it as my main platform right now both for work/swe stuff, and person stuff. It works pretty well, they have the full suite of tools I want from general LLM chat, to notebookLM, to antigravity.

My main use-cases outside of SWE generally involve the ability to compare detailed product specs and come up with answers/comparisons/etc... Gemini does really well for that, probably because of the deeper google search index integration.

Also I got a year of pro for free with my phone....so thats a big part.

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