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mattjoyce

Re:What was a Token Ring network? on Friday October 16, 2026 @10:38PM (#50127357)
Ex Novel Network MCNE, came here to say the same thing.

Sometime I wonder if any of the old protocols have new merit because of some other advance.

Re:Tesla Roadster on Friday October 16, 2026 @10:34PM (#50127330)
The safest car is one that is not driven, but that is not a useful measure. Put a car on the road and you add a driver, now you can start compare risk.
Re:Redesigning Source Control at Anthropic on Friday October 16, 2026 @02:25AM (#50114818)
I like your response, it's changed my mind a bit.

I expect people who are skillful and enjoy writing good code, are among those who dislike code generated with AI tools, and perhaps feel they have had a role or pleasure denied to them.

Those who write shit code, now feel that can produce vastly better software in a fraction of the time, and feel a sense of accomplishment.

Re:Redesigning Source Control at Anthropic on Thursday October 15, 2026 @02:24AM (#50099950)
The words you quoted start with the qualifier 'most', and that make it a true statement.

How many large github repos have no bugs, not many. How much succesful commercial software does not have a way to patch their code, not much.

Reporting bugs, patching systems, updating software is common to most software.

I also use llama for 3d modelling (openscad) and have seen some similarly odd arrangement, but also very impressive and very good at part I would find boring or onerous.

However I can image a part, see it in my mind, rotate it, place it in context, and have an intuition about it.

Re:Gemini 4 Argon on Thursday October 01, 2026 @08:53AM (#49920981)
I agree with you, except I really don't hear that term much. People just say it wrong or confused. Good riddance, it was always a bad term.
Re:Gemini 4 Argon on Thursday October 01, 2026 @08:52AM (#49920969)
Its always been a bad term. If we wanted an accurate term then it's 'confabulation', but 'muddled' or just 'wrong' are also good.
Re:Gemini 4 Argon on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @05:22PM (#49914642)
Hallucination seems a very dated term.
Re:Claude Opus 5.5 on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @03:26AM (#49812773)
Pace is a very commonly used term in projects to describe a rate of progress.
Re:Suzanne Ciani's Buchla Cookbook on Saturday September 19, 2026 @04:52PM (#49770031)
Its a software emulation of hardware modular. It good fun to noodle about with. Does provide a good experience of modular.
Re:Key symbols we lost to time, pt. 1: The PC side on Sunday September 13, 2026 @05:09PM (#49688728)
I live these types of posts. Everything is always changing. For keyboards ist keys, symbols and layouts. Who can imagine not having several modifiers and just not knowing how and when to use them.

I particularly enjoyed learning the origin of the symbols, for shift, enter tab and backspace and how they survived as text replaced their siblings. I wish we could have symbols for therefore and approximatly.

As someone who has designed and built a few keyboards, this was fascinating.

You're absolutely right.
Re:An Alien Mind on Sunday September 06, 2026 @05:22PM (#49591093)
Ooh interesting. Sometime do the reverse at work, and ask AI to annotate the critical success factors of an imagined project. How did this company succeed where everyone failed. Reverse imaging.
A few weeks ago I downloaded a memory dump of a zx81 game, and ask Claude to build it in Go. It nailed it. Converted the binary back to basic and then to go. My idea was that the game would be unknown to llm training and perhaps a nice bench.

What a crazy thing it is to be first at the advent of personal computing, and then in the inflection point where AI treats that first experience as archeology.

Re:My agent.md to improve LLM-assisted code quality on Sunday August 23, 2026 @05:24PM (#49412795)
This will produce quite verbose prose. STE100 is good for specs and explanations but it works best with a glossary or terms. will burn tokens.
well spotted, I couldn't place the feeling, me it's like paying per minute phone costs when downloading on a modem. You know it will cost, but you do it anyway.

The other weird thing about the subs is that if the agents aren't grinding if feels like I'm losing money.

Re:How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @06:14PM (#48913589)
The name for the phenomena could be Ananthropsis, noticing something is not from human
Intent? Motivations? Incentives?
The post can be distilled down to a simple statement, but part of the writing is for the author to express themselves and tell a story. I thought it was an interesting read.
Re:Steam Machine on Monday June 22, 2026 @04:25PM (#48635639)
Scalper:by increasing prices we add the value of enabling people to express their desire more faithfully.
Re:John Carmack on Fabrice Bellard on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @05:16PM (#48562242)
This post is a link to a reply to a tweet containing a screenshot of a webpage.

Unusable internet.

Re:Nobody clicks your share buttons on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @05:14PM (#48562200)
Sure the idea isn't that every page should be shared equally?

Is the percentage of sharing based all visited pages and is that a good way measure it?

Imagine if all the very low sharing was from 3 pages, that would be a signal worth investigating.

Re:Ask HN: Are most corporate SWE jobs performative? on Thursday June 11, 2026 @02:24AM (#48486894)
Therefore the purpose of a system is to support incentives.
At the right price, these model don't need to be the best, good enough will do. I think we're fast approaching good enough for most users.
Oh my, this sounds like an idea I have been toying with. I really want a tutor to explain how random repos I find work.

Do you think Lathe could be adapted to use a codebase as the source material?

Re: on Monday June 08, 2026 @06:57PM (#48453590)
TIL
I'm quite curious about this.

I think this is similar. Unfinished. https://github.com/mattjoyce/roundtable-consensus

Out of a the stuff beyond a shadow of a doubt the most useful is https://ductile.run

This started off as a fancy cron with webhook and became a comprehensive runtime. I have been using it for months on several systems.

Re:LLMs are breaking 20 year old system design on Thursday May 14, 2026 @03:29AM (#48132181)
Durable is used 13 times in this article.
Ad companies prompt injecting consumers. LLM companies countering with guardrails.

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