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joe8756438

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About joe8756438

Hello. I'm Joe, software developer.

I help organizations take ownership of unfamiliar software. https://www.kendallsoftware.com

I also build stuff on the Internet, Tap: https://www.tatatap.com and manage a small farm that grows material for artists. I can be reached at my first name @kendallsoftware.com

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    Comment #47126295

    Put another way: “reading code costs the same as it always did” arguably more when you consider that the cost of reading goes down when the ability read goes up. in other words if …

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    Comment #46859643

    Interesting. Has anyone found running multiple parallel agents useful in practice?

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    Comment #46859413

    Is there any marked difference or benefit over Claude Code?

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    Comment #46785357

    Estimates will continue to go earlier, and more things that were, or are, alive will be considered exceptional. Seems to be a function of looking.

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    Comment #46394876

    exactly, the real question is what the elves are doing while they’re unseen.

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    Comment #45507778

    i have a house in a lot of sun in mid atlantic usa. i have spent a modest amount of time casually exploring solar. the cost/benefit never seems that great. what am i missing?

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    Comment #44786134

    Currently, the only way to understand code is to read it. You no longer need to understand code to produce it (maybe in some pre-AI cases that was also true). So no, you don’t _nee…

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    Comment #43894901

    It seems like the archery gets disproportionately more “hollywood doesn’t understand how it works” coverage than other things. Is that because I’m an archer and that’s what I see?

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    Comment #43856811

    Projects like this are fascinating for reasons, I guess, unintentional to their creators. Is what you can see at this level of detail helping anyone understand the painting? Someon…

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    Comment #43613462

    there is no such bar. We don’t even have a good way to quantify human ability. The idea that we could suddenly develop a technique to quantify human ability because we now have a p…

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    Comment #43274256

    idk, i think it’s as worth mentioning as the writing style, which a lot of the comments are about. and i think they’re fair — don’t mind the style myself

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    Comment #43079380

    What’s the saying? Twice the work, half the credit? In all seriousness tho, I don’t buy it. It’s pretty hard to solo-achieve things in most complicated work environments. Saying yo…

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    Comment #42956667

    yeah, on a small scale it’s actually pretty easy to make a decent dent in the feed bill. once you get over a dozen hens though it would take a few adults to make enough waste. chic…

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    Comment #42956622

    yeah that’s my point.

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    Comment #42956613

    im in md, and my hens have been laying all winter, no artificial light. they are a hybrid cross i bought from a local egg producing farm. i think they are called sex linked reds (n…

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    Comment #42956584

    yeah, they deter aerial predators, but you can’t have too much room for them to roam away from the geese. in my experience you need to have the geese and chickens together within a…

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    Comment #42952376

    i have a simple system for keep my birds safe from land predators. so the birds get a point for each level of protection they receive. each group needs two points to be safe. i mai…

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    Comment #42952189

    yes. i have a flock and the feed alone puts a doz at $3. the labor is somewhat enjoyable and the chickens are incredible child-leftover disposal machines. but when you factor infra…

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    Comment #42951836

    I’ve got a flock, not counting infrastructure my costs are tied directly to feed. I source local non-gmo and herbicide free grains. My cost is about $3/doz. It’s unusual to be so c…

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    Comment #42948422

    I love this

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    Ask HN: Are AI dev tools lowering the barrier to entry for creating software?

    I am seeing more and more stories about people that don't know how to program are using AI to create software products. On a surface level, that suggests that the barrier to entry …

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    Comment #42897921

    it’s so good. no context switching with a different app. also, there’s a fairly compatible version for emacs with the same name.

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    Comment #42824508

    no marquee? c’mon