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tionate commented on AI-Assisted Coding Killed My Joy of Programming meysam.io/blog/ai-assiste... · Posted by u/meysamazad

tionate · 2 months ago

Clojure brought back my joy of programming after years in the Java framework driven world and the JS churn driven world.

It feels like gardening where slowly your art takes shape, and every single line of code does has a visible impact (no magic) that you can immediately see via the repl

That said, clojure done with AI feels like any other language done by AI. They are interchangeable and thus the language has become irrelevant.

tionate commented on Show HN: Build the habit of writing meaningful commit messages github.com/arpxspace/smar... · Posted by u/Aplikethewatch

necrotic_comp · 3 months ago

10,000% this. Attaching JIRA tickets, etc. to the commit helps for searching as well. I've worked with a number of people who do not believe in this and it drives me insane ; I try to enforce it, but there's a lot of messages like "fixed bug" that have zero context or detail associated with them.

I don't understand why so many engineers are like this.

tionate · 3 months ago

Attaching ticket numbers has always been enforced by automated checks wherever I have worked, so it is not necessary to “try” to enforce it.

Similarly with AI it is fairly simple to have eg a pre-merge check that validates the commit msg is somewhat useful. This could be implemented for example with GitHub org level checks that must run in a PR.

tionate commented on Work after work: Notes from an unemployed new grad watching the job market break urlahmed.com/2025/11/05/w... · Posted by u/linkregister

chis · 3 months ago

I can't really agree. I mean you scroll 1 paragraph down and it says he worked a Google Deepmind, that's really all I'd need to see. I think the market is just super hard for new grads. I've heard from people that had to apply to hundreds of companies and do 20+ interviews to get something.

Totally agree that this guy could write books though.

On some level I always wonder if it'll be better for society if the next generation of bright young minds gets rejected from these tracked paths to big tech or finance and instead are forced to do creative new things. Of course I feel for them too, and losing one's identity at a useful cog in the labor market is a fate that is going to come for all of us soon.

tionate · 3 months ago

It mentions DeepMind but also says Research Ready, which is the program funded by DeepMind but run by unis for disadvantaged students.

That said I have no idea how competitive this program is.

tionate commented on What services or apps did you see abroad and wonder: why don't we have them? · Posted by u/ekusiadadus

tionate · 6 months ago

Old school but all the machines for paying in cash in Japan are so optimized for speed. Train stations, onboard buses, convenience stores. Just throw in a handful of coins and it quickly picks what it needs and returns what it doesn’t.

In other countries (eg australia), the ticket machines could only take a single coin at a time and would reject if you did it too fast.

I believe this is one (of several) reasons why cash has continued to be dominant in Japan.

tionate commented on Apple's Liquid Glass is prep work for AR interfaces, not just a design refresh omc345.substack.com/p/fro... · Posted by u/lightningcable

lukev · 8 months ago

Genuine question: have there been any successful lawsuits on the basis of "false advertising" in recent times? It seems so prevalent everywhere, I'm really curious if there's any repercussions for it (no matter how egregious.)

tionate · 8 months ago

In Australia the regulators pursue such things. https://www.accc.gov.au/media-release/jayco-in-court-over-of...

tionate commented on Uber Just Reinvented the Bus Again wired.com/story/uber-just... · Posted by u/beardyw

r721 · 8 months ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshrutka

tionate · 8 months ago

Hong Kong has the same concept in their mini buses, in particular the red ones. Whether they wait until full is up to the driver though.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_light_bus

tionate commented on How to boil great eggs 80% of the time indiantinker.bearblog.dev... · Posted by u/indiantinker

FrankWilhoit · a year ago

I struggled with peeling hard-boiled eggs literally all my life until I finally realized what the problem had been right along. If eggs are stored below a certain temperature, which I estimate at 38F though I have only used consumer-grade thermometers, they will not peel. And this applies both before and after cooking. Since I learned this, and adjusted my cold storage accordingly, I have had no problems, except occasionally when a batch sold through a particular retailer apparently got too cold somewhere along the supply chain. The word "freeze" is not appropriate but the egg albumen does undergo some kind of irreversible change below the threshold temperature -- and suppliers are evidently aware of this, as it is very unusual for eggs to be damaged in transit by excessive cold. But if you keep your fridge at or below 38F, you're asking for trouble.

tionate · a year ago

After boiling them, drain the water, shake the pot so the shells crack a bit, soak in cold water for 10 min. The shells will come off easily. Same as what is done in food business.

tionate commented on How to delegate effectively as your responsibility grows hitsubscribe.com/how-to-d... · Posted by u/galfarragem

tionate · a year ago

I like the ideas proposed in “Turn the ship around” - create a bottom up culture and a culture of over communication so as a manager you can just sign off instead of delegate.

tionate commented on The inventor of the automatic rice cooker spectrum.ieee.org/toshiba... · Posted by u/jnord

tionate · a year ago

A few people mentioning pressure cookers as an alternative. A heavy claypot is the ideal manual alternative for those with a gas stove.

Probably the most popular is “kamadosan”. It makes beautiful rice and you have control over it so eg it is easy to create a crust on the bottom if you like.

Unfortunately I have an induction stove now so a bit hard to use, but I occasionally cook rice on a small charcoal stove when enjoying the slow life.

Review: https://thejapanesefoodlab.com/kamado-san/ Recipes: https://toirokitchen.com/blogs/recipes

tionate commented on How we migrated onto K8s in less than 12 months figma.com/blog/migrating-... · Posted by u/ianvonseggern

cwiggs · 2 years ago

Helm Charts and Terraform are different things IMO. Terraform is better used to deploying cloud resources (s3 bucket, EKS cluster, EKS workers, RDS, etc). Sure you can manage your k8s workloads with Terraform, but I wouldn't recommend it. Terraform having state when you already have your start in k8s makes working with Terraform + k8s a pain. Helm is purpose built for k8s, Terraform is not.

I'm not a fan of Helm either though, templat-ed yaml sucks, you still have the "indent 4" insanity too. Kustomize is nice when things are simple, but once your app is complex Kustomize is worse than Helm IMO. Try to deploy an app that has a ING, with a TLS cert and external-DNS with Kustomize for multiple environments; you have to patch the resources 3 times instead of just have 1 variable you and use in 3 places.

Helm is popular, Terraform is popular so they both are talked a lot, but IMO there is a tool that is yet to become popular that will replace both of these tools.

tionate · 2 years ago

Re your kustomizen complaint, just create a complete env-specific ingress for each env instead of patching.

- it is not really any more lines - doesn’t break if dev upgrades to a different version of the resource (has happened before) - allows you to experiment with dev with other setups (eg additional ingresses, different paths etc) instead of changing a base config which will impact other envs

TLDR patch things that are more or less the same in each env; create complete resources for things that change more.

There is a bit of duplication but it is a lot more simple (see ‘simple made easy’ - rich hockey) than tracing through patches/templates.