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New comment by jeffreygoesto in "I Electrified My Push Scooter with a Power Drill"

jeffreygoesto — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 19:39:55 +0000

Where have I seen something like this before. Right HAWK Hildesheim organized (locally) famous "Akkuschrauberrennen" https://m.youtube.com/results?sp=mAEA&search_query=akkuschra...

New comment by jeffreygoesto in "Pele – Mermaid diagrams as themeable SVG"

jeffreygoesto — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 05:57:57 +0000

If only it had a good documentation. I really like the elkjs JavaScript version (thanks, Ulf!) bitte unfortunately transcoding makes transferring the Java docs even harder...

New comment by jeffreygoesto in "A new look at brains transformed by psychedelics"

jeffreygoesto — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 08:21:41 +0000

TIL. :) Thanks!

New comment by jeffreygoesto in "How I reverse engineered a commercial spatial audio effect"

jeffreygoesto — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 18:18:07 +0000

That is why I refurbished my Harman-Kardon amp from 1991 and listen CDs and LPs through it increasingly these days. It drives either some Revox speakers I be also bought at that time or a HifiMan Edition XS. That thing is outright amazing. The pinnacle of mixing was in the 80s as far as my collection is concerned. The 70s were much experimenting and the 90s already too compressed.

New comment by jeffreygoesto in "A new look at brains transformed by psychedelics"

jeffreygoesto — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 20:54:33 +0000

What was the playlist though?

New comment by jeffreygoesto in "Huawei and Qualcomm Announce Broad Patent License Agreement"

jeffreygoesto — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 09:27:55 +0000

They will be shocked. SHOCKED.

New comment by jeffreygoesto in ""Torturing" LLMs in a Robot Prison Has Triggered the Dumbest Debate in AI Yet"

jeffreygoesto — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 10:29:25 +0000

Dunno. Zapping the inodes seems almost surgical compared to truncating byte by byte for example? Or do you think you buried them alive that way? Are they still lurking in some dark, uncharted alleys of your filesystem until the final OVERWRITER comes?

New comment by jeffreygoesto in "What are you watching"

jeffreygoesto — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 10:00:30 +0000

Hu!?

New comment by jeffreygoesto in "Windows11 26H2 is now available"

jeffreygoesto — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 06:56:55 +0000

https://fedoraproject.org/ for example. SCNR

New comment by jeffreygoesto in "Vermont replacing power plants with home batteries"

jeffreygoesto — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 06:49:47 +0000

Meanwhile in Germany (facepalm) https://www.br.de/nachrichten/bayern/wenn-die-eigene-photovo...

New comment by jeffreygoesto in "Deterministic Concurrency [video]"

jeffreygoesto — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 06:18:49 +0000

I immediately thought "Edward Lee" when I read the title. And sure...

His seminal paper "The problem with threads" [0] and others inspired [1] a lot.

Boy would I love to see what would have happened if he and Joe Armstrong would have collaborated...

[0] https://ptolemy.berkeley.edu/publications/papers/06/problemw...

[1] https://edms.etas.com/

New comment by jeffreygoesto in "Plan mode is dead"

jeffreygoesto — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 09:45:19 +0000

Did you just invent "agile" maybe. ;)

Can't help but think "Doesn't matter if a machine or a human with (even slightly) different background wrote it", maximizing information flow is maximizing common assumptions and "culture" to only have to communicate a small set of current information for the task at hand. Being a team means having built a joint context so to say. This has always been the purpose of design documents and they always were too big or too small. Because you did not write them, but the others. If you only produce code you think they are the past and useless. If you iterate and your team grows, you start seeing the value in always current docs that are containing just what is not in your everyday culture.

All the best for you and your growing family. I had a similar experience recalibrating my values...

New comment by jeffreygoesto in "Pion, an agent designed to run any company autonomously"

jeffreygoesto — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 06:15:26 +0000

All extrapolations are wrong. Even this one. We just don't know how.

New comment by jeffreygoesto in "Who gets to define the rules for AI?"

jeffreygoesto — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 05:57:55 +0000

The article revolves a lot around the "how" and "why" but does not really answer it's own title. We thought we have the answer right there: in democracies, the people delegates working out the rules to a group of elected people. The rules then are enforced by another, independent group of people. Currently this seems to be broken in (not only) the USA.

New comment by jeffreygoesto in "Durable execution without history replay"

jeffreygoesto — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 08:39:16 +0000

Lamport & Chandy, right?

New comment by jeffreygoesto in "Testing Race Conditions"

jeffreygoesto — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 08:31:48 +0000

We are using Loom with a C++ adapter for such things. Works reasonably well for us.

New comment by jeffreygoesto in "All grown-ups were once children, but only few of them remember it"

jeffreygoesto — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 07:22:14 +0000

To be human is like being the training so much more than the execution. Like the parallel post's game where the speed of light is 5km/h, we always try to but never reach true "perfection" (setting aside the discourse what that even would be). Some overfit, some stop short of being good...

New comment by jeffreygoesto in "I refused to train the AI that could replace me"

jeffreygoesto — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 06:37:58 +0000

Even if you think you don't have enough impact, reflecting on these issues is better than blindly jumping into the trend.

Reminds me a bit of https://www.amazon.com/Job-Went-India-Pragmatic-Programmers/... tbh (look when that came out), not nearly the same scale but similar questions...

New comment by jeffreygoesto in "Ask HN: How do you manage skills files?"

jeffreygoesto — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 06:22:37 +0000

Did you consider writing a small Python script for that?

New comment by jeffreygoesto in "Is "AI slop" now the default response to every new project?"

jeffreygoesto — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 10:19:26 +0000

Somebody wrote in another thread: "intelligence is compression". So. Defaulting to slop is intelligent now. Saves a lot of time and energy.