ramblerman (u/ramblerman)

ramblerman commented on Claude Code for Infrastructure fluid.sh/... · Posted by u/aspectrr

tempest_ · 9 days ago

It is my belief with some exceptions it is almost always easier to teach a domain expert to code than it is to teach a software developer the domain.

ramblerman · 8 days ago

Eh, this is the kind of pithy soundbite that sounds vaguely deep and intelligent but doesn't hold up.

In what domains have you had experience taking non programmers with domain knowledge and making them programmers?

ramblerman commented on Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant github.com/clawdbot/clawd... · Posted by u/IndignantTyrant

ineedasername · 18 days ago

Why is it odious to say “it got excited” about a process that will literally use words in the vein of “I got excited so I did X”?

This is “talks like a duck” territory. Saying the not-duck “quacked” when it produced the same sound… If that’s odious to you then your dislike of not-ducks, or for the people who claim they’ll lay endless golden eggs, is getting in the way of more important things when the folks who hear the not-duck talk and then say “it quacked”.

ramblerman · 18 days ago

OP did't like anthropomorphizing an LLM.

And you tried to explain the whole thing to him from the perspective of a duck.

ramblerman commented on AI can 10x developers in creating tech debt stackoverflow.blog/2026/0... · Posted by u/thebeardisred

boltzmann64 · 20 days ago

Non-native speaker here. Is the phrasing of the blog title awkward or am I the only one? Seems like they are using "10x" as a verb and my brain kept parsing "10x" as a adjective to developer, reading "10x developer" which is a already established industry lingo.

ramblerman · 20 days ago

for what it's worth, it didn't seem odd to me. I guess the missing article and phrase indicate it's a verb.

"So AI can ... developers" is begging for a verb, there is no room for an adjective there.

ramblerman commented on We might have been slower to abandon StackOverflow if it wasn't a toxic hellhole pcloadletter.dev/blog/aba... · Posted by u/ronbenton

ramblerman · a month ago

I disliked the pedantic nature of stackoverflow like the next guy but this seems like a naive take.

SO solved a problem, that problem is now gone

ramblerman commented on Try to take my position: The best promotion advice I ever got andrew.grahamyooll.com/bl... · Posted by u/yuppiepuppie

mlrtime · a month ago

Listen, you don't have to do this and are free to disagree.

However, this method has worked and will continue to work. Lots of people are fine just doing their shift and leaving, that's ok. Some people are not satisfied with that and want more, and there are strategies to do more work and get paid to do so.

ramblerman · a month ago

It's almost as if it depends on the context and there isn't a simplistic bumper sticker approach.

ramblerman commented on How to Win Friends and Influence People: Unrevised Version socialskillswisdom.com/... · Posted by u/MrBuddyCasino

JSR_FDED · a month ago

Why does this have to be a “feminist agenda”?

Maybe Carnegie’s relatives decided the book could appeal to a 2x audience?

ramblerman · a month ago

> Maybe Carnegie’s relatives decided the book could appeal to a 2x audience?

So if a book uses male examples it only appeals to males, but if it uses female examples it appeals to both males and females?

ramblerman commented on Satellites reveal heat leaking from largest US cryptocurrency mining center space.com/space-explorati... · Posted by u/troglo-byte

Waterluvian · 2 months ago

Some days I just can’t get over how we’re just the dumbest ##^*ing species to ever visit space.

Oh let’s look at what the humans are up to with their climate change problem. Oh wow they’ve got giant data centers at work on the problem. I guess maybe it’s worth the extra heat. Let’s see what they’re calculati— nope they’re just collecting and trading numbers.

ramblerman · 2 months ago

> Some days I just can’t get over how we’re just the dumbest ##^*ing species to ever visit space

I also think we are pretty dumb. But what reference point makes you think we are either smarter or dumber than other spacefaring species

ramblerman commented on Leaving the U.S. for the Netherlands newyorker.com/magazine/20... · Posted by u/rbanffy

lm28469 · 2 months ago

> lists all of the reasons why countries with taxes are nice to live in

> concludes by: "it would be perfect if not for taxes"

People wouldn't be as friendly and well educated if they went bankrupt when losing their jobs, getting a cancer, had to take $100k loans for uni, &c. the towns wouldn't be nice and clean if people didn't pay taxes for regular cleaning, ...

There are very very few countries with low taxes and nice quality of life for the average Joe, and the exceptions usually don't want you to move in. Try Albania or Bulgaria, you'll quickly understand why most people are mostly happy about paying taxes

ramblerman · 2 months ago

Sorry but as a southern Neighbor you are painting a picture of Europe 20 years ago.

Taxes these days keep up the ponzi scheme of european pensions and an influx of low skilled migrants that are not incentivized to work.

There is a a lot of budget between ur citizens not going bankrupt when they get sick and taking 50% of their salary.