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New comment by agumonkey in "OpenPrinter"

agumonkey — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 08:59:42 +0000

I do wonder if they print end of page lines for you to cut afterward (sorry couldn't read the whole webpage, maybe they explained it)

New comment by agumonkey in "David Beazley – Programming Courses"

agumonkey — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 09:25:22 +0000

he has a way to make it lean and engaging that is very sweet

New comment by agumonkey in "The circuit that lets your brain think and see"

agumonkey — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 08:34:06 +0000

Thanks a lot

New comment by agumonkey in "The circuit that lets your brain think and see"

agumonkey — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 02:56:05 +0000

I'm very curious about inhibition failures in brain areas, especially between visual perception and motor control. I'm no neurologist but your brain seems to generate a lot of imaginary interpretation when sensing the visual field, but sometimes there are short circuit like failure that leak those potential imaginary futures with you current real self (leading to strange uncoordinated or overlapping motor control signals)

New comment by agumonkey in "Alan Kay on the meaning of "object-oriented programming" (2003)"

agumonkey — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 08:01:50 +0000

Just a guess, it may be that he understood distribution more as the static distribution of meaning in fine grain entities (objects) to allow a wide range of context, flexibility. Not necessarily the time aspect of distribution.

New comment by agumonkey in "The Return of Aspect Oriented Programming"

agumonkey — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 18:53:23 +0000

How was it ? Useful or mild or dreadful?

New comment by agumonkey in "The MUMPS 76 Primer – anniversary edition"

agumonkey — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 17:10:10 +0000

I was hyperbolic somehow. It's just that people usually hate on asm.

New comment by agumonkey in "The MUMPS 76 Primer – anniversary edition"

agumonkey — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 02:19:59 +0000

Strange it feels worse than both raw asm and apl.

New comment by agumonkey in "The Boeing 747 begins its final descent"

agumonkey — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 21:55:05 +0000

I'm just a layman, but somehow Airbus doesn't embody the airplane magic.. yet I'm very curious what this means to you. Any easy to grasp details you could describe ?

New comment by agumonkey in "Anthropic updates their terms to verify age or identity"

agumonkey — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 10:55:02 +0000

that's still affordable, interesting

New comment by agumonkey in "Anthropic updates their terms to verify age or identity"

agumonkey — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 21:15:33 +0000

What kind of machine is it running on ?

New comment by agumonkey in "The Coming Loop"

agumonkey — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 16:33:04 +0000

I can't help but be tired of the LLM trendy, where people bang at loops until they hope the model sculpts something. It feels so empty mentally to just have results without constructing it.

That said the idea of loop has always been there (iteration, V cycle etc) but I'd be glad to find people with more theory and less agents swinging blindly so to speak.

New comment by agumonkey in "Code duplication is far cheaper than the wrong abstraction (2016)"

agumonkey — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 17:18:39 +0000

You seem to have experience, I dont mind factoring / unifying logic, when done sensibly with enough history in the trenches. It pains me more whenever a young dev comes in and barks "we must merge these two things!" repeatedly without planning for more than two cases and starting to add more and more boolean variables. Crystal makers. Then the obvious issue comes, the two variants weren't that close and now there's one god class trying to handle all forces in one big state.

I agree that LLMs are naturally anti abstraction machines.. I'm often trying to find way to reverse that.

New comment by agumonkey in "Data Compression Explained (2012)"

agumonkey — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 13:54:39 +0000

semantic compression, that's how i see it

New comment by agumonkey in "Can you see three trees?"

agumonkey — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 13:54:07 +0000

Different countries / geographies have these very different relationship with nature. I remember coming back from small islands in the caribeans, and there nature is overwhelming, the size and density. Just after landing home (france) I felt suddenly naked from the lack of vegetation, there were trees but one every 400m on large avenues. It felt empty.

New comment by agumonkey in "Hyundai buys Boston Dynamics"

agumonkey — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 20:24:59 +0000

I'm stumped such a company was on the market for foreign companies. I thought they had deep ties with US Military Industrial Complex.

New comment by agumonkey in "Emacs, how it all started for me"

agumonkey — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 22:11:48 +0000

emacs'so large, beside core devs, we're all beginners

New comment by agumonkey in "Microsoft new Outlook takes 10 seconds to do what Outlook Classic does instantly"

agumonkey — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 22:10:57 +0000

I get a weird feeling when I watch vga/dos programs like Quattro Pro 5. These were large programs quite well done, on very very limited machines. Today apps may not even provide that much (but they are fully networked, maybe more extensible).

New comment by agumonkey in "Microsoft new Outlook takes 10 seconds to do what Outlook Classic does instantly"

agumonkey — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 22:07:19 +0000

I moved long ago to use a fully legally free OS, but at that time, win7 or even win10 weren't bad neighbors to visit from time to time. But win11 became a weird new-trend copycat with even more bloat.

New comment by agumonkey in "The founder of Craigslist has given away half a billion dollars"

agumonkey — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 18:42:13 +0000

t's also really easy to get greedy or ambitious/selfish.