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New comment by jeffreygoesto in "Ntsc-rs – open-source video emulation of analog TV and VHS artifacts"

jeffreygoesto — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 09:25:27 +0000

One of my favorites: https://youtu.be/Jm-FH82lVbE?si=MoD1qaMMtCpRsJwS

New comment by jeffreygoesto in "The Token at the Seam – Learning in Robotics"

jeffreygoesto — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 13:45:23 +0000

Did I miss it or is there no mentioning of copying XKCD styled figures?

New comment by jeffreygoesto in "Why Gamers Are Drawn to High-Risk, High-Reward Mechanics"

jeffreygoesto — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 19:28:21 +0000

Gamers? Wingsuits!

New comment by jeffreygoesto in "Colonies on Mars require more than engineering"

jeffreygoesto — Sun, 31 May 2026 16:30:02 +0000

If you shoot only tech onto Mars, it might actually be nice there. But without you. If humans come with it it will be the same as here. I just don't see the point tbh. Why not make this planet better instead?

New comment by jeffreygoesto in "Branchless zero-dependency cardinal direction encoding using abs arithmetic"

jeffreygoesto — Sun, 31 May 2026 10:21:49 +0000

Now show how abs is made branchless.

New comment by jeffreygoesto in "Expertise in the age of AI"

jeffreygoesto — Fri, 29 May 2026 19:24:56 +0000

You? Or it? Or you together?

Srsly. Welcome to my day job. I can see that the LLMs' center of training is so far off from where I'd need it, I can accelerate auxillary stuff but prompt never beats the weights and it constantly pulls back into it's middle...

New comment by jeffreygoesto in "How the ZX80 Works (2019)"

jeffreygoesto — Thu, 28 May 2026 10:11:21 +0000

You mean. I should offer my Memopak 16kB with original box on eBay and see how it goes? A small yacht maybe?

New comment by jeffreygoesto in "Can we have the day off?"

jeffreygoesto — Thu, 28 May 2026 07:02:58 +0000

My personal mental model is that there is a quite bimodal distribution of people in the world. Many seem to see it as a zero-sum game, some others not. As father of a disabled child I come into contact a lot with the latter and can confidently say that there is a LOT to gain once you stop starting to stare at money only. Once your needs are basically covered, giving can give you so much.

New comment by jeffreygoesto in "I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit"

jeffreygoesto — Wed, 27 May 2026 18:45:47 +0000

It produces the "most average" web design unless you really prompt your way out, isn't it? If you don't care enough to prompt, Claude does not care to be individual.

New comment by jeffreygoesto in "25th of May – Towel Day"

jeffreygoesto — Tue, 26 May 2026 11:06:01 +0000

https://youtu.be/YJWX1XiS-TU

New comment by jeffreygoesto in "Performance of Rust Language [pdf]"

jeffreygoesto — Tue, 26 May 2026 06:57:33 +0000

Careful. That article is from 2012 and compile time unrolling was more useful back then. Today or can actually be harmful as it hides strong hints about the loop from the optimizer. Our code that did this fared worse than a loop, because no optimizer-writer expected unrolled loops.

New comment by jeffreygoesto in "Silk: Open-source cooperative fiber scheduler"

jeffreygoesto — Sun, 24 May 2026 09:52:10 +0000

Is this comparable to Sea star [0]?

[0] https://github.com/scylladb/seastar

New comment by jeffreygoesto in "What spec-driven development gets wrong"

jeffreygoesto — Sat, 23 May 2026 10:22:26 +0000

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

New comment by jeffreygoesto in "Google's AI future demands trust and your personal data"

jeffreygoesto — Wed, 20 May 2026 05:53:11 +0000

If you need A"I" to scan for forgotten monthly fees, you already lost control over your life... What a lame excuse for simply spying on you for whatever it might be useful for in the future.

New comment by jeffreygoesto in "Show HN: Forge – Guardrails take an 8B model from 53% to 99% on agentic tasks"

jeffreygoesto — Wed, 20 May 2026 05:49:10 +0000

Reads like processes guarding mediocre teams into higher probability of success? I can hear Alanis Morissette in my head now somehow...

New comment by jeffreygoesto in "High dimensional geometry is transforming the MRI industry (2017) [pdf]"

jeffreygoesto — Fri, 15 May 2026 15:07:15 +0000

I remember one of my diploma students continued with discrete tomography as PhD, topic "Binary Tomography by Iterating Linear Programs" and I found it super interesting to get down the number of shots and at the same time increasing the accuracy a lot.

New comment by jeffreygoesto in "Claude for Small Business"

jeffreygoesto — Thu, 14 May 2026 16:48:04 +0000

I know, I know. It was more a tounge in cheek comment to something I assume was irony as well. To be fair to GP, management doesn't get any of this...

Adding is always easier than reducing to the essence.

I find it interesting how herding agents has so much in common with being a team lead. Constant struggle between too detailed and too loose instructions. One difference though is that the team learns from you, but with agents it's only you who adapts. Saying that, because I don't count instructions or anything in the context window as adapting.

New comment by jeffreygoesto in "Claude for Small Business"

jeffreygoesto — Thu, 14 May 2026 15:01:55 +0000

So what? They produce more for the same money. What's not to like?

New comment by jeffreygoesto in "Screenshots of Old Desktop OSes"

jeffreygoesto — Tue, 12 May 2026 07:18:42 +0000

https://networkencyclopedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/n...

New comment by jeffreygoesto in "Mythical Man Month"

jeffreygoesto — Sat, 09 May 2026 06:55:09 +0000

"Simple made Easy" is a nice add-on, the first half is the philosophical part and a classic. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SxdOUGdseq4